Collaborative Research: Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, January 2012 at Case Westernn Reserve University

该奖项为第七届物理学女本科生年会提供资金，并收集和分析这些会议对物理学女本科生影响的数据。六个地区性会议将于2012年1月13日至15日同时在斯坦福大学、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举行。数据分析将以印第安纳大学为中心。会议有两个主要目标：1)为本科女性提供申请研究生院的资源、动力和信心，并成功完成物理学或相关学科的博士学位；2)提高物理学专业女本科生对她们所能获得的广泛职业机会的认识。区域会议同时举行，通过减少旅行来增加学生的出勤率，增加国家合资企业参与者的兴奋感，并允许主题演讲的互动同步播放。会议的目标是通过提供一系列女性物理学家的鼓舞人心的演讲，研究生院和物理学职业的小组讨论，学生演讲会议，以及充足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前后对学生进行的调查来衡量，以及通过跟踪学生毕业后的路径并将其与未参加会议的女学生群体进行比较的纵向研究。

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.