CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop 2003

Friday, June 6, 2003

6:00—Keynote Dinner

• Caroline Wardle, National Science
  Foundation
  (slides)

Saturday, June 7, 2003 

8:00—Continental Breakfast

8:30—Welcome and Overview

• Workshop Chair, Lori Pollock

8:45—Whole Group Panel: "Research as a Career" (Research careers in academia, industry, national laboratories;
building a research program):
(slides)

• Jeanne Ferrante, UC San Diego

• Ronitt Rubinfeld, NEC

• Victoria Stavridou, SRI Director of the System Design Lab

10:15—Break

10:30—Parallel Sessions:

1. Pre-tenure track: "The Tenure Process" Panel
   (slides)

• Sandhya Dwarkadas, U. of Rochester

• Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State
  U.

• Debra Richardson, UC, Irvine

2. Industry/National Lab track: "Models of Industrial and National Lab Research"
   Panel

The purpose of this panel is to give
attendees an idea of how research is carried out in your work
environment. Questions to address might include: What is it
like to do research in your organization? How is your lab set
up? What influences what topics you work on? How much do you
work independently or in groups? What are the backgrounds of
the people you work most closely with? What are your goals as
a researcher in your environment? How long have you been doing
what you do? Is research in your environment different from
what you did in graduate school? How does a research agenda
mix with the other objectives of your organization? How do you
achieve a balance?

• Susan Dumais, Microsoft

• Jean Scholtz, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  (slides)

• Ellen Yoffa, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  (slides)

3. Post-tenure track: "From Associate to Full - Going up the Ladder
   After You've Reached the First Rung" Panel

• Anne Condon, U. of British Columbia
  (slides)

• Laurie Dillon,  Michigan State
  U.
  (slides)

• Kathy Yelick, UC, Berkeley

12:00—Lunch (Participants grouped by research area)

1:30—Parallel Sessions:

1. Pre-tenure track: "Getting Funding" Panel

• Cynthia Brown, Portland State U.
  (slides)

• Renée J. Miller, U. of Toronto

• Bhavani Thuraisingham, National
  Science Foundation

2. Industry/National Lab track: "Industry and National Lab Career Options"
   Panel

This panel addresses what career
paths are possible in your environment. Which did or are you
pursuing and why? What is a typical career path for a new PhD
in your environment? For an experienced hire? What management
options are there? Is there a strong distinction between a
'technical' and 'managerial' career track? How have you
addressed work/life balance issues in your career? Can you
give some specific examples? How do researchers who choose to
take time off for child-rearing or other personal reasons deal
with the impact on their careers? What is the impact? What has
been most important to you in your career in terms of
achievement? How did you become aware of opportunities for
advancement or different career paths?

• Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita

• Robin Jeffries, Sun Microsystems

• Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology

3. Post-tenure track: "Career Options Beyond Research" Panel

• Fran Berman, San Diego
  Supercomputing Center

• Debra Richardson, UC, Irvine

• Rita Rodriguez, National Science
  Foundation

3:00—Break

3:30—Whole Group Panel: "Establishing and Nurturing Research Collaborations"

• Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  (slides)

• Mary Jane Irwin, Penn State U.
  (slides)

• Barbara Ryder, Rutgers U.
  (slides)

Sunday, June 8, 2003 

8:30—Continental Breakfast

9:00—Parallel Sessions:

1. Pre-tenure track: "The Job Search Process and Later Job-related Decision Making" Panel
   (slides)

• Sarita Adve, U. of Illinois at
  Urbana-Champaign
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• Kathryn McKinley, U. of Texas,
  Austin
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• Ellen Spertus, Mills College

2. Industry/National Lab track: "Strategies for Success in Industry and the
   National Labs" Panel

This panel addresses what it takes to
succeed in your environment? What personal characteristics?
What research characteristics? What organizational
characteristics (e.g., mentors, training, social networks,
etc.), whether inside or outside of your organization? Is
there some event or milestone that stands out in your mind as
a significant early success or milestone? Are there particular
individuals in your environment that you admire and try to
emulate? Who has helped you along the way to be successful?
What did they do and why was it important to you?

• Suzanne Iacono, National Science
  Foundation
  (slides)

• Robin Jeffries, Sun Microsystems

• Telle Whitney, Institute for Women and Technology

3. Post-tenure track: "Planning and Realizing a Successful Sabbatical
   Experience" Panel

• Lori Clarke, U. of Massachusetts
  (slides)

• Susan Eggers, U. of Washington

• Jeanne Ferrante, UC, San Diego
  (slides)

• Susan Horwitz, U. of Wisconsin

10:30—Break

11:00—Parallel Sessions: 

1. Pre-tenure track: "Teaching, Advising, and Service" Panel

• Margaret Martonosi,
  Princeton U.
  (slides)

• Erika Rogers,
  California Polytechnic State U., San Luis Obispo

• Karen Sutherland,
  Augsburg College
  (slides)

2. Post-tenure/Industry/Lab tracks:

   "Bringing Undergraduates into your Research Program" Panel

• Nancy Amato, Texas A&M
  (slides)

• Nancy Leveson, MIT

• Diana Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon
  U.

12:30—Lunch

2:00—Whole Group track: "Time Management, Family, and Quality of Life Issues"
Panel

• Faith Fich, U. of Toronoto

• Mary Hall, USC Information Sciences Institute

• Leah Jamieson, Purdue U.

3:30—Wrap Up and Evaluation