Student Travel Support for the 2007 North American Membrane Society Meeting

这项旅行津贴提案寻求资金，以鼓励美国学生参加北美膜协会(NAMS)2007年全国会议。这笔资金将用于为参加会议的学生提供部分旅费和相关费用。其目的是鼓励学生参加美国规模最大的聚焦于这一主题的会议，为他们提供展示他们的工作的机会，会见来自世界各地具有相似兴趣的其他科学家和工程师，并观看其他研究小组在该领域工作的最先进的演讲。这项提议的学术价值在于，这笔资金将用于帮助向世界各地的学生传播膜科学和工程领域最先进的研究知识。NAMS是美国膜界学生和工程师的首要会议，这项技术代表了发展最快的分离技术之一。广泛应用于化工、石化、食品加工、食品包装、医疗、制药等行业。来自世界各地的最受尊敬和最有成就的膜科学家和工程师将参加这次会议。会议由伊莎贝尔·埃斯科瓦尔、克里斯蒂亚诺·博尔赫斯和格伦·利斯普科姆组织，他们还接受了经验丰富的组委会和NAMS董事会关于会议主题和组织的意见和指导。除了NSF的资源外，还向工业界、海军研究办公室、美国垦荒局和美国农业部募集资金，以支持学生参加会议，因此NSF的资金将得到很好的利用。拟议的会议赞助的更广泛影响将允许美国研究生参加美国最重要的关于膜科学和技术的会议。除了22个技术课程外，还开发了一个广泛的学生项目，以促进下一代膜研究人员的专业发展。正在计划举办四个讲习班，它们将为学生提供一个额外的场所，让他们在膜科学和技术的关键基础领域和发展中领域接受强化的辅导培训。NSF的资金将为参加这次会议的10名学生提供部分旅行支持，并将向来自美国任何地区的所有性别和种族的学生开放。残疾学生的申请将受到鼓励。学生参加这次会议将通过让学生在技术会议和研讨会上接触到来自世界各地的顶尖科学家和工程师来加强研究的基础设施。学生们还将有广泛的机会与潜在的雇主以及来自其他有类似兴趣的研究小组的学生和教职员工建立联系。社会将从这项活动中受益，让受过更好培训、更有知识的研究生准备在各种应用中推动这一独特的使能技术的前沿。

This travel grant proposal seeks funding to stimulate the participation of U.S. students in the North American Membrane Society's (NAMS) 2007 national meeting. The funding would be used to provide partial support of travel and related expenses associated with students attending the conference. The objective is to encourage student participation in the largest American meeting focused on this subject, to provide opportunities for them to present their work, meet other scientists and engineers from around the world with similar interests, and see state-of-the-art presentations from other research groups working in this area. The intellectual merit of the proposal is that the funding will be used to help disseminate knowledge about state-of-the-art research in membrane science and engineering from around the world to students. NAMS is the premier meeting for students and engineers in the American membrane community, and this technology represents one of the fastest growing separations techniques. It is widely used in the chemical, petrochemical, food processing, food packaging, medical and pharmaceutical industries. The most respected and accomplished membrane scientists and engineers from around the world will participate in this meeting. The conference is being organized by Isabel Escobar, Cristiano Borges and Glenn Lispcomb, who also receive input and guidance from an experienced organizing committee and the NAMS board of directors regarding the subject matter and organization of the meeting. In addition to NSF resources, funds are being solicited from industry, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to support student participation in the meeting, so the NSF funds would be well leveraged.The broader impacts of the proposed meeting sponsorship would allow U.S. graduate students to attend the most important meeting in the U.S. on membrane science and technology. In addition to 22 technical sessions, an extensive student program has been developed to foster the professional development of the next generation of membrane researchers. Four workshops are being planned, and they would provide an additional venue for students to receive intensive, tutorial training in key fundamental and developing areas of membrane science and technology. The NSF funding would provide partial travel support for 10 students to attend this meeting, and will be available to students of all genders and ethnicity and from any part of the U.S. Applications received from students with disabilities will be encouraged. Student participation in this meeting will enhance the infrastructure for research by giving students access to leading scientists and engineers from around the world in the technical sessions and in the workshops. Students will also have extensive opportunities to network with potential employers and with students and faculty from other research groups with similar interests. Society would benefit from this activity by having better trained, more knowledgeable graduate students prepared to push the frontiers of this unique enabling technology in a wide variety of applications.