Collaborative Research: Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics on January 15-16, 2011.

该奖项支持第六届物理学女本科生年会，为期两天的物理学女本科生会议。会议将于2011年1月15日至16日同时在南加州大学（USC）、普渡大学、北卡罗来纳州研究三角（NCRT）和麻省理工学院举行。会议有两个首要目标。第一个目标是为本科女生提供资源、动力和信心，使她们能够申请研究生院并成功完成博士学位。在物理学或相关学科中。第二个目的是使物理学专业的女本科生更加了解她们可以获得的广泛的职业机会。区域会议同时举行，以便通过最大限度地减少跨国旅行要求来最大限度地提高学生出席率，增加合资企业参与者的兴奋程度，并允许交互式同步广播主题演讲。会议的目标是通过提供一系列鼓舞人心的女物理学家的研究会谈，小组讨论研究生院和物理职业，学生演讲会，以及网络和非正式指导的充分机会来实现的。衡量这些目标是否成功的标准是在会议前后对学生进行的调查，以及跟踪学生毕业后道路并将其与未参加会议的女生群体进行比较的纵向研究。

This award supports the Sixth Annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, a two-day conference for undergraduate women in physics. The conference takes place January 15-16, 2011 simultaneously at the University of Southern California (USC), Purdue University, the North Carolina Research Triangle (NCRT), and MIT. The conference has two overarching goals. The first is to give undergraduate women the resources, motivation, and confidence to apply to graduate school and to successfully complete a Ph.D. in physics or a related discipline. The second is to make undergraduate women in physics more aware of the wide range of career opportunities available to them. Regional conferences are held simultaneously in order to maximize the student attendance by minimizing cross- country travel requirements, to increase the excitement of the participants in the joint venture, and to allow the interactive simulcast of a keynote address. The conference goals are achieved by providing a series of inspiring research talks by women physicists, panel discussions on graduate school and physics careers, student presentation sessions, and ample opportunity for networking and informal mentoring. The success of these goals is measured by surveys given to students before and after the conference, as well as by longitudinal studies following the students' post-graduation paths and comparing them with female student cohorts who did not attend the conference.