APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

该奖项授予美国物理学会，以支持自2006年以来每年举行一次的物理学本科女性会议（CUWiP）。这些会议有两个首要目标：1)为本科女性提供申请研究生院的资源、动力和信心，并成功完成物理学或相关学科的博士学位；2)提高物理学专业女本科生对她们所能获得的广泛职业机会的认识。区域会议同时举行，通过减少旅行来增加学生的出勤率，增加国家合资企业参与者的兴奋感，并允许主题演讲的互动同步播放。该项目旨在评估参与者的自我效能信念、物理身份和结果预期。通过这项研究和项目评估，有可能获得关于物理学本科女性面临的问题的新知识，以及这些活动的有效性。该项目将促进我们对影响女学生攻读物理学本科学位的能力的因素的理解，并对物理学领域仍然代表性不足的人口产生积极影响。

This award to the American Physical Society supports the Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), held annually since 2006. 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 project looks to evaluate self-efficacy beliefs, physics identity and outcome expectations of the participants. Through this research and the project evaluation, there is potential to gain new knowledge about the issues facing undergraduate women in physics, as well as how effective activities like these are. The project will advance our understanding of factors that impact the ability of female students to pursue undergraduate degrees in physics and have a positive impact on a population that remains underrepresented in physics.