Quality Education for Minorities (QEM)
Network
Proposal Development and Evaluation
Workshop for the
National Science Foundation (NSF)Õs
Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program
Hilton
Atlanta Airport ¥ 1031 Virginia Avenue ¥ Atlanta, GA ¥ Tel: 404/767-9000
November 12-13, 2010
AGENDA
AM
8:30 Registration
and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Opening
Session
Welcome,
Purpose, and Introductions
Shirley
McBay, President, QEM Network
9:30 -Overview
of the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Craig
Henderson, Staff Associate, Office of Integrative Activities
National Science Foundation
10:15 Coffee
Break
10:30 Weaknesses
in Non-funded MRI Proposals and
Strengths
of Funded MRI Proposals
Craig
Henderson, National Science Foundation
11:00 Criteria
Used in the Evaluation of NSF and MRI Proposals
Costello
Brown, Former Dean of Graduate Studies and
Research
and (Retired) Professor of Chemistry
California
State University-Los Angeles, and QEM Consultant
11:30 Establishing
the Need for Major Research Instrumentation
Edward
Thomas, Professor, Department of Physics
Auburn
University, and QEM Consultant
Noon/PM
12:00 Luncheon Plenary Session
Ethics
in Research/The Responsible Conduct of Research
Garrick
Louis, Associate Professor
Department
of Systems and Information Engineering
University
of Virginia, and QEM Consultant
Fitzgerald
Bramwell, Associate Provost
Howard
University, and QEM Consultant
2:15 Discipline-focused
Breakout Groups (See Group Assignment
Sheet in Packet)
(Three-minute
presentations per individual/institutional team)
-Biological
Sciences
Arthur
Grider, Associate Professor, Department of Foods and Nutrition
University
of Georgia, and QEM Consultant
Casonya
Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Georgia
State University, and QEM Consultant
Fitzgerald
Bramwell, QEM Consultant
Costello
Brown, QEM Consultant
-Engineering
Arturo
Bronson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University
of Texas at El Paso, and QEM Consultant
Jeanine
Cook, Associate Professor
Klipsch
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New
Mexico State University, and QEM Consultant
Garrick
Louis, QEM Consultant
-Physics
and Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Brian Blake, Professor and Associate Dean
for Research
College
of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, and QEM Consultant
Edward
Thomas, QEM Consultant
3:45 Coffee
Break
4:00 Recent
Experiences in Submitting Proposals in the MRI Program Competition
Elham
(Ellie) Fini, Assistant Professor
Department
of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
North
Carolina A&T State University, and FY 2010 MRI Grantee
Edward
Thomas, QEM Consultant
5:00 Discipline-focused
Breakout Groups continue in same Locations
Session
Focus: Broader Impacts of Proposed Use of Equipment
6:00 Working
Dinner
Achieving
Promotion and Tenure
Brian
Blake, QEM Consultant
Overnight
Assignment: Participants
revise their one-page project summaries
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13 Sinclair
Room
AM
8:30 Continental
Breakfast
9:00 Involving
Undergraduate Students in Research
Arturo Bronson, QEM Consultant
Casonya
Johnson, QEM Consultant
9:30 Integrating Research into
Teaching
Jeanine Cook, QEM Consultant
Arthur
Grider, QEM Consultant
10:00 Break
10:15 Discipline-focused
Breakout Groups Resume
Session Focus: Discussion of Revised Project Summaries
12:00 Luncheon
Plenary Session
Closing
Comments from NSF Staff, QEM Consultants, and QEM Staff
Evelyn
Baisey-Thomas, Computer and Information Specialist ..... (part 2)
Office
of Information and Resource Management, NSF (retired), and
QEM
Consultant
3:30 Adjournment