ACM-W August 2015 Newsletter

Vicki Hanson, Vice President of ACM to Speak at womENcourage 2015 As a continuation of the keynote speaker series for womENcourage 2015 we now travel to Scotland to speak with Vicki Hanson.  She is a Professor and Chair of Inclusive Technologies, School of Computing, University of Dundee, UK, and also a Distinguished Professor of Computing […]

The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences. The student does not have to present a paper at the conference to be eligible. Applications are evaluated in 6 cycles each year in order to distribute awards across […]

ACM-W Celebrations Transitions to a New Year ~Jodi Tims As Valerie announced in her opening remarks, I am pleased to welcome Wendy Powley (Queens University, Ontario, CA) to the role of ACM-W Celebrations chair.  Wendy has been deeply involved with the project, having been a lead organizer of the Ontario Celebration (ONCWiC) for several years.  […]

Welcome to the August, 2015, issue of ACM-W Connections.  As promised last month, I want to begin reporting on some of the changes and initiatives that we discussed at the Council meeting.   I am very excited that we are making some changes to the structure of ACM-W.   As our programs have expanded, the job of […]