MPWG: Apprenticeship Program for Women in Science as Applied to Public Policy

为什么许多聪明、准备充分的年轻女性不认为这些领域是以人为本的，人们对此知之甚少。 他们对科学家的看法是一个孤立的、遥远的研究者，与概念打交道，而不是与人打交道。 这个项目旨在改变这种对科学和数学的狭隘看法。 我们的目标是提出这些领域，不仅作为令人兴奋的，基础研究，改变了我们看待世界的方式，但作为基本的知识基础上的政策决定影响我们的生活方式。 将科学家介绍为从事跨学科研究，很容易确定政策影响，并表明他们不会孤立地工作，这将有助于重塑科学的形象，吸引更多的妇女进入其学科。 该计划的形式包括一个研讨会课程，主题是科学的基本某些政策领域（例如，环境、法律、教育、刑事司法、信息学。 随后将进行为期两个月的暑期研究实习，与专注于政策领域的科学家以及那些在校园和政府机构（华盛顿地区的非营利研究机构）参与科学政策制定的科学家一起工作。 参与者 将主要从一年级女生中招募，这些女生在高中修过微积分，但没有表示打算主修数学或科学。

Little has been done to learn why many bright, well-prepared young women do not see the fields as people-oriented. Their vision of a scientist is as an isolated and remote researcher, dealing with concepts rather than with people. This project is designed to alter this narrow view of science and mathematics. The goal is to present these areas, not only as exciting, fundamental research that alters the way in which we see the world, but as essential knowledge on which to base policy decisions affecting the way we live. To present scientists as doing interdisciplinary research that has easily identified policy impact, and to show that they do not work in isolation, will help, recast the image of science and attract more women to its disciplines. The format of the program includes a seminar course on topics in science that are fundamental to certain policy areas (e.g., the environment, law, education, criminal justice, informatics. It will be followed by a two-months summer research apprenticeship, working with scientist who are focusing on policy areas, and with those engaged in the formulation of science policy-on campus and in government agencies an nonprofit research institutes in the Washington area. Participants would be recruited primarily from first year women students who have taken Advanced Placement calculus in high school but who have not indicated that they intend to major in mathematics or science.