Nominations, including self-nominations, for the US-RSE Steering Committee election are now open. Nominations are due November 5, 2021.

On Thursday, August 12th, US-RSE held the second talk of our speaker series organized by the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) working group. We were joined by Joanne Esch and Andrea Bowen-Jones from The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). They spoke with us about the biases and barriers that face women and other underrepresented groups participating in the technical workforce, and interventions that NCWIT has developed to help address these biases.

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Members of the US-RSE Association led the panel “Research Software Engineer (RSE) Careers - State of the Profession, Opportunities, and Challenges in Academia” at the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing conference (PEARC21) on July 20, 2021. The panel included Ian Cosden, Sandra Gesing, Christina Maimone, Kenton McHenry, and Alan Sussman, and it was moderated by Daniel S. Katz.

We are excited to announce the Research Software Engineers in HPC Workshop (RSE-HPC-2021) to be held as part of SC21 (in St. Louis, MO and virtually). This will be a full-day workshop 9:00am-5:30pm CST, Monday, November 15, 2021.