Supporting Student Research at the NanoFlorida 2018 Conference

佛罗里达理工学院（Florida Tech）将于2018年10月5日至7日主办第11届年度纳米佛罗里达研究会议。NanoFlorida是一个独特的活动，学生研究人员分享他们在纳米技术方面的发现有着悠久而成功的传统。纳米佛罗里达系列会议是唯一一个全州范围内的纳米技术会议，研究生和本科生可以在会议上向邻近学校的同行和其他教员，以及行业科学家和工程师展示他们的研究成果。来自佛罗里达州所有学院和大学的对纳米技术感兴趣的学生参加，以便更多地了解这一重要主题，与其他学校的学生见面，并与研究生院和行业雇主的代表建立联系。纳米佛罗里达2018研究会议的组织者将通过以下方式吸引更多的学生参加会议：(1)降低注册费用，(2)增加专题讨论会，突出纳米技术研究的重要新领域，(3)为学生提供更多的方法来传播他们的研究。对于NanoFlorida的学生与会者来说，最重要的好处可能是他们可以遇到来自其他学校和行业的研究人员，形成专业关系，为他们的STEM职业生涯提供长期利益。纳米佛罗里达2018的参与目标是将纳米佛罗里达2018的出席人数增加到200名学生。本次会议提案的资金将允许组织者向学生报销他们的注册费。佛罗里达吗?美国的研究型大学在纳米佛罗里达会议上总是有很多代表。为了增加与会者的多样性，会议组织者将向不授予STEM学科博士学位的机构的教师宣传会议。这些学校包括佛罗里达农工大学和白求恩库克曼大学，这两所大学都是HBCUs，以及佛罗里达州立大学系统中女性入学率为60%的学校。纳米技术教育研讨会将吸引包括教授纳米技术的教师在内的听众，从而将有关有效教学实践的知识传授给那些可以立即在自己的课堂上使用这些知识的人，使学生受益。项目轨道包括纳米医学、纳米材料和器件、纳米技术在能源和环境中的应用，以及纳米技术教育、纳米技术在农业中的应用和纳米技术在空间探索中的应用研究的新专题讨论会。纳米佛罗里达会议允许研究生和本科生在一个低压力、支持性的环境中展示他们的研究，纳米佛罗里达2018组织者将首次发布学生？他们在会议记录中的报告的扩展摘要。此外，组织者正在安排由同行评审的科学和工程期刊的特刊，以发表由学生和他们的导师撰写的纳米技术研究论文。会后调查和发表演讲？研究将作为纳米佛罗里达2018年研究会议成功与否的衡量标准。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Supporting Student Research at the NanoFlorida 2018 ConferenceFlorida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech) will host the 11th annual NanoFlorida Research Conference on October 5-7, 2018. NanoFlorida is a unique event with a long, successful tradition of student researchers sharing their discoveries in nanotechnology. The NanoFlorida conference series is the only state-wide nanotechnology conference in which graduate and undergraduate students can present their research to their peers and other faculty at neighboring schools, and to industry scientists and engineers. Students with an interest in nanotechnology from all colleges and universities in Florida attend in order to learn more about this important topic, meet students at other schools, and network with representatives from graduate schools and industry employers. The NanoFlorida 2018 Research Conference organizers will attract more students to attend the conference in the following ways: (1) lower registration costs, (2) add symposia that highlight important new areas of nanotechnology research, and (3) provide more ways for students to disseminate their research. Perhaps the most important benefit to NanoFlorida student attendees is that they can meet researchers from other schools and from industry, forming professional relationships that provide long-term benefits to their STEM careers. The participation goal for NanoFlorida 2018 is to increase attendance at NanoFlorida 2018 to 200 students. Funding for this conference proposal will allow organizers to reimburse to students the cost of their registration fees. Florida?s research universities are always well-represented at NanoFlorida conferences. In order to increase the diversity of attendees, the conference organizers will advertise the conference to faculty at institutions that do not grant PhDs in STEM disciplines. Among these schools are Florida A&M and Bethune Cookman University, both HBCUs, and schools in the Florida state college system that have an enrollment of 60% women. The nanotechnology education symposium will draw an audience that includes faculty teaching nanotechnology, thereby imparting knowledge about effective teaching practices to those who can immediately use that knowledge in their own classrooms to benefit students. Program tracks include nanomedicine, nanomaterials and devices, and applications of nanotechnology in energy and the environment, as well as new symposia for research in nanotechnology education, nanotechnology applications in agriculture, and nanotechnology applications in space exploration. NanoFlorida conferences allow for graduate and undergraduate students to present their research in a low-stress, supportive environment and, for the first time, NanoFlorida 2018 organizers will publish students? extended abstracts of their presentations in conference proceedings. In addition, the organizers are arranging special issues of peer-reviewed science and engineering journals to publish nanotechnology research papers authored by students and their faculty mentors. Post-conference surveys and the publication of presenters? research will serve as a measure of the success of the NanoFlorida 2018 Research Conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.