Student Travel Support for the 2007 North American Membrane Society Meeting

这项旅行补助金提案寻求资金，以刺激美国学生参加北美膜协会（NAMS）2007年全国会议。这笔资金将用于部分支持学生参加会议的旅费和相关费用。我们的目标是鼓励学生参加美国最大的会议，重点是这个问题，为他们提供机会，介绍他们的工作，满足来自世界各地的其他科学家和工程师有类似的兴趣，并看到国家的最先进的演示文稿从其他研究小组在这一领域的工作。该提案的智力价值在于，资金将用于帮助向世界各地的学生传播有关膜科学和工程最先进研究的知识。NAMS是美国膜界学生和工程师的首要会议，该技术代表了发展最快的分离技术之一。广泛应用于化工、石油化工、食品加工、食品包装、医疗制药等行业。来自世界各地最受尊敬和最有成就的膜科学家和工程师将参加这次会议。会议由伊莎贝尔埃斯科瓦尔、克里斯蒂亚诺博尔赫斯和格伦Lispcomb组织，他们还得到了经验丰富的组委会和NAMS董事会关于会议主题和组织的意见和指导。除了国家科学基金会的资源，资金正在征求工业，海军研究办公室，美国垦务局，美国农业部，以支持学生参加会议，因此，国家科学基金会的资金将得到很好的利用。拟议的会议赞助的更广泛的影响将使美国研究生能够参加美国最重要的膜科学会议，技术.此外，22 技术会议，一个广泛的学生计划已经开发，以促进下一代膜研究人员的专业发展。目前正在计划举办四个讲习班，这些讲习班将为学生提供一个额外的场所，接受膜科学和技术关键基础和发展领域的强化辅导培训。国家科学基金会的资金将为10名学生参加这次会议提供部分旅费支持，并将提供给所有性别和种族的学生，并从残疾学生收到的申请美国的任何部分将受到鼓励。学生参加这次会议将通过让学生在技术会议和研讨会上接触来自世界各地的领先科学家和工程师来加强研究基础设施。学生也将有广泛的机会与潜在的雇主和学生和教师网络从其他研究小组有类似的兴趣。通过让训练有素、知识渊博的研究生准备好在各种应用中推动这种独特的使能技术的前沿，社会将从这项活动中受益。

This travel grant proposal seeks funding to stimulate the participation of U.S. students in the North American Membrane Society's (NAMS) 2007 national meeting. The funding would be used to provide partial support of travel and related expenses associated with students attending the conference. The objective is to encourage student participation in the largest American meeting focused on this subject, to provide opportunities for them to present their work, meet other scientists and engineers from around the world with similar interests, and see state-of-the-art presentations from other research groups working in this area. The intellectual merit of the proposal is that the funding will be used to help disseminate knowledge about state-of-the-art research in membrane science and engineering from around the world to students. NAMS is the premier meeting for students and engineers in the American membrane community, and this technology represents one of the fastest growing separations techniques. It is widely used in the chemical, petrochemical, food processing, food packaging, medical and pharmaceutical industries. The most respected and accomplished membrane scientists and engineers from around the world will participate in this meeting. The conference is being organized by Isabel Escobar, Cristiano Borges and Glenn Lispcomb, who also receive input and guidance from an experienced organizing committee and the NAMS board of directors regarding the subject matter and organization of the meeting. In addition to NSF resources, funds are being solicited from industry, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support student participation in the meeting, so the NSF funds would be well leveraged.The broader impacts of the proposed meeting sponsorship would allow U.S. graduate students to attend the most important meeting in the U.S. on membrane science and technology. In addition to 22 technical sessions, an extensive student program has been developed to foster the professional development of the next generation of membrane researchers. Four workshops are being planned, and they would provide an additional venue for students to receive intensive, tutorial training in key fundamental and developing areas of membrane science and technology. The NSF funding would provide partial travel support for 10 students to attend this meeting, and will be available to students of all genders and ethnicity and from any part of the U.S. Applications received from students with disabilities will be encouraged. Student participation in this meeting will enhance the infrastructure for research by giving students access to leading scientists and engineers from around the world in the technical sessions and in the workshops. Students will also have extensive opportunities to network with potential employers and with students and faculty from other research groups with similar interests. Society would benefit from this activity by having better trained, more knowledgeable graduate students prepared to push the frontiers of this unique enabling technology in a wide variety of applications.