NSF Support of Student Participation in the 2018 World Biosensors Congress

NSF 支持学生参加 2018 年世界生物传感器大会

• 批准号: 1821982
• 负责人: Frances Ligler
• 金额: $ 2.03万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-02-15 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821982&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Support; Student; Participation; 2018

This award will support student activities at the 2018 World Biosensors Congress and the associated one-day Summer School providing tutorials focused on paper-based nanobiosensor technology. These events will be held June 12-15 in Miami, Florida. The 2018 World Congress celebrates the 28th anniversary of this international conference series, considered the premiere meeting in the field of biosensors and bioelectronics. The Congress has been held every two years since 1990 and rotates around the globe, attracting more than 1000 delegates. Every six years, the World Biosensor Congress meets in North America, but this is the first time in the US since 2000. With the conference location in Miami, there is a special opportunity to reach US participants this year. While the US is always in the top three countries for level of participation, the ratio of US authors already submitting abstracts is higher than usual. This congenial atmosphere is deemed to be essential to incorporate young investigators into the community as well as to encouraged interactions between more established investigators. These initiatives include an entrepreneurs' exhibit space with special activities and outreach programs for local high school students and minority undergraduates to encourage careers in STEM.The aims of the proposed project are a) to recognize excellence by students presenting posters at the conference and b) to present 10 NSF travel awards to students from US institutions competitively offered the opportunity to present posters or talks. The acceptance letter to authors of abstracts from US institutions will specifically offer student presenters the opportunity to compete for the NSF travel awards.

该奖项将支持 2018 年世界生物传感器大会上的学生活动以及相关的为期一天的暑期学校，提供专注于纸质纳米生物传感器技术的教程。 这些活动将于 6 月 12 日至 15 日在佛罗里达州迈阿密举行。 2018 年世界大会庆祝这一国际会议系列召开 28 周年，该会议被认为是生物传感器和生物电子学领域的首次会议。大会自1990年起每两年举行一次，在全球轮流举行，吸引了1000多名代表参加。 世界生物传感器大会每六年在北美举行一次，但这是自 2000 年以来第一次在美国举行。由于会议地点在迈阿密，今年有一个特殊的机会接触美国参与者。虽然美国的参与程度始终位居前三位，但美国作者已提交摘要的比例高于平时。这种融洽的氛围被认为对于将年轻研究者融入社区以及鼓励更成熟的研究者之间的互动至关重要。这些举措包括一个企业家展览空间，为当地高中生和少数族裔本科生提供特别活动和外展计划，以鼓励 STEM 职业。拟议项目的目的是 a) 表彰在会议上展示海报的学生的卓越表现；b)向来自美国院校的学生颁发 10 个 NSF 旅行奖，并提供展示海报或演讲的机会。 美国机构向摘要作者发出的录取通知书将特别为学生演讲者提供角逐 NSF 旅行奖的机会。