Gender equality in higher education: a view from a social scientist

By: Dr. Charikleia Tzanakou, The University of Warwick I am a social sciences researcher, interested in gender and academic careers in different disciplinary, institutional and national contexts. Since my PhD, I have been fascinated asking PhD graduates for their career stories especially in subject areas such as engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics. Social science researchers can…

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Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Sciences (SIParCS)

By: Negin Sobhani and AJ Lauer, NCAR, USA The Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Sciences (SIParCS) program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has a goal of encouraging women and students from other underrepresented groups to pursue careers and academic studies in areas related to high performance and scientific computing. This is Negin…

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WHPC Receives Honor in 2016

Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) Receives Honors in 2016 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Salt Lake City, UT, USA November 14, 2016 Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis…

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SC16 diary: Getting ready for SC16

[section background_repeat=”repeat” background_position=”center top” background_attachment=”static” background_scroll=”none”]   [/section] Find out what Toni Collis get’s up to during SC16 by following her blog series this week. By Toni Collis, Women in HPC Founder and Director and Applications Consultant at EPCC, University of Edinburgh. SC16 and Women in HPC’s activities in Salt Lake City kick-off in earnest…

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