Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

UC Berkeley

 

EECS Diversity Activities, Spring 2008

Association of Women in EECS (AWE) Breaktime

Seminar Series: "Mental Toughness: Women in Engineering"

CRA Computer Research Experience for Undergraduates Deadline is May 9, 2008

The Grace Hopper Scholarship Application Deadline extended to June 22, 2008

Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position Deadline is August 1, 2008




Sunday - Tuesday
October 5-7, 2008 		Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position
Rice University, Houston Texas

Travel, Meals, Registration provided for workshop participants
http://advance.rice.edu/negotiatingtheidealfacultyposition

Questions: Rebecca Richards-Kortun (rkortum@rice.edu)

 
Wednesday - Saturday
October 1-4, 2008
Grace Hopper Poster 2008 Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference
Boulder, Colorado

http://gracehopper.org/2008/

 
Sunday-Tuesday
July 13-15, 2008 		Snowbird Conference
 Computing Research Association (CRA)
Snowbird, Utah

http://www.cra.org/Activities/snowbird/2008/index.html

Session to Focus on " Practical Solutions to a Continuing Problem: Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination "

http://www.cra.org/CRN/articles/jan08/gender.html

 
Thursday - Sunday
June 26 - 29, 2008 		Tools for Participation: Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support A Symposium Discussing Technological Innovations for Social Change
UC Berkeley School of Information, South Hall

Presented by: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, UC Berkeley School of Information, and the International Computer Science Institute

Thursday
June 26th 		1:30 pm - 5:00 pm (registration opens at 12:30)
South Hall, UC Berkeley
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Europe in One Room, Screening and discussion, with Jim Fishkin
Doubletree Hotel at the Berkeley Marina, Yerba Buena Room
Friday
June 27th
 9:30 am - 5:30 pm (registration opens at 9:00)
South Hall, UC Berkeley
Saturday
June 28th
 9:30 am - 5:30 pm (registration opens at 9:00)
South Hall, UC Berkeley
Sunday
June 29th
 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Check website for location of Sunday's Open Space session.

http://www.publicsphereproject.org/events/diac08/


 
June 9 - August 1 Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley -
Computer Science in the Interest of Society (SUPERB-CSIS)
 UC Berkeley

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/ugrad/superb/superb.html

 
Thursday
May 8, 2008
Women of Vision poster Women of Vision Dinner
 Anita Borg Institute
San Jose, California

http://anitaborg.org/initiatives/women-of-vision/

 
Friday
April 25, 2008
photo of Janice Hudgings Graduate-Undergraduate Lunch
 Guest: Visiting Professor Janice Hudgings

 
Friday
April 18, 2008 		Report on Computer Research Association (CRAW) Grad Cohort Conference
 Sarah Bird and Shana-Shaye Forbes

 
Friday
April 11, 2008
HOPE workshop Hands on Practical Electronics (Hope) Workshop:
"You Can Change the World"
 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Mini-University

http://ieee.berkeley.edu/hope_index.php

 
Wednesday-Friday
March 26-28, 2008 		National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) National Conference
 EECS Grad Student Dapo Omidiran attended with CUES Director Beatriz Lopez-Flores

http://convention.nsbe.org/

 
Monday
March 24, 2008 		Expanding Your Horizons Conference
 Mills College

http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/

EECS Workshop led by graduate student Erin Summers.

Sample project: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/lolitasakura/125509

 
Saturday
March 15, 2008 		Celebrating Women in Engineering Freshman Recruitment Event
Speakers include CS Professors Ruzena Bajcsy and Katherine Yelick

 
Thursday-Friday
March 13-14, 2008 		Computer Research Association Grad Cohort for Women Conference
Seattle, Washington

http://www.cra.org/Activities/craw/gradcohort/

Speaker: UCB CS Professor Dawn Song and grads Sarah Bird, Lauren Jones, and Shana-Shaye Forbes

 
Wednesday-Thursday
March 5-6, 2008
Image of Dr. Deborah Estrin A Conversation with Professor Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin, Ph.D. Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA and McKay Lecturer for Women Students in EECS

http://research.cens.ucla.edu/people/estrin/
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Colloquium/McKay/estrin.shtml

 
Friday
February 1, 2008
12 noon 		Graduate Undergraduate Mentor Luncheon
Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall

Guest Speakers from Industry

 
Thursday
January 31, 2008
7-8:30 pm
Image of Theresa Meng WICSE Thirtieth Anniversary Dinner
Women's Faculty Club
Dinner Speaker: Theresa H. Meng, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/WICSE/

 
Thursday
January 31, 2008
6:00 pm 		Belle Wei, Fran Allen, and Susan Graham
A Conversation with Fran Allen, Susan Graham, and Belle Wei
Women's Faculty Club Lounge

Dean Belle Wei, School of Engineering, San Jose State University
Prof. Susan Graham, Computer Science, UCB
Frances E. Allen, IBM Emerita

 
Thursday
January 31, 2008
4:00 pm
Image of Frances Allen Regent's Lecture by Frances E. Allen
"The Challenge of the Multi Cores: Think Sequential, Run Parallel"
Place: Sibley Auditorium

IBM Fellow Emerita & 2006 Turing Award Winner
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 
Wednesday
January 30, 2008
5:00 pm 		Seminar Series Panel:
"Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Career Advancement for Women Engineers"
Place: 290 Hearst Mining Building
Moderator: Frances Allen

PANEL
Image of Rula Deeb Image of Marie-Anne Neimat Image of Nina Taft Image of May Su
Rula Deeb, Environmental Engineer, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
Marie-Anne Neimat Vice President, Oracle,
Dr. Nina Taft Senior Research Scientist, Intel Research Laboratory,
May Su Vice President/General Manager, Aviza Techn.

Co-sponsored Graduate Women of Etcheverry (GWE), Julia Morgan Engineering Program (JMEP), the Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (WICSE), and the EECS Department.

 
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