The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) 2021 Principal Investigators/Project Directors Meeting

路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（LSAMP）项目帮助大学和学院实现科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化，通过努力显著增加历史上代表性不足的少数族裔（非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民）学生的数量，夏威夷原住民或其他太平洋岛民)成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。芝加哥州立大学将领导组织委员会制定并举行首席研究员/项目主任（PI/PD）会议。会议将于10月初以混合形式举行，为期两天，所有现场会议都将有现场出席和虚拟出席。会议将提供一个论坛，讨论该规划在过去30年取得的成就，以及未来的挑战和机遇，特别是考虑到2019冠状病毒病的影响。所有LSAMP的pi和pd都将被邀请参加会议。由于上次LSAMP PI/PD会议于2019年举行，本次会议将提供机会，促进和更新联系，分享在解决大流行相关问题方面获得的信息和资源，并为LSAMP社区制定未来的路线，以应对大流行后学术界对STEM中代表性不足群体的挑战。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students from historically underrepresented minority populations(African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians or Alaska Natives, NativeHawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders) to successfully complete high-quality degree programs in STEM. Chicago State University will lead an Organizing Committee to develop and hold a Principal Investigators/Project Directors (PI/PD) meeting. The conference will take place in a hybrid format over two days at the beginning of October, with both in-person attendance and virtual attendance at all the in-person sessions. The meeting will provide a forum for discussing the accomplishments of the program over the last 30 years, as well as the challenges and opportunities going forward, especially in light of COVID19 impacts. All LSAMP PIs and PDs will be invited to the meeting. As the last LSAMP PI/PD meeting was held in 2019, this meeting will provide the opportunity to foster and renew connections, to share information and resources gained in addressing pandemic-related issues, and plot a course going forward for the LSAMP community to meet the challenges of post-pandemic academia for groups underrepresented in STEM.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.