{"id":1807,"date":"2016-06-30T13:38:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2016-06-30T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T17:38:53","slug":"cs-phd-students-attend-cra-w-grad-cohort-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2016\/06\/30\/cs-phd-students-attend-cra-w-grad-cohort-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"CS PhD Students Attend CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CS Department sent a group of eight women PhD students to the 2016 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop this year.\u00a0 Doaa Altarawy, Sorour Amiri, Mai Dahshan, Michelle Dowling, Zahra Ghaed, Azam Moosavi, Elaheh Raisi, and Ziqian Song traveled to San Diego in April to participate in this two-day event organized by the Computing Research Association.\u00a0 The annual workshop is aimed at building the pipeline of senior women in computing-related studies and research.\u00a0 Presentations and discussions led by senior researchers and professionals offered advice on a variety of topics such as graduate school survival skills, networking, publishing, etc.\u00a0 According to VT attendee Elaheh Raisi, \u201c\u2026 resources introduced related to different skills such as presentation, writing, and research for graduate studies.\u00a0 There were some female professionals as mentors and we could talk to them and ask for their help about any problem we might have.\u201d\u00a0 Doaa Altarawy reported that she was able \u201c \u2026 to learn more about networking and to actually practice it by knowing new women in computing, [and] to see examples of successful women who were able to overcome difficulties and boundaries and reach their goals.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Michelle Dowling added, \u201cthe atmosphere was wonderfully relaxed and focused heavily on interacting with the audience and addressing specific concerns that people had, all while promoting networking and mentoring opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1808 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/IMG_2876-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2876\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/IMG_2876-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/IMG_2876-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1810 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/CRA-W-Grad-Cohort-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CRA-W Grad Cohort\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/CRA-W-Grad-Cohort-300x225.jpg 300w, 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