Conference: Track 1: 2023 Rising BME Scholars Regional Conference

提议的项目是一个为期三天的会议，旨在招募、留住和支持代表性不足的生物医学工程（BME）博士生，使其通过博士后进入学术生涯。这个项目意义重大，因为BME非常需要一个更多样化的师资队伍来继续教育BME本科生，这个群体每年都在变得更大、更多样化。此外，生物医学工程系教师的多样性增加了研究项目的多样性，改善了生物医学工程领域，有可能找到旨在减少健康差距的解决方案。“2023 BME区域职业生涯新兴学者会议”是一个为期三天的会议，在明尼苏达大学双城分校与十个区域学术机构合作举行。会议的目标是：(1)沟通成为代表性不足的教员的途径；(2)探索为BME学者提供的机会；(3)认识到作为一个代表性不足的学者对课堂、科学和社会的影响；(4)将不同的观点纳入规划（学术、医疗、政府和商业部门）；(5)获得建立一个成功的研究计划的工具；(6)会见导师和未来的合作者，扩大个人网络。该项目将允许超过25名学者参加，以及5名BME博士后研究人员。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 proposed project is a three-day conference aimed at recruiting, retaining, and supporting underrepresented biomedical engineering (BME) PhD students through the postdoc, and into academic careers. The project is significant because there is a great need for a more diverse faculty pool in BME to continue to educate BME undergraduates, a group which becomes larger and more diverse every year. In addition, diversity of BME faculty increases diversity among research projects, improving the field of biomedical engineering with potential to identify solutions aimed at decreasing health disparities. The 2023 Rising Scholars in BME Regional Career Conference is a three-day conference held at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in partnership with ten regional academic institutions. The goals of the conference are to: (1) communicate the pathways to becoming an underrepresented faculty member (2) explore opportunities offered to a BME academic; (3) realize the impacts of being an underrepresented academic on classrooms, science, and society; (4) integrate diverse perspectives into the programming (academic, medical, governmental, and business sectors); (5) obtain tools to build a successful research program; and (6) meet mentors & future collaborators to expand personal networks. The proposed project would allow for over 25 Scholars to attend, as well as five postdoctoral researchers in BME.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.