APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

APS 物理学女本科生会议

基本信息

批准号：
1622510
负责人：
Evangeline Downie
金额：
$ 30万
依托单位：
American Physical Society
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-09-01 至 2021-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1622510&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
APS Conferences Undergraduate Women Physics

APS Conferences Undergraduate Women Physics

项目摘要

This award to the American Physical Society supports the continued growth and improvement of the Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), held annually since 2006. The conferences have two overarching goals: 1) to give undergraduate women the resources, motivation, and confidence to increase their retention in physics and related disciplines; and 2) to increase awareness by undergraduate women in physics of the wide range of career opportunities available to them. Regional conferences are held simultaneously to maximize student attendance by minimizing travel, to increase the excitement of the participants in a joint national venture, and to allow the interactive simulcast of a keynote address. The project aims to evaluate networking effectiveness, self-efficacy beliefs, physics identity, and outcome expectations of the participants. Through this research and the project evaluation, there is potential to gain new knowledge about issues facing undergraduate women in physics, as well as measures of the impact that conference activities such as these have on their attendees. The project will advance our understanding of factors that alter the trajectories of female students -- a population that remains underrepresented in physics -- as they pursue undergraduate degrees in physics.This project is supported jointly by two divisions of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate: the Division of Physics and the Division of Materials Research.

该奖项授予美国物理社会的奖项，自2006年以来每年举行的每年举行的物理学妇女（CUWIP）的会议的持续增长和改善。会议具有两个总体目标：1）使本科妇女为本质上的资源，动力和信心增强其在物理和相关的潜在目标方面的保留； 2）在物理学方面提高本科妇女的意识，以了解她们可用的各种职业机会。同时举行区域会议，以最大程度地减少旅行，增加参与者在联合国家企业中的兴奋，并允许对主题演讲地址的互动模拟广播，以最大程度地提高学生出勤。该项目旨在评估参与者的网络有效性，自我效能信念，物理身份和结果期望。通过这项研究和项目评估，有可能获得有关物理学妇女面临的问题的新知识，以及衡量这样的会议活动对与会者所产生的影响的措施。该项目将促进我们对改变女学生轨迹的因素（在物理学中的人群不足的人群）的理解，因为她们攻读了物理学的本科学位。