Conference: 2023 AEESP Research and Education Conference in Boston, MA

该NSF奖支持2023年环境工程与科学教授协会（AEESP）研究与教育会议。这次面对面的会议将于2023年6月20日至23日在波士顿（马萨诸塞州）举行。本届会议的主题是“共同应对全球性挑战”。会议将为包括环境工程师、科学家、卫生专家、教育工作者和其他利益攸关方在内的与会者提供各种场所，以交流思想并建立新的伙伴关系，以应对与社会相关的环境挑战，包括：(1)当前和新出现的环境质量和人类健康威胁；(2)面对人口增长的基础设施老化；(3)社区边缘化；(4)气候变化；(5)培养未来工程师和科学家的不断发展的教育需求。AEESP 2023会议还将为所有职业阶段的参与者提供各种研讨会和培训活动，包括(1)培训科学家的职业研讨会，(2)初级教师的NSF职业建议写作研讨会，(3)中级教师的领导力研讨会，以及(4)针对教育创新的几个研讨会，以更好地服务于多样化的学生群体和不断发展的社会需求。美国国家科学基金会的资金将使2023年AEESP会议组织者能够为来自代表性不足/服务不足群体的学生和早期职业教师/科学家以及其他可能无法参加会议的人提供旅行资助。2023 AEESP研究与教育会议将由一组学术机构主办，包括东北大学（牵头机构）、马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校、罗德岛大学、佛蒙特大学、缅因大学、康涅狄格大学、塔夫茨大学和麻省理工学院。两年一次的AEESP会议是环境科学、工程和健康领域的研究和教学合作领域的杰出活动。会议的主要目标是：1)为环境工程与科学（EES）社区提供一个场所和平台，通过互动和协作研讨会讨论和分享最新的研究成果和教学创新/需求；2)促进交流和进一步推进科学和工程创新，涉及广泛的环境主题，包括遗留和新出现的污染物，管理社会与地球互动的基础设施；了解和改善工业过程与人类健康等相互作用的方法。会议的预期成果包括：1)远景文件，这些文件将有助于绘制该学科在研究和教育方面的未来路线图，确定环境工程、科学和卫生界如何在应对处于技术、科学和社会交叉点的新兴和持续的全球挑战方面产生最大影响；2)对教材、方法和教学法的演变提出建议；3)在AEESP通讯和网站以及选定的开源期刊上发表研讨会成果/建议。NSF的资助将使2023年AEESP会议能够在EES社区讨论关键和社会相关的环境挑战时，将不同的参与者和声音带入对话。该奖项由NSF/ENG/CBET环境工程、环境可持续性和纳米级相互作用项目联合资助。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。

This NSF award supports the 2023 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research and Education Conference. This in-person conference will be held on June 20-23, 2023, in Boston (MA). The theme of the 2023 AEESP conference is “Responding Together to Global Challenges”. The conference will provide a variety of venues for participants including environmental engineers, scientists, health experts, educators, and other stakeholders to exchange ideas and build new partnerships for addressing societally relevant environmental challenges including (1) current and emerging environmental quality and human health threats, (2) aging infrastructure in the face of growing populations, (3) marginalization of communities, (4) a changing climate, and (5) evolving educational demands to prepare future engineers and scientists. The AEESP 2023 conference will also feature a variety of workshops and training events for participants at all career stages, including (1) a career workshop for training scientists, (2) an NSF CAREER proposal writing workshop for junior faculty, (3) a leadership workshop for mid-level faculty, and (4) several workshops targeting innovation in education to better serve a diverse student body and evolving societal needs. NSF funding will enable the 2023 AEESP conference organizers to provide travel grants to students and early career faculty/scientists from underrepresented/underserved groups and others for whom attendance at the conference may not be otherwise be possible. The 2023 AEESP Research and Education Conference will be hosted by a group of academic institutions including Northeastern University (Lead Institution), University of Massachusetts – Amherst, University of Rhode Island, University of Vermont, University of Maine, University of Connecticut, Tufts University, and MIT. The bi-annual AEESP Conference is the preeminent event for research and teaching in the collaborative space of environmental science, engineering, and health. The overarching goals of the conference are to: 1) provide a venue and platform for the Environmental Engineering and Science (EES) community to discuss and share recent research results and teaching innovation/needs through interactive and collaborative workshops, and 2) promote the communication and furthering of scientific and engineering innovation across a wide range of environmental topics, including legacy and emerging contaminants, infrastructure managing the interaction of society with the planet, approaches to understanding and improving the interactions of industrial processes and human health, etc. The expected outcomes of the conference include: 1) visioning documents that will contribute to a road-mapping of the future of the discipline, both on research and education, defining how the environmental engineering, science, and health community can have the most impact in responding to emerging and sustained global challenges that are at the intersection of technology, science, and society; 2) recommendations for evolutions in teaching materials, approaches and pedagogy, and 3) publications of the workshop outcomes/recommendations in the AEESP newsletter and website as well as in selected open-source journals. NSF funding will enable the 2023 AEESP conference to bring a diverse set of participants and voices into the conversation as the EES community discusses critical and societally relevant environmental challenges. This award is jointly funded by the NSF/ENG/CBET Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sustainability, and Nanoscale Interactions programs.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.