Plan to attend the
2024 Conference on Understanding Interventions
that Broaden Participation in Science Careers

August 9-10, 2024

Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore Hotel

Mark your calendars for August 9-10th, as we invite you to join us for the much-anticipated Understanding Interventions Annual Conference. This year’s event promises to be an enlightening experience, filled with opportunities for sharing, networking, engagement, and inspiration.

Our mission? To foster an inclusive environment where the science communities can come together to discuss, collaborate, and strategize on how to broaden participation in science careers. Whether you’re an educator, researcher, policymaker, or passionate advocate, this conference is designed to provide valuable insights and practical solutions.

Get ready for:

🔬 Cutting-edge Research: Explore the latest trends and findings in interventions aimed at enhancing diversity and inclusion in science fields.

🤝 Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded professionals, forge new partnerships, and exchange ideas that can drive meaningful change.

💡 Inspiring Keynote & Speakers: Gain insights from renowned speakers who are leading the charge in promoting diversity and equity in science.

🌍 Global Perspectives: Engage with experts from around the world to gain diverse perspectives and approaches to addressing common challenges.

🎓 Professional Development: Enhance your skills and knowledge through workshops, panel discussions, and interactive sessions tailored to your professional growth.

🌱 Seed Funding Opportunities: Learn about funding opportunities and resources available to support initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in STEM.

Don’t miss out on this invaluable opportunity to be part of a movement towards a more inclusive and equitable future in science. Mark your calendars, spread the word, and join us for the 2024 Understanding Interventions Annual Conference on August 9-10th.

Stay tuned for updates on speakers, agenda, registration details, and more!

About the Conference

This conference was established to facilitate dissemination and exchange of hypothesis-based research on interventions and initiatives that broaden participation in science and engineering research careers. The conference is designed to create a dialogue among behavioral/social science and education researchers, evaluators, and faculty in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields who participate in intervention programs. Graduate students in these fields are strongly encouraged to attend. Workshops, sessions, and posters will communicate effective strategies from successful STEM intervention programs, present results from empirical research studies, and synthesize the translation of research findings into practice on STEM learning, undergraduate research, graduate education, and student retention.

Virtual Conference

UI held its first Virtual conference in December of 2020 in response to Covid-19 restrictions that forced the cancellation of the original March 2020 in person meeting. Brought out of necessity, the virtual conference introduced a format that provided pre conference availability of symposia, Deeper Dives and Poster presentations. The 14th Annual Understanding Interventions Conference will continue with similar design as we have adopted aspects of the virtual format in hopes of reaching a virtual audience as well as those who attend the conferences in-person through our hybrid design.

The in-person UI conference will feature workshops, plenaries, symposia, deeper dives, posters and colloquia—a new format that allows discourse on relevant issues in broadening participation in STEM. The virtual UI conference will feature live streaming of plenaries, prerecorded symposia with available chat discussion, and virtual poster presentations. All abstracts will be accepted for in-person presentation.

What to Expect

• A limited number of plenary sessions addressing broad and large-scale contextual issues.
• Symposia and workshops organized by tracks of interest.
• Workshops lasting from 1.5 to 3 hours and providing hands-on instructional interactive sessions, either in one session or split into two over the course of the conference.
• Symposia feature 2-3 person panel presentations. These symposia may feature one speaker for an hour or several presenters of research on a particular topic/segment of the education pathway.
• Deeper Dives are 10-minute presentation followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. A maximum of three are presented during each session. Then each speaker moves to a roundtable discussion with interested audience members for another 40+ minutes of intense interaction.
• Colloquia Session (20 or 40 minutes). Colloquia are sessions that provide discourse on relevant issues in broadening participation in STEM. Colloquia are not research dependent and allow content and conversations that provide another avenue for contributions to the community of STEM interventions that broaden participation. Colloquia can be single presentations, panel discussions, or affinity group discourse.

Virtual Conference

UI held its first Virtual conference in December of 2020 in response to Covid-19 restrictions that forced the cancellation of the original March 2020 in person meeting. Brought out of necessity, the virtual conference introduced a format that provided pre conference availability of symposia, Deeper Dives and Poster presentations. The 14th Annual Understanding Interventions Conference will continue with similar design as we have adopted aspects of the virtual format in hopes of reaching a virtual audience as well as those who attend the conferences in-person through our hybrid design.

The in-person UI conference will feature workshops, plenaries, symposia, deeper dives, posters and colloquia—a new format that allows discourse on relevant issues in broadening participation in STEM. The virtual UI conference will feature live streaming of plenaries, prerecorded symposia with available chat discussion, and virtual poster presentations. All abstracts will be accepted for in-person presentation.