[Cs-female-staff] [Cs-female-faculty] Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

[Anna Lubiw]

Just a reminder that WICS has some funding for a faculty, postdoc, or staff member to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.    If you are interested, let me know soon.

Regards,
Anna
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Anna Lubiw
Chair, Women in CS
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo

On 2011-07-21, at 2:45 PM, Anna Lubiw wrote:

> Hello everyone:
> 
> This email is going to cs-female faculty, postdocs, and staff.  It is directed to Instructional, Research, and Technical Staff, not Admin Staff (sorry about that!).
> 
> WICS has decided this year to fund a faculty or staff member to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in
> Computing (GHC) in Portland, Oregon, November 9-12.  
> Please see:
> http://gracehopper.org/2011/
> for more details on the Conference. It's a great opportunity to
> receive mentoring support and to network with other female
> computer scientists from around the world. 
> WICS has funding from the School of Computer Science, and from Sybase and possibly Google to
> support people attending the conference.
> It is expected that a sizeable group of students will go, maybe as many as 20. 
> However, it seems that no faculty or staff member from uWaterloo has ever attended.
> 
> If you would like to be considered for WICS funding, please let me know.
> 
> Note that you would be expected to contribute some grant or professional development funds or to see about possible additional support from any travel funds available to you.
> You would also be asked, upon your return, to discuss your experiences at GHC with WICS.
> 
> Finally, a heads-up that there will also be a more local event for women in computer
> science in Toronto, October 21-22,
> http://www.oncwic.ca/
> I will send out more information about that later on. 
> 
> Regards,
> Anna
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> Anna Lubiw
> Chair, Women in CS
> David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
> University of Waterloo
> 
> 
> 
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