Hi All,
Please see below for a great
opportunity:
Hi Everyone:
We are now soliciting summer 2009 applications for students and faculty mentors
for the CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)
Program (formally known as DMP). The announcement below describes the DREU
program and provides links to the on-line student and mentor applications.
Please help us spread the word by sending the announcement below to the
undergraduate students in your department. We would appreciate you sending a
broad announcement to all students in your department, AND a personal email to
those students that you think would be a good fit for this program. (Personal
encouragement definitely works best!)
Please consider applying as a mentor yourself, and also please forward this
announcement to potentially interested faculty - male and female. (Men have
served as mentors since summer 2004. In fact, both both male and female mentors
are needed for CDC students.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Nancy Amato, Professor,
Tracy Camp, Professor,
Maria Gini, Professor,
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SUMMER
2009 PAID RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS FOR UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS
via
CRA-W/CDC DREU
(DREU
was known as the DMP from 1994-2008)
Application Deadline February 15, 2009
The CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU)
Program is a highly selective program that 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, 2009
Awards Announced: mid-March 2009
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@cse.tamu.edu<mailto:dreu@cse.tamu.edu>
Nancy Amato, Professor,
Tracy Camp, Professor,
Maria Gini, Professor,
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
<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.
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Carla Romero - sent on behalf of DREU organizers Director of Programs Computing
Research Association
202.266.2941 - voice
202.667.1066 - fax
cromero@cra.org
www.cra.org
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Jill Dimond
PhD Student
Human Centered Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology