APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

该奖项授予美国物理学会，以支持自2006年以来每年举行的物理学本科女性会议（CUWiP）的持续发展和改进。会议有两个总体目标：1)为本科女生提供资源、动力和信心，以提高她们在物理和相关学科的保留率；2)提高物理学专业女本科生对她们所能获得的广泛职业机会的认识。区域会议同时举行，通过减少旅行来增加学生的出勤率，增加国家合资企业参与者的兴奋感，并允许主题演讲的互动同步播放。本研究旨在评估参与者的网络效能、自我效能信念、物理认同和结果预期。通过这项研究和项目评估，有可能获得关于物理学本科女性面临的问题的新知识，以及诸如此类会议活动对与会者的影响的措施。该项目将促进我们对改变女学生轨迹的因素的理解——这一群体在物理学领域的代表性仍然不足——因为她们攻读物理学本科学位。该项目由美国国家科学基金会数学与物理科学理事会的物理部和材料研究部联合支持。

This award to the American Physical Society supports the continued growth and improvement of the Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), held annually since 2006. The conferences have two overarching goals: 1) to give undergraduate women the resources, motivation, and confidence to increase their retention in physics and related disciplines; 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 project aims to evaluate networking effectiveness, self-efficacy beliefs, physics identity, and outcome expectations of the participants. Through this research and the project evaluation, there is potential to gain new knowledge about issues facing undergraduate women in physics, as well as measures of the impact that conference activities such as these have on their attendees. The project will advance our understanding of factors that alter the trajectories of female students -- a population that remains underrepresented in physics -- as they pursue undergraduate degrees in physics.This project is supported jointly by two divisions of NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate: the Division of Physics and the Division of Materials Research.