This project is designed to inform the computing community about patterns of entry, experience, and progress through academic programs and research careers, and to evaluate the effectiveness our intervention and support programs for women and under represented minorities are at attracting them and helping them persist in research careers.

This award recognizes women working in industrial/government research labs who have had a positive and significant impact on advancing women in the computing research community.

 The Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) sends faculty and industry researchers to campuses to encourage women and minorities to attend graduate school and pursue research careers.

The workshop targets mid-career lab researchers. We define "mid-career" to mean someone roughly equivalent to an Associate Professor in academia, i.e., well established at her institution and in her research community, but looking to advance further. In the world of research labs, the corresponding job titles vary from institution to institution. For example, at Sun the appropriate title might be staff engineer to senior staff engineer. At AT&T or Sandia National Labs, it would be Senior or Principal Member of the Technical Staff. If you are unsure whether you qualify for the program, please inquire.

The goal of the CAPP-R workshop is to help and advise associate professors at research colleges and universities get promoted to full professors. In addition, the workshop aims to build a cohort of senior women in academia and industry who can provide each other with an information network and mutual support.

Grants for travel to workshops and conferences for women in industry and government labs.

The Grad Cohort Workshop brings together women graduate students in their first three years of graduate school for a series of presentations and panels with successful senior women researchers from academic, industrial, and government laboratories about how to succeed in graduate school and in a research career. 

Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) was known as the Distributed Mentor Project (DMP) prior to 2009. The objective of the DREU is to increase the number of women and underrepresented groups entering graduate studies in the fields of computer science and engineering.

The Distinguished Lecture Series sends researchers working in labs to campuses to encourage women and minorities to attend graduate school and consider careers in research.

These workshops provide career mentoring advice and discipline-specific overviews of a particular field. Workshops help young researchers in industry and government labs develop interest and knowledge about the discipline. Some speakers are drawn from research labs.

The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), are pleased to announce a program that encourages and supports undergraduate student research.

The labs track of the CMW workshop (CMW-L) provides mentoring and information for junior professionals in government and industry research labs, as well as PhD students interested in pursuing careers in those labs.

 The Collaborative Research Experiences for Undergraduates - Canada program provides undergraduate women in computer science and computer engineering the opportunity to gain research experience with a female faculty member for a summer internship.

CRA-W - CDC Broadening Participation Alliance
Widening the Research Pipeline

 CRA-W has taken an active role in encouraging the nomination of deserving senior women for prestigious awards.

The labs track of the CAPP workshop (CAPP-L) helps mid-career women working in industry or government research labs significantly advance in their careers, either to reach the top of the technical ladder as a distinguished scientist or fellow, or to enter into research management.

 This highly focused workshop brings together individuals with experience in retaining women students in CSE.

 Initially published in 1996, "Women in Computer Science" has been one of CRA-W’s more popular publications. Written for high school and early undergraduate students, this publication profiles the life stories of 18 successful women in CSE.

 "Expanding the Pipeline" is a regular column in Computing Research News (CRN), a publication of the Computing Research Association that reaches more than 6,500 researchers.

 Information guides and booklets.