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CRA-W to Hold Career Mentoring Workshop at FCRC 2011

CRA-W to Hold Career Mentoring Workshop at FCRC 2011

"The CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing research (CRA-W) will sponsor a Workshop on Research Career Mentoring for Women in Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the 2011 Federated Computing Research Conference. The workshop will be held on June 4-5, 2011 in San Jose, CA.

The goal of the workshop is to provide mentoring activities targeting women in professional research careers. The two-track workshop will cover a variety of topics targeted to "junior" academic researchers and industrial and national laboratory researchers.

We are pleased to announce a Teaching Workshop to be held on Sunday afternoon, June 5. If you teach now or plan to teach in the future, you are encouraged to attend this optional workshop. It will provide essential skills and strategies for teaching computing, including Learning/Teaching Styles and Implementation; Course Planning, Execution, and Assessment; and Effective and Efficient Course Management and Delivery.

For more information about the workshop and to apply for financial support to attend, please visit the workshop website: http://cra-w.org/ArticleDetails/ArticleID/90

Please note the following important dates:

Deadline to apply for travel support – March 25th
Notification about travel support – April 15th
Early registration ends - on or around May 5th (check FCRC site for updates)


On behalf of CMW Research and Labs workshop organizers:
Tessa Lau, IBM Research - Almaden
Patty Lopez, Intel Corporation
Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University

and

CMW Teaching workshop organizers:
Sheila Castaneda, Clarke University
Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State University"
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Thanks to Carla Romero for sending the information !!!

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