By Adriana Wilde and Cigdem Sengul As 2025 comes to an end, we would like to take the opportunity to look back over the past year of ACM-W newsletters and reflect on the themes emerging from our discourse.  What stands out most is that our community is growing in scale, confidence, and global reach, and […]

Supporting, Celebrating, and Advocating for Women in Computing Around the Globe by Asegul “Ace” Hulus Welcome back, avid readers, to your 2025 recap of our tours across ACM-W Chapters around the globe. Before I start recapping, I would like to highlight some major milestones from our ACM-W community around the globe. In my role as […]

Quiz link: Chapters Trivia Celebrate the season with a bit of fun! Our Holiday Trivia Challenge invites you to test your knowledge of ACM-W Chapters from around the world. Whether you’re a long-time ACM-W supporter or just curious to learn more, this quick quiz is a great way to discover surprising facts—and maybe win a […]

This month’s scholar highlighted as part of the ACM-W Above and Beyond Project is Aishwarya Naresh Reganti, who has inspired her students to express their appreciation in a remarkable way: by organising a donation in Aishwarya’s honour, inspired by the support she once received through the ACM-W scholarship. We catch up with her below as […]

As we close another remarkable year for ACM-W Chapters around the world, we are excited to invite you to participate in — or renew your participation in — the ACM-W Buddy Chapter Program for the coming year. The Buddy Program was created to spark meaningful global connections among ACM/ACM-W/SIG student and professional chapters. Whether you’re […]

With the ACM-W Rising Star Award, ACM-W recognizes women whose early-career research has made a significant impact in the field of computing. The award is a tribute to early-career women making waves in computing and contributing to a more inclusive and supportive community. Important Dates For more details and to apply, visit the ACM-W awards page. […]

As part of the ACM-W Above and Beyond Project, we are excited to feature Shin Hwei Tan, who is the recipient of the 2025 ACM-W Rising Star Award.  This feature is particularly special: we catch up with Dr Tan as we celebrate her remarkable journey—from an ACM-W scholarship recipient to an award-winning researcher and leader in […]

Professional Chapters’ Corner: Empowering Women Through Research and InnovationWritten by Asegul Hulus Welcome back! We’re heading to Fez, Morocco, today to showcase the Fez ACM-W Chapter, a vibrant professional group focused on addressing the gender imbalance in computing via mentorship, outstanding research, and community involvement. Distinguished leadership This chapter’s leaders bring together varied research skills, […]

This month, we are pleased to repost an earlier article from ACM-W Europe’s newsletter (originally available at https://acmweurope.acm.org/newsletter-september-2025/), to celebrate the flagship event for the region, in its 12th edition. Congratulations to the Communications team in Europe for this excellent account of such an inspirational event. A Celebration to Remember: womENcourageTM 17 – 19 September 2025 […]

By Rukiye Altın As we reconnect with our ACM-W members, friends, and supporters, I’m delighted to share our highlights, which are filled with accomplishments, collaboration, and inspiration across our global community. Together, we celebrated achievements, welcomed new chapters, and highlighted the inspiring women in computing who are driving change and innovation around the world. As […]

We are delighted to welcome Tejaswini Apte as the new ACM-W Celebration Chair! Tejaswini is an experienced cybersecurity and database professional with nearly two decades of expertise in operating systems and network security, cloud administration, database administration, and performance tuning. Over the course of her career, she has worked with leading organisations such as IBM, […]

By Adriana Wilde This month, we are delighted to spotlight Professor Mira Mezini, ACM Fellow (2024) and Professor of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt (TUDa), where she leads the Software Technology Lab. Honoured for her pioneering work in programming languages and software analysis—with applications in distributed systems, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence—and for her contributions to […]

By Fuzzy Kara-Isitt Professor Sue Black OBE transformed a night-school maths class into a computer-science career that reshaped the landscape of women’s inclusion in technology. Today, she stands among the UK’s most influential technologists as a social entrepreneur, academic, and advocate for women in tech. From rebuilding her life to rebuilding Bletchley Park, her story […]

By Adriana Wilde In a previous ACM-W blog post, Empowering Women to Return to Computing: A Game of Snakes and Ladders, I first proposed rethinking the narrative around women’s careers in computing through a new metaphor based on the snakes-and-ladders board game. This metaphor feels closer to the lived experience of many of us: unpredictable, […]

We have welcomed our new Awards and Scholarships chairs to ACM-W this month. Dr Marjana Prifti Skënduli has become the Chair of the Awards Committee for ACM-W Global. She previously served as the Chair of the ACM-W Scholarships Committee. Marjana Prifti Skënduli received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of New York Tirana […]

by Asegul ‘Ace’ Hulus We are happy to announce the creation of 24 ACM-W chapters across the globe during the second and third quarters of 2025, marking a milestone in our mission to support and celebrate women in computing. The growth includes 11 professional chapters and 13 student chapters, across as many institutions all over […]