WORKSHOP ON ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

该奖项由数学和物理科学理事会和教育和人力资源理事会颁发，支持举办一个讲习班，以提高大学和国家实验室领导人的认识，以解决材料科学与工程（MSE）社区的民族和种族多样性问题。研讨会将于2012年12月9日星期日晚上在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行，并于2012年12月11日星期二中午结束。该研讨会将确定和了解在MSE中少数民族代表的现状和趋势，以及使科学和工程职业缺乏吸引力或无法获得的主要障碍。研讨会将提供一个论坛(1)教育那些在MSE社区中有能力纠正助长偏见的氛围的人，(2)提出具体建议，以改善MSE的多样性文化，(3)提高对MSE种族多样性和公平的现状和趋势的理解。研讨会将产生一系列最佳实践，旨在增加MSE教职员工和管理人员的多样性，并营造欢迎和吸引所有人的氛围。这些最佳做法将以会议报告的形式传播，并在适当的同行评议期刊上发表。这将使减轻科学和工程社区多样性问题的方法得到更广泛的讨论。

This award from Divisions of the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the Diratorate for Education and Human Resources supports a workshop to increase awareness of leaders at universities and national laboratories to address ethnic and racial diversity issues in the materials science and engineering (MSE) community. The workshop will be held in Arlington, Virginia, convening the evening of Sunday December 9, 2012 and running through mid-day Tuesday December 11, 2012. The workshop will identify and understand the current status and trends in representation of minorities in MSE, and the major barriers that make science and engineering careers unattractive or unavailable. The workshop will provide a forum (1) to educate those in the MSE community who are in a position to remediate the atmosphere that fosters biases, (2) to develop concrete suggestions to improve the culture for diversity in MSE, and (3) to improve the understanding of the current status and trends in ethnic diversity and equity in MSE. The workshop will result in a set of best practices intended to increase the diversity of faculty members and administrators in MSE and to render the atmosphere welcoming and attractive to all. These best practices will be disseminated in the form of the conference report and publication in an appropriate peer-reviewed journal. This will enable a broader discussion of methods for mitigating diversity issues across the science and engineering community.