NSF Travel Support for 2020 Visualization Early Career Faculty Workshop

NSF 为 2020 年可视化早期职业教师研讨会提供旅行支持

• 批准号: 2028384
• 负责人: Remco Chang
• 金额: $ 1.61万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Travel; Support; 2020; Visualization

The Visualization Early Career Faculty Workshop offers specialized mentoring to junior faculty whose research spans broad areas in information visualization. Its goal is to develop the next generation of faculty in data science and visualization research so as to strengthen and diversify this field. This workshop provides a forum where junior faculty can interact with each other in a setting that promotes positive career growth and contributes to sharing knowledge. This event addresses both an important and timely need, as researchers in this field come from a wide array of demographic and technical backgrounds. Many departments have at most one researcher in visualization, and thus the mentoring the junior faculty receive from their home institution cannot address the unique challenges of building an academic career in this field. Junior faculty from underrepresented groups will be encouraged to participate. The workshop experience will support and retain this interdisciplinary workforce of researchers and educators in the important area visualization that enables decision making and knowledge discovery.Specifically, this workshop complements traditional academic mentoring by offering a peer support and mentoring group for junior faculty so as to exchange information with peers. Faculty recently transitioning from junior to mid-career stages also participate to help structure the content of the workshop and provide guidance. This event fosters the growth and development of new faculty as they begin their careers in academia. Its unique, small group format produces an intensive workshop that helps build identity as well as to bridge newcomers to the larger ecosystem of academics in visualization across the country. The group of attendees is curated so as to offer diverse perspectives that might not appear in each attendee's home department. Since visualization research is broad in scope, our attendees hail from multiple universities that serve a wide range of students as well as departments in multiple fields (such as Computer Science, Information Science, Computational Media, and Digital Humanities). Therefore, workshop topics span numerous cross-cutting concerns such as developing a visualization research program, recruiting and managing a research group, handling the academic responsibilities of teaching and service, and strategies for collaboration, achieving visibility, and work-life balance.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

可视化早期职业教师研讨会为研究涵盖信息可视化广泛领域的初级教师提供专门指导。其目标是培养下一代数据科学和可视化研究教师，以加强该领域并使其多样化。该研讨会提供了一个论坛，初级教师可以在促进积极职业发展并有助于分享知识的环境中相互交流。此次活动满足了重要且及时的需求，因为该领域的研究人员来自广泛的人口和技术背景。许多院系最多只有一名可视化研究人员，因此初级教师从其所在机构获得的指导无法解决在该领域建立学术职业的独特挑战。将鼓励来自代表性不足群体的初级教师参与。研讨会的经验将支持和留住这一重要领域可视化领域的跨学科研究人员和教育工作者队伍，从而促进决策和知识发现。具体来说，该研讨会通过为初级教师提供同行支持和指导小组来补充传统的学术指导，以便进行交流与同行的信息。最近从职业生涯初级阶段过渡到职业中期阶段的教师也参与其中，帮助构建研讨会的内容并提供指导。这项活动促进了新教师在学术界开始职业生涯时的成长和发展。其独特的小组形式产生了一个密集的研讨会，有助于建立身份并为新来者与全国范围内更大的可视化学术生态系统建立桥梁。与会者群体经过精心策划，旨在提供每位与会者所在部门可能不会出现的不同观点。由于可视化研究范围广泛，我们的与会者来自多所大学，为广泛的学生以及多个领域（例如计算机科学、信息科学、计算媒体和数字人文）的院系提供服务。因此，研讨会主题涵盖了许多跨领域的问题，例如开发可视化研究计划、招募和管理研究小组、处理教学和服务的学术责任以及协作策略、实现可见性和工作与生活平衡。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。