APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

该奖项授予美国物理学会，支持自2006年以来每年举行的物理学本科女生会议（CUWiP）的持续发展和改进。会议有两个总体目标：1）给本科女生的资源，动力和信心，以增加他们在物理学和相关学科的保留;和2）提高认识，由本科女生在物理学的广泛的职业机会提供给他们。区域会议同时举行，以尽量减少旅行，最大限度地提高学生的出勤率，增加参与者在一个联合国家企业的兴奋，并允许互动同步广播的主旨演讲。该项目旨在评估网络的有效性，自我效能的信念，物理身份，和结果的期望的参与者。通过这项研究和项目评估，有可能获得新的知识面临的问题，女大学生在物理学，以及会议活动，如这些对他们的与会者的影响的措施。该项目将促进我们对改变女生-一个在物理学领域仍然代表性不足的群体-在攻读物理学本科学位时的轨迹的因素的理解。该项目由美国国家科学基金会数学和物理科学理事会的两个部门-物理学部门和材料研究部门-共同支持。

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.