Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
Workshop
February 4-5, 2005
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3
7:00 PM Early
Registration and Informal Gathering West
End Ballroom AB
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4
AM
8:00 Registration
and Continental Breakfast Elevator Foyer (Second Floor)
8:30 Opening
Plenary Session
West
End Ballroom AB
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
Overview
of the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Donald Thompson, Acting Assistant
Director
Directorate
for Education and Human Resources (EHR), NSF
-Review
of Purpose of NSFÕs Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
-Strengths
and Weaknesses
in Funded/Non-funded CAREER Proposals
Joanne Tornow, Program Director
Division
of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
Directorate
for Biological Sciences, NSF, and
Chair,
CAREER Coordinating Committee
10:30 Coffee
Break
10:45 Four
Concurrent Directorate-focused Sessions
Research
and Education Components of ParticipantsÕ Proposal Concept Papers
Session
I: Directorate for Biological
Sciences (BIO) West End
Salon C
Jane Silverthorne, Program Director,
Office of the Assistant Director, BIO/OAD
Jerry Wolff, Program Director,
Division of Integrative Organismal Biology, BIO/IOB
Jermelina Tupas, Program Director,
BIO/MCB
Squire
Booker, FY 2002 CAREER Award Recipient
Assistant
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The
Pennsylvania State University
Session II: Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) West End Salon D
Lloyd
Douglas, Program Director, Division of Mathematical Sciences, MPS/DMS
Costello Brown, Acting Dean,
Graduate Studies and Research
California
State University-Los Angeles
Edward
Thomas, Jr., FY 1998 CAREER Award Recipient
Associate
Professor, Physics, Auburn University
Session III: Directorate for
Engineering (ENG) Room 3016
Linda
Blevins, Program Director
Division of Chemical & Transport
Systems, ENG/CTS
Garrick
Louis, FY 2000 CAREER Award Recipient
Associate
Professor, Systems and Information Engineering, and
Associate
Professor, Environmental Engineering
University of Virginia
Session
IV: Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Sylvia
Spengler, Program Director
Science and Engineering Information Integration and
Informatics
Division
of Information and Intelligent Systems, CISE/IIS
Xiuzhen
Cheng, FY 2004 CAREER Award Recipient
Assistant
Professor, Computer Science
George
Washington University
Elizabeth
VanderPutten, Program Director
Division
of Research, Evaluation and Communication, EHR/REC
-Administrative
Review for Compliance of Proposals Submitted to NSF
Nicole Harris, Science Assistant,
BIO/MCB
Squire Booker, The Pennsylvania State University
Garrick Louis, University of Virginia
2:30 Four
Concurrent Directorate-focused Sessions
Refinement
of Proposals/Proposal Concepts by Individual Faculty Members
(Sessions
I – IV as previously defined and in same locations)
3:45 Coffee
Break
4:00 Four
Concurrent Directorate-focused Sessions (Sessions I-IV Continued)
Implications
of NSF Review Criteria for ParticipantsÕ Concept Papers
5:00 Plenary Session: The Promotion
and Tenure Process
West
End Ballroom AB
Costello
Brown, California State University-Los Angeles
6:00 Dinner West End Ballroom E
7:00 Adjournment
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5
AM
8:30 Continental
Breakfast Elevator
Foyer
9:00 Three Concurrent Sessions (2
Directorate-focused; 1 on FastLane)
-Use of NSFÕs FastLane for Submitting
Proposals/Required Reports A
(A Combined Session for Participants
in Sessions I and II)
Evelyn Baisey-Thomas, Computer
Specialist
West
End Ballroom A
Division
of Information Systems
Office
of Information and Resource Management, IRM/DIS
-Presentation
of Updates of Concept Papers by Individual Faculty
(Separate Sessions for Participants
in Sessions IIII and IIV)
Session
III: Room 3016
Session
IV:
Room 3017
10:30 Break
10:45 Three
Concurrent Sessions (2 Directorate-focused; 1 on FastLane)
-Use of NSFÕs FastLane for Submitting
Proposals/Required Reports B
(A Combined Session for Participants in
Sessions III and IV)
-Presentation of
Updates of Concept Papers by Individual Faculty
(Separate Sessions for Participants
in Sessions I and II)
Session II: Salon F
12:00 Luncheon
Plenary Session West
End Ballroom AB
-Integrating
Research into Teaching – ÒBest PracticesÓ
Garrick Louis, University of
Virginia
-Effective
Mentoring of Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Edward
Thomas, Jr., Auburn University
2:00 Final
Concurrent Sessions
Four
Concurrent Directorate-focused Sessions
-Remaining
Questions from Participants
Session I: Logan
Session
II: Salon F
Session
III: Room
3016
Session
IV: Room 3017
3:00 Plenary
Session: Post-Award Responsibilities West
End Ballroom AB
John
Cruickshank, Program Analyst, EHR/OAD
4:00 Closing
Comments
NSF
Staff, CAREER Award Recipients, and QEM Staff
4:30 Adjournment