Nine Societies Travel Grants for Students, Independent Scholars, and Recent PhDs

一般观众摘要 该奖项将为九个STS学会的联合会提供会议旅行支持：科学史学会;技术史学会;科学哲学协会;国际科学哲学史学会，美国医学史协会;美国环境史学会，综合历史和科学哲学;国际生物学历史、哲学和社会研究学会;以及文学、科学和艺术学会。这些资金将用于为研究生、独立学者和初级学者提供旅费赠款，以便他们参加2017-2020年的学会专业会议，包括两次国际科学技术历史与哲学联盟国际大会。这些社团的成员是研究生和初级学者，由于各种原因，例如部门差旅费的严重削减，他们参加这些会议的资源往往非常有限;类似的原因也适用于独立学者，他们通常在博物馆，研究机构，图书馆和政府机构工作。差旅费使其能够参加社会会议，这有助于建立和维持重要的专业网络，并了解该领域的相关发展。 研究生、独立学者和初级学者的旅行赠款有助于使社会会议更加丰富和多样化，同时促进这些学者的研究和职业生涯。这种专业化在若干方面至关重要。年轻的学者将在主要的研究型大学，文理学院和社区学院任教;策划博物馆展览;在研究机构工作;监督图书馆馆藏;并帮助政府项目。对独立学者的赠款将使他们能够与他们的专业团体保持联系，在他们继续在博物馆、研究机构、图书馆和政府机构工作时，创造智力和实践的刺激。最后，最近的博士，谁面临部门的差旅费严重削减，将有机会保持他们的职业轨迹。所有这些团体都通过提高科学素养和阐述科学技术的本质来推进NSF的核心使命。他们的工作为科学如何运作以及如何改进提供了见解，这些见解在科学资金紧张时期尤为重要。

General Audience Summary This award will provide conference travel support a consortium of nine STS societies: The History of Science Society; the Society for the History of Technology; the Philosophy of Science Association; the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, the American Association for the History of Medicine; the American Society for Environmental History, Integrated History and Philosophy of Science; the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology; and the Society for Literature, Science, and Art. The funds are to be used to provide travel grants to graduate students, independent scholars, and junior scholars so that they may attend the societies professional meetings from 2017-2020, including two international congresses of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Members of these societies who are graduate students and junior scholars often have very limited resources to participate in these meetings for a variety of reasons, such as severe cuts in departmental travel funds; similar reasons apply to independent scholars, who typically work in museums, research institutes, libraries, and government agencies. The travel funds make it possible to participate in societal meetings, which facilitates building and maintaining important professional networks, and staying current with pertinent developments in the field.Technical Summary Travel grants for graduate students, independent scholars, and junior scholars serves to make societal conferences richer and more diverse while serving to promote these scholars' research and careers. Such professionalization is crucial on several fronts. Younger scholars will be teaching at major research universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges; curating museum exhibits; working at research institutes; overseeing library collections; and helping with government programs. Grants to independent scholars will allow them to maintain contact with their professional societies, creating intellectual and practical stimulation as they continue to work in museums, research institutes, libraries, and government agencies. Finally, recent PhDs, who face severe cuts in departmental travel funds, will have the opportunity to maintain their career trajectories. All of these groups advance the core mission of the NSF by improving science literacy and by elaborating on the nature of science and technology. Their work provides insights into how science operates and how it can be improved, and these insights are especially important during periods of tight funding for science.