Travel Grants for Graduate Students and Independent Scholars

科学的历史，哲学和社会研究的科学与社会补助金支持更新资金，以允许科学社会史（HSS），技术史学会（SHOT），科学协会（PSA）和科学社会研究学会（4S）的哲学为研究生，独立学者，在2006-2010年五年期间，资助很少或没有资金的初级学者参加学会的专业会议。对这一建议的资助不仅将提高科学研究的知识含量和深度，还将扩大该领域的影响。通过调查过去十年中每个协会的会议，可以衡量知识方面的好处，在过去的十年中，NSF的资金被用来帮助旅行。代表研究生和独立学者在节目中一直显着，代表了一代学者谁已经进入职业。学术上的好处至少有两个方面：社会会议由于这些学者的参与而变得更加丰富和多样化，正如他们所证明的那样，这些学者的研究和职业生涯也得到了帮助。这种专业化是至关重要的，因为这些年轻的学者将在主要的研究型大学，以及文科学院，社区学院和其他学校任教多年。他们的教学的影响将不仅限于美国。国家科学基金会的旅行赠款一直是促进国际交流的一个主要来源，允许学者在分享他们的研究时出国旅行。这不仅可以产生广泛的影响，还可以提高会议的知识质量，允许对科学提出不同的观点和解释。随着来自国外的竞争日益激烈，HSS，SHOT，PSA和4S以及他们的美国会员能够分享关于科学及其对社会的影响的想法和问题非常重要。

This Science and Society Grant in the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science supports renewal funds to permit the History of Science Society (HSS), the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to provide travel awards to graduate students, independent scholars, and junior scholars with little or no access to funding to attend the professional meetings of the societies during the five-year period 2006-2010. Funding of this proposal will not only enhance the intellectual content and depth of science studies, it will also broaden the impact of the field. The intellectual benefits can be measured by surveying the conferences of each society over the past ten years, years in which NSF monies have been used to assist travel. Representation amonggraduate students and independent scholars in the programs has been significant, representing a generation of scholars who have been inducted into the profession. The intellectual benefits have flowed in at least two directions: society conferences have been richer and more diverse with participation by these scholars, and these scholars' research and careers, as they have testified, have been helped by this participation. Suchprofessionalization is crucial since these younger scholars will be teaching at the major research universities, as well as liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and other schools, for many years to come. The impact of their teaching will not be limited to the United States. The NSF travel grants have been a major orce in facilitating international exchange, allowing scholars to travel overseas as they share their research. This not only allows for broad impact, it also enhances the intellectual quality of the meetings, allowing diverse viewpoints and interpretations of science. With increasing competition from abroad, it is important that HSS, SHOT, PSA, and 4S, and their largely US membership be able to share ideas and questions about science and its influence on society.