2025 Understanding Interventions Annual Conference
Plan to attend the
2025 Conference on Understanding Interventions
that Broaden Participation in Science Careers
August 9-10, 2024
THE 2024 CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO
February 7-8, 2025
Baltimore, Maryland – Lord Baltimore Hotel
Mark your calendars for August 9-10 February 7-8th, 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 2025 Understanding Interventions Annual Conference on August 9-10 February 7-8th.
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
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.
- Poster presentations showcasing ongoing projects, research findings, and/or innovative ideas relevant to broadening participation in STEM.
Virtual Conference
Call for Proposals
Proposal Submission Deadline: September 30th Extended to October 18th, 2024, 11:59 PM EST
Notification of Acceptance: October 21st Extended to November 22nd, 2024
Here are links to download the UI Conference Abstract Submission Guidelines and Abstract Template.
Proposals are invited for presentation on research projects and best practices highlighting pathways to STEM careers. Abstracts can be submitted to present in the following formats: workshop, symposium, deeper dive, or poster. You may select only one oral presentation format. However, those submitting abstracts for oral presentation may also select to present a poster. Members of the UI Advisory Committee review all submissions. Revisions may be requested prior to acceptance.
Workshops. Abstracts should provide attendees with models, methods, and hands-on tools that can be adapted to other campuses, programs, and populations.
Two types of workshops are available: a. Hands-on interactive sessions (1.5 or 3 hours), and b. Focused Seminar (1.5 hours) on a single
topic.
Symposia. Concurrent symposia feature 20-minute presentations, each followed by a 10-minute open question and answer period. Abstracts for symposia presentation must include rationale, design, research results and/or program outcomes pertinent to broadening participation in STEM
education and careers.
Complete symposium proposals may be submitted consisting of no more than three (3) presentation abstracts centered on a specific objective, e.g., institutional alliance or area of inquiry. Complete Symposium proposals must include a parent abstract that provides the session overview to be presented by a moderator, and three presentation abstracts (made by one individual even if co-authored), for a maximum of four presentations. Time limitations for each presentation are the same as described above.
Deeper Dives. Concurrent Deeper Dive sessions feature 15-minute presentations, after which members of the audience adjourn to separate (and concurrent) 30-minute roundtable discussions of their choice, each led by a speaker (and his/her coauthors). Abstracts submitted for Deeper Dive
presentations should include (a) the focus of study, (b) methodology and measures used, and (c) illustrative questions/issues to be discussed in the
open-ended roundtable discussion.
Posters. Poster presentations must fit on a 4’x4’ poster board. Abstracts for poster presentation should highlight the following components:
- Focus of the intervention—what is studied and why
- Study population—describe it and any comparison or control group
- Contextual factors—what was measured and how what limits generalization
- Outcomes of the intervention—what was found in what time frame
- Relevance to the UI community—how does the study advance theory and/or practice as described in the literature; what is adaptable and possible next steps
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. Accepted proposals will be strongly considered for conference registration grants.
Length of Abstracts. Abstract submissions consistent with the guidelines above should be in Arial 11-point font, with 1500-4000 characters including spaces. Abstracts should include 2-5 literature references in APA format.
The conference committee reserves the right to move abstracts between presentation categories,
e.g., Symposium to Deeper Dive, Symposium to Poster.
