Support for Summer Research Opportunity Program Conference at The Ohio State University

该奖项将用于支持俄亥俄州立大学2010年夏季研究机会项目会议。本次会议的总体目标是让本科生研究人员（主要来自科学领域代表性不足的群体）参与高层次的科学讨论、专业发展活动和网络活动。为了保持其全球竞争力，美国必须大力开发被忽视的人才资源。根据定义，来自代表性不足群体的学生在科学领域的代表性低于其在人口中的比例。这类项目的目标是为这些团体的年轻科学家提供他们所需的工具，使他们成为美国技术劳动力中成功、有生产力的成员。

This award will help support the 2010 Summer Research Opportunity Program Conference at Ohio State University. The overall goal of this conference is to engage undergraduate student researchers, primarily from groups underrepresented in the sciences, in high-level scientific discussions, professional development activities, and networking activities. In order to maintain its global competitiveness, the United States must work vigorously to tap neglected pools of intellectual talent. Students from underrepresented groups are, by definition, represented in the sciences at rates smaller than their fraction of the population. The goal of programs like this is to provide young scientists from these groups with the tools that they need to become successful, productive members of the American technological workforce.