APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

这一奖项授予美国物理学会，以支持自2006年以来每年举行的本科生物理女性会议(CUWiP)的持续发展和改进。这些会议有两个首要目标：1)给予本科生女性资源、动力和信心，以增加她们在物理学及相关学科中的留存；2)提高物理学本科生女性对她们可获得的广泛职业机会的认识。同时举行区域会议，以最大限度地减少差旅，最大限度地提高学生出勤率，增加国家合资企业参与者的热情，并允许以互动方式同时转播主旨演讲。该项目旨在评估参与者的网络有效性、自我效能信念、物理认同感和结果预期。通过这项研究和项目评估，有可能获得关于物理学专业本科生女性面临的问题的新知识，以及衡量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性学生轨迹的因素的理解。女性学生在物理学中的比例仍然较低。该项目得到了美国国家科学基金会数学和物理科学局的两个部门的联合支持：物理部和材料研究部。

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.