Travel Support for Broadening Participation of Researchers in the 2024 REMADE Institute Circular Economy Tech Summit & Conference; Washington, DC; 10-11 April 2024

该奖项为学生和年轻教师，特别是来自STEM教育中代表性不足或服务不足的群体的学生和年轻教师提供旅行支持，以参加REMADE研究所循环经济技术峰会和会议。REMADE研究所的目标是开发再利用、再制造和回收能源密集型材料的技术。REMADE的使命是促进制造技术，减少隐含能源和减少排放。本次会议旨在提供一个论坛，分享有关加速美国向循环经济过渡的技术的前沿研究。会议为与会者提供了一个展示他们的科学成就的机会，与来自学术界、政府实验室和工业界的同行和同事互动，扩展他们的网络，并在更广泛的先进制造社区内促进新的合作。与NSF扩大在科学和工程领域未被充分代表的群体参与的目标一致，REMADE研究所优先将旅行资金分配给未被充分代表的少数民族、妇女和残疾人。这种方法促进了STEM领域的更大多样性，并通过教育和培训熟练的劳动力，使国家受益，更好地准备提供变革性的解决方案，以克服所选领域的挑战。会议符合国家优先发展制造业、经济繁荣、环境质量，以及实现多样性、公平和包容。REMADE研究所希望参加会议有利于学生和年轻教师的专业、科学和技术发展。会议的目标是将材料生命周期阶段（设计、制造、再制造和回收）与系统级视角相结合，旨在确定横切研究合作机会。这些认识对于实现循环经济至关重要。会议包括由国内外知名演讲者进行的演讲，他们将讨论他们在再生经济、回收/循环/再制造技术、循环经济在资源受限世界中的作用、工业生态、克服供应链挑战、制造业净零排放、工业脱碳、材料回收设施改造技术等方面的最新研究成果。此外，会议还让学生和年轻教师通过口头和海报展示，以及与同行深入讨论他们的工作，提高他们的沟通技巧。这种互动体验大大拓宽了来自代表性不足群体的学生和年轻教师的教育和培训，增加了他们对研究主题的热情，使他们熟悉对科学事业的期望，并使他们接触到创新研究的新方法和机会。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 award provides travel support for students and young faculty, especially, from underrepresented or underserved groups in STEM education to attend and participate in the REMADE Institute Circular Economy Tech Summit and Conference. REMADE Institute’s goal is to develop technologies to reuse, remanufacture, and recycle energy-intensive materials. REMADE’s mission is to foster manufacturing technologies that reduce embodied energy and decrease emissions. This conference aims to provide a forum to share leading-edge research on technologies that accelerate the US's transition to a Circular Economy. The conference offers participants an opportunity to showcase their scientific accomplishments, interact with peers and colleagues from academia, government labs, and industry, extend their network, and foster new collaborations within the broader advanced manufacturing community. Consistent with NSF's goal to broaden the participation of groups underrepresented in science and engineering, the REMADE Institute preferentially allocates travel funds to underrepresented minorities, women, and persons with disabilities. This approach promotes greater diversity in STEM fields and benefits the nation by educating and training a skilled workforce better prepared to provide transformative solutions to overcome challenges in their chosen fields. The conference meets the national priorities of advancing manufacturing, economic prosperity, environmental quality, as well as achieving diversity, equity and inclusion.The REMADE Institute anticipates conference attendance benefits the students and young faculty's professional, scientific and technical development. The conference’s goal is to integrate the materials lifecycle stages which are design, manufacturing, remanufacturing, and recycling with a system-level perspectives designed to identify crosscutting research collaboration opportunities. These underestandings are critical to the achievement of a circular economy. The conference includes talks by leading domestic and international speakers, who discuss their latest research on topics such as regenerative economy, recovery/recycling/remanufacturing technologies, role of circular economy in a resource-constrained world, industrial ecology, overcoming supply chain challenges, net zero emissions in manufacturing, industrial decarbonization, technologies for transforming materials recovery facilities, and others. Additionally, the conference enables students and young faculty to enhance their communication skills through oral and poster presentations and in-depth discussions of their work with their peers. This interactive experience significantly broadens the education and training of students and young faculty from underrepresented groups, increases their enthusiasm for the research topic, acquaints them with expectations for scientific careers, and exposes them to new approaches and opportunities for innovative research.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.