AWM Travel Grants for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

AWM 为数学科学领域女性提供的旅行补助金

• 批准号: 0839954
• 负责人: Barbara Keyfitz
• 金额: $ 43.61万
• 依托单位: Association for Women in Mathematics, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0839954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AWM; Travel; Grants; Women; Mathematical

The Association for Women in Mathematics will administer the NSF-AWM Travel Grants Program for a three-year period beginning October 15, 2008. This program, which has run for the past twenty years, supports the travel of women mathematicians who wish to actively participate in domestic or international research conferences, as well as longer-term visits to work with a mentor. Funding is allocated competitively, and allows approximately one hundred and forty-five regular travel grants and twenty-five mentoring grants to be awarded over the three-year period. Most of the funding is intended to benefit mathematics research, but one fifth of the travel grants will fund mathematics researchers to participate in mathematics education research conferences and mathematics education researchers to travel to mathematics conferences.Data indicate that women's participation rates in conferences and mathematics workshops remain lower than their proportion in academic departments, especially at the junior ranks. By providing grants that draw women's attention to the benefits of sharing their knowledge and communicating their results, AWM is intervening positively to increase the role of women in the profession. Reports by an independent evaluator have confirmed that this program is reaching its target group of women with excellent training and serious research potential who do not have consistent access to resources enabling them to attend mathematics meetings. In addition, the mentoring grants have succeeded in starting many of the young women participants in fresh new research directions and have broadened their view of mathematical research careers. The mathematics education research track is beginning to be utilized by women at all stages of their careers and will advance the understanding of mathematics by education researchers and of education research by mathematicians. This communication between different communities has the potential of contributing constructively to the ongoing dialogue about the learning of mathematics by girls and women.

女性数学家协会将管理 NSF-AWM 旅行补助计划，为期三年，从 2008 年 10 月 15 日开始。该计划已运行了 20 年，为希望积极参与的女性数学家的旅行提供支持参加国内或国际研究会议，以及长期访问与导师一起工作。 资金是竞争性分配的，并允许在三年期间发放大约一百四十五笔定期旅行补助金和二十五笔指导补助金。 大部分资金旨在惠及数学研究，但五分之一的旅行补助金将资助数学研究人员参加数学教育研究会议和数学教育研究人员前往参加数学会议。数据表明，女性参加会议和数学研讨会的比例仍然低于他们在学术部门的比例，特别是在初级队伍中。通过提供赠款，吸引女性注意分享知识和交流成果的好处，AWM 正在积极干预，以提高女性在该行业中的作用。 独立评估员的报告证实，该计划正在覆盖其目标群体：受过良好培训且具有认真研究潜力的女性，但她们无法持续获得使她们能够参加数学会议的资源。此外，指导资助成功地让许多年轻女性参与者开始了新的研究方向，并拓宽了她们对数学研究职业的视野。数学教育研究轨道开始被女性在其职业生涯的各个阶段使用，并将促进教育研究人员和数学家对数学的理解。不同社区之间的这种交流有可能为关于女孩和妇女学习数学的持续对话做出建设性贡献。