Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Educational Access in Science and Engineering (INCREASE) Workshop at the CHESS Facility

该奖项支持汉普顿大学举办一个研讨会，目的是增加少数民族服务机构用户的数量，利用同步加速器x射线设施的研究机会，特别是康奈尔高能同步加速器源（CHESS）。该研讨会由科学与工程研究和教育机会跨学科联盟（INCREASE）与国际象棋合作组织。INCREASE是一个促进少数族裔服务机构（msi）的研究和教育的组织，旨在提高国家研究设施的利用率，并为科学和工程研究中代表性不足的群体成员提供研究教育和培训，如非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和妇女。研讨会与国际象棋用户？会议旨在将MSI教师与CHESS设施用户和内部专家联系起来。与会者还将了解NSF和DMR项目，特别是材料研究和教育伙伴关系（PREM）项目。CHESS是一个由美国国家科学基金会资助的国家用户设施，位于纽约伊萨卡的康奈尔大学校园。CHESS拥有11个实验站，每年为1100多名用户提供服务，为物理、生物、工程和生命科学领域的学术和工业研究人员以及人类学家和艺术史学家等文化专家提供硬（10 keV）和高能（25至150 keV）同步加速器x射线设备。PREM是一个旨在通过促进少数民族服务机构与美国国家科学基金会（NSF）材料研究部（DMR）支持的团体、中心和设施之间正式、长期、合作材料研究和教育伙伴关系的发展，提高材料研究和教育多样性的项目。该奖项由材料研究部颁发，支持少数族裔服务机构的教师参加康奈尔高能同步加速器源年度用户会议。研讨会将帮助来自msi和其他战略大学合作伙伴的教师参与者扩大国际象棋用户的多样性，以及美国各地同步加速器设施的用户。来自MSI的教师将通过他们自己的用户建议，和/或与用户或CHESS科学家合作，或通过与nsf支持的中心和设施建立伙伴关系，如PREM项目，直接探索国际象棋光束线的研究能力和访问模式。MSI用户将带他们的学生，他们将获得广泛的科学领域和科学家使用同步加速器的机会，这在MSI是不广泛提供的机会。同步加速器光源是几乎所有科学和工程领域使用的重要和最先进的研究设施，因此建议的研讨会也将强调多学科研究团队。由于INCREASE的参与者在各种科学和工程学科中工作，并且通常在他们的校园里没有很多合作者，这个研讨会可以使孤立的研究人员组成团队来进行竞争性研究。

This award supports Hampton University to host a workshop with the goal to increase the number of Minority Serving Institution users taking advantage of research opportunities at synchrotron x-ray facilities, and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) in particular. The workshop is organized by the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Educational Access in Science and Engineering (INCREASE) group in collaboration with CHESS. INCREASE is an organization that promotes research and education at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), to increase the utilization of national research facilities and for research education and training for members of groups underrepresented in science and engineering research, such as African-Americans, Hispanics, and women. The Workshop is integrated within the annual CHESS Users? Meeting and aims to connect MSI faculty to the CHESS facility users and in-house experts. Participants will also learn about NSF and DMR programs, particularly the Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program. CHESS is a NSF funded National User Facility located on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. With 11 experimental stations serving over 1,100 users each year, CHESS provides hard (10 keV) and high-energy (25 to 150 keV) synchrotron X-ray facilities for academic and industrial researchers from the physical, biological, engineering, and life sciences, as well as cultural specialists such anthropologists and art historians. PREM is a program to enhance diversity in materials research and education by stimulating the development of formal, long-term, collaborative materials research and education partnerships between minority-serving institutions and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research (DMR) supported groups, centers, and facilities. This award from the Division of Materials Research supports participation of Faculty from Minority Serving institutions at the Annual Users Meeting of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source. The workshop will help faculty participants from MSIs and other strategic university partners to broaden the diversity of users at CHESS, and at synchrotron facilities across the US in general. Faculty from MSIs will explore research capabilities and modes of access to CHESS beamlines directly through their own user proposals, and/or collaborations with users or CHESS scientists, or through developing partnerships with NSF-supported centers and facilities through programs such as PREM. MSI users will bring their students, who will gain exposure to a broad range of science fields and scientists using synchrotrons, an opportunity not broadly available at MSIs. Synchrotron light sources are vital and state-of-the-art research facilities used in almost all science and engineering fields, so the proposed workshop will also emphasize multidisciplinary research teams. Since INCREASE participants work across a variety of science and engineering disciplines, and often do not have many collaborators on their campuses, this workshop may enable isolated researchers to form teams to carry out competitive research.