Third HBCU-HDI Women in STEM Conference

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科生计划（HBCU-UP）支持旨在提高HBCU科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教师和学生的研究能力的会议。霍华德大学将组织第三届HBCU-HDI妇女在STEM会议的女科学家，研究人员，研究生和教师从历史上discriminated机构（HDIs）在南非和历史上黑人学院和大学在美国。会议将于2019年11月26日至29日在南非东伦敦举行。该会议奖支持HBCU的女性STEM教师和学生。会议的目的是汇集来自学术界，工业界和政府的领导人，共同制定吸引和留住STEM女性的战略，目标是HBCU和HDIs的STEM有色人种教师。会议将重点探讨以下问题：南非和美国STEM领域女性的职业轨迹有哪些相似之处？STEM领域女性的职业氛围如何？美国用于改善文化和气候问题的计划是否适用于南非，反之亦然？在HBCUs和HDIs的STEM中，女性是否有独特的机会或挑战？HBCU和HDI STEM女教师如何合作，鼓励更多的女性追求STEM终端学位和教师职业？会议每一整天的全体会议和分组会议将专门讨论一个指导性问题。最后一次会议将总结与会者提出的建议和解决方案。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) supports conferences that seek to increase the research capacity of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) faculty and students at HBCUs. Howard University will organize the Third HBCU-HDI Women in STEM Conference for women scientists, researchers, graduate students and faculty from Historically Disadvantaged Institutions (HDIs) in South Africa and from Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States. The conference will be held November 26-29, 2019 in East London, South Africa. This conference award supports women STEM faculty and students from HBCUs. The purpose of the conference is to bring together leaders from academia, industry and government to collaborate on strategies to attract and retain women in STEM, targeting women of color faculty in STEM from HBCUs and HDIs. The conference will focus on exploring the following questions: What are the similarities in professional trajectory among women in STEM in South Africa and in the US? What is the professional climate for women in STEM? Are programs used in the US to improve culture and climate issues applicable to South Africa and vice versa? Are there unique opportunities or challenges for women in STEM at HBCUs and HDIs? How can HBCU and HDI STEM women faculty partner to encourage more women to pursue STEM terminal degrees and faculty careers? The plenary sessions and breakout sessions on each full day of the conference will be devoted to addressing one of the guiding questions. The final conference session will summarize the recommendations and solutions proposed by the conference participants.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.