Waterbird Society - Workshop to Increase Diversity in STEM

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科项目（HBCU-UP）支持旨在提高hbcu科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学生和教师的研究和教育能力的会议和研讨会。马里兰大学东岸分校将支持在水鸟协会年会上举办讲习班，努力解决非洲裔美国人在自然资源保护和管理领域代表性不足的问题。来自五个机构的本科生和研究生将参加2019年11月8日的会议，展示他们的研究，与演讲者互动，并建立一个支持网络。在为期一天的会议中，350名受邀学生将有机会参加以学生成功和职业为重点的小组讨论，听取演讲者的演讲，展示海报，参加海报会议，并参与围绕示范论文的讨论。学生将来自马里兰大学东岸分校、汉普顿大学、特拉华州立大学、弗吉尼亚州立大学和霍华德大学。水鸟协会意识到，并不是所有参加会议的学生都对水鸟这样的小生境感兴趣。然而，讲习班的目标不仅是增加对水鸟研究的兴趣，而且是增加对自然科学整体的学术和职业方面，特别是自然资源保护和管理的兴趣。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。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) supports conferences and workshops that seek to increase the research and education capacity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and faculty at HBCUs. The University of Maryland Eastern Shore will support workshops at the annual meeting of the Waterbird Society in an effort to address the underrepresentation of African Americans in the areas of natural resource conservation and management. Undergraduate and graduate students from five institutions will attend this conference on November 8, 2019 to present their research, engage with speakers, and build a network of support. During the one-day meeting, the 350 invited students will have the opportunity to attend panels that are focused on student success and careers, listen to speakers, present posters, attend poster sessions, and participate in discussions around demonstration papers. Students will come from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Hampton University, Delaware State University, Virginia State University, and Howard University. The Waterbird Society realizes that not all of the students who will attend will be interested in a niche as small as waterbirds. However, the goal of the workshop is to not only increase interest in the study of waterbirds, but rather to increase interest in the academic and career aspects of the natural sciences overall, natural resource conservation and management in particular.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.