>A great chance to promote ugrad research among our 200 ugrad women
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>ATTENTION BERKELEY WOMEN UNDERGRADUATES
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>PROGRAM  ANNOUNCEMENT
>Collaborative Research Experience for Women in Undergraduate Computer
>Science and Engineering
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>The Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in
>Computing Research (CRA-W) is pleased to announce a new initiative to
>support women involved in undergraduate research.  The new program,
>Collaborative Research Experience for Women in Undergraduate Computer
>Science and Engineering (CREW), is designed to provide collaborative
>research experiences for groups of two to three undergraduate women during
>the 1998-99 academic year. It is hoped that by increasing the opportunity
>to do research and by decreasing the isolation that may be experienced in
>doing independent research, women scientists and engineers will be
>encouraged to pursue similar work in graduate school.
>
>Research will be conducted at the students' home institutions.  Students
>will work with a sponsoring faculty member on a project for which monetary
>support is typically not available.  Ordinarily each student will receive
>a stipend of $1000 for her work.  There is no support provided by this
>program for faculty stipends.  However, up to $500 per project may be
>requested for special equipment, travel or supporting materials.
>
>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.  Of course, students are also encouraged to submit papers and
>present their work to other appropriate journals and conferences.
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>ELIGIBILITY
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>	- Students must be entering their junior or senior year in
>	  1998-99
> 	- All projects must be directly related to computer science or
>	  computer engineering and be suitable for undergraduate research
> 	- The entire student research team must consist of two to three
>	  undergraduate women who are majoring in computing
> 	- All applications should be jointly submitted by the proposing
>	  students and a sponsoring faculty member
>
>
>PROPOSAL FORMAT
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>Proposals are limited to four pages plus an information page on each of
>the students and the sponsoring faculty member.  Each student should also
>submit a transcript.
>
>The format of the proposal must be as follows:
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>1) Project Description
>2) Methods and Means to be Utilized
>3) Student Activity and Responsibility
>4) Faculty Activity and Responsibility
>5) Desired Outcomes
>6) Budget (and justification if requests are made beyond student
>stipends.)
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>The information page should include name, address (home and school, postal
>and electronic),  Social Security number (for tax purposes), major, and
>any other information pertinent to the proposal.
>
>
>TIMELINE
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>Application Deadline: May 30, 1998
>Notification of Awards: June 30, 1998
>Project Research: September 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999
>Final Summary Report: June 1, 1999
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>SUBMISSION
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>Questions, comments and proposals should be submitted electronically to
>Sheila Castaneda at:
>
> 	CREW@keller.clarke.edu
>
>Send transcripts and other nonelectronic information to:
>
>	Sheila Castaneda
>	Computer Science Department
>	1550 Clarke Drive
>	Dubuque, IA 52001
>	Tel: (319) 588-6401   Fax: (319) 588-6789
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>This information can be accessed at http://cra.org/Activities/craw.
>
>
>SPONSORSHIP
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>This initiative is sponsored by the Computing Research Association
>Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRAW) in
>cooperation with the National Science Foundation's Partnership for
>Advanced Computational Infrastructure's Education, Outreach and Training
>program.
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