Previous Events

WICSE celebrated its 25th Anniversary on September 10th, 2003.

Past Events...

• March 6, 2008: Lunch with McKay Visiting Professor Deborah Estrin at 258 Cory Hall, 12 to 1pm

• February 1, 2008: WICSE Mentoring Lunch (with corporate guest)

• November 30, 2006: Ice Cream Social at Cold Stone Creamery (2204 Shattuk) 7pm!
  

• October 22-24, 2006: "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" Workshop at Rice University
  Application due Aug 15.

• Oct 4-7: Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
  We have 16 attendents this year!

• Sep 16: Acting Class by Woman's Will (an SF bay area's all-female Shakespeare Company)
  Sep 7: Wine and Cheese Tasting by Graduate Woman's Project
  

• July 18, 2006: Department Funding for Attending the Hopper Conference
  Funding available for attending the hopper conference.

• July 16, 2006: Feedback & Dynamics in Nature Workshop Application Deadline
  Funding available for attending FDN workshop.

• June 1, 2006: Grace Hopper Application Deadline
  Funding available for attending Grace Hopper.

• April, 2006: Mentoring Lunch
  There is a great picture of everyone there.

• March 31-April 1, 2006: CRA-W Grad Cohort in San Francisco
  Registration due Feb 28th.
  

• March 14-17, 2006: Richard Tapia Visit
  Thurs, Mar 16: Regent's Lecturer, a guest of EECS and the Campus.
  Successes and Challenges in Diversifying Research Universities and the National Science and Engineering Workforce
  4pm, Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
  Introduction by: A. Richard Newton, Dean, College of Engineering
  Reception following in Garbarini Lounge.
  

• Jan 30, 2006: Dr. Mark Dean, Director, IBM Almaden Research Lab
  HP Auditorium, 4:00 pm
  Opportunities for Innovation in the IT Industry

• Dec 23, 2005 deadline: Games for Girls Programming Competition (G4G) to encorage diversity in computer science. For more information visit G4G.

• Upcoming Opportunities
  Career conference for senior graduate women
  Google 2006 Anita Borg Scholarship due Jan. 20
  www.soroptimistinternational.org offer a dissertation year fellowship for women. The application is available at www.sifounderregion.org

• Dec. 2: Mentoring Lunch Speakers:
  Prof. Katherine Yelick
  Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
  Dr. Carol Muller, MentorNet

• Oct. 19-22, 2005: Richard Tapia Conference: Celebration of Diversity in Computing
  Funding is available for several student to attend the conference. Please ask Sheila for details.

• Oct. 18, 2005: The Anita Borg Women of Vison Banquet
  (picture 1, picture 2)

• Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005: WICSE /AuWicse Mentoring Lunch sponsored by Google

• Sunday, Sept. 18, 2005: DIM SUM in Oakland! Join WICSE members, big sisters, and little sisters for an early lunch at 11:00am. Please contact Marie for more information (meyoum AT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu).

• Fall 2005 News: 38 freshmen women admitted to EECS!

• Congrats to alumna Shafi Goldwasser (PhD 1984) who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

• April 1, 2005: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Researchers discussed the environment and opportunities at the LBNL:
  Dr. Deborah Agarwal, Distributed Systems Dept.Head, Dr. Sherry Li (Berkeley alumna), Dr. Raquel Romano, Alvarez Postdoctoral
  Fellow, Computational Research Division (Berkeley alumna), Professor Katherine Yelick, CS Professor
  

• Summer positions at LLNL Spend Your Summer Learning and Earning at One of the World's Leading Centers for Computational Science! Apply now!

• March 11, 2005: Divya Ramachandran, Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Juliet Holwill, DeLynn Bettencourt, and Aliseya Wright discussed their experience at the CRA Cohort

• MentorNet Here is a new program enabling you to get career advice *online* from an engineer or scientist! EECS and the College of Engineering have joined for Spring 2005. Please consider signing up!
      Here is an opportunity for women studying computer science, mathematics or engineering. Get "real world" information, encouragement, advice, and access to professional networks from professionals working in your field. Berkeley has joined MentorNet's One-on-One Mentoring Programs which pairs women engineering and science community college, undergraduate, and graduate students, postdocs and untenured faculty as protégés with female or male professionals from all sectors as mentors for one-on-one, email-based mentoring (e-mentoring) relationships.
  
  How can you find a mentor using MentorNet?
  1) Join the MentorNet Community. (http://www.mentornet.net/join)
  2) Sign in to the Community and follow the One-on-One Mentoring Programs

  Feb. 25-26, 2005: Several first and second year graduate students attended the CRA Cohort meeting in San Francisco. They had a great time!

  Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005: 4:30 PM Google Tour for WICSE and AUWICSEE. Contact lindseyd@google.com for more info.

  Feb. 12, 2005: Mark Dean, the director of IBM's Almedan Research Center, was the speaker at an event cosponsored by WICSE.

  Mar. 3-5,2005: Empowering Women of Color Conference: A Century of Struggle and Movements
  The purpose of the Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC) is to build bridges between academic and community women of color, in an effort to assist them in sharing resources, strategies, and visions that will empower them at all levels of society. The Conference also strives to build networks between different generations, ethnic and racial groups, socioeconomic levels, sexual orientations, and physical abilities. Few forums exist wherein women of color are provided the space to dialogue about the issues that matter most to them. EWOCC provides such a forum. For additional information, conference schedule of events and registration fees please visit ewocc.berkeley.edu

  Jan. 26, 2005: Agilent has openings in their Semiconductor Products Group, and will be on campus on this date. Contact cortney_hesz@agilent.com for more info.

  Oct. 15, 2004: Linda Kekelis of Techbridge, a mentoring program for girls in science, was our guest at lunch. She is looking for role models!

  Oct. 6-9, 2004: Several WICSE members attended the 2004 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Chicago, Illinois. Several members made presentations at the conference, and Sheila Humphreys participated in a panel discussion. Several alumnae also made presentations at the conference.
  

  Sept. 3, 2004: WICSE trip to see the Lion King in San Francisco at 8 PM!

  May 7, 2004: WICSE trip to the Oakland A's game. Meet at 5:30 in front of Cory Hall to take Bart over to the game.

  Feb. 27, 2004: WICSE Ice Skating trip to Berkeley Iceland (7:30 - 10:30 public skate session).

  Feb. 6-7, 2004 in Seattle, WA: The CRA-W is pleased to announce the first Grad Cohort Workshop to be held February 6-7, 2004 in Seattle, Washington. The workshop, modeled on the CRA-W's successful Academic Careers Workshop, will bring women students in the first year of graduate school together with senior researchers. The senior researchers will share pertinent information on the transition from student to researcher as well as more personal information and insights about their experiences. All participants - students and researchers - will attend a mix of formal presentations, informal discussions, and social events, making it possible for students to build mentoring relationships and develop peer networks. Funding is available for the students to attend! For further information and application procedures, see this website. The application deadline is December 19, 2003.

  Nov. 14, 2003: Ms. Sarah Revi Sterling, a Program Manager for the University Relations at Microsoft Research, will be our guest speaker at the WICSE lunch.

  Oct. 24, 2003: WICSE bowling! Come meet other WICSE members at this social event, sponsored by WICSE. The current plan is to meet at the Le Roy St. entrance to Soda Hall at 6:15 PM to carpool over to Albany Bowl. If you are interested in coming, please email Hayley (iben @ cs.berkeley.edu). More details to follow.

  Oct. 24, 2003: Dr. Sandra K. Johnson, a Linux Performance Architect from IBM, will be giving a talk. Dr. Johnson earned her BS (Summa Cum Laude) from Southern University, and her Ph.D. from Rice University. She is a researcher at the IBM Silicon Valley Research Center, San Jose, CA, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association and the Coalition to Diversify Computing. She has conducted research and published in a number of high-end computer science areas.

  June 6-8, 2003: WICSE member and officer Elaine Cheong attended the CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop in San Diego, CA. She presented a wonderful summary at WICSE lunch the following week.

  May 5, 2003: Lorraine Herger of IBM gave a talk on "What it's like to be a manager of industrial research."

  Dec. 2002: Some of us went up to Lake Tahoe to blow off some steam after finals. Check out the master skiiers!

  Nov. 18-22, 2002: Prof. Barbara Grosz visited our campus. She is the Higgins Professor of the Natural Sciences in the Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences and Dean of Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been working to develop collaborative human-computer interfaces.

  Oct. 10-12, 2002: Several WICSE members (13 grad students, 9 undergrads) attended the 2002 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Vancouver, BC. Our own Morley Mao is gave a technical paper at the conference (and won the Young Investigator Award), while Judith Liebman and others led a panel discussion. Congrats!
  Here are some pictures from Vancouver courtesy Elaine.

  Read the review of the Birds-of-a-feather session: The Women's Student Perspective.