Duke Team Awarded $1.25 Million to Create New Identity-Inclusive Postdoc Program
Duke Team Awarded $1.25 Million to Create New Identity-Inclusive Postdoc Program
Opportunities for three postdoctoral scholars could impact hundreds thanks to a new postdoctoral fellowship program led by Nicki Washington, professor of the practice of Computer Science and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Shaundra Daily, professor of practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology.
The three faculty were already collaborators on the NSF-funded Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE, pronounced ace). This time, thanks to a $1.25 million grant from the National Sciences Foundation (NSF), they drew from personal experiences to develop the AiiCE-PRF (Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education-Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowship), a program that will not only increase postdoc retention in academia, but also increase the diversity of perspectives engaged in computer science education.
