From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Thu Jan 3 14:01:21 2008 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Thu Jan 3 14:01:32 2008 Subject: [OCWIC] Fwd: Microsoft Scholarship Opportunity In-Reply-To: <4AF6A4EE32D2544E9058F1AE289888840AB4BEDC15@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <4AF6A4EE32D2544E9058F1AE289888840AB4BEDC15@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Message-ID: <5d1a6f030801031101o38ab5a2at2e1f1e79fe5fc3d9@mail.gmail.com> Free money! more info: http://www.microsoft.com/college/ss_overview.mspx :-) Bettina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kinley Campbell (Kelly Services Inc) Date: Jan 3, 2008 1:44 PM Subject: Microsoft Scholarship Opportunity To: "Kinley Campbell (Kelly Services Inc)" Hello, Microsoft is excited to be offering scholarships for the 2008?2009 academic year. We would like to invite interested students to apply and hope you can help advertise this great opportunity within your student group. Below are more details regarding the Program. Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2008 and recipients will be announced by March 20, 2008. Please forward this email to all interested students. *What are the provisions of the award?* Scholarships are awarded to recipients for one academic year. The scholarship will cover up to 100 percent of the tuition for the 2008-2009 academic year as posted by the financial aid office of the university or college. Scholarships are made through the designated school and are not transferable to other academic institutions. Funds are to be used for tuition only and may not be used for other costs on the recipient's bursar bill. All recipients of the scholarship will be required to complete a salaried summer internship of 12 weeks or more at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft reserves the right not to offer a position to the scholarship winner if an appropriate match cannot be found. *What are the criteria for scholarship eligibility?* Students must be enrolled in a bachelor's degree program at a college or university in the United States, Canada, or Mexico at the time the application is submitted. Students must be enrolled full-time and making satisfactory progress toward an undergraduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, such as math or physics, with a demonstrated interest in computer science. The student must have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average out of a possible 4.0, or a 4.0cumulative grade point average out of a possible 5.0. *What is required to apply?* A completed application includes five items: your r?sum?, transcript, essay questions, letter of referral, and confirmation of your online application to the Microsoft Summer Internship program. All items must be mailed to the address below and postmarked by February 1, 2008 to receive full consideration. *R?sum?* - Enclose a copy of your r?sum? that includes your e-mail address, campus address and phone number, student ID number, permanent address and phone number, major and expected graduation date. *Transcript* - Enclose a copy of your current academic transcript. *Essay Questions* - Use one page to answer all four of the following essay questions (not one page per question). ? Describe how you demonstrate your passion for technology outside the classroom. ? Describe the toughest technical problem you've worked on, how you addressed the problem, your role in reaching the outcome, if it was team-based, and the final outcome. ? Describe a situation which demonstrates initiative and your willingness to go above and beyond. ? Describe how you are currently funding your college education. *Gender/Ethnicity/Disability (optional)* - Please note your gender, ethnicity or disability on the page with your essay questions if you would like that information to be considered with your application. *Letter of referral* - Enclose a letter of referral from a faculty member or an academic advisor who knows your work. *Confirmation of Online Application to the Microsoft Internship Program - *Apply online at http://www.microsoft.com/college for a summer internship and print out a confirmation page showing you have done so. This printed confirmation *must* be included in your mailed application materials.* *** *Please send your completed application postmarked by February 1 2008 to: * Microsoft Scholarship Program Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-8303 Please do not reply to this email. 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This experience is invaluable for students who are considering graduate school, providing them with a close-up view of what graduate school is really like and also increasing their competitiveness as an applicant for graduate admissions and fellowships. With the CDC DMP, an option exists for the research to take place remotely, using collaborative technologies such that the student can remain at his or her home institution with local and remote mentors. The CRA-W DMP (operating since 1994) seeks to increase the number of women entering graduate studies in the fields of CS & CE while the CDC DMP (launched in 2007) seeks to increase the number of men and women from underrepresented groups entering graduate studies in the fields of CS & CE. Funding for the student consists of $6000 for the summer (10 weeks), plus relocation travel assistance when appropriate. Additional funds may be available to support student conference travel, either during the summer or afterward, and for outreach activities promoting the DMP. A common On-line Application for the CRA-W DMP and CDC DMP (students and faculty mentors can apply to one or both programs), more information about the programs, and webpages authored by previous participants are available at: http://parasol.tamu.edu/dmp/ Application Deadline February 15, 2008 Awards Announced: mid-March 2008 For more information about the DMP consult the DMP webpages http://parasol.tamu.edu/dmp/ or contact the DMP Co-Coordinators at dmp@cs.tamu.edu Nancy Amato, Professor, Texas A&M University Co-Coordinator, CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project Tracy Camp, Professor, Colorado School of Mines Co-Coordinator, CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project Maria Gini, Professor, University of Minnesota Co-Coordinator, CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project Jessica Hodgins, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Co-Coordinator, CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project Valerie Taylor, Department Head & Wisenbaker Professor, Texas A&M University, Co-Coordinator, CDC Distributed Mentor Project Bryant York, Professor, Portland State University Co-Coordinator, CDC Distributed Mentor Project The Computing Research Association (CRA, http://cra.org) is an association of more than 180 North American academic departments of computer science and computer engineering; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies. The Coalition to Diversity Computing (CDC, http://www.cdc-computing.org/) is a joint organization of the ACM, CRA, and IEEE-CS. Please note that CDC is in the process of overhauling the website. The overhaul, with updates to projects, should be available sometime this Spring. The CRA-W DMP is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation with additional support from AAAI, the Luce Foundation, and USENIX. The CDC DMP is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/ocwic/attachments/20080116/4a6b1b5b/attachment.html From bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue Jan 22 08:04:20 2008 From: bbair at cse.ohio-state.edu (Bettina Bair) Date: Tue Jan 22 08:04:33 2008 Subject: [OCWIC] Microsoft Scholarship Opportunity In-Reply-To: <4AF6A4EE32D2544E9058F1AE28988884116ACCB12F@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <4AF6A4EE32D2544E9058F1AE28988884116ACCB12F@NA-EXMSG-C123.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Message-ID: <5d1a6f030801220504o5a0a4bfof058c7c6349d26d8@mail.gmail.com> fyi. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hello, We would like to remind you of this offer for scholarships for the 2008 ? 2009 academic year. Please note that the deadline for applications is next Friday, February 1, 2008. There is still time to submit your application and if you or any of the members of your student group are interested in this opportunity, we encourage you to apply. Please see the attached document or the below email for full details. Due to the volume of emails we receive, we ask that you kindly do not reply to this email. Thank you, Microsoft College Recruiting *********** Hello, Microsoft is excited to be offering scholarships for the 2008?2009 academic year. We would like to invite interested students to apply and hope you can help advertise this great opportunity within your student group. Below are more details regarding the Program. Applications must be postmarked by February 1, 2008 and recipients will be announced by March 20, 2008. Please forward this email to all interested students. *What are the provisions of the award?* Scholarships are awarded to recipients for one academic year. The scholarship will cover up to 100 percent of the tuition for the 2008-2009 academic year as posted by the financial aid office of the university or college. Scholarships are made through the designated school and are not transferable to other academic institutions. Funds are to be used for tuition only and may not be used for other costs on the recipient's bursar bill. All recipients of the scholarship will be required to complete a salaried summer internship of 12 weeks or more at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft reserves the right not to offer a position to the scholarship winner if an appropriate match cannot be found. *What are the criteria for scholarship eligibility?* Students must be enrolled in a bachelor's degree program at a college or university in the United States, Canada, or Mexico at the time the application is submitted. Students must be enrolled full-time and making satisfactory progress toward an undergraduate degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, such as math or physics, with a demonstrated interest in computer science. The student must have a 3.0 cumulative grade point average out of a possible 4.0, or a 4.0cumulative grade point average out of a possible 5.0. *What is required to apply?* A completed application includes five items: your r?sum?, transcript, essay questions, letter of referral, and confirmation of your online application to the Microsoft Summer Internship program. All items must be mailed to the address below and postmarked by February 1, 2008 to receive full consideration. *R?sum?* - Enclose a copy of your r?sum? that includes your e-mail address, campus address and phone number, student ID number, permanent address and phone number, major and expected graduation date. *Transcript* - Enclose a copy of your current academic transcript. *Essay Questions* - Use one page to answer all four of the following essay questions (not one page per question). ? Describe how you demonstrate your passion for technology outside the classroom. ? Describe the toughest technical problem you've worked on, how you addressed the problem, your role in reaching the outcome, if it was team-based, and the final outcome. ? Describe a situation which demonstrates initiative and your willingness to go above and beyond. ? Describe how you are currently funding your college education. *Gender/Ethnicity/Disability (optional)* - Please note your gender, ethnicity or disability on the page with your essay questions if you would like that information to be considered with your application. *Letter of referral* - Enclose a letter of referral from a faculty member or an academic advisor who knows your work. *Confirmation of Online Application to the Microsoft Internship Program - *Apply online at http://www.microsoft.com/college for a summer internship and print out a confirmation page showing you have done so. 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Thursday, June 12th - Speakers Bios and Topics * * Carol Evans - Keynote Speaker President and CEO, Working Mother Media and Working Mother Magazine * Carol Evans is the founder and CEO of Working Mother Media (WMM). Ms. Evans' history with Working Mother Media has been a long and illustrious one. From 1979 through 1989, Carol took the advertising revenue of Working Mother Magazine from $100,000 to more than $14 Million, expanded circulation from 100,000 Quarterly to 700,000 Monthly, and launched such initiatives as: *Working Mother **100 Best Companies, *now in its 22 year. In 2001, Carol bought Working Mother Magazine, Work Life Congress, and the National Association of Female Executives, creating what is now Working Mother Media. In January of 2007, after purchasing Diversity Best Practices, Working Mother Media became the largest US media company focusing on diversity, work life balance, and culture change. WMM also publishes several well known and respected lists, such as: *Best Companies for Multicultural Women*, *Best Companies for Women of Color*, *NAFE top 30 companies for Executive Women*, and *Best Law Firms for Women*. Carol's first award winning book, *This Is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto*, was published and released in April 2006. She is a highly acclaimed keynote speaker on the subject of work-life balance, the advancement of women, barriers facing women of color, and leadership, and has appeared on every major talk show including *The Early Show, The Today Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, Montel Williams*, PBS' *To the Contrary *and on hundreds of radio shows and in newspapers nationwide. *KEYNOTE TOPIC: This is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto * In this talk Carol Evans shares from her research of the experiences of 500 working mothers, the wisdom of nearly 3 Million Working Mother Magazine readers, the practices of the highly competitive 100 Best Companies list, and her own personal strategies. As a result of this research, you will learn specific, innovative, tried and true solutions of how working mothers across the country successfully balance family and career. By creating a network of working women within your community, you will learn how to ask for and get what you need and companies will better learn how to provide it. This session will help you to transition from a* work life *to a* life that works. * *Laurie Ford, Ph.D. *President, Critical Path Consultants Dr. Laurie Ford is a recognized expert in leadership, management communication, and coordination between departments and teams to achieve bottom-line performance objectives and make management easy and effective. Dr. Ford has written dozens of published articles, and her textbook on *How to Hotwire Your Organization* has helped train more than a thousand MBA students. Her best-selling book, written with her husband Professor Jeffrey Ford, is *Deadline Busting: How to be a Star Performer in Your Organization*, and is used by executives, managers, and management students in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. *SESSION TOPIC: Collaboration For Accomplishment* Project Managers are experts in using tools to track activities, deadlines, and results for complex projects. But, the people-challenge is often the most daunting part of project management. How can you engage people and have them be highly effective, even those who do not directly report to you, but are critical to your success? The author of the MBA text, "Hotwire Your Organization" shows you the 4-step method for translating your project requirements into agreements that will get everybody engaged in effective action. In this session, you will gain new insights to re-frame the "people problem" of project management, eliminate communication surprises, and guarantee successful project completion. *Patricia Shafer *President, Compel Organizational Excellence Alliance, Ltd Patricia Shafer is president of Compel Organizational Excellence Alliance, Ltd., dedicated to Evoking Courageous Leadership. Shafer specializes in four practice areas: inspiring leaders, mentoring multinationals, empowering women, and transforming technology. In 2005, Patricia was a contributing author to the best selling business book *Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership*. In 2006, Patricia led the global research initiative - The World at Work: Men and Women Managers Tell Us What's Changed and What Still Needs to Change in Organizations, and in 2007 she co-authored The Women in Technology 2007 Report. *SESSION TOPIC: POWERFUL and CONNECTED: An Interactive Workshop on Women Transforming the Future Through Project Management * Project management is central to the success of 21stcentury organizations. Women have become essential to project management, leadership, and teamwork. Never before have women influenced so many complex organizational networks of information, relationships, and tasks. *But what does the future hold?*This three-part, interactive workshop and dialogue will answer this question and empower you to demonstrate a new level of courageous leadership in project management. Based on Patricia Shafer's research and work, she has conducted this workshop for thousands of women in mid-level and senior project roles. You will learn how the increasing importance of communication, connection, collaboration, participation, relationships and "meaning creation" are essential to achieving project success. The "Powerful and Connected" workshop goes right to the heart of this matter. Part One, "A Call to Women for Transformation" begins with an overview of global forces that are pressing for a new style of project management particularly suited to women's ways of managing and leading. But *seeing possibility* is just one step; getting *in action and overcoming personal and organizational blocks* is another. Part Two, "Tapping My Own Deeper Power" acknowledges messages women receive every day about how much "power" they do or don't have. It will give you tools you can use to more confidently influence your surroundings. In Part Three, "Getting Connected: Becoming a Collective Force" you will participate in an exercise to help you more effectively align with other women (and men) to become a leader of positive change. You will leave the workshop with renewed energy and specific steps to take back to your job, which will empower and assist you to make a difference in the "real world". *Friday, June 13th - **Speakers Bios and Topics** * *Donna James *Managing Director, Lardon & Associates LLC Plenty of hard work, combined with her superior business and entrepreneurial skills, enabled Donna James, once a single, teenage mother, to climb the corporate ladder to become the first African American women executive at Nationwide, one of the country's largest insurance and financial services companies. During her tenure at Nationwide, Donna was VP of Human Resources, Executive Vice President of Nationwide Insurance and Financial Services, as well as President of Nationwide Strategic Investments. Holding those positions enabled Donna to advocate and initiate programs for diversity throughout the corporate world. Currently Donna James is the managing director of Lardon & Associates LLC and corporate director for three Fortune 500 Public companies including Coca Cola Enterprises, Limited Brands, and Conseco Inc. In 2005, Donna James was named by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the top 75 African Americans in Corporate America. Donna is an excellent motivational speaker for business and non-business related groups. *KEYNOTE TOPIC:* *Turning Points* Donna James talk, Turning Points, is drawn from the personal experiences, triumphs, set-backs, and lessons learned from her life. In spite of, or because of pressures coming from all sides, she strove for and accomplished a balance between motherhood and personal life, and being a highly effective and respected corporate executive. She overcame the odds! In the male dominated insurance industry she rose to prominence as a woman, and an African American woman at that. Donna will share many of her practical life lessons shaped by her corporate experiences: how she overcame what for many were showstoppers, to rise to the top in her career and mentor others to far succeed their own career expectations. Today Ms. James is living a life of purpose. You will be inspired as Donna shares her power and her passion for making a difference for others through philanthropy and the vision she continually brings into reality as founder of the Center for Healthy Families. *Susan Hall *Vice President, Transformation Consultants International Inc. Susan Hall is Vice President of Consulting at Transformational Consultants International Inc. With over 20 years of experience, Mrs. Hall's expertise lies in strategic planning, global and domestic diversity, high performance team building, and communications. Susan is a highly sought after consultant and coach for executives and high-level managers for the development and expansion of their managerial and leadership skills. In addition, Susan is a highly skilled Birkman consultant and is one of a few individuals certified at Level II by Birkman International Inc. * SESSION TOPIC: Creating Powerful, High Performance Teams * As project managers, we are all used to working in and usually leading a team, or are we? In this presentation, we will differentiate between groups of people working toward a common purpose and those that function as a TEAM. You will learn the characteristics that differentiate groups from TEAMS, and the benefits possible for TEAMS that are not available for groups. Using a four step developmental process, you will follow the creation of a highly effective TEAM, from Forming, through Storming and Norming, to Performing. Throughout this four step process, and in virtually everything that we do with others, you will see that one critical factor is communication. By examining a general communication model, you will learn how to have your communications work for you. Finally, we'll look at team members themselves and how our behavioral styles dictate our strengths and orientations. Through an interesting exercise, you will see your own behavioral style and how you naturally act and react. BOTTOM LINE ?you will leave this presentation with the insight and tools you can use to transform your project team into a highly effective and performing TEAM. *Rose Mary Tyler / Lisa Foster *President, Women In Project Management SIG, Project Management Institute Rose Mary Tyler, PMP has over 20 years experience in IT and project management, and is employed at Electronic Data Systems as a Senior Project Manager. Her passion is project management which she promotes both within EDS in her project manager role, as well as in the Project Management Institute(PMI) as a volunteer leader. Currently Rose is Chair of the PMI Women in Project Management Specific Interest Group which has 3000+ members across the globe. She is also a member of PMI's advisory group for virtual community transformation. Rose is also active in the PMI Great Lakes Chapter. Lisa Foster, PMP has over 20 years experience in IT and project/program management and is employed at Electronic Data Systems as a Senior Program Manager. Lisa is a member of the Women in Technology Mentoring Program at Walsh College where she also teaches project management courses as an Adjunct Instructor. As a member of the American Association of University Women, Lisa conducts the annual Explorathon workshop for the AAUW-Birmingham Michigan chapter; which encourages girls in middle school to stay in the math and sciences. Lisa is also active in both the PMI Great Lakes Chapter and the PMI Women in Project Management SIG. *SESSION TOPIC: We've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women Make Great Business Leaders! * As the old VirginiaSlims Cigarette ad campaign used to say, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby!" Women have, in fact, come a long way in being accepted as great leaders and a significant force in today's world economy. Who ever thought Fortune Magazine would have an annual issue devoted to the top female leaders in business? Ditto to the realm of world politics-who ever thought the U.S. would have a woman running for president in 2008? There are even cable TV stations dedicated to the women's market. But in spite of validation that the female gender is powerful, a lot of old attitudes and questions still haunt women in many industries and occupations, including our beloved project management profession. Is leadership really impacted by gender differences? Does displaying emotions undermine you as a leader? Can women be wives, mothers, and leaders at the same time and be successful in all of those roles? Is the proverbial "glass ceiling" finally developing cracks? This presentation will provide you with some insight into several key points about gender stereotypes, leadership traits, challenges in our project management profession, and what we can do to transform ourselves into great leaders in all of the roles we perform. >From this presentation you will: * Learn why and how networking and mentoring can be your greatest asset * Be able to identify key characteristics of a good leader * Identify the resources you have that can make a difference in your personal and professional life * Gain increased awareness of gender differences in the field of project management and how to make best use of those differences *Anne Donnellon* Associate Professor of Management at Babson College Dr. Donnellon is an Associate Professor of Management at Babson College and a faculty associate of Babson's Center for Women's Leadership. She teaches leadership, negotiation, teamwork, and organizational design in the MBA and executive education programs. Anne authored *Team Talk: The Power of Language in Team Dynamics*, published by Harvard Business School Press and also developed with them an interactive corporate training product entitled *Teams That Work*. Dr. Donnellon has also taught at Harvard Business School and the University of Colorado. Her areas of expertise include leadership and influence, negotiation and conflict management, teamwork, and organizational change. *SESION TOPIC: Negotiation * Project management is perhaps one of the most underappreciated roles in today's companies. The organizational ability, discipline, and operational intensity that undergird this work are critical to organizational effectiveness, but too often project managers are not recognized for the value they are creating at their firms. Sometimes this is because a PM may prefer to stay under the radar and let others take the glory, sometimes the PM does not get recognition because she takes on too much of the work herself, sometimes it is because a PM doesn't know or take advantage of the power she can have in influencing people over whom she has no authority. All of these limit the responsibility, recognition, and resources potentially available to the PM. In this session, we will focus on key negotiation concepts that will help you improve your project management practices and enable you to negotiate more effectively for yourself. Through this presentation, case discussions, and roleplays, you will learn and practice techniques for creating value through negotiation and allow you to claim your fair share - in both professional and personal settings. Presented by Project Management Resource Group, Inc. 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