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Broadening Participation in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS). W. Lance Haworth Executive Officer Division of Materials Research lhaworth@nsf.gov AGEP Workshop, San Juan, PR – 27 January 2006. Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Division of Chemistry. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Broadening Participation in the Mathematical and Physical
Sciences (MPS)
W. Lance HaworthExecutive Officer
Division of Materials Researchlhaworth@nsf.gov
AGEP Workshop, San Juan, PR – 27 January 2006
Directorate forMathematical and Physical
Sciences
Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Division ofChemistry
Division ofChemistry
Division ofMaterialsResearch
Division ofMaterialsResearch
Division ofMathematical
Sciences
Division ofMathematical
Sciences
Division ofPhysics
Division ofPhysics
Division ofAstronomical
Sciences
Office of Multidisciplinary ActivitiesOffice of Multidisciplinary Activities
Broadening Participation
The Face of American Science
A Huge Challenge for MPS Science
Is Not the Face of America
SOURCE: National Science Board, Science and Engineering Indicators-2004
U.S. population of 20–24-year-olds, by race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1985–2020
Broadening Participation in MPS Science
Strategy• Robust MPS presence in NSF-wide activities
• Research based and embedded throughout MPS
• Build capacity through partnerships
LA-STEM PREM HamptonLIGO
• Every MPS program director can have an impact!
Merit Review Criteria
• What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity?– how good is this stuff?
• What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?– so what?
NSF invests in the best ideas from the most capable people, determined by competitive
merit review
Reviewer Selection!!!
Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA)
• Catalyze & Support Emerging, Cross-Cutting Areas• Champion Broadened Participation in MPS• Enable and Facilitate through
– Partnerships– Innovative models for education– Broadly enabling infrastructure– New research modalities– Integration of research and education
** OMA does not accept or review proposals **
Broadening Participationin the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
A FEW EXAMPLES
Activities range from pre-college students and teachers to university faculty
Research Experiences for Teachers Research Experience for Undergraduates
Discovery-based learning experiences
Partner with Cornell University projects in nuclear and high energy physics
Wayne State Physics
•More than 300 MPS REU (or similar) sites•>50% female, ~20% minorities•REU and RET coupled for synergy•30 RET sites, 225 teachers•Program has reached >600,000 K12 students
Faculty RecruitingACS Academic Employment Initiative
Symposia on the academic hiring processPoster session for prospective faculty members
ObjectivesMore inclusive hiringMore efficient hiring
Building Strong Academic Chemistry Departments through Gender Equity
K. Houk, UCLA and C. Friend, Harvard
http://www.chem.harvard.edu/groups/friend/ GenderEquityWorkshop/index.html
January 29-31, 2006 Arlington, VA
Alliance for the Production of African American
Ph.D.s in the Mathematical Sciences The Alliance consists of mathematics departments at four
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) together with departments in the mathematical sciences at
the three Iowa Regents universities
Less than 2% of all Ph.D. in mathematics awarded at US universities each year are awarded to African
Americans, a percentage that has remained static over the last 25 years. The goal of this project is to ease the
transition to graduate programs in mathematics for students attending HBCUs, with the aim of improving
these numbers.
2006 Conference
15-19 February
San Jose, CA
http://nsbp.org/
P. Vashishta, R. Kalia, A. Nakano DMR-0427188
W. Goddard, T. Cagin, P. Meulbroek, M. Ortiz,
A. van Duin DMR-0427177 and A. Grama DMR-0427540
Supported under an ITR award at USC : De Novo Hierarchical Simulations of Stress Corrosion Cracking in Materials
Computational Science Workshop for Underrepresented Groups
• Participants: 25 undergraduate students and 10 faculty mentors, primarily from Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions.
•Hands on experience in parallel computing, Grid computing and visualization.
• Participants built a parallel computer and then used it to perform a number of parallel computing exercises.
Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) www.mrsec.org/prem
….broaden participation in materials research and education by stimulating the development of long-term, collaborative partnerships
between minority institutions and DMR-supported groups, centers and facilities
• Awards to minority institutions• Up to $750K/year for 5 years• First 4 awards in FY04
– CSULA (Cal Tech MRSEC)
– FAMU (Carnegie-Mellon MRSEC)
– UPR Humacao (Penn MRSEC)
– UPR Mayaguez (Wisconsin MRSEC and NIRT)
• FY06 competition currently underway Summer 05 - UPR Mayaguez PREM
Broadening Participation – The Challenge
FY05 COMPETITIVE RESEARCH AWARDS
ALL PIs FEMALE PI
MINORITY PI
NSF #% of AWARDS
6243100%
121119%
3105%
MPS #% of AWARDS
1591100%
21814%
805%
DMR #% of AWARDS
266100%
4316%
228%
Thank You!
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