Resource and Repository: Broader Impacts of the NSF-CMP Program

资源和存储库：NSF-CMP 计划的更广泛影响

• 批准号: 1550724
• 负责人: Greg Voth
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Wesleyan University
• 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=1550724&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Resource; Repository; Broader; Impacts; NSF

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：国家科学基金会根据智力价值（推进知识的潜力）和更广泛的影响（造福社会的潜力）来选择其资助的研究。科学家们认识到，美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 定义的更广泛影响力标准对于获得科学蓬勃发展所需的公众支持至关重要。 该项目创建了一个网站，将整合凝聚态物理领域更广泛的影响活动，该领域对社会产生了变革性影响，导致了晶体管、计算机内存和发光二极管 (LED) 的发展。通过充当资源和存储库，它将使更广泛的影响活动的实施更加高效和有效。 范围广泛、影响更广泛的活动包括由 NSF 资助实现的科学突破、专利发明和初创公司。它还展示了科学家们的工作，他们是各自领域的热情大使，进行公开演讲，增加多样性，为学生和教师开发科学课程，并激励下一代追求科学事业。技术摘要：美国国家科学基金会定义的更广泛影响力标准对于建立科学蓬勃发展所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，而这些影响往往是公众看不见的。传达我们研究的社会效益通常是一个挑战，因为 CMP 由许多独立研究小组组成，对他们来说，有效参与公共领域不一定是强项。其他影响更广泛的活动，例如让 K-12 学生和教师参与提高科学素养并加强科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域的劳动力队伍，可能会非常有效；但往往是孤立的且持续时间短。最近，由 NSF 凝聚态物理项目支持的 PI 参加了一次关于更广泛影响的研讨会，结果成立了一个委员会，以超越单个团体自身所能实现的方式推进 CMP 社区的更广泛影响。该项目资助了该委员会的第一项举措，即创建一个网站，以提高 CMP 的知名度并更有效地实施更广泛的影响。该网站有两个面，一个是公共面，用于向最广泛的受众传播令人兴奋的科学发现及其支持技术，另一个是私人面，用于交流凝聚态物质研究人员之间更广泛的影响活动。