Institution Name University of Wisconsin
Program Type Informal
Program Name  
Program Description The CS department has several activities to better the environment for women and to ensure that women excel in the graduate program: * WICS (women in CS) mailing list and lunch group, organized by graduate students. Activities also include outreach to undergrads, maintainence of a web page (at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~karavan/wics.html) and distribution of articles and other information of interest to women in CS. * Financial support for some women to attend conferences and workshops for women, such as the Grace Murray Hopper Conference and the CRA mentoring workshops for women. * A special TA position whose responsibilities are to organize events for undergraduate women in the department. * Five women on the faculty, whose activities include: organization of social events, visits from senior women in academia and industry and interactions between these women and our students, and one-on-one mentoring. * In addition, the university has several programs that benefit both undergraduate and graduate women in CS. For example, the university has a graduate fellowship program and awards extra fellowships to departments in which women win these fellowships. There is also an active branch of AWIS (American Association for Women in Science).
Contact Name Anne Condon
Contact's Title Associate Professor
Contact's Phone (608) 262-3158
Contact's Email condon@cs.wisc.edu
Web Page  
WPAN Member yes
General Comments  
Last Update MAR/1997

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