Travel Awards for Students from Underrepresented Groups for the 2019 Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Meeting; Louisville, KY - October 2019

认知发展学会(CDS)成立于1999年，旨在为关注认知能力发展的研究人员提供一个智力聚集点。CDS成员因共同关注感知、思考和学习的发展起源而团结在一起，他们还团结在一项事业中，即采用不同的观点和方法来理解这些过程。他们的研究涉及整个生命周期的发展时间点，并专注于塑造认知能力发展的多层次生物、行为、社会和文化过程。由于将不同的观点和方法结合在一起是在科学理解方面取得进展的根本，CDS寻求增加其成员的多样性。CDS寻求促进初级学者(例如，研究生、博士后)参加其2019年会议，这些学者来自传统上在发展科学中代表性较低的群体。在会议上，这些学者将展示他们的研究，并参与一个指导计划，该计划包括将他们与该领域的资深研究人员配对。目前的奖项将通过几个机制增加CDS成员的多样性。其中第一项涉及为代表人数不足的群体的初级学者提供旅行奖励。第二项涉及继续该协会的指导计划，在该计划中，年轻学者与一名知名研究人员配对。通过在会议开始时与导师举行有组织的会议，受训者将有机会开始建立新的专业关系，从而扩大他们的学术网络。导师将通过参加初级学者的演讲来支持他们的被辅导者，以便提供支持和反馈。第三个涉及为今年(2019年)队列的初级学者和2015年和2017年CDS多样性旅行奖的前获奖者提供网络活动便利。总之，这些经验旨在促进来自不同背景的初级学者作为会议参与者和未来的独立调查人员取得成功。2019年会议后来自初级学者及其导师的匿名反馈将有助于确保CDS能够改进其旅行奖项的有效性，以实现其目标，即增加传统上在该领域代表性不足的学者的参与。该奖项反映了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 Cognitive Development Society (CDS) was founded in 1999 with the goal of providing an intellectual gathering point for researchers who focus on the development of cognitive abilities. CDS members are united by a common focus on the developmental origins of perceiving, thinking and learning, and they are also united in the enterprise of bringing varied perspectives and approaches to bear on understanding these processes. Their research addresses developmental time points across the lifespan, and focuses on multi-level biological, behavioral, social and cultural processes shaping the development of cognitive abilities. Because bringing together diverse perspectives and approaches is fundamental to making progress in scientific understanding, CDS has sought to increase diversity in its membership. The CDS seeks to promote the attendance, at its 2019 meeting, of junior scholars (e.g., graduate students, post-docs) from groups traditionally underrepresented in the developmental sciences. At the conference, these scholars will present their research and participate in a mentoring program which involves pairing them with senior researchers in the field. The present award will increase the diversity of the CDS membership through several mechanisms. The first of these involves providing travel awards for junior scholars from underrepresented groups. The second involves continuing the society's mentoring program in which young scholars are paired with an established researcher. Through an organized meeting at the start of the conference with their mentors, mentees will have the opportunity to begin forging new professional relationships, thereby broadening their academic networks. Mentors will support their mentees by attending the junior scholars' presentations in order to provide support and feedback. The third involves facilitating networking events for junior scholars from this year's (2019) cohort and former recipients of the CDS Diversity Travel Awards from the 2015 and 2017 meetings. Together, these experiences are designed to promote the success of junior scholars from diverse backgrounds as both conference participants and as future independent investigators. Anonymous feedback from the junior scholars and their mentors following the 2019 meeting will help ensure that CDS can improve upon the effectiveness of its travel awards in achieving its goal of increasing the involvement of scholars traditionally underrepresented in the field.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.