COACh: Building a Stronger and More Diverse STEM Workforce

这项由美国国家科学基金会化学部特别项目办公室授予俄勒冈大学的奖项支持提高女性化学家地位委员会(COACH)为增加女性在化学和相关领域学术界的数量和成功所开展的活动。该奖项由NSF的化学、化学、生物工程、环境和交通系统、材料研究、数学科学、物理和地球科学部门以及NIH的国家普通医学科学研究所共同资助。在Geri Richmond教授的指导下，Coach(1)开发和提供专业技能讲习班，帮助女科学家和工程师在研究生、博士后、教员和行政级别充分发挥她们的职业潜力；(2)通过少数族裔出席率高的专业会议，针对少数族裔女科学家和工程师；(3)评估这些讲习班的短期和长期影响，并向科学界传播评估结果；(4)协助部门和机构进行转型改革，以确保在科学和工程领域招募和保留代表性不足的群体；(5)与科学和工程系及其教员合作，确定并打破可以为男性、女性和少数族裔学生创造不同创新潜力的模式；(6)促进和加强女性学术科学家和工程师之间的指导和网络；以及(7)在科学领域的性别平等问题上与其他组织合作。技术优势来自对代表不足群体的障碍和机会的新见解。这些活动对参与者及其同事的职业生涯产生了广泛的影响。

This award to the University of Oregon by the NSF Chemistry Division's Special Projects Office supports activities by the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists (COACh) to increase the number and success of women in academia in chemistry and allied fields. This award is co-funded by NSF's Divisions of Chemistry; Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems; Materials Research; Mathematical Sciences; Physics; and Earth Sciences; and NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Under the direction of Prof. Geri Richmond, COACh (1) develops and offers professional skills workshops that assist women scientists and engineers in achieving their full career potential at the graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty and administrative levels; (2) targets minority women scientists and engineers through professional meetings with high minority attendance; (3) assesses the short and long term impacts of these workshops, and disseminates results of the assessment to the scientific community; (4) assists with transformational change in departments and institutions to insure the recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups in science and engineering; (5) works with science and engineering departments and their faculty to identify and break patterns that can create different potentials for men, women, and minority students to be innovative; (6) fosters and strengthens mentoring and networking among women academic scientists and engineers; and (7) partners with other organizations on gender equity issues in science. Technical merit stems from new insights into obstacles and opportunities for underrepresented groups. The activities have broad impact through their effects on the careers of participants and their colleagues.