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Announcing the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing!

The 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will be held in Tucson, Arizona September 30 – October 3, 2009, with the theme Using Technology for Social Good. It's not too early to start planning how you want to participate or to start looking for the right collaborators for your panel, workshop, bird of a feather session or poster submission.

Important Dates:
• Call for Participation - January 17, 2009
• Call for Participation Closes - March 16, 2009 (This date will not be extended)
• Scholarship Applications Open - March 19, 2009
• Registration Opens - May 19, 2009

The Grace Hopper 2009 group will be available shortly on Facebook. Here's what you can do now:
• Download the flyer from http://gracehopper.org/2009/assets/ghcad09.pdf to print and share!
• Sign up for the Anita Borg Institute e-newsletter (http://anitaborg.org/get-involved/subscribe/) to be kept informed of upcoming deadlines.
• If you use Twitter, follow @ghc for conference updates.
• For more information go to http://gracehopper.org/


Message from Betty:

Two Ph.D students from our department, Kate Tsui and Mary Beth Smrtic shared their experience from the 2008 Grace Hopper in our WiCS meeting. This is a great opportunity for both undergrad and graduate female students.

Last meeting of the semester; TODAY @ 11:30am

WiCS will have its last meeting of Fall 2008 TODAY (M 12/8) at
11:30am. Location OS 219a (CS Library).

Agenda: Planning for Spring 2009!

Hope to see you there!
Kate
WiCS President
http://www.cs.uml.edu/wics