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In a junior- or senior-level undergraduate software engineering course that uses real-world projects for real clients, different parts of a project are inherently unequal in difficulty, time requirements, and desirability. A perennial problem is assigning portions of the project to student teams equitably. Fair division is a highly effective strategy for making an equitable, proportional, and envy-free assignment of tasks and in serving as the basis for fair grading of assignments which vary in difficulty, desirability, and time requirements.

It has been demonstrated that an undergraduate women's computer science support group can provide significant benefits to female CS students. It can be difficult for students to establish such a group without institutional support. We successfully established a thriving, self-sustaining support group with a modest initial outlay of time and money. This program serves as a model and template to help other small to mid-sized undergraduate departments accomplish the same.

An interdisciplinary undergraduate research project in bioinformatics, jointly mentored by faculty in computer science and biology, has been developed and is being used to provide top-quality instruction to biology and computer science students. This paper explains the benefits of such a collaboration to computer science students and to the computer science discipline. Specific goals of the project include increased recruitment of students into computer science and increased retention within the discipline. The project is also intended to be particularly attractive to women students.