Third HBCU-HDI Women in STEM Conference

第三届 HBCU-HDI STEM 女性会议

• 批准号: 1934440
• 负责人: Sonya Teresa Smith
• 金额: $ 4.97万
• 依托单位: Howard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1934440&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Third; HBCU; HDI; Women; STEM

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 and students at HBCUs. Howard University will organize the Third HBCU-HDI 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 in the United States. The conference will be held November 26-29, 2019 in East London, South Africa. This conference award supports women STEM faculty and students from HBCUs. 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, targeting women of color faculty in STEM from HBCUs and HDIs. 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? 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 women to pursue 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.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.

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）教师和学生研究能力的会议。霍华德大学将组织第三届HBCU-HDI女性STEM会议，参与者包括来自南非历史上弱势机构（hdi）和美国历史上黑人学院和大学的女科学家、研究人员、研究生和教师。会议将于2019年11月26日至29日在南非东伦敦举行。该会议奖支持来自hbcu的女性STEM教师和学生。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，共同制定吸引和留住STEM领域女性的战略，目标是来自hbcu和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？女性在STEM领域的职业环境如何？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如何合作，鼓励更多女性追求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。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。