News From ACM-W Scholarships

Jasmine Davis (pictured on the right), HCI undergraduate student at Wellesley college, went to the Spatial User Interaction (SUI) and the User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) meetings last April in Hawaii. Jasmine says: “I admit I was a bit nervous to be attending SUI and UIST. Nervous to the point of being scared, but I am so incredibly glad I reached for it. I’m also glad I was at SUI before UIST. Being at the smaller, one-track conference gave me a chance to settle into things, get over my nerves, and learn what conferences are all about. I had great discussions with professors from Canadian colleges to graduate students from Stanford. […] Presenting my work at SUI reaffirmed that just because I’m an undergrad doesn’t mean my work is any less valid or comparable to that of older and more experienced scholars in attendance at the conference.

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 occasions each year, in order to distribute awards across a range of conferences, with 1-6 awards given for each group of applications. The 2014-2015 ACM-W Scholarships are made possible due to the generous support of Google, Microsoft  and Oracle.

The scholarships expose students to prominent researchers in their field, introduce students to new research, and excite them about doing research themselves. We ask students to share with us some of their thoughts on the conference they attended and we never cease to find truly inspiring stories. Here are some recent examples.

Most recently, in September 2015 we had another round of awards and we are pleased to congratulate  Katrin Krieger (Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet, Germany), Susana Gomez Burgos (University of Colorado Boulder, USA),  Arooba Javed (Wayne State University, USA), Megan K. Hofmann (Colorado State University,), Jialing Zhang (University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA) and  Lisa KOPF (Michigan State University, USA) for their new awards.  We are hoping for some more exciting descriptions and photos.

The next application deadline is December 15 for conferences taking place in February and March 2016. For more information and to apply visit women.acm.org/scholarship.  If you have any questions, contact scholarship committee chair Prof. Adriana Compagnoni.

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