2022 CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference

The audience was then split into four groups, with each faculty presenter leading the group for interactive group activities. Following student introductions about their educational background and reason for attending the workshop, each group was given a very short peer-reviewed research paper on topics ranging from natural language processing, search, human-automation interaction, and multiagent systems to read with guidance from the faculty presenter on how to read a research paper, students read each section of the paper and discussed it with their group in response to questions from the workbook. The faculty then shared a few specific research projects from their own research areas and introduced undergraduate summer research programs. The last part of the group activity time involved a discussion on how students could seek out and secure research opportunities. This included specifics on how to prepare and reach out to faculty members about opportunities to do research in their labs.