Clarke elected Vice Chair or CRA's Board of Directors

The Computing Research Association (CRA) election committee announced the election of Professor Lori Clarke as Vice Chair of CRA's Board of Directors for a two year term beginning in July. Clarke joined the CRA board in 1999. She currently serves on the Executive Committee and was a member of the program committee for the CRA Conference at Snowbird 2004. As a member of CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing (CRA-W), Clarke has worked since 2001 to increase its funding and program participation. She participated in CRA-W’s Distributed Mentor Program in 2001, 2002, and 2004.

Clarke is an ACM Fellow, a former IEEE Distinguished Visitor, ACM National Lecturer, IEEE Publication Board member, associate editor of ACM TOPLAS and IEEE TSE, member of the CCR NSF advisory board, ACM SIGSOFT secretary/treasurer, vice-chair and chair, as well as a 1990 recipient of the University of Massachusetts Chancellor's Medal, and a 1993 recipient of a University Faculty Fellowship. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado and was awarded the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the University of Colorado School of Engineering in 2004.

The CRA seeks to strengthen research and advanced education in computing and allied fields by working to influence policy that impacts computing research, encouraging the development of human resources, contributing to the cohesiveness of the professional community and collecting and disseminating information about the importance and the state of computing research.