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CRA-W CO-CHAIRS |
In addition to increasing the number of women involved, we also seek to increase the degree of success they experience and to provide a forum for addressing problems that often fall disproportionately within women's domain. We are hopeful that the committee activities will also have a positive impact for other underrepresented groups in CSE and we are committed to improving the working environment for Computer Scientists and Engineers of both genders. CRA-W is funded by the National Science Foundation which assists in travel to meetings and seed money for the committee's projects. Larger projects such as the Mentoring Workshops have successfully sought separate funding to support their efforts. CRA-W's sponsored projects have included the "Expanding the Pipeline" columns in Computing Research News, the Systers-Academia electronic network, the development and maintenance of a database of Ph.D. women in CSE, the Distributed Mentoring Project, and a series of Mentoring Workshops for women at various major Computer Science conferences. Larger projects such as Mentoring Workshops and Collaborative Research Experiences for Women have successfully sought separate funding from organizations such as the Education, Outreach, and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI) to support their efforts. The current co-chairs of the committee are Anne Condon, (condon@cs.ubc.ca), University of British Columbia and Mary Lou Soffa, (soffa@cs.pitt.edu), Pittsburg University. Previous CRA-W Chairs:
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