CIS Students to Attend Two CRA-W Events

CIS doctoral students Yuehua Lin, Sherita Andrews and Wangwang Li will attend two separate events sponsored by the CRA-W.

Sherita Andrews and Wangwang Li are recipients of a travel scholarship to attend the "2007 Grad Cohort Workshop" in San Francisco, CA, on March 2-3, 2007. The Grad Cohort is funded by generous donations from industry and represents the cornerstone of CRA-W's Grad Cohort Program. The ultimate goal of the program is to increase the ranks of senior women in computing by building and mentoring communities of women through their graduate studies from across North America. All of the students will meet for two days with 10 to 15 senior computing researchers and professionals who will share strategies for surviving and thriving in graduate school as well as more personal insights about their professional experiences.

Yuehua (Jane) Lin has been accepted to attend the "CRA-W Managing the Academic Career for Faculty Women" workshop, which will be held on March 7, 2007 in Covington, KY. The workshop is part of the annual Conference on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). The mentoring workshop has been generously funded by the National Science Foundation and includes full support for transportation and registration. The goal of the workshop is to provide critical mentoring information for women at all career levels in undergraduate teaching. The target audiences of the workshop are pre-tenure faculty and graduate students in Computer Science and Engineering who are interested in an academic career, as well as post-tenure (senior) faculty seeking to improve their teaching and mentoring skills.