Broadening Participation through Innovations for Institutional and Educational Transformation

该奖项将资助妇女科学协会（AWIS）为ADVANCE和科学与工程项目中的性别研究的获奖者举办一系列的三次年度研讨会。这将是这两个社区第一次聚集在一起。他们的研究有很多共同之处，两个小组将相互学习很多东西。重叠的兴趣领域包括：检查缓解STEM中女孩和妇女代表性不足的原因和策略，使用基于理论的干预模型来纠正代表性不足，以及设计和实施对其计划影响的评估。这两个群体之间的相互融合将产生更好的想法，这些想法可以被测试，以及评估由此产生的策略的机制，以了解它们为什么有效以及在什么情况下有效。预计这一系列研讨会将对有意扩大参与领域的整个研究社区产生广泛影响，因为在会议上发表的演讲和海报会议将在AWIS网站上发布。此外，AWIS正计划创新社会媒体的使用，以更广泛地传播研讨会的成果。

This award will fund the Association of Women in Science (AWIS) to conduct a series of three annual workshops for grant awardees from the ADVANCE and Research on Gender in Science and Engineering programs. This will be the first time these two communities will be brought together. Their research has much in common and the two groups will learn much from each other. Overlapping areas of interest include: examination of the causes and strategies to alleviate under-representation of girls and women in STEM, the use of theory-based intervention models to redress under-representation, and the design and carrying out of evaluation of the impact of their programs. The cross-fertilization between the two communities will generate better ideas that can be tested, and mechanisms to evaluate the resulting strategies to learn why they are effective and in what context. This series of workshops is expected to have a broad impact on the entire community of researchers interested in the field of broadening participation, as presentations and poster sessions presented at the meeting will be posted on the AWIS website. In addition, AWIS is planning to innovate the use of social media to more broadly disseminate workshop findings.