A Workshop to Address Underrepresentation of Women Faculty in Nanotechnology

该奖项为华盛顿大学（UW）劳动力发展中心（CWD）提供资金，以开展开创性的国家科学基金会研讨会，以解决纳米技术/纳米科学（NT/NS）中女性教师代表性不足的问题。研讨会将于2010年9月在位于华盛顿特区的美国科学促进会（AAAS）总部举行，由Suzanne G. Brainard博士主持。所有种族的女性教师在STEM领域的代表性仍然非常不足，许多美国大学的STEM部门根本没有少数族裔女性教师。作为一个新兴的、资金充足的横跨STEM学科的研究领域，NT/NS提供了一个机会：(1)评估女性在这一新兴领域的代表性；(2)调查影响不同STEM领域不同群体女性进入NT/NS前沿和跨学科领域的教育和职业途径的各种因素。CWD提议组织和举办一个研讨会，把社会科学家、科学家和工程师聚集在一起，讨论这些女性科学家和工程师面临的障碍，为招募和提升女性进入STEM纳米技术教师的有效战略提出建议，并建立一个纳米技术女性教师网络，鼓励跨机构合作。

This award provides funding to the Center for Workforce Development (CWD) at the University of Washington (UW) to conduct a path-breaking NSF Workshop to address the underrepresentation of women faculty in nanotech/nanoscience (NT/NS). The workshop will be held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) headquarters in Washington, D.C. in September 2010 and will be under the direction of Dr. Suzanne G. Brainard. Women faculty of all ethnicities continue to be exceedingly underrepresented in STEM fields, with many U.S. university STEM departments having no minority women on their faculty at all. As an emerging, well-funded area of research that cuts across STEM disciplines, NT/NS provides an opportunity to (1) assess the representation of women in this emerging field and (2) investigate the various factors that influenced the educational and career pathways of different groups of women from a variety of STEM fields into the cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary area of NT/NS. The CWD proposes to organize and conduct a workshop to bring together social scientists, scientists and engineers to discuss the obstacles these women scientists and engineers face, to develop recommendations for effective strategies to recruit and advance women into STEM faculty in nanotechnology, and to develop a network of women faculty in nanotechology to encourage cross-institutional collaboration.