NSF CAREER Award Panel
The National Science Foundation CAREER Awards are typically due in July. RGS invites faculty members eligible to apply for this early career award to begin thinking about working on their proposal early. To that end, you are invited to connect with a group of PSU faculty who have received NSF CAREER awards. CAREER recipients will share their grant development process including how they developed their broader impact statement, and how they managed the implementation of the BI project. The discussion will be informal and questions will be especially welcomed.
Panelists:
- Alexander Hunt, Mechanical & Materials Engineering
- Dirk Iwata-Reuyl, Chemistrty
- Dara Shifrer, Sociology
- Justin Courcelle, Biology
- Lisa Weasel, Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Larry Martinez, Psychology
- Nirupama Bulusu, Computer Science
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Virtual panel
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NSF Broader Impacts (BI) Workshops
The National Science Foundation considers two criteria in their review of proposals: intellectual merit and broader impacts (BI). Broader impacts relate to how the proposed research will “benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes” and is increasingly used as the differentiator between which excellent proposals to fund or not. Research & Graduate Studies is hosting a series of workshops and discussions on developing stronger NSF proposals with a particular emphasis on broader impacts. We are partnering with Advanced Research Impacts in Society (ARIS) to facilitate this professional development series.
ARIS Training Team Facilitators:
- Jory Weintraub: Science Communication Program Director, Duke University
- Megan Heitmann: Broader Impacts Training Coordinator, Iowa State University
- Janice McDonnell: Associate Professor of Science and Engineering Agent, Rutgers University
BI 101
This workshop is open to all faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. The workshop provides participants a general overview of the NSF's BI criterion, as well as discussion and small group activities that teach strategies for designing and implementing BI activities.
Friday, November 19, 2021
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Virtual workshop
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Broadening Participation and Evaluating BI Activities
This workshop is open to all faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Participants will explore broadening participation activities--why the NSF prioritizes them, and how to plan, implement and assess them successfully. Facilitators will present several specific examples for discussion. In this workshop participants will receive a brief introduction to the basics of program evaluation, an explanation of the NSF's expectations with respect to the evaluation of BI activities, and gain the resources and tools to get started.
Friday, January 14, 2022
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Virtual workshop
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BI Identity/NSF CAREER Awards
This workshop is intended for early-career faculty and postdoctoral scholars. Participants will be introduced to the concept of a BI identity--the lasting impacts researchers aspire to have on their community and society as a whole through their BI work and walk through the process of establishing a BI identity. While all NSF grants (including CAREER Awards) are evaluated on intellectual merit and broader impacts, CAREER Awards have a unique requirement that will be discussed during this workshop.
Friday, January 28, 2022
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Virtual workshop
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