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Getting Scientists and Congress to Mingle…

July 25, 2006/In: CRA, Diversity in Computing, Events, Funding, People, Policy, Research /by Peter Harsha

One of the most effective “tools” the science advocacy community has in making the case for federal support of science is, well, scientists. Those occasions in which researchers are able to sit down with Members of Congress and discuss their own work do more to advance the cause of science than five meetings with staff […]

Chronicle of Higher Ed to Run Colloquy About Women in Computer Science

January 9, 2006/In: Diversity in Computing, People, R&D in the Press /by Peter Harsha

Ok, we’re back from our extended holiday hiatus. We’ll be catching up throughout the next day or so, but I thought I’d first post a quick link to this interesting Chronicle of Higher Education Colloquy. It’s entitled “The Computer Science Clubhouse”: Only 17 percent of undergraduate computer-science degrees were awarded to women in 2004, according […]

Boston Globe: In computer science, a growing gender gap

December 18, 2005/In: CRA, Diversity in Computing, People, R&D in the Press /by Peter Harsha

The Boston Globe has a great, fairly in-depth piece today on the declining interest of women in computer science. Reporter Marcella Bobardieri writes: Born in contemporary times, free of the male-dominated legacy common to other sciences and engineering, computer science could have become a model for gender equality. In the early 1980s, it had one […]