National Conferences on Undergraduate Research

全国本科生研究会议是独一无二的， 那些旨在刺激和奖励本科生在这方面的研究， 全国的学院和大学。 在他们的第六年， 全国性会议吸引了1，200多名与会者， 作为800名学生的演讲，从广泛的学术 学科，但主要是在科学，数学和工程。 在国家科学基金会的资助下，未来 会议将能够保持活力，重点是 代表性不足的少数民族学生和教师的参与， 具有竞争力的旅游奖，提供主题演讲人谁代表一个 为学生参与者提供多样化的模型，并激励教师 设计和实施本科研究机会，在他们的 家机构。 此外，国家会议将制定 少数民族学生招生和 跟踪参加全国会议的少数民族学生 本科研究。 旅行奖励多达35个 少数族裔学生和教师人数不足， 将提供少数民族机构。

The National Conference on Undergraduate Research is unique among those designed to stimulate and reward undergraduate research in this Nation's colleges and universities. Now in their sixth year, these national conferences attract more than 1,200 participants with as many as 800 student presentations from the broad spectrum of academic disciplines, but mainly in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. With funding provided by the National Science Foundation, future conferences will be able to maintain their vitality with focus on participation by underrepresented minority students and faculty through competitive travel awards, providing keynote speakers who represent a diversity of models for student participants, and stimulating faculty to design and implement undergraduate research opportunities at their home institutions. In addition, the national conferences will develop databases of faculty contacts for minority student recruitment and for tracking minority students who have attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Travel awards to as many as 35 underrepresented minority students and faculty from predominantly minority institutions will be provided.