Collaborative Research: RESOURCE AND REPOSITORY: BROADER IMPACTS OF THE NSF-CMP PROGRAM

合作研究：资源和存储库：NSF-CMP 计划的更广泛影响

• 批准号: 1550681
• 负责人: Leigh Smith
• 金额: $ 0.81万
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550681&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; RESOURCE; REPOSITORY; BROADER

Non-technical abstract: The National Science Foundation chooses the research that it funds based on Intellectual Merit (the potential to advance knowledge) and Broader Impacts (the potential to benefit society). Scientists recognize that the Broader Impact merit criteria as defined by NSF are essential for building the public support necessary for science to flourish. This project creates a website that will consolidate the wide range of broader impact activities in Condensed Matter Physics, a field that has had a transformative impact on society, leading to the development of transistors, computer memory and light emitting diodes (LEDs). By acting both as a resource and a repository, it will make the implementation of broader impact activities both more efficient and effective. The wide range of broader impact activities include scientific breakthroughs, patented inventions and start up companies made possible by NSF funding. It also features the work of scientists who are enthusiastic ambassadors for their field, giving public talks, increasing diversity, developing scientific curriculum for students and teachers, and inspiring the next generation to pursue careers in science.Technical abstract: The Broader Impact merit criteria as defined by NSF are essential for building the public support necessary for science to flourish. Condensed matter physicists (CMP) have made transformative impacts on our society that are often invisible to the public. Communicating the societal benefits of our research is often a challenge because CMP consists of many independent research groups for whom effective engagement in the public arena is not necessarily a forte. Other broader impact activities, such as engaging K-12 students and teachers to increase scientific literacy and strengthen the workforce in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, may be very effective; but are often isolated and short in duration. A recent workshop on broader impacts attended by PIs supported by the NSF Condensed Matter Physics Program, resulted in the formation of a committee to advance the broader impacts of the CMP community in ways that go beyond what an individual group can accomplish on its own. This project funds the first initiative from this committee, the creation of a website to increase the visibility of CMP and to make the implementation of broader impacts more efficient. The site has two sides, a public side for communication of exciting scientific discoveries and their enabling technologies to the broadest audience and a private side for communication about broader impact activities among condensed matter researchers.

非技术摘要：美国国家科学基金会根据智力价值（推进知识的潜力）和广泛影响（造福社会的潜力）选择其资助的研究。科学家们认识到，由美国国家科学基金会定义的“更广泛的影响”价值标准对于建立科学蓬勃发展所必需的公众支持至关重要。该项目创建了一个网站，该网站将整合凝聚态物理领域的广泛影响活动，这是一个对社会产生变革性影响的领域，导致了晶体管、计算机存储器和发光二极管（led）的发展。通过充当资源和储存库，它将使更广泛的影响活动的执行更加有效率和有效。影响更广泛的活动包括科学突破、专利发明和由NSF资助的初创公司。它还展示了科学家们的工作，他们是自己领域的热情大使，发表公开演讲，增加多样性，为学生和教师制定科学课程，并激励下一代从事科学事业。技术摘要：美国国家科学基金会定义的“更广泛的影响”价值标准对于建立科学蓬勃发展所必需的公众支持至关重要。凝聚态物理学家（CMP）对我们的社会产生了变革性的影响，而这些影响往往不为公众所知。传达我们研究的社会效益往往是一个挑战，因为CMP由许多独立的研究小组组成，对他们来说，有效参与公共领域不一定是一个优势。其他影响更广泛的活动，如让K-12学生和教师提高科学素养，加强科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的劳动力，可能会非常有效；但通常是孤立的，持续时间短。最近，在NSF凝聚态物理项目的支持下，pi参加了一个关于更广泛影响的研讨会，结果形成了一个委员会，以超越单个团体自身所能完成的方式推进CMP社区的更广泛影响。该项目资助了该委员会的第一个倡议，即创建一个网站，以提高CMP的知名度，并使更广泛的影响更有效地实施。该网站有两个方面，一个是公共方面，用于向最广泛的受众交流令人兴奋的科学发现及其使能技术，另一个是私人方面，用于交流凝聚态研究人员之间更广泛的影响活动。