Timed for a Successful Career: NSF/AWM Travel Grants for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

妇女数学协会将管理NSF-AWM旅行补助计划，为期三年。这一计划已经实施了20多年，支持希望积极参加国内或国际研究会议的数学科学领域女性的旅行，以及与导师一起工作的长期访问。资金以竞争性方式分配，允许在三年期间发放约144份定期旅行补助金和26份辅导补助金。大部分资金将用于数学科学研究，但部分旅行补助金将用于资助数学研究人员参加数学教育研究会议，以及数学教育研究人员前往数学会议。部分辅导补助金将促进数学教育和相关领域的数学家和研究人员之间的交流。最近的数据表明，妇女参加会议和数学讲习班的比例仍然低于她们在学术部门的比例，特别是在初级职级。通过提供赠款，使妇女注意到分享她们的知识和交流她们的结果的好处，AWM正在进行积极的干预，以增加妇女在该专业中的作用。一名独立评估者的报告证实，该方案的目标群体是受过良好培训并具有重大研究潜力的妇女，她们无法持续获得使她们能够参加数学会议的资源。此外，辅导补助金成功地让许多初级女性参与者开始了新的研究方向，并拓宽了她们对数学研究职业的看法。

The Association for Women in Mathematics will administer the NSF-AWM Travel Grants Program for a three-year period. This program, which has run for over twenty years, supports the travel of women in the mathematical sciences who wish to actively participate in domestic or international research conferences, as well as longer-term visits to work with a mentor. Funding is allocated competitively, and allows approximately one hundred and forty-four regular travel grants and twenty-six mentoring grants to be awarded over the three-year period. Most of the funding is intended to benefit mathematical sciences research, but a portion of the travel grants will fund mathematics researchers to participate in mathematics education research conferences and mathematics education researchers to travel to mathematics conferences. A portion of the mentoring grants will foster communication between mathematicians and researchers in mathematics education and related fields. Recent data indicate that women's participation rates in conferences and mathematics workshops remain lower than their proportion in academic departments, especially at the junior ranks. By providing grants that draw women's attention to the benefits of sharing their knowledge and communicating their results, AWM is intervening positively to increase the role of women in the profession. Reports by an independent evaluator have confirmed that this program is reaching its target group of women with excellent training and serious research potential who do not have consistent access to resources enabling them to attend mathematics meetings. In addition, the mentoring grants have succeeded in starting many of the junior women participants in fresh new research directions and have broadened their view of mathematical research careers.