Associate Professor of Computer Science Mark Bailey is managing a program for faculty from colleges with high minority enrollments. The program supports travel for faculty to attend one of 17 research conferences being held in San Diego in June as part of the Association for Computing Machinery's Federated Computing Research Conference (see http://www.acm.org/fcrc). Bailey secured funding for the program from a grant from the National Science Foundation with matching money from various special interest groups with the Association for Computing Machinery. 

The program is designed to expose the participants to cutting-edge research in order to catalyze the development of research programs at the faculty members' institutions. In addition to the travel support, Bailey will be host a reception at the conference to enable program participants to network and share ideas for raising the involvement of students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the field of computer science.