Timed for a Successful Career: NSF/AWM Travel Grants for Women in Mathematical Sciences

该奖项为NSF-AWM旅行资助计划提供支持，该计划由妇女数学协会（AWM）管理，为期三年。这个项目已经运行了20多年，支持希望积极参加国内或国际研究会议的数学科学女性的旅行，以及与导师一起长期访问工作。经费的分配是竞争性的，在三年期间可提供一百多笔经常旅行补助金和二十笔指导补助金。该基金旨在促进数学科学研究和获奖者的研究事业。最近的数据表明，妇女参加会议和数学讲习班的比例仍然低于她们在学术部门的比例，特别是在初级级别。通过提供赠款，提请妇女注意分享其知识和交流其成果的好处，妇女协会正在积极干预，以提高妇女在这一职业中的作用。一名独立评估人员的报告证实，该项目正在覆盖其目标群体，这些女性受过良好的培训，具有重要的研究潜力，但她们无法始终获得参加数学会议的资源。此外，导师资助成功地使许多年轻女性参与者开始了新的研究方向，并拓宽了她们对数学研究事业的看法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This award provides support for the NSF-AWM Travel Grants Program, administered by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), for a three-year period. This program, which has run for over twenty years, supports the travel of women in the mathematical sciences who wish to actively participate in domestic or international research conferences, as well as longer-term visits to work with a mentor. Funding is allocated competitively, and allows over one hundred regular travel grants and twenty mentoring grants to be awarded over the three-year period. The funding is intended to benefit mathematical sciences research and the research careers of the awardees. Recent data indicate that women's participation rates in conferences and mathematics workshops remain lower than their proportion in academic departments, especially at the junior ranks. By providing grants that draw women's attention to the benefits of sharing their knowledge and communicating their results, AWM is intervening positively to increase the role of women in the profession. Reports by an independent evaluator have confirmed that this program is reaching its target group of women with excellent training and serious research potential who do not have consistent access to resources enabling them to attend mathematics meetings. In addition, the mentoring grants have succeeded in starting many of the junior women participants in fresh new research directions and have broadened their view of mathematical research careers.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.