{"id":2926,"date":"2017-03-09T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2017-03-09T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:17:54","slug":"blackwell-tapia-conference-makes-the-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/09\/blackwell-tapia-conference-makes-the-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackwell-Tapia Conference Makes the Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conference attendees and award recipient Mariel Vazquez (center)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>The final report<\/a> of the ninth\u00a0annual Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Ceremony, held Oct. 28-29, is out and feedback from the participant feedback shows that by all measures the conference was a success.<\/p>\n

NIMBioS was the lead organizing institute, along with the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) as co-organizing institute. The NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Committee hosted the event, which was held at NIMBioS and at the University of Tennessee Conference Center.<\/p>\n

The conference was sponsored in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. According to the final evaluation report, the grant’s goal to support the conference in providing early-career minority\u00a0mathematicians with enhanced understanding of their field, networking\u00a0with peers, and interactions with senior researchers was achieved.<\/p>\n

More than 100 participants attended the conference. Most participants represented a\u00a0variety of researchers across different career stages with the\u00a0majority of participants at\u00a0early career stages.<\/p>\n

According to the evaluation report, 100% of\u00a0survey respondents found the overall quality of the conference, banquet, award presentation, and networking opportunities to be good or better.<\/p>\n

“It was such a positive environment,” said one postdoc participant. “I saw many minorities who\u00a0[are] role models. That gave me more hope in the sense that it made me realize
\nthat probably I would be able to continue my growth as a mathematician.”<\/p>\n

The bi-annual conference was established in 2000, honoring\u00a0David Blackwell and Richard Tapia for their inspiration of AfricanAmerican,\u00a0Native American, and Latino\/Latina students to pursue careers\u00a0in mathematics. This year’s prize was awarded to Dr. Mariel Vazquez, a mathematics professor at the University of California, Davis.<\/p>\n

The final evaluation report<\/a>,\u00a0which summarizes the conference\u2019s success in relation to associated\u00a0metrics provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, includes participant survey results, participant demographic information, a report assessing long-term effects of the conference, and much more.<\/p>\n

Links to videos of the conference presentations, blog posts about the conference, and\u00a0other conference details can be found on the conference web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The conference photo\u00a0album can be found on the NIMBioS Flickr page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final report of the ninth\u00a0annual Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Ceremony, held Oct. 28-29, is out and feedback from the participant feedback shows that by all measures the conference was a success. NIMBioS was the lead organizing institute, along with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,64,66,95,83],"tags":[99,51,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}