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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Cohoon, J. M. and Aspray W., Editors. (2006) Women and Information Technology: Research on Under-Representation. MIT Press.
- Cohoon, J. M. “Just Get Over It or Just Get On with It.” Women and Information Technology: Research on Under-Representation. MIT Press.
- Cohoon, J. M. and Aspray, W. “A Critical Review of the Research into Women’s Participation in Postsecondary Computing Education.” Women and Information Technology: Research on Under-Representation. MIT Press.
Bair, B. and Cohoon, J. McGrath. Co-editors. ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing Special issue on “Gender Balancing Computing Education.” Vol. 4, Issue 1, March 2004. (Published in April, 2005.)
Tillberg, Heather K. and Cohoon, J. McGrath. “Attracting Women to the CS Major.” Frontiers: A journal of Women Studies. Special Gender and IT Issue. (26.1, 2005) p. 126-140. Excerpt...
Cohoon, J. M., Gonsoulin, M., & Layman, J. “Mentoring Computer Science Undergraduates.” (2004). Human Perspectives in The Internet Society: Culture, Psychology, and Gender. K. Morgan, J. Sanchez, C. A. Brebbia & A. Voiskounsky (Eds.), Vol. 31. p 199-208. Cadiz, Spain: WIT Press. Abstract...
Cohoon, J. McGrath and Katharine Baylor. “Female Graduate Students and Program Quality.” (Fall 2003) IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Special Issue on Women and Minorities in Information Technology. p. 28-35.
Cohoon, J. McGrath, Rebecca Shwalb, and Lih-Yuan Chen. “Faculty Turnover in CS Departments.” (2003) ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 34th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. p 108-112.
Cohoon, J. McGrath. “Women in CS and Biology“ (March 2002), SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Northern Kentucky.
Cohoon, J. McGrath. “Toward Improving Female Retention in the Computer Science Major.” (May, 2001). Communications of the ACM.
Cohoon, J. McGrath. “Departmental Differences Can Point the Way to Improving Female Retention in Computer Science,” (March 1999), SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp 198-202, New Orleans, LA.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Crossing Cultures, Changing Lives: Integrating Research on Girls Choices of IT Careers. “Women’s entry to Graduate Study in Post-Secondary CSE.” Presented paper co-authored with Holly Lord. August 1, 2005. Oxford, England.
Women into Computing Conference. “International Experiences.” Panel session with C. Lang, H. Corneliuson, R. Ismail, and I. Munder. July 15, 2005. Greenwich, England.
National Science Foundation ITWF Grantee Meeting, Philadelphia PA. “Building a Research Community.” Panelist. October 25, 2004. Agenda...
Gender and IT 2004 International Conference, Cadiz Spain. “Mentoring Computer Science Undergraduates.” Presenter. September 6, 2004.
SIGCSE 2004. Norfolk, Virginia. “Empirical Evidence of Influences on Women’s Representation in the Computing Sciences.” Birds of a Feather Session. March 4, 2004. Program...
Association for Institutional Research 43rd Annual Forum. Paper co-authored with Katharine M. Baylor and Lih-Yuan Chen. “Continuation to Graduate School: A look at Computing Departments.” June 2003.
Association for Institutional Research 43rd Annual Forum. Paper co-authored with Rebecca Shwalb and Lih-Yuan Chen. “Faculty Turnover in a Discipline Context.” June 2003.
North Central Sociological Association 2003 NCSA Conference. Paper co-authored with Allison Rogers. “A Little Too Much Help from their Friends.” March 29, 2003.
SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Paper co-authored with Rebecca Shwalb and Lih-Yuan Chen. “Faculty Turnover in CS Departments.” February 20, 2003.
Association of American Colleges and Universities 4th Biennial Diversity and Learning Conference. Roundtable discussion of paper written with Dawn Reed. “Teaching in Collegiate Computer Science.” October 2002.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2002. Panel participant. “Recruiting and Retaining Women in Computer Science. Where are we? Where do we go from here?” October 2002.
Association for Institutional Research 42nd Annual Forum, June 2002 paper. “Data for Multi-Institutional Research.”
SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2002 paper. “Women in CS and Biology.”
Frontiers in Education, October 2001. The Other Digital Divide: Women and Minorities Entering IT Professions panel. “Departmental Influences on Undergraduate Seed Corn.”
North Central Sociological Association Meeting, April 2000 Gender Issues in Higher Education Panel. “Gendered Attrition from Computer Science.”
SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 1999 paper. “Departmental Differences Can Point the Way to Improving Female Retention in Computer Science.”

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INVITED PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Advisory Board meeting for “African American Women in the Computing Sciences.” “Women and Information Technology: Research on Under-Representation.” New Orleans, LA. July 21, 2005.
Women and ICT: Creating Global Transformation. “Thinking Outside the Box, around the Corner, and over the Edge.” Invited plenary roundtable facilitator. Baltimore, MD. June 14, 2005.
Women and ICT: Creating Global Transformation. “Measuring Success.” Invited panel presenter in session on dissemination and communication. Baltimore, MD. June 13, 2005.
Kojo Nnamdi Show. “Computer Science as a Major.” Invited guest for one-hour radio show on WAMU in Washington, D.C. May 24, 2005.
Lockheed Martin and National Engineers Week. “Trumping the Gender Imbalance in Computing.” Invited speaker for one hour of the teleconference, “Global Marathon For, By, and About Women in Engineering.” March 24, 2005.
Carnegie Mellon University. “Differences that Matter” Invited presentation to the School of Computing. Pittsburgh, PA. February 29, 2004.
Encyclopedia for Computer Science and Engineering. “Attracting and Retaining Women Undergraduates in Computer Science” by J. McGrath Cohoon. Invited submission. (Forthcoming) John Wiley, publisher.
NCWIT Biannual Meeting, Palo Alto, CA. “Stop the Female Brain Drain.” Invited presentation to the Academic Alliance. November 15, 2004.
Millersville University, Millersville PA. “Stop the Female Brain Drain.” Social Issues Symposium invited speaker. October 26, 2004.
CRA Biennial Conference at Snowbird, Utah. “Stop the Female Brain Drain.” Plenary Session speaker. July 12, 2004.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Myths and Realities of Attracting and Keeping Women in CS.” Invited speaker for the JETT workshop offered as part of an initiative by ACM K-12 Taskforce and the College Board. February 27, 2004.
University of Ohio. Distinguished Lecturer. “Must There Be So Few Women in Computer Science?” November 20, 2003.
Georgia Institute of Technology. Invited speaker. “Your Influence Over Women's Participation in Computer Science.” November 13, 2003.
University of Virginia, STS Colloquium Series Presenter. “Gendered Attrition from Computer Science.” November 6, 2003.
University of Texas at Austin. Distinguished Lecturer. “College Women in Computer Science” and “Your Influence Over Women's Participation.” October 8, 2003. Abstract...
Association for Women Geoscientists. Where Are the Women Geoscience Professors Workshop. Invited speaker, “Still Seeping Out.” Washington, D.C. September 27, 2003.
University of Virginia, Curry Speaker Series Presenter. “Minimizing the Risk of Losing Women from Male-Dominated Disciplines.” September 12, 2003.
NSF: ITWF Workshop on Women and Minorities in Computer Science. Invited speaker. “CS Departments Influence Women's Participation.” August 11, 2003.
International Conference on Software Engineering. Keynote speaker. “Must There Be So Few? Including Women in CS.” May 2003.
University of Oregon. Invited speaker. “Gender Equity in Computer Science Education.” April 18, 2003.
Computing Research News. “Migrating Out of Computer Science,” invited article by J. McGrath Cohoon and Lih-Yuan Chen. March 2003, Vol. 16/2.
Indiana University, Bloomington, School of Informatics. Invited speaker. “Gender Equity in Computer Science Education.” January 24, 2003.
SIGCSE Special Issue on Women and Computers. Invited paper, “Recruiting and Retaining Women in Undergraduate Computing Majors.” June 2002.
University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science. Invited speaker. Spring 2001.

TECHNICAL REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Cohoon, J. McGrath and Lih-Yuan Chen. “Summary Tables of Interview Findings” Project reports published on the Internet. 2002.
Cohoon, J. McGrath. “National Study of the Gender Gap in Collegiate Computer Science Attrition” Review of the Virginia Center for Educational Policy Studies. Fall 2001. Vol. 2/No.1.
Cohoon, J. McGrath. “NSF Funds National Study of Gender Gap in Attrition from Undergrad CS.” Computing Research News. November 2000. Vol. 12/No.5.
Cohoon, J. McGrath. “Characteristics and Practices of Virginia's Computer Science and Biology/Life Sciences Departments“ Project report published on the internet. 2000.
Cohoon, Joanne and Thomas M. Guterbock, “1997 ITC Customer Satisfaction Survey” 1997. Center for Survey Research, University of Virginia.
Cohoon, Joanne and Thomas M. Guterbock, “Virginia School Board Association 1995 Member Opinion Survey” 1995. Center for Survey Research, University of Virginia.
Cunningham, Lea and Joanne Cohoon , “A Survey of Perceptions Pertaining to the University’s Handling of Intellectual Property Issues” 1996. Center for Survey Research, University of Virginia.
Lucy, William H., Thomas M. Guterbock, and Joanne Cohoon, “Location Preferences of Lynchburg Area Home Buyers” 1996. Center for Survey Research, University of Virginia.
Guterbock, Thomas M., Lea Cunningham, and Joanne Cohoon, “Survey of Satisfaction with Purchasing and Materials Services” 1995. Center for Survey Research, University of Virginia.