Collaborative Research: Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, January 2012 at Yale University

该奖项为第七届物理学女大学生年会提供资金，并收集和分析这些会议对物理学女大学生的影响的数据。6个地区会议将于2012年1月13日至15日在斯坦福大学、华盛顿大学、德克萨斯农工大学、耶鲁大学、田纳西大学和凯斯西储大学同时举行。数据分析将集中在印第安纳大学。这些会议有两个主要目标：1)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；2)提高物理学本科生女性对她们可获得的广泛职业机会的认识。同时举行区域会议，以最大限度地减少差旅，最大限度地提高学生出勤率，增加国家合资企业参与者的热情，并允许以互动方式同时转播主旨演讲。会议的目标是通过提供一系列由女性物理学家进行的鼓舞人心的演讲、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。这些目标的成功将通过在会议之前和之后对学生进行的调查以及对学生毕业后道路的纵向研究来衡量，并将他们与没有参加会议的女学生进行比较。

This award provides funding for the Seventh Annual Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics and the collection and analysis of data on the impact of these meetings on undergraduate women in physics. Six regional conferences will take place January 13-15, 2012, simultaneously at Stanford University, the University of Washington, Texas A&M University, Yale University, the University of Tennessee, and Case Western Reserve University. Data analysis will be centered at Indiana University. The conferences have two overarching goals: 1) 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; and 2) To increase awareness by undergraduate women in physics of the wide range of career opportunities available to them. Regional conferences are held simultaneously to maximize student attendance by minimizing travel, to increase the excitement of the participants in a joint national venture, and to allow the interactive simulcast of a keynote address. The conference goals are achieved by providing a series of inspiring talks by female 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 will be measured by surveys given to students before and after the conferences, as well as by longitudinal studies following the student's post-graduation paths and comparing them with female student cohorts who did not attend the conferences.