Timed for a Successful Career: NSF/AWM Travel Grants for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

为职业生涯的成功做好准备：NSF/AWM 针对数学科学领域女性的旅行补助金

• 批准号: 1153905
• 负责人: Barbara Keyfitz
• 金额: $ 49.24万
• 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: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1153905&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Timed; Successful; Career; NSF; AWM

The Association for Women in Mathematics will administer the NSF-AWM Travel Grants Program for a three-year period. This program, which has run for over twenty years, supports the travel of women in the mathematical sciences 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-four regular travel grants and twenty-six mentoring grants to be awarded over the three-year period. Most of the funding is intended to benefit mathematical sciences research, but a portion of the travel grants will fund mathematics researchers to participate in mathematics education research conferences and mathematics education researchers to travel to mathematics conferences. A portion of the mentoring grants will foster communication between mathematicians and researchers in mathematics education and related fields. Recent 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 junior women participants in fresh new research directions and have broadened their view of mathematical research careers.

女性数学协会将管理 NSF-AWM 旅行补助计划，为期三年。该计划已运行二十多年，支持希望积极参加国内或国际研究会议的数学科学领域女性的旅行，以及与导师一起长期访问的工作。资金是竞争性分配的，并允许在三年期间发放大约一百四十四项定期旅行补助金和二十六项指导补助金。大部分资金旨在惠及数学科学研究，但一部分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。部分指导经费将促进数学家和数学教育及相关领域的研究人员之间的沟通。最近的数据表明，妇女参加会议和数学讲习班的比例仍然低于她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，指导资助成功地引导了许多年轻女性参与者进入新的研究方向，并拓宽了她们对数学研究职业的视野。