Women in STEM Conference

传统黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU-UP）支持旨在提高hbcu科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师研究能力的会议。霍华德大学将为来自南非历史上弱势机构（hdi）和美国历史上黑人大学（HBCUs）的女科学家、研究人员、研究生和教师举办第二届STEM女性会议。会议将于2017年10月23日至28日在霍华德大学校园举行。该会议奖支持来自传统黑人学院和大学的女性STEM教师。会议的目的是将学术界、工业界和政府的领导人聚集在一起，就吸引和留住STEM领域女性的战略进行合作。将特别关注来自美国hbcu和南非hdi的STEM领域的有色人种女性教师。会议将重点探讨以下问题：南非和美国女性在STEM领域的职业发展轨迹有何相似之处？在南非和美国，女性在STEM领域的职业环境是怎样的？美国用于改善文化和气候问题的项目是否适用于南非，反之亦然？在hbcu和hdi，女性在STEM领域是否有独特的机会或挑战？HBCU和HDI STEM女性教师如何合作，鼓励更多南非女性获得STEM学位和教师职业？会议每天的全体会议和分组会议将专门讨论一个指导性问题。最后的会议将总结与会者提出的建议和解决方案。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) supports conferences that seek to increase the research capacity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty at HBCUs. Howard University will conduct its second Women in STEM Conference for women scientists, researchers, graduate students and faculty from Historically Disadvantaged Institutions (HDIs) in South Africa and from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States. The conference will be held October 23 to 28, 2017, on the campus of Howard University. This conference award supports women STEM faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.The purpose of the conference is to bring together leaders from academia, industry and government to collaborate on strategies to attract and retain women in STEM. Particular attention will be targeted on women of color faculty in STEM from HBCUs in the US and from HDIs in South Africa. The conference will focus on exploring the following questions: What are the similarities in professional trajectory among women in STEM in South Africa and in the US? What is the professional climate for women in STEM in South Africa and the US? Are programs used in the US to improve culture and climate issues applicable to South Africa and vice versa? Are there unique opportunities or challenges for women in STEM at HBCUs and HDIs? How can HBCU and HDI STEM women faculty partner to encourage more South African women to purse STEM terminal degrees and faculty careers? The plenary sessions and breakout sessions on each full day of the conference will be devoted to addressing one of the guiding questions. The final conference session will summarize the recommendations and solutions proposed by the conference participants.