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

数学界妇女协会将管理为期三年的国家科学基金会-AWM旅行赠款方案。该方案已经实施了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的妇女旅行，以及与导师一起工作的长期访问。资金是竞争性分配的，在三年期间可提供大约144笔定期旅费赠款和26笔辅导赠款。大部分资金用于数学科学研究，但一部分旅费赠款将资助数学研究人员参加数学教育研究会议和数学教育研究人员前往数学会议。部分辅导赠款将促进数学家和数学教育及相关领域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，特别是在初级职位。通过提供赠款，使妇女注意到分享知识和交流成果的好处，妇发基金正在积极干预，以提高妇女在这一职业中的作用。一名独立评估员的报告证实，该方案正在向目标群体妇女提供培训，这些妇女受过良好的培训，具有认真的研究潜力，但她们无法持续获得资源，无法参加数学会议。此外，辅导赠款已成功地启动了许多年轻的妇女参与者在新的新的研究方向，并扩大了他们的视野的数学研究生涯。

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.