Support of a Hybrid Format 2022 North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Meeting To Expand Access And Diversity

支持混合形式 2022 年北美膜协会 (NAMS) 会议，以扩大访问范围和多样性

• 批准号: 2216205
• 负责人: Manish Kumar
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2216205&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Hybrid; Format; 2022; North

This award will provide support for the audiovisual infrastructure required to host a hybrid, virtual and onsite, 2022 Meeting of the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) in Tempe, Arizona. NAMS is a premier membrane conference, providing outstanding technical sessions across the full breadth of topics within membrane science and technology. The theme of the 2022 meeting is "Membranes for Sustainability," where technical sessions will focus on communicating the latest developments and trends in membrane science geared towards improving sustainability. The meeting has a rich history as a forum for students, early-career researchers, and leaders in the field, from both industry and academia, to share their research and development outcomes, insights, and future directions. The hybrid meeting format allows attendees to decide how they wish to participate. Providing a virtual attendance option has been shown to reduce barriers to participation, such as the burden and cost of travel, and is expected to improve overall attendance and make the meeting globally accessible. This support for the hybrid meeting audiovisual infrastructure will ensure a positive, productive meeting experience for all attendees and promotes participation by diverse members of the membranes research community. The format also provides flexibility should pandemic-related travel restrictions arise.The NAMS organizing committee is comprised of diverse North American researchers, and invited speakers from academia, industry, and government labs feature prominently in the program. The meeting will feature 30 technical sessions, daily plenary sessions, a poster session, and abundant unstructured discussion periods to catalyze new collaborative relationships and research ideas. All oral presentations by onsite and online speakers will be given through a live Zoom teleconference, with two-way communication and online session chairs to moderate discussions. Mentorship breakouts, sponsor sessions, and plenary talks will also be live through Zoom, such that all attendees are participating in real-time. The 2022 NAMS meeting will cover a variety of topics ranging from fundamental studies of membrane material science to process systems development and applications of membrane technology in water, bioprocessing, chemical separations, environmental systems, and energy. Historically, more than 400 leading membranologists from around the world participate in the NAMS meeting each year. This award will extend opportunities to meaningfully participate in the meeting to researchers who might, otherwise, be unable to attend in person. The effectiveness of the hybrid meeting format will be assessed through surveys and quantitative comparison with attendance profiles from prior meetings, and the findings will be disseminated through the society's website and a peer-reviewed publication.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.

该奖项将为举办北美膜协会（NAMS）在亚利桑那州坦佩举行的北美膜协会（NAMS）的2022年会议所需的视听基础设施提供支持。 NAMS是一场首要的膜会议，在膜科学技术中的整个主题中提供了出色的技术会议。 2022年会议的主题是“可持续性膜”，技术会议将着重于传达旨在提高可持续性的膜科学的最新发展和趋势。这次会议有着丰富的历史，作为学生，早期研究人员和该领域的领导者的论坛，来自行业和学术界，以分享他们的研发成果，见解和未来的方向。混合会议格式使与会者可以决定他们希望如何参加。提供虚拟出勤选项已显示出可减少参与障碍的障碍，例如旅行负担和成本，并有望提高整体出勤率并使会议在全球范围内访问。这种对混合动力会议的支持视听基础设施将确保为所有与会者提供积极，富有成效的会议经验，并促进膜研究社区的不同成员的参与。如果出现与大流行有关的旅行限制，该格式还提供了灵活性。NAMS组织委员会由多样化的北美研究人员组成，并邀请了来自学术界，工业和政府实验室的演讲者，在该计划中突出了。会议将举办30次技术会议，每日全体会议，海报会议以及丰富的非结构化讨论期，以促进新的协作关系和研究思想。现场演讲者和在线演讲者的所有口头演示都将通过实时的缩放电信，并提供双向通信和在线会话椅，以进行中等讨论。指导突破，赞助商会议和全体会议也将通过Zoom进行，使所有与会者都参加实时参加。 2022年的NAMS会议将涵盖各种主题，从膜材料科学的基本研究到处理系统的开发以及膜技术在水，生物处理，化学分离，环境系统和能源中的应用。从历史上看，来自世界各地的400多名领先的膜科医生每年参加NAMS会议。该奖项将为有意义地参加会议的机会提供机会，否则可能无法亲自参加的研究人员。混合会议格式的有效性将通过调查和定量比较与先前会议的出勤率进行评估，并且调查结果将通过协会的网站和经过同行评审的出版物进行分散。该奖项反映了NSF的法规使命，并认为通过基金会的知识率和广泛的范围来进行评估，这是值得通过评估来进行评估的。