November 2010 - uWomen

[UWAB] CRA-W/CDC DREU Applications are now Open
by Jennifer Whitlow 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

SUMMER 2011 PAID SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS FOR UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS via CRA-W/CDC DREU (DREU was known as the DMP from 1994-2008) Application Deadline February 15, 2011 The CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) Program matches promising undergraduates with a faculty mentor for a summer research experience at the faculty member's home institution. The objective of the DREU is to increase the number of women and students from underrepresented groups entering graduate studies in the fields of computer science and engineering. The DREU experience is invaluable for students who are considering graduate school, providing them with a close-up view of what graduate school is really like and also increasing their competitiveness as an applicant for graduate admissions and fellowships. Funding for the student consists of $6000 for the summer (10 weeks), plus relocation travel assistance when appropriate. Additional funds may be available to support student conference travel, either during the summer or afterward, and for outreach activities promoting the DREU. An on-line Application for students and faculty mentors, more information about DREU, and webpages authored by previous participants are available at: http://parasol.tamu.edu/dreu/ Application Deadline: February 15, 2011 Awards Announced: mid-March 2011 Notes for faculty mentors regarding the DREU Program: * Cost sharing by faculty mentors is encouraged. The number of students interested in the DREU program has increased substantially over the last several years. To enable more students to participate, faculty are now encouraged to provide funds to support (partially or fully) students; the DREU will provide travel support for all students. * All interested faculty are eligible to be DREU mentors. All interested faculty are encouraged to apply as mentors. Nonetheless, based on the documented benefits of role models with similar gender or from similar demographic groups, it is anticipated that DREU funds will mostly be used to support students matched with mentors from groups underrepresented in computing. Hence, other mentors applying should attempt to provide full funding for their students' stipends (the program will provide travel support). For more information about the DREU, consult the DREU webpages http://parasol.tamu.edu/dreu/ or contact the DREU Co-Directors at dreu(a)cse.tamu.edu<mailto:dreu@cse.tamu.edu> Nancy Amato, Professor, Texas A&M University Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CDC) Tracy Camp, Professor, Colorado School of Mines Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CRA-W) Maria Gini, Professor, University of Minnesota Co-Director, Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CRA-W) The Computing Research Association (CRA, http://cra.org<http://cra.org/>) is an association of more than 180 North American academic departments of computer science and computer engineering; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies. The Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC, http://www.cdc-computing.org/) is a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE-CS. DREU is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support from AAAI, the Luce Foundation, and USENIX. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Carla Romero Director of Programs Computing Research Association 1828 L Street NW, Suite 800 Washington DC 20036 cromero(a)cra.org<mailto:cromero@cra.org> 202.266.2941 202.667.1066 (fax) www.cra.org<http://www.cra.org/> Jennifer Whitlow GT College of Computing Program Coordinator for Enrollment jwhitlow(a)cc.gatech.edu 404-385-2441

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[UWAB] Google On Campus December 8th
by Jennifer Whitlow 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Google Search Quality: Serving users what they want, faster Karthik Narayan and Derrick Bass Wednesday, December 8th 2010 @ 6:00 Apply at google<http://goog_1450019295>.<http://goog_1450019295>com/students<http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/us/index.html>! Google is returning to campus on Wednesday, December 8th and we're looking for interns! If you have questions about interning at Google, this talk will give you a better understanding of the projects interns work on, collaboration with full-time Googlers, and the overall internship experience. RSVP Here<https://spreadsheets1.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dHVRcTBmcndk…>! Who: Karthik Narayan (Google intern) and Derrick Bass (Google intern host) What: Google Search Quality: Serving users what they want, faster Where: Klaus 1116 When: Wednesday, December 8th @ 6:00 *** pizza will be served starting at 5:30 WE'RE HIRING! To fill out an application for internships or new grad job opportunities, please check out our special job site for students!<http://google.com/students/eng> We suggest that you apply online before December 2nd, 2010 to be considered for Georgia Tech batch interviews in December. We will accept applications through the winter until internship spots are filled. -- Alex Treister Google Inc., NYC We're Hiring! google.com/students <http://google.com/students> Jennifer Whitlow GT College of Computing Program Coordinator for Enrollment jwhitlow(a)cc.gatech.edu 404-385-2441

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[UWAB] ACTION NEEDED: Secret Santa and Pot Luck
by Candis Pham 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Hi girls! I hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving break and eating lots and lots of good food! You should have recently received my evite invitation to this year's End of Semester Party happening the Thursday of Dead Week, December 9 from 6:00p - 7:30p in place of our regular meeting in CoC Rm 354. I'm so excited to see so many of you have RSVPed!! However, I think there might have been a problem with the Secret Santa feature of evite. SOOOoo.... to play Secret Santa this year, PLEASE send me your "yay!" ASAP as well as a short list of likes and dislikes so your secret santa might know a little bit more about you. We're setting the cost of a gift around $10. The deadline to participate in the game is midnight, Thursday, December 2. I will send out your gift recipient the following morning so you will have plenty of time to go shopping :P. If you're not sure about the game rules, you can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Santa. In addition, we're also planning on doing a pot luck and the End of Semester party. Please email me with what you would like to bring so I can make sure we don't end up with JUST desserts :P. I'm always really excited about this part every year because you all seem to always surprise me with your AMAZING cooking and buying skills :P. I know a lot of you also wanted to decorate gingerbread cookies at the party. If you would be interested in supplying cookies, frosting, or candy, please let me know! We will not have an oven in the CoC, so the cookies would need to be pre-cooked. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments! Thank you, and have a GREAT rest of your break! -- Candis Pham B.S. Computational Media 2011 Georgia Institute of Technology

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[UWAB] W@CC Member Mentioned in Newsweek!!
by Candis Pham 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Congratulations Joy!!! This is amazing! Happy Thanksgiving everyone and we'll see you next week! -- Candis Pham B.S. Computational Media 2011 Georgia Institute of Technology

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[UWAB] Meeting Minutes
by Linda Huynh 22 Nov '10

22 Nov '10

Hello girls! Thank you to everyone who came to the meeting last Thursday. I hope that everyone was able to take something useful from our trip to Aflac's information session. This email is remiss in giving you minutes because there were no minutes taken last week during the presentations and information session. However, this email will be a reminder that there will be no meeting this Thursday as it is Thanksgiving and we do not have school. I hope everyone enjoys the time with their families if they are able to return home this break. For everyone else, enjoy four days of no class! Happy Thanksgiving, and I hope to see you all on the December 2nd meeting. Sincerely, Linda

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[UWAB] Meeting: Professional Help Day Today!
by Linda Huynh 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello girls! This is a reminder that we will be having Professional Help Day in place of our regular meeting today. There will have the option to have your resume critiqued by more experienced students and to learn about things to do and not to do when in business. The event will start at the usual time and place of 6:00pm in the CoC 3rd floor conference room, as usual. Food will also be provided. We hope to see you there! Sincerely, Linda

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[UWAB] Random Hacks of Kindness
by Jennifer Whitlow 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

GTRI to Host Random Hacks of Kindness [Description: http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/files/media/rhok_1-relatedinfo.jpg] >From Dec. 4 to Dec. 5, the GTRI Conference Center will be one of 13 global locations for the third Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), a global community-of-innovation competition. Download 300 dpi version<http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/media/1010> Contact Information Kirk J. Englehardt Director of Communications Georgia Tech Research Institute Phone: 404-407-7280 Cell: 678-557-2533 Fax: 404-407-9280 Contact online<http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/contact-us> John Toon Manager Georgia Tech Research News & Publications Phone: 404-894-6986 Fax: 404-894-1826 Contact online<http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/contact-us> >From Dec. 4 to Dec. 5, the GTRI Conference Center<http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/conference-center> will be one of 13 global locations for the third Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), a global community-of-innovation competition. During the two-day marathon hacking session, the best and brightest hackers form a volunteer global network create software solutions to critical challenges relating to natural disaster risk and response. The event is free and open to the public. Developers, software engineers and creative experts, as well as technical and nonprofit leaders, are invited to participate. Registration is available on the RHoK website<http://www.rhok.org/events/rhok-2/atlanta-georgia-u-s-a/>. From 9 a.m. Saturday to 6 p.m. Sunday, participants will work their techno-magic at GTRI in concert with others around the world. RHoK sessions work with collaborators at Crisis Commons to identify immediate problems, which are then refined further through various small groups. These groups work simultaneously across the globe in a "codejam"-a fast-paced competition where each group has a set amount of time to solve the challenges they are given. At the end of the two-day event, a panel reviews each hack, with winners walking away with prizes. Some hacks created during previous RHoK marathons include "AlertMe," an app that allows emergency messages related to disasters to appear on mobile phones or browsers similar to the Emergency Broadcast System graphics for U.S. television; "Chasm," an application that allows engineers in the field to enter data into a landslide risk algorithm, and "CrysisWiki," an editable directory of resources that provides updated information on disasters and crises around the world. RHoK #2 has five main stages and eight satellite locations, from Brazil and Toronto to Kenya and Indonesia. GTRI in Atlanta will join Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Seattle as the only sites in the United States. "This is a unique opportunity to connect the critical needs of nonprofits who help in times of great need with application developers, systems engineers and other technical and creative experts who wouldn't typically work on these problems," said Betsy Plattenburg, GTRI's Director of Corporate Relations. Local partners include the Southeastern Software Association, Hub Atlanta and TechBridge, among others. Representatives from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and The World Bank started RHoK in November 2009 at RHoK #0 in Mountain View, Calif. In June 2010, RHoK #1 took place on the "main stage" in Washington, D.C., with six other satellite sites around the world. Vivian T. Chandler, CEcD Assistant Director, External Relations School of Interactive Computing/GVU Center 85 5th Street, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280 Phone: 404-385-1252 Cell: 404-274-3375 Fax: 404-894-0673 www.ic.gatech.edu<http://www.ic.gatech.edu> www.gvu.gatech.edu<http://www.gvu.gatech.edu>

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[UWAB] Meeting Minutes
by Linda Huynh 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone who came last night! It was great seeing everyone after a successful viewing of Moulin Rouge! last week. The semester is almost done and the events we have planned are coming to a close. You can see the remainder of our events in the minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1GBQqyk-8-DuqOdm0ycN9HmMw5toD5EfVey… A highlight is our Professional Help Day next week. Be sure to bring your resumes if you would like for them to be reviewed, and if not, you can always come for the presentations we have planned. Topics will include networking, Computational Media tips, and some more general advice. Of course, food will be provided. I hope to see you all next week! Sincerely, Linda

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[UWAB] Construction Walkway Closures - Spring 2011
by Ajai Karthikeyan 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

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[UWAB] Meeting today
by Candis Pham 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Good morning girls! Please don't forget -- we have a Women@CC meeting today 6p in CoC room 354. We have some really exciting events coming up... Professional Help Day, Lenox Mall Outing, the End of Semester Secret Santa Party, and an unofficial surprise get-together event ;P ... and of course free food is provided. Thank you, and we hope to see you tonight! -- Candis Pham B.S. Computational Media 2011 Georgia Institute of Technology

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