NSF Travel Support for 2020 Visualization Early Career Faculty Workshop

NSF 为 2020 年可视化早期职业教师研讨会提供旅行支持

• 批准号: 2028384
• 负责人: Remco Chang
• 金额: $ 1.61万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2028384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Travel; Support; 2020; Visualization

The Visualization Early Career Faculty Workshop offers specialized mentoring to junior faculty whose research spans broad areas in information visualization. Its goal is to develop the next generation of faculty in data science and visualization research so as to strengthen and diversify this field. This workshop provides a forum where junior faculty can interact with each other in a setting that promotes positive career growth and contributes to sharing knowledge. This event addresses both an important and timely need, as researchers in this field come from a wide array of demographic and technical backgrounds. Many departments have at most one researcher in visualization, and thus the mentoring the junior faculty receive from their home institution cannot address the unique challenges of building an academic career in this field. Junior faculty from underrepresented groups will be encouraged to participate. The workshop experience will support and retain this interdisciplinary workforce of researchers and educators in the important area visualization that enables decision making and knowledge discovery.Specifically, this workshop complements traditional academic mentoring by offering a peer support and mentoring group for junior faculty so as to exchange information with peers. Faculty recently transitioning from junior to mid-career stages also participate to help structure the content of the workshop and provide guidance. This event fosters the growth and development of new faculty as they begin their careers in academia. Its unique, small group format produces an intensive workshop that helps build identity as well as to bridge newcomers to the larger ecosystem of academics in visualization across the country. The group of attendees is curated so as to offer diverse perspectives that might not appear in each attendee's home department. Since visualization research is broad in scope, our attendees hail from multiple universities that serve a wide range of students as well as departments in multiple fields (such as Computer Science, Information Science, Computational Media, and Digital Humanities). Therefore, workshop topics span numerous cross-cutting concerns such as developing a visualization research program, recruiting and managing a research group, handling the academic responsibilities of teaching and service, and strategies for collaboration, achieving visibility, and work-life balance.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.

可视化早期职业教师研讨会为初级教师提供专业指导，他们的研究跨越了信息可视化的广泛领域。其目标是培养下一代数据科学和可视化研究教师，以加强和多样化这一领域。该研讨会提供了一个论坛，初级教师可以在一个环境中相互交流，促进积极的职业发展，并有助于分享知识。这项活动解决了一个重要和及时的需要，因为这一领域的研究人员来自广泛的人口和技术背景。许多部门最多只有一名可视化研究人员，因此初级教师从他们的家乡机构获得的指导无法解决在这一领域建立学术生涯的独特挑战。将鼓励来自代表性不足群体的初级教师参加。该研讨会的经验将支持和留住这支跨学科的研究人员和教育工作者队伍，他们在重要的领域可视化，使决策和知识发现成为可能。具体来说，该研讨会通过为初级教师提供同行支持和指导小组，以补充传统的学术指导，从而与同行交流信息。教师最近从初级过渡到职业生涯中期阶段也参与，以帮助结构的研讨会的内容，并提供指导。这项活动促进了新教师的成长和发展，因为他们开始在学术界的职业生涯。其独特的小组形式产生了一个密集的研讨会，有助于建立身份，并将新来者与全国各地更大的可视化学术生态系统联系起来。与会者群体经过精心策划，以提供可能不会出现在每个与会者的家庭部门中的不同观点。由于可视化研究范围广泛，我们的与会者来自为广泛学生提供服务的多所大学以及多个领域（例如计算机科学、信息科学、计算媒体和数字人文科学）的部门。因此，研讨会的主题涵盖了许多跨领域的问题，如开发可视化研究计划，招聘和管理研究小组，处理教学和服务的学术责任，以及合作策略，实现可见性，和工作-该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.