Conference: Track 1: 2023 Rising BME Scholars Regional Conference

拟议的项目是一个为期三天的会议，旨在招募、留住和支持未被充分代表的生物医学工程(BME)博士生通过博士后，进入学术生涯。该项目意义重大，因为BME非常需要一个更加多样化的教职员工队伍，以继续培养BME本科生，这个群体每年都会变得更大、更多样化。此外，BME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，有可能确定旨在减少健康差距的解决方案。2023年BME上升学者地区职业会议是一个为期三天的会议，在明尼苏达大学双城分校举行，与10个地区学术机构合作。会议的目标是：(1)交流成为代表不足的教员的途径；(2)探索向BME学者提供的机会；(3)认识到代表不足的学者对课堂、科学和社会的影响；(4)将不同的观点整合到规划中(学术、医疗、政府和商业部门)；(5)获得建立成功研究项目的工具；以及(6)会见导师和未来的合作者，以扩大个人网络。拟议的项目将允许超过25名学者参加，以及5名BME博士后研究人员。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.