Roli Varma

HONORS

· Invited Member, Social Science Advisory Board, National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT), 2008−2010.

· Invited Speaker, National Conference on Can We Compete? Trends in America’s Scientific and Technical Workforce, hosted by the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST), Washington DC, November 1−2, 2007.

· Invited Member, to establish a National Center on Cultural Diversity in Computing and Information Technologies, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), College Station, Texas, April 14−15, 2008.

· Elected Council Member, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2005−2007.

· Conference Program Chair, International Association of Science, Technology, and Society (IASTS), 2006, 2007.

· Regents’ Lecturer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2003–2006.

· Invited Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Task Force on Job Migration, 2004–2006.

· Organizer and Host, National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Information Technology Workforce (ITWF) and Information Technology Research/Education & Workforce (ITR/EWF) Principal Investigator Conference, Albuquerque, October 26–28, 2003.

· Invited Participant, Workshop on beyond the Two Cultures: Science and Technology Studies and the Liberal Arts, organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), held at the Harvard University in Boston, November 4–5, 2001.

· Invited Participant, United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Managing Diversity in the Civil Service, United Nations Headquarters, New York, May 3–4, 2001.

· Invited Participant, Workshop on Public Research Universities in the 21st Century, organized by the University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation (NSF), held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 11–12, 1999.

· Recipient of first Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, May 1993.

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