Travel Awards for Students from Underrepresented Groups for the 2017 Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Meeting

认知发展学会(CDS)寻求促进青年学者参加其2017年的会议，这些学者来自传统上在发展科学中代表性不足的群体。这一奖项将支持对来自这些群体的研究生、博士后和年轻研究人员的旅行奖励，定义广泛。旅行奖励增加了年轻学者有机会参加CDS并在CDS展示他们的工作的可能性，并将通过他们参与一个指导计划来支持他们，该计划旨在确保年轻学者在会议上有富有成效的经历。本次奖项的一个更广泛的影响是，通过加强来自传统代表性不足群体的年轻学者的专业网络，增加了会议经验持续到会议本身之外的可能性。目前的奖项将通过几个机制增加CDS成员的多样性。支持参加CDS会议的旅行增加了能够参加会议的来自代表性不足群体的年轻学者的数量。为了促进获奖者的网络、职业社会化和在学会中的留存，资金将用于指导计划，使每一位年轻学者与该领域更有经验的、具有相似研究兴趣的学者相匹配。通过在会议开始时与导师举行有组织的会议，受训者将有机会建立新的专业关系并扩大他们的学术网络。导师将通过出席青年学者的演讲来支持他们的导师。此外，这些年轻学者将彼此见面，并与2015年旅行奖的获奖者见面，以培养一个来自代表性不足群体的年轻学者社区。最后，CDS将在大会上突出2017年度旅游奖项的获奖者，并在颁奖仪式上对他们进行表彰。青年学者及其导师在2017年会议后提供的匿名反馈将有助于确保CDS能够改进其旅行奖项的有效性，以实现其目标，即增加传统上在该领域任职人数不足的学者的参与。

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) seeks to promote the attendance, at its 2017 meeting, of young scholars from groups traditionally underrepresented in the Developmental Sciences. This award will support travel awards to graduate students, post-docs, and young investigators from these groups, broadly defined. Travel awards increase the likelihood that young scholars will have the means to attend and present their work at CDS, and will support them through their participation in a mentoring program, designed to ensure that young scholars will have a productive experience at the conference. A broader impact of the present award is to increase the likelihood that the conference experience endures beyond the conference itself by strengthening the professional networks of young scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups. The present award will increase the diversity of the CDS membership through several mechanisms. Supporting travel to the CDS conference increases the number of young scholars from underrepresented groups who are able to attend the conference. To promote the awardees' networking, professional socialization, and retention in the Society, funds will be used for a mentoring program that will match each young scholar with a more experienced scholar in the field, one with similar research interests. Through an organized meeting at the start of the conference with their mentors, mentees will have the opportunity to forge new professional relationships and broaden their academic network. Mentors will support their mentees by attending the young scholars' presentations. In addition, the young scholars will meet with each other and with the recipients of the 2015 travel awards to foster a community of young scholars from underrepresented groups. Finally, CDS will highlight the recipients of the 2017 travel awards at the conference by acknowledging them during an awards ceremony. Anonymous feedback from the young scholars and their mentors following the 2017 meeting will help ensure that CDS can improve upon the effectiveness of its travel awards in achieving its goal of increasing the involvement of scholars traditionally under-represented in the field.