Collaborative Research: Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, January 2012 at U. of Tennessee, Knoxville

该奖项为第七届物理学女本科生年度会议提供资金，并收集和分析这些会议对物理学女本科生影响的数据。六个区域会议将于2012年1月13日至15日同时在斯坦福大学、华盛顿大学、德克萨斯农工大学、耶鲁大学、田纳西大学和凯斯西储大学举行。数据分析将集中在印第安纳州大学。会议有两个首要目标：1）给本科女生的资源，动机和信心，申请研究生院，并成功完成博士学位。2）提高物理学专业女大学生对她们可以获得的广泛职业机会的认识。区域会议同时举行，以尽量减少旅行，最大限度地提高学生的出勤率，增加参与者在一个联合国家企业的兴奋，并允许互动同步广播的主旨演讲。会议的目标是通过提供一系列女物理学家的鼓舞人心的演讲，研究生院和物理职业的小组讨论，学生演讲会，以及网络和非正式指导的充分机会来实现的。这些目标是否成功，将通过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来衡量。

This award provides funding for the Seventh Annual Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics and the collection and analysis of data on the impact of these meetings on undergraduate women in physics. Six regional conferences will take place January 13-15, 2012, simultaneously at Stanford University, the University of Washington, Texas A&M University, Yale University, the University of Tennessee, and Case Western Reserve University. Data analysis will be centered at Indiana University. The conferences have two overarching goals: 1) 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; and 2) To increase awareness by undergraduate women in physics of the wide range of career opportunities available to them. Regional conferences are held simultaneously to maximize student attendance by minimizing travel, to increase the excitement of the participants in a joint national venture, and to allow the interactive simulcast of a keynote address. The conference goals are achieved by providing a series of inspiring talks by female 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 will be measured by surveys given to students before and after the conferences, as well as by longitudinal studies following the student's post-graduation paths and comparing them with female student cohorts who did not attend the conferences.