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May 16, 2004

CFP: CREU Program

Deadline: July 1, 2004

Please refer to http://www.cra.org/craw/creu for details on eligibility, evaluation criteria, proposal format, and submission information.

The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W), in conjunction with the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), is pleased to announce a program that involves undergraduate students in research. The goal of this initiative is to increase the numbers of women and minorities who continue on to graduate school in computer science and engineering.

The program, called Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU), is designed to provid positive research experiences for teams of undergraduates who will work during the academic year at their home institutions. Formerly administered as the CREW program, the program has been expanded to encourage young computer scientists and engineers from all underrepresented groups to consider graduate school, either directly or indirectly.


Students will work with one or two sponsoring faculty members on a project for which monetary support is typically not available. Students will each receive a stipend of $1,000 for their work. Each project will also receive $500, to be used for special equipment, travel, supporting materials, or as an honorarium for the faculty member(s).

At the end of the project, students will be required to submit a one-page summary of their work. These summaries will be posted on the CRA-W web site. In addition, students are also encouraged to submit papers and to present their work to other appropriate journals and conferences.

Teams consisting of all women or all underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. In order to support the exchange of shared common experiences, individual teams should be homogeneous with respect to minority status or gender.

TIMELINE
Application Deadline*: June 14, 2004 - EXTENDED to July 1, 2004
Notification of Awards: August 2, 2004
Project Research: September 1, 2004 - June 1, 2005
Final Summary Report: June 1, 2005

* Proposals after this date will be considered this first year up until October 1, 2004, subject to funding availability.

NOTE: If you have already submitted your application for the 2004 CREW program to Mary Lange or Joan Francioni, you do not need to resend your application. Your application will be evaluated for the CREU Program.

SPONSORSHIP
This initiative is sponsored by the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, USENIX and the National Science Foundation's Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure's Education, Outreach and Training program.

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May 04, 2004

Fulbright Scholar Program

The Fulbright program is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates and young faculty to travel and experience academic environments. From the Fulbright website:

For over 50 years, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) has helped administer the Fulbright Scholar Program, the U.S. government's flagship academic exchange effort, on behalf of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Founded in 1947, CIES is a private organization. It is a division of the Institute of International Education (IIE).

CIES annually recruits and sends nearly 800 U.S. faculty and professionals to 140 countries on its traditional program and brings 800 foreign faculty and professionals to the U.S.

Mentioned recently on the SIGCSE mailing list, a number Fulbright programs are listed for the 2005-2006 academic year. If you're in the USA (and looking to get out), this can be an excellent (career-enhancing, life-enriching) way to do so.

Links:

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May 02, 2004

CFP: Special issue of CSE (Doctoral Research in CS-ED)

Special issue of the Journal of Computer Science Education
Dissertation Doctoral Research CS Education
September 2005

Guest Editors:
Sue Fitzgerald, Metropolitan State University
Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology

Submission Deadline: June 15, 2004
Journal Information: http://www.szp.swets.nl/szp/journals/cs.htm

Research undertaken in pursuit of a doctorate degree in any field is important because it is the first work of the next generation of researchers and highlights the areas of particular interest for the field. Doctoral research in our field is particularly interesting because the researchers have a different perspective. Most of the research in CS Education is undertaken by teaching-active faculty. Doctoral students have the opportunity to reflect on our field from the perspective of studying the teaching and learning practice, often apart from being the actual teacher or learner. Thus, doctoral research offers a particularly interesting lens from which to view our field.

The guest editors invites authors to submit manuscripts for a special issue devoted to dissertation doctoral research on areas pertaining to computer science education. This issue will feature completed doctoral research from the past four years that reports novel contributions to the field of computer science education and meets high academic standards. Manuscripts should include a description of the problem worked on, appropriate background research, method of data collection and analyses, findings, open problems, and future research.

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May 01, 2004

CFP: SIGCSE 2005

The 36th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
St. Louis, Missouri.

URL: http://www.ithaca.edu/sigcse2005/

Deadline for papers, panels, special sessions, and workshops:

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