The CRA Distributed Mentor Project

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Mary Jean Harrold



Associate Professor
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

The CRA Distributed Mentor Project works to increase the number of women entering graduate school in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (CS&E). To achieve this, the project matches outstanding female undergraduates with female mentors for a summer of research at the mentor's institution. This research experience provides students with a window on research and graduate life, and gives them a close mentoring relationship with a faculty researcher.

The Distributed Mentor Project was conceived and is managed by the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research. National Science Foundation awarded this project approximately $240K for 1994 and 1995, $530K for 1996, 1997 and 1998, and $630K for 1999, 2000, and 2001.

Information About Past DMP Participants

• Sara Smolensky from Mississippi State University, a 1999 Distributed Mentor Project awardee, describes her summer of research with Professor Kathryn McKinley at the University of Massachusetts.

  
  

• Jessica Stumpfel from Duke University, a 1999 Distributed Mentor Project awardee who worked with Professor Jessica Hodgins of Georgia Tech , received two graduate fellowships: a National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Fellowship.
  
  

Distributed Mentor Awards

• 2000

  During January and February 2000, the selection committee considered applications from students and mentors, and made awards for Summer 2000.

• 1999

  During February and March 1999, the selection committee considered applications from students and mentors, and made awards for Summer 1999.
  
  

Participants in Summer 2000: Creating and maintaining a web page

Application Information (Deadline: January 17, 2000)

• 2000 CRA Distributed Mentor Project application information

About the CRA Distributed Mentor Project

• Background
• Justification
• Implementation
• Third Party Evaluation of the CRA Distributed Mentor Project

Other Mentoring Project Pages and Information

• The Ada Project Mentoring Page
• Women's Resource Center (Georgia Institute of Technology).
• Women and Minorities in Computer Science (Ohio State University)
• Tutoring and Mentoring Program for Women and Minority Students (University of Washington, Seattle).
• A bibliography of information sources related to mentoring in text and in html

Other Useful Links

• The Ada Project (TAP) .
• Exploring Your Future in Math and Science.
• IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (WIE).
• Association for Women in Computing.
• EECS Undergraduate Research Opportunities (Berkeley).
• Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
• U. Wisconsin Women Studies Librarian's Office.
• National Organization for Women (NOW).
• Lucent Technologies Graduate Research Program for Women.
• MIT Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT

Contact Information

• Send feedback regarding the CRA Distributed Mentor Project page to:
  cra-comments@cc.gatech.edu