Collaborative Research: Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics on January 15-16, 2011.

该奖项支持第六届物理学专业女本科生年会，这是一个为期两天的女大学生物理学年会。会议于2011年1月15日至16日在南加州大学(USC)、普渡大学、北卡罗来纳研究三角(NCRT)和麻省理工学院同时举行。这次会议有两个首要目标。首先是给予本科生女性申请研究生院并成功完成物理学或相关学科博士学位的资源、动力和信心。第二是让物理学专业的女本科生更多地意识到她们可以获得的广泛的职业机会。同时举行区域会议，以最大限度地减少跨国旅行的要求，最大限度地提高学生出勤率，增加合资企业参与者的兴奋，并允许主旨演讲的互动联播。会议的目标是通过提供一系列鼓舞人心的女物理学家的研究演讲、关于研究生院和物理职业的小组讨论、学生陈述会议以及大量的网络和非正式指导机会来实现的。这些目标的成功程度是通过在会议之前和之后对学生进行的调查来衡量的，以及通过跟踪学生毕业后的道路并将他们与没有参加会议的女学生进行比较来衡量的。

This award supports the Sixth Annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, a two-day conference for undergraduate women in physics. The conference takes place January 15-16, 2011 simultaneously at the University of Southern California (USC), Purdue University, the North Carolina Research Triangle (NCRT), and MIT. The conference has two overarching goals. The first is to give undergraduate women the resources, motivation, and confidence to apply to graduate school and to successfully complete a Ph.D. in physics or a related discipline. The second is to make undergraduate women in physics more aware of the wide range of career opportunities available to them. Regional conferences are held simultaneously in order to maximize the student attendance by minimizing cross- country travel requirements, to increase the excitement of the participants in the joint venture, and to allow the interactive simulcast of a keynote address. The conference goals are achieved by providing a series of inspiring research talks by women physicists, panel discussions on graduate school and physics careers, student presentation sessions, and ample opportunity for networking and informal mentoring. The success of these goals is measured by surveys given to students before and after the conference, as well as by longitudinal studies following the students' post-graduation paths and comparing them with female student cohorts who did not attend the conference.