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

该NSF奖项支持2023年环境工程与科学教授协会（AEESP）研究和教育会议。 本次会议将于2023年6月20日至23日在波士顿（MA）举行。2023年AEESP大会的主题是“共同应对全球挑战”。 会议将为包括环境工程师、科学家、健康专家、教育工作者和其他利益相关者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，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）人口增长带来的基础设施老化，（3）社区边缘化，（4）气候变化，（5）培养未来工程师和科学家的教育需求不断变化。 AEESP 2023会议还将为所有职业阶段的参与者举办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）为初级教师举办的NSF CAREER提案写作研讨会，（3）为中级教师举办的领导力研讨会，以及（4）几个针对教育创新的讲习班，以更好地服务于多样化的学生群体和不断变化的社会需求。NSF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/科学家以及其他人提供旅行赠款，否则他们可能无法参加会议。2023年AEESP研究与教育会议将由包括东北大学（牵头机构）、马萨诸塞州-阿默斯特大学、罗得岛大学、佛蒙特大学、缅因州大学、康涅狄格大学、塔夫茨大学和麻省理工学院在内的一批学术机构主办。 每两年举行一次的AEESP会议是环境科学、工程和健康协作领域研究和教学的杰出活动。 会议的总体目标是：1）为环境工程和科学（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，以及2）促进沟通，并在广泛的环境主题，包括遗产和新兴污染物，促进科学和工程创新，管理社会与地球相互作用的基础设施，了解和改善工业流程与人类健康相互作用的方法等。1）展望文件，这将有助于该学科的未来的路线图，无论是在研究和教育，定义如何环境工程，科学，（1）在技术、科学和社会交叉领域，研讨会的成果/建议可在应对新出现的和持续的全球挑战方面发挥最大影响;（2）关于教材、方法和教学法的改进建议;（3）在AEESP通讯和网站以及选定的开放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，将各种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共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF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.