About CRA-W » Undergraduate » Graduate » Academia » Gov/Industry Labs » All Projects » Evaluation » Communications » Resources » Contact Us »

About Us

The goal of the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) is to take positive action to increase the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) research and education at all levels.

Announcements

BECA award

CRA-W is pleased to announce the selection of Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts Amherst) as the 2013 Borg Early Career Award recipient. Read more.

 
Newsletter

The Winter/Spring 2013 newsletter is available!

 
Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CREU)

Application Deadline: May 20th, 2013

Sponsored by CRA's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), the CREU program is aimed toward increasing the number of women and underrepresented minorities who go on to CS&E graduate programs. The CREU program includes not only computer science and computer engineering research, but also collaborative, multidisciplinary research involving significant computing.  Students have the opportunity to conduct undergraduate research at their home institution during the academic year.   Each student from an underrepresented group receives a stipend.  Teams can also request travel funding to present their work at conferences or meetings.  In some cases, projects may be granted funding to continue in the summer following the academic year of research.

For more details, go to the CREU web site.
 
Grad Cohort 2013

The 2013 Grad Cohort Workshop was recently held in Boston, MA on April 5-6, 2013. For more information please see the Program.

 
Managing the Academic Career for Women Faculty in Undergraduate Computing Programs

On March 6, 2013, CRA-W sponsored a Career Mentoring Workshop titled "Managing the Academic Career for Women Faculty in Undergraduate Computing Programs" before the SIGCSE conference in Denver.  For more information please see the program.

 
Support CRA-W

There are many ways to  support CRA-W's mission and projects.  Click here.   

 
CRA-W Supporters

CRA-W is partially supported by the National Science Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.   Funding has also been provided by Microsoft, Google, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and others.

supporters