Invitation to Distinquished Speaker Events Monday April 16 Attention Computer Science and IS majors!

UMBC will host three events as part of the CRA-W Distinguished Lecture Series on Monday, 16 April 2012. CRA-W, the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, is an action-oriented organization dedicated to increasing the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering research and education at all levels.

The visiting speaker is Dr. Ellen Zegura, Professor and Chair of
the School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech.  Dr. Jeff Forbes
of NSF and Duke University will also be on campus as part of
the Distinguished Lecture Series to participate on a panel about
grad school (aimed at graduate students and undergraduates).
The events are open to the public and UMBC visitors are welcome
to attend.

PANEL DISCUSSION: GRADUATE SCHOOL: BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER
10:00-11:00am, Monday 16 April, 2012, UC 310
Dr. Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
Dr. Jeffrey Forbes, National Science Foundation
Mr. James MacGlashan (UMBC CSEE Ph.D. Candidate)
Ms. Alyson Young (UMBC HCC Ph.D. student)

COMPUTING IN CIRRUS CLOUDS: THE CHALLENGE OF INTERMITTENT CONNECTIVITY
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
1:00-2:00pm, Monday 16 April 2012, ITE 325B

COMPUTING FOR GOOD: EXPERIENCES IN HUMANITARIAN COMPUTING
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech
4:00-5:00pm, Monday 16 April, 2012, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Details of these events can be found at http://csee.umbc.edu/talks and
in the attached flyer.

These events are jointly sponsored by CRA-W, UMBC’s Center for Women in
Technology (CWIT), CSEE and IS Departments, and the Graduate School.

We encourage you to attend these events.

Yun Peng and Marie desJardins
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

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Nominations should be sent to 
Katelyn Toy (ktoy1@umbc.edu) and must be received by April 11th at 5:00 pm. Nominees will then be contacted on the evening of April 11th to confirm their interest in running. Confirmation of interest must be received by April 16th at 5:00 pm and voting will open on April 17th and close on April 20th at 5:00 pm.

President
The duties of the President shall include being an effective leader for the CWIT Student Council and being an active voice in representing the CWIT community. The President will also serve as the organization's official representative for communicating with the SGA and UMBC Staff. President will facilitate all open and closed meetings.

Co-Vice President of Student Events (2)
The duties of the Co-Vice President of Student Events shall include organizing social and outreach events for the CWIT community and help the community bond as a family. Thus, the Co-Vice President of Student Events is mainly responsible for building a sense of community and adds to the element of fun while being responsible leaders.

Treasurer
The duties of the Treasurer shall include managing the organization's funds and ensuring compliance with financial rules and guidelines. Additionally, the Treasurer is responsible for the management of fundraising events to help bolster CWIT events.

Historian
The duties of the Historian include making sure attendance is taken at events, taking photographs during events, sending an end-of-the-year survey for CWIT Student Council events.

Secretary
The duties of the Secretary shall include taking minutes during meetings. Additionally, the Secretary will help organize meetings and events and will reserve all rooms for events.

Resident Assistant
The duties of the Resident Assistant of the CWIT Floor is a de facto member of the board. His/Her collaboration is required to host CWIT community events in the LLC. This position not a open for nomination.

If you have questions about the positions, don't hesitate to ask any of the current CWIT Student Council Officers.

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Here's your chance to make a difference! CWIT Student Council is co-hosting a outreach project with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Information Systems Council of Majors (ISCOM), and Society of Women Engineers (SWE). This time about 70 students in the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program from Old Mill Middle School South will be coming to UMBC on Friday, March 9th from 10am-1:30pm. We need volunteers to help out with the Engineering & IT activities and to help escort the children from one location to the next.

We need your help! For more details and to sign up to volunteer, check out this link: http://bit.ly/HFKZcW

Thanks in advance for all your help in support!

Questions? Email me: smohan2@umbc.edu
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If you are applying to present at the Grace Hopper Conference in October, you should first apply for the GHC Scholarship, then apply for OUE if you do not receive the Scholarship.
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The Center for Women in Technology has been awarded a National Science Foundation S-STEM Grant that will fund the Scholars in IT and Engineering (T-SITE) program. Beginning this fall, need-based, multi-year scholarships of up to $6,700 per year, will be awarded to 10 new transfer students. These Scholars will participate in  academic and professional development support activities as part of the larger CWIT Scholar community. Applications are currently being accepted: www.cwit.umbc.edu/tsite.

The T-SITE Scholars Program is focused on attracting, retaining, and graduating more women and under-represented minorities from Maryland community colleges in engineering and computing majors at UMBC.

Applicants must be new full-time transfer students majoring in chemical or mechanical engineering, information systems, computer science, or computer engineering. While the program focus is on diversifying these fields, all eligible transfer students with financial need are encouraged to apply.  Applicants must also have a 3.0 transfer gpa , be a US citizens or permanent resident, and have financial need based on the FAFSA. Applications are being accepted until April 20, 2012 and interviews will be held in early May.

Read more about the T-SITE Scholars program on the CSEE website:  http://www.csee.umbc.edu/2012/03/new-t-site-scholarship-program-targets-tech-transfer-students/

For more information contact Dr. Susan Martin, CWIT Associate Director at (410) 455-3109 or by email at susan@umbc.edu.

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Attention CWIT Affiliates:

Join us at noon on Wed. 3/14 at noon in ITE 456 for Pizza and a leadership activity that will be fun and make you think!

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Thank you to all the student volunteers during Bits & Bytes for giving so freely of your time on Sunday & Monday, February 19 & 20! When all the participants left on Monday, I kept hearing so many comments about the great time they had and how much they learned from meeting other high school girls and UMBC students. The event was a success! Even in a short interaction with them, you all helped put a face on UMBC and showed the girls that engineering and IT students are just like them! Well done!

I would especially like to thank the Bits & Bytes Planning Committee, for the long hours and hard work they put into ensuring this event would run smoothly. Bits & Bytes would not be possible without a strong, dedicated group of students on the planning committee, and without a enthusiastic group of volunteers. Thank you to Michael Barrett, Tiffany Ernst, Leah Mason, Angela Norton, Juliette Sardin, and Emily Scheerer for giving me the pleasure of working with you as a team to plan this event. It is never easy to plan event like this, but SO worth it in the end to see the impact you had on these high school girls. You all are AWESOME!

To all the members of the CWIT Living Learning Community (and a few in Harbor Hall as well): Thank you for hosting the girls in your rooms on Sunday night and helping them feel welcomed when they arrived on the floor for dinner and games. You all went above and beyond!

I would like to compile a photo album for this year's Bits & Bytes event, so if you took any pictures at all during the event, please email them to me or bring them to the office on a flash drive (or your camera SIM card) so I can piece them all together to send out to the participants.

I welcome all feedback to help continue to improve the event in the future. If you have any feedback about the event, please email kglasser@umbc.edu.

Thanks again! You all should be very proud of the great work you accomplished as a community! 
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