Computing Research Association

🧭 Final session coming up!

The 2025 CRA-WP Mentoring Mentors Webinar Series wraps up next week with a session focused on one of the most common mentoring challenges: keeping mentees engaged and on track.

📅 July 18: Addressing Productivity and Engagement Challenges
🎤 Speaker: Jeremy Waisome, University of Florida

Whether or not you attended earlier sessions, this webinar is open to all graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty in computing research.

🎓 Great for mentors working with undergraduates or early-stage researchers

👉 Don’t miss this final opportunity to strengthen your mentorship this summer: https://web.cvent.com/event/c08d71d1-f25a-4bbe-8b04-f7b29185c853/summary

Our June Policy Spotlight features Margaret Martonosi, the Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and former Assistant Director for the CISE Directorate at NSF. Martonosi is long associated with CRA, serving on the CRA Board of Directors from 2009-2017, co-chairing the CRA-WP Board from 2016-2017, and currently serving on the Government Affairs Committee.

In our Policy Spotlight, we asked Martonosi about her time at NSF, what she sees as current challenges facing the research community, and her hopeful vision for the future of computing research.

Read the full Q&A: https://cra.org/crn/2025/06/policy-spotlight-margaret-martonosi-princeton-university/

📝 Last week, CRA led a letter-signing effort involving computing and information technology researchers from a broad cross-section of companies and organizations in industry.

The letter, addressed to the leadership of both Congressional Appropriations Committees, urges them to prioritize robust and stable funding for key federal research agencies — including NSF, DOE Office of Science, and NIST — in the FY2026 budget.

The letter emphasizes that the federal investment in research is the foundation of our nation’s technological leadership, economic competitiveness, and national security, as well as the success of the American computing and IT sectors.

Read the letter and learn more: https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2025/07/industry-letter-research-fy2026/

Three weeks until the 2025 CRA Summit in San Francisco! We’re looking forward to gathering with leading AI researchers to discuss the impacts of AI on undergraduate and graduate education.

Will you be joining us? Pop what you’re most looking forward to in the comments!

Summit

CERP evaluation highlights key impacts of CRA-WP’s 2024 Virtual Career Mentoring
Workshop (CMW). Participant feedback indicates significant impact in defining career
goals and understanding next professional steps.

Gain more insights into how CRA-WP’s Virtual Career Mentoring Workshop is impacting future computing professionals: https://cra.org/crn/2025/06/infographic-understanding-your-career-goals-key-insights-from-cra-wps-2024-virtual-career-mentoring-workshop-cmw/

Surprising NSF, its employees and the research community, it was announced that the Department of Housing and Urban Development would be taking over NSF’s headquarters. It currently remains unclear where the agency will relocate. This adds insult to injury for NSF and only sows more uncertainty with the nation’s research efforts.

Read the full breakdown of what is currently known on the CRA Policy Blog: https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2025/07/nsf-hq-ousted/

CRA is excited to welcome new leaders to our Board of Directors as we begin the 2025 fiscal year! This group of newly elected, reelected, and incoming officers brings deep expertise and a shared commitment to advancing computing research through collaboration across academia, industry, and government.

🔗Learn more about our new Board members and officers: https://cra.org/cra-welcomes-new-members-and-officers-to-its-board-of-directors/

By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications The Computing Research Association (CRA) is guided by a distinguished Board of Directors whose leadership plays a vital role in advancing CRA’s mission: to catalyze computing research by engaging industry, government, and academia. Through their service, Board members help CRA lead the computing research community, inform policymakers and the public, and promote the development of an innovative and responsible computing research workforce....

CRA Welcomes New Members and Officers to Its Board of Directors By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications The Computing Research Association (CRA) is guided by a distinguished Board of Directors whose leadership plays a vital role in advancing CRA’s mission…

How do you teach computer science in the AI era?

A new article by Steve Lohr for The New York Times explores how universities nationwide are rethinking how they prepare students for a workforce transformed by generative AI.

Among those weighing in is CRA and Computing Community Consortium Director Mary Lou Maher, who discusses the importance of AI literacy and the future of computing education.

The piece also highlights Level Up AI, a National Science Foundation-funded initiative led by CRA in partnership with New Mexico State University and others. The effort brings educators together to build a shared vision for the next generation of computer science instruction.

📖 Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-education-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.UHUC.sw3v_O3-JBQn

🔍 The key takeaway from CRA-Industry’s Blockchain Roundtable? Blockchain is not just about cryptocurrencies – it’s a transformative technology that can fundamentally change how businesses operate.

Learn more about how blockchain is reshaping enterprise strategies: https://cra.org/crn/2025/06/cra-i-blockchain-roundtable-summary/

CRA-I Blockchain Roundtable Summary By Helen Wright, Manager, CRA-I The recent Computing Research Association – Industry (CRA-I) Blockchain Roundtable, moderated by Hank Korth (Lehigh University) brought together leading expert…

📊 The new CRA Taulbee Survey Report is here!

This year’s survey findings highlight record numbers of computing PhDs, declining bachelor’s and master’s degree production, continued enrollment growth — especially among new undergraduate majors — and stability in facilities and teaching loads.

Check out our article in CRN and the full report: https://cra.org/crn/2025/06/cra-update-new-cra-taulbee-survey-findings-show-record-doctoral-production-rising-enrollment-and-shifting-undergraduate-trends/

✅ There’s still time to join!

The 2025 CRA-WP Mentoring Mentors Webinar Series continues this week with the second of three virtual sessions designed to help computing research mentors grow their skills and confidence.

🎓 Ideal for grad students, postdocs, and early-career faculty

📅 June 26: Mentoring Practices to Build Confidence and Empower Mentees

🎤 Speaker: Cheryl Seals, Auburn University

Whether or not you joined the first session, you’re welcome to attend this one!

👉 Register now: https://web.cvent.com/event/c08d71d1-f25a-4bbe-8b04-f7b29185c853/summary