BPC Conferences & Workshops

Upcoming Workshops and Events

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all BPC conferences and workshops have been postponed until the 2021-22 school year. Please check back for more opportunities.

Past Events

Workshop on Departmental Plans for Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)

November 13-15, 2019

This NSF sponsored workshop will take place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science. Participants will spend 1.5 days  learning from BPC experts and working in break-out groups to develop a departmental plan for their own unit. The culmination of the workshop will be a departmental plan that leadership teams can take back to their unit for their faculty to use in support of their NSF CISE proposals.

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Rising Stars 2019: An Academic Career Workshop for Women in EECS

October 29 - November 1, 2019

Rising Stars is an intensive workshop for women graduate students and postdocs who are interested in pursuing academic careers in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering. Launched at MIT in 2012, the annual event has since been hosted at the University of California at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and Stanford University.

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