Seeding US Africa Cooperation in STEM: A Summer Workshop at Gondar University in Ethiopia

关于美非STEM合作的夏季研讨会由美国院士和研究生与北美埃塞俄比亚物理学会、阿克伦大学、斯坦福大学和贡达大学合作举办，将于2019年6月24日至7月1日在埃塞俄比亚贡达大学举行。它寻求将来自埃塞俄比亚各地主要大学的有才华的本科生和研究生聚集在一起，以确定他们作为资源有限的学生面临的独特挑战，并帮助他们为进入美国竞争激烈的研究生院做准备，在那里他们的潜力将得到充分开发，并有机会成为一流的科学家和工程师。暑期工作坊将由讲座、职业小组讨论和学生陈述组成。讲座将包括各种STEM领域的当前趋势，并将主要集中在软凝聚态物理。其他STEM领域，如化学、化学工程、高能物理和宇宙学也将在讲座中涵盖。这一倡议针对鼓舞人心的非洲学生的独特需求，也为美国院士和研究生提供了一个平台，促进他们的全球视角，并让他们接触到他们可以通过研究解决的需求。美国教授与当地教授和研究人员之间的非正式讨论将开启合作的机会，甚至可以为研究生提供共同建议。NSF提供的部分旅行支持将主要用于支持美国研究生，帮助组织和执行工作坊。这一奖励反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The summer workshop on the US Africa Cooperation in STEM is organized by US based academicians and graduate students in partnership with the Ethiopian Physical Society in North America, The University of Akron, Stanford University, and University of Gondar and will take place at the University of Gondar in Ethiopia from June 24?July 1, 2019. It seeks to bring together talented undergraduate and graduate students from major universities across Ethiopia to identify the unique challenges they face as students with limited resources and to help them prepare for highly competitive graduate schools in the US where their potential will be fully developed and have the opportunity to be leading scientists and engineers. The summer workshop will consist of lectures, career panels, and student presentations. The lectures will include current trends in a variety of STEM fields and will mainly focus on soft condensed matter physics. Other STEM fields, such as chemistry, chemical engineering, high energy physics, and cosmology will be also covered in the lectures. This initiative targets the unique need of inspiring African students and also offers US academicians and graduate students a platform to advance their global perspective and expose them to the needs they can address with their research. Informal discussions between the US professors and local professors and researchers will open the opportunity for collaboration going as far as co-advising graduate students. The partial travel support from NSF will mainly be used for supporting US graduate students helping with the organization and execution of the workshop.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.