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

推动美非 STEM 合作：埃塞俄比亚贡德尔大学夏季研讨会

基本信息

批准号：
1935833
负责人：
Mesfin Tsige
金额：
$ 1万
依托单位：
University of Akron
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：
2019-07-15 至 2024-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935833&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Seeding US Africa Cooperation STEM

项目摘要

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.

美国的院士和研究生与北美的埃塞俄比亚物理社会，阿克伦大学，斯坦福大学和冈达大学合作组织了有关美国非洲在STEM中的夏季夏季研讨会，并将在2019年6月24日与埃塞俄比亚大学毕业，他们旨在培养彼此的挑战，并将在埃塞俄比亚大学毕业。面对资源有限的学生，并帮助他们为美国的竞争激烈的研究生院做准备，那里的潜力将得到充分发展，并有机会成为领先的科学家和工程师。夏季研讨会将包括讲座，职业面板和学生演讲。演讲将包括各种茎场的当前趋势，并主要集中于软凝结物理学。其他茎领域，例如化学，化学工程，高能量物理学和宇宙学，也将在讲座中涵盖。该计划针对激发非洲学生的独特需求，并为我们提供院士和研究生一个平台，以提高他们的全球视野，并使他们满足他们可以在研究中满足的需求。美国教授与当地教授和研究人员之间的非正式讨论将为合作开放，甚至是共同努力的研究生。 NSF的部分旅行支持将主要用于支持美国的研究生帮助组织和执行研讨会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。