Workshop: Adelante: Focus on Latinas in Math and Science

0339201阿德兰特坎图：关注数学、科学和工程领域的拉丁裔学生项目寻求增加一些拉丁裔学生到数学和科学研究生课程的名单上，并最终增加这些领域的教师人数。拟议的项目将把这些地区的知名女性与有前途的年轻学者和本科生聚集在一起，参加一个为期3天的暑期学院。拟于2003年8月在德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥校区举办的现有年度MALCS-SI(MALCS-SI)项目有70名参与者参加。尽管该研究所是多学科的，但参加MALCS活动的通常是人文和社会科学领域的拉丁裔，数学、科学和工程学领域的拉丁裔很少受到重视或参加。2003年组委会愿意赞助首届阿德兰特年会！重点学习数学和理工科。该计划将包括与该研究所的平行会议，在那里，九名高级教员将提供建议，展示他们目前的研究和职业成就，以及谈论获得数学、科学和工程研究生学位的过程。简而言之，他们将成为30名参与者的榜样和导师，这些参与者将来自南得克萨斯州的高等学府，那里的学生主要是拉丁裔。该项目的总体目标是增加拉丁裔攻读数学、科学和工程博士学位的人数。通过面向南得克萨斯州的30名本科生和硕士学位水平的拉丁裔学生，这一活动将产生人们对博士项目的兴趣，随后将在未来3年增加申请数学、科学和工程研究生项目的人数。自MALCS成立以来，年度会议和研究所鼓励本科生攻读博士学位。最初作为本科生就读的几名学生现在以研究生或助理教授的身份参加。事实上，80年代中期作为研究生开始参加会议的一些人已经获得了全职教授身份。2003年MALCS委员会希望为数学、科学和工程做同样的工作，并计划与奇卡诺人和美洲原住民科学促进会(SACNAS)的拉丁裔成员合作，使这一目标成为现实。

0339201 Cantu The Adelante: Focus on Latinas in Math, Science and Engineering Project seeks to add a number of Latinas to the rolls of graduate programs in math and science and ultimately to the numbers of faculty in these fields. The proposed project will bring together established women in these areas with promising young scholars and undergraduate students for a 3-day summer institute. The proposed project integrates 70 participants into the existing annual Mujeres Activas en Letras Cambio Social Summer Institute (MALCS-SI), to be held at the University of Texas San Antonio campus in August 2003. Although the Institute is multi-disciplinary, the MALCS event is generally attended by Latinas in the humanities and social sciences, with little emphasis or attendance by Latinas in math and science and engineering. The 2003 organizing committee would like to sponsor the first annual Adelante! Focus on Math and Science and Engineering. The program will consist of parallel concurrent sessions to the Institute where nine senior faculty members all Latinas in Math and Science and Engineering will offer advise, present their current research and career achievements, as well as, speak about the process for achieving a graduate degree in math and science and engineering. In short, they will serve as role-models and mentors to the 30 participants who will be drawn from South Texas institutions of higher learning, whose student body is predominantly Latino. The overall goal of the project is to increase the number of Latinas pursuing doctoral degrees in math and science and engineering. By targeting 30 undergraduate and master degree level Latina students in South Texas, the event will generate an interest in doctoral programs and subsequently will increase the number of applications to graduate programs in math and science and engineering in the next 3 years. Since the MALCS was formed, the annual conferences and institutes have inspired undergraduate students to pursue doctoral degrees. Several students who first attended as undergraduates are now participating as graduate students or as assistant professors. Indeed some who began attending the conference in the mid 80s as graduate students have already achieved full-professor status. The MALCS 2003 committee would like to do the same for math and science and engineering and plans to work with Latina members of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) to make that goal a reality.