COAChing Women to Succeed in Academic Careers in the Chemical Sciences

这项由美国国家科学基金会化学部特别项目办公室授予俄勒冈大学的奖项支持提高女性化学家地位委员会(COACH)为增加女性在学术化学领域的数量和成功所开展的活动。该奖项由NSF的材料研究、物理、化学和运输系统部门以及NIH的国家普通医学科学研究所共同资助。该项目在Geri Richmond教授的指导下，将(1)开发和提供专业技能讲习班，以帮助女化学家在研究生、博士后和教员层面充分发挥她们的职业潜力；(2)通过少数族裔出席率高的专业会议，针对少数族裔女化学家；(3)评估这些讲习班的短期和长期影响，并将结果传播给科学界；(4)协助部门和机构的转型，以确保招募和留住科学中代表性不足的群体；(5)促进和加强女性学术化学家的指导和网络联系；以及(6)在科学领域的性别平等问题上与其他组织建立伙伴关系。这个项目的更广泛的目标是将成功的教练项目转移到其他科学和工程学科。

This award to the University of Oregon by the NSF Chemistry Division's Special Projects Office supports activities by the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists (COACh) to increase the number and success of women in the academic chemistry arena. This award is co-funded by NSF's Divisions of Materials Research, Physics, and Chemical and Transport Systems, and NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. This project, under the direction of Prof. Geri Richmond, will (1) develop and offer professional skills workshops that will assist women chemists in achieving their full career potential at the graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty levels; (2) target minority women chemists through professional meetings with high minority attendance; (3) assess the short and long term impacts of these workshops and disseminate the results to the scientific community; (4) assist with transformational change in departments and institutions to insure the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups in science; (5) foster and strengthen mentoring and networking among women academic chemists; and (6) partner with other organizations on gender equity issues in science. The broader goal of this project is to have successful COACh programs transferred to other science and engineering disciplines.