AfroBiotech Conference: Black Lives Matter in Science, Engineering and Medicine

非洲生物技术会议：科学、工程和医学中的黑人生命也是重要的

• 批准号: 2041457
• 负责人: Karmella Haynes
• 金额: $ 3.32万
• 依托单位: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• 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: 2020-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2041457&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AfroBiotech; Conference; Black; Lives; Matter

The AfroBiotech: Black Lives Matter in Science, Engineering and Medicine conference will be held October 26-28 on a virtual platform owing to the Covin-19 pandemic facing the world at present. The conference will highlight the achievements of African Americans in biotechnology, inspire a new generation of diverse biotechnology professionals and identify, communicate, and explore current advancements in various aspects of Biotechnology. This forum organizes African-American scientific talent from across the U.S. at a single event and aims to enable the biotech industry to hire diverse professionals, inspire organizers of other scientific conferences to invite diverse speakers and inspire the next generation of diverse students and scholars to join this community. A virtual platform that will allow for vibrant and highly interactive virtual events that include a poster session, Q&A discussions, and small group/one on one discussion has been chosen. The conference provides forums for scientific presentations, networking, extended discussions, presentations and is inclusive of early-career researchers, postdoctoral associates and graduate students.Although the field of biological engineering is rapidly expanding and integrating with the US and global economies the data show that African Americans continue to be underrepresented in this scientific area. There is also an increasing number of African Americans entering this scientific area but this growth is still insufficient to alleviate the underrepresentation in the field of biological engineering. This situation represents an opportunity for the community of African American biological engineers to organize itself to address these future opportunities. The AfroBiotech conference will create a forum for African American biological engineers to become organized to focus on this growing opportunity and at the same time address advances and prospects in scientific areas pertinent to biological engineering. The conference has a diverse agenda that is inclusive of early-career and postdoctoral researchers as well as graduate students. The agenda accommodates sessions for networking and extended discussions.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.

AfroBiotech：Black Lives Matter in Science，Engineering and Medicine会议将于10月26日至28日在虚拟平台上举行，原因是目前世界面临Covin-19大流行病。会议将突出非洲裔美国人在生物技术方面的成就，激励新一代多样化的生物技术专业人员，并确定，交流和探索生物技术各方面的当前进展。该论坛组织来自美国各地的非洲裔美国科学人才在一个单一的事件，旨在使生物技术行业聘请不同的专业人士，激励其他科学会议的组织者邀请不同的演讲者，并激励下一代不同的学生和学者加入这个社区。一个虚拟平台，将允许充满活力和高度互动的虚拟活动，包括海报会议，问答讨论，小组/一对一的讨论已经选择。该会议为科学报告、网络、扩展讨论、演示提供了论坛，并包括早期职业研究人员、博士后助理和研究生。尽管生物工程领域正在迅速扩大，并与美国和全球经济一体化，但数据显示，非洲裔美国人在这一科学领域的代表性仍然不足。也有越来越多的非洲裔美国人进入这一科学领域，但这种增长仍然不足以缓解在生物工程领域的代表性不足。这种情况为非裔美国生物工程师社区提供了一个机会，使他们能够组织起来，应对这些未来的机会。非洲生物技术会议将为非洲裔美国生物工程师建立一个论坛，使他们有组织地关注这一日益增长的机会，同时讨论与生物工程有关的科学领域的进展和前景。会议有一个多样化的议程，包括早期职业生涯和博士后研究人员以及研究生。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标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。