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：科学，工程和医学会议上的黑人生活问题将于10月26日至28日在一个虚拟平台上举行，这是由于目前面对世界的Covin-19大流行。该会议将强调非洲裔美国人在生物技术方面的成就，激发新一代的不同生物技术专业人员，并确定，交流和探索生物技术各个方面的最新进步。该论坛在一项活动中组织了来自美国各地的非裔美国人科学人才，旨在使生物技术行业聘请不同的专业人士，激发其他科学会议的组织者邀请多元化的演讲者，并激发下一代不同的学生和学者的下一代，以加入这个社区。一个虚拟平台将允许充满活力且高度互动的虚拟事件，其中包括海报会话，问答讨论以及小组/一对一的讨论。该会议为科学演讲，网络，扩展讨论，演讲提供了论坛，包括早期研究人员，博士后伙伴和研究生。进入这一科学领域的非裔美国人也越来越多，但这种增长仍然不足以减轻生物工程领域的代表性不足。这种情况为非裔美国人生物工程师社区提供了一个机会，可以组织自己以解决这些未来的机会。 Afrobobiotech会议将为非裔美国人生物工程师建立一个论坛，以便组织起来，专注于这一不断增长的机会，同时解决与生物工程有关的科学领域的进步和前景。会议的议程包括早期职业和博士后研究人员以及研究生。该议程可容纳网络和扩展讨论的会议。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优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。