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

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学会，旨在支持自 2006 年以来每年举办一次的物理学女本科生会议 (CUWiP) 的持续发展和改进。该会议有两个总体目标：1) 为女本科生提供资源、动力和信心提高他们对物理和相关学科的保留率； 2) 提高物理学专业女本科生对她们可以获得的广泛职业机会的认识。区域会议同时举行，以最大限度地减少旅行，最大限度地提高学生出席率，提高全国合资企业参与者的兴奋度，并允许交互式同步直播主题演讲。该项目旨在评估参与者的网络有效性、自我效能信念、物理特性和结果期望。通过这项研究和项目评估，有可能获得有关物理学本科女性面临的问题的新知识，以及衡量此类会议活动对其与会者的影响的措施。该项目将增进我们对改变女学生轨迹的因素的理解——女学生在物理学领域的代表性仍然不足——在攻读物理学本科学位时。该项目由 NSF 数学和物理科学理事会的两个部门共同支持：物理部和材料研究部。