Collaborative Research: Conference of Undergraduate Women in Physics; January 18-20, 2013

该奖项为第八届物理学专业女性本科生年会提供资金，并对这些会议在实现其目标方面的有效性进行形成性评估。下一届会议将于2013年1月18日至20日在加州理工学院、科罗拉多矿业学院、康奈尔大学、中佛罗里达大学、伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校和德克萨斯大学同时举行。会议有两个首要目标：1)为本科生女性提供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)提高物理学专业本科生女性对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。这些目标的成功程度将通过在会议前后对学生进行调查，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。

This award provides funding for the 8th annual Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics and for a formative assessment of the effectiveness of the conferences in meeting their goals. The next conferences will take place on January 18-20, 2013, simultaneously at Caltech, Colorado School of Mines, Cornell University, the University of Central Florida, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas.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 students' post-graduation paths and comparing them with female student cohorts who did not attend the conferences.