Providing Opportunity for Women in Summer Physics Research

卫斯理大学是一所小型的文理学院，理科研究生课程不多。这样做的主要目的是让我们的本科生接触到从事竞争性学术研究的教师和研究环境。该奖项提供的八项现场奖学金将以一种独特的方式帮助我们保持本科生参与该研究环境的传统：其中四项奖学金将提供给从卫斯理大学以外选出的女性，另外四项将提供给我们自己的学生，女性或男性。这可以完成三件事。首先，它将在东北地区专门为女性开设至少四个物理研究职位。第二，内部津贴将为我们自己的暑期研究本科生提供稳定的资源，最后，对女性的重视将确保我们继续努力招收女性进入物理学专业。

Wesleyan University is a small liberal arts institution with modest graduate programs in the sciences. The primary purpose of this is to expose our undergraduates to a faculty and research environment engaged in competitive scholarly research. The eight site stipends provided by this award will help us maintain a tradition of undergraduate participation within this research environment in a unique way: four of the stipends will be offered to women selected from outside of Wesleyan, and four will be offered to our own students, women or men. This accomplishes three things. First, it will open up at least four physics research positions in the northeast area targeted exclusively for women. Second, the internal stipends will provide a stabilizing resource for our own summer research undergraduates, and finally, the emphasis on women will insure a continued visibility to our efforts to recruit women into the physics major.