Transcript Plans for 2003 - North Dakota State University

ND EPSCoR Research Centers Development
Leadership Seminar
University Research Centers:
Setting the Stage
North Dakota State University, April 14, 2005
University of North Dakota, April 15, 2005
Joseph Danek, The Implementation Group
James Hoehn, The Implementation Group
Randall Haley, Centers Development Initiative
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Overview of Site Visit
• Address the challenge of creating and sustaining large-scale
Research Centers
• Identify the characteristics that are associated with successful
large-scale Research Centers
• Work with North Dakota research groups that can develop into
Research Centers
• Identify “barriers” and “strengths” that North Dakota
universities have as they consider going forward with centers
development
• Exchange information about federal requirements for Research
Centers management
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Consulting Team
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– Joseph G. Danek, Senior Vice President
– James B. Hoehn, Senior Associate
EPSCoR Foundation
– Randall Haley, Director, Centers Development Initiative
Montana State University
– Edwin Abbott, Professor and Senior Associate, CDI
Clemson University
– Dan Edie, Dow Chemical Professor of Chemical Engineering
Washington University
– Samuel Stanley, Director, Midwest Regional Center of Excellence in
Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
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The Implementation Group, Inc. (TIG)
TIG is a full-service consulting firm that assists educational
institutions, organizations and corporate entities to target, capture
and implement U.S. government and private sector contracts and
grants. Services include:
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Capability Assessments and Strategic Planning
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Intelligence Gathering
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Opportunity Identification and Qualification
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Partnership Formation
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Liaison with federal officials and private sector funders
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Proposal Development and Proposal Enhancement
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Project Implementation
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Troubleshooting
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Lines of Business and Clients
TIG Operating Divisions
Academic Research,
Development, and
Education Division
TIG
Corporate Business
Development
Division
Through these two divisions, TIG positions its clients to compete
successfully for federal funding.
Federal S&E Obligations, by Agency
40,000
400,000
Clemson, total
35,000
350,000
Montana State, total
30,000
300,000
WU-StL, total (right axis)
$ (thousands)
250,000
NDSU, total
20,000
200,000
UND, total
15,000
150,000
10,000
100,000
UND, DOE
NDSU, NSF
5,000
50,000
UND, HHS
UND, NSF
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0
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1996
1997
1998
Fiscal Year
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1999
2000
$ (thousands)
WU-StL, HHS (right axis)
25,000
Centers Background
• Scale + Scope
– Mechanism to bring together disciplines, researchers, and
partners (university, industry, government labs); integrate
research, education, and outreach; etc.
• Cutting-edge S&T challenges require collaborative,
often multi-disciplinary, large-scale efforts
• Research infrastructure improvement
– Often sophisticated, shared experimental/computational facilities
– Critical mass of researchers
• Continuation of past EPSCoR/IDeA investments
– Many EPSCoR/IDeA state efforts ~ developing and “graduating”
centers focused on strategic disciplines
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Why Establish a Center?
• Complexity of the problems
• Sustained focus and coordination of research program
• Distributed collaborations
• Ability to do high impact science and technology
• Multidisciplinary science collaboration across universities
• Social Science – Science/Engineering partnerships
• K-12 outreach in science areas
• Science K-12 curricular tools and texts
• Personal Development Program
• Collaborative diversity outreach efforts
• High level knowledge transfer
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Scope of Research Centers Activities
K-12
Outreach
Public/Gov’t
Partnerships
Industrial Partnerships
Social Science Research
Basic Physical Sciences and Engineering
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What Can A Center Accomplish?
• Form and support a team to develop basic information
• Provide a reservoir of knowledge for public use
• Generate intellectual property useful to industry
• Establish unique research facilities
• Establish unique, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional approach
• Provide unique K-12 educational, outreach opportunities
• Enhance innovation by increasing diversity
• Enhance knowledge exchange between university, industry and
government
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What Can A Center Accomplish?
• Integrated use of
collaboration, training
and technologies
• Use of best practices
identified from social
science research and the
latest from successful
corporate management
teams
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What does a proposed Center “Bring to the
Table?”
• Graduate students and postdoctoral associates who completed their
studies, including many from groups underrepresented in the sciences
• Papers were published in peer-reviewed journals
• Papers/posters were presented at regional and national scientific meetings
• Undergraduates received research experiences led by Center researchers,
including members from groups underrepresented in the sciences
• Developed and implemented the research infrastructure and culture
necessary to conduct multi-disciplinary research
– What are the actual numbers associated with these statements?
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What does a proposed Center “Bring to the
Table?”
• Secondary school teacher training workshops, directly
reaching teachers and students
• Distribution of exemplary learning materials, including
copies of Middle & High School Environmental Science
Laboratory Activity manuals, reaching teachers and students
• Fully implemented technology to enable multidisciplinary
research group videoconferences to promote remote
collaborations, with an estimated student-led research
presentations
• Laid the foundation for an enduring legacy of sustainable
economic development and multidisciplinary research
– What are the number associated with each of these statements?
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What are the Institutional Commitments?
• Cost share for equipment
• Direct operating support
• Release time for faculty
• Non-profit/Industry funding
• Renovation
• Funds for new faculty
• Motivated management team, faculty, students, post docs,
and industrial partners
• Administrative oversight of both budgets and science
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Opportunities
• People
• Scientific Knowledge
– Physical Science and Engineering
– Social Science
• Institutions
• Education
• Industry
• Society and the “Big Picture”
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Opportunities: People
• Students and Postdocs
– Significant benefits to them
• Impacts to date
• Expected impacts throughout their careers
– NSF’s and Center’s goals for faculty and students
– Unique staff experiences
– Strong diversity contributions
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What do Successful Centers Have?
• People who function as a team - surround yourself with people
you enjoy working with…
• A strong External Advisory Board – establish a “team” not a
“committee!”
• All students and faculty colleagues benefit from the experience
• Strong leader
• Key positions to ensure success:
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Co-Director
Deputy Director
Administrative Assistant
Computer Technician
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What do Successful Centers Have?
• Addressing RFPs and Strategic Planning is treated formally
• Leverage!!!
– Internally
– Industry
– With all contacts…
• Use existing resources rather than re-inventing everything
– e.g. Video conferencing facilities
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Challenges of Developing and
Managing Centers
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Challenges of Developing and Managing Centers
• Research Management
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First-rate, relevant science
Developing and maintaining research “vision”
Intra-/inter-university research collaboration
Research topics
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Choosing/aligning ‘focused research groups,’ ‘thrust areas,’ etc.
Allocating research funds
Selecting/reviewing/evaluating research projects
Terminating/phasing-out/adding research projects
Using small funding reserves to “seed” new projects
– Personnel
• Recruiting faculty (in collaboration with university departments)
• Achieving “buy-in” from individual researchers
– From different disciplines
– Many with successful individual research programs
– Persuading them to aim research toward center “vision”
– Achieving and maintaining a “critical mass” of researchers
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Challenges of Developing and Managing Centers
• Center Leadership and Administration
– Strategic planning + day-to-day management
– Director, Associate Director(s), Thrust Area Leaders, Education and
Outreach Director, Industrial Affiliates Liaison, etc.
– Advisory Boards (internal, external, industrial; research direction,
assessment/evaluation)
– Managing center income and expenditures
– Managing relationships between center and Departments and Colleges
• Education, Outreach, Industrial Collaboration/Tech Transfer
– Developing education programs (graduate, undergraduate, pre-college,
teachers)
– Involvement of underrepresented groups
– Industry research collaboration
– Technology transfer
– Intellectual property rights
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Challenges of Developing and Managing Centers
• Other
– University support – required cost-sharing, faculty recruitment/start-up,
physical space
– Center growth/diversification
– Sustainability plans
– Leveraging federal government funds to pursue other support
– Evaluating “success” (research, education, outreach, tech transfer, etc.)
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www.epscorfoundation.org/cdi
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EPSCoR Centers Development Initiative (CDI)
• CDI is a multi-year, NSF-funded initiative aimed at
increasing the participation of EPSCoR researchers in
NSF’s centers and other large-scale programs.
• CDI provides direct technical assistance to university
research teams competing for NSF centers and other
large-scale NSF projects.
• In addition, CDI organizes centers development
workshops, hosts an informative website, and conducts
outreach activities.
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Selected NSF Centers and Large-Scale Programs
• Science and Technology Centers (STC)
• Engineering Research Centers (ERC)
• Materials Research Science & Engineering
Centers (MRSEC)
• Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers
(NSEC)
• Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams
(NIRT)
• Integrated Graduate Education & Research
Traineeships (IGERT)
• Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
(I/UCRC)
• Centers of Research Excellence in Science and
Technology (CREST)
• Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
• Information Technology Research (ITR)
• Cyber Trust
• Research in Networking Technology & Systems
(NeTS)
• Computer Systems Research (CSR)
• Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI)
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Plant Genome Research (PGR)
Biological Databases & Informatics (BDI)
Frontiers in Integrative Biology (FIBR)
Assembling the Tree of Life (ATOL)
Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE)
2010 Project: Arabidopsis thaliana
Microbial Genome Sequencing Program
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis
Network for Environmental Research
(CLEANER)
Center for Synthesis in Biological Evolution
(CSBE)
Centers for Ocean Science Education Excellence
(COSEE)
Math & Science Partnership (MSP)
Science of Learning Centers (SLC)
Centers for Learning &Teaching (CLT)
ADVANCE
Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education
(GK-12)
CDI’s website maintains a calendar of NSF large-scale program deadlines.
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CDI Results from First 3 years
• Provided direct Technical Assistance to over 45 EPSCoR universities
across 24 EPSCoR jurisdictions competing in over 20 NSF centers
programs.
• Hosted 10 Centers Development Workshops that attracted over 450
EPSCoR participants from over 60 universities across 24 EPSCoR
jurisdictions and included participation from 40 NSF program
managers and 49 outside experts.
• Utilized the assistance of over 90 nationally recognized discipline
experts, including Directors or PIs from numerous successful, ongoing
NSF centers and large-scale projects.
• 12 center/large-scale awards ~ $60M in funding
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12+ center awards ~ $60++ million in NSF funding
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ERC: Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, University of Kansas
MRSEC: Center for Response-Driven Polymeric Films, University of Southern Mississippi
MRSEC: Center for Materials for Information Technology, University of Alabama
MRSEC: Center for Quantum and Spin Phenomena in Nanomagnetic Structures,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
CREST: Computational Center for Molecular Structure and Interactions, Jackson State
University
CREST: Center for Forest Ecosystems Assessment, Alabama A&M University
I/UCRC: Friction Stir Processing Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, South
Dakota School of Mines and Technology
IGERT: Multidisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Training in Nanomaterials
Science and Engineering, Tuskegee University
IGERT: Entrepreneurship at the Interface of Polymer Science and Medicinal Chemistry,
University of Southern Mississippi
NIRT: Fabrication of Functional Architectures through the Directed Assembly of
Nanoscale Building Blocks, University of New Orleans
PFI: North Louisiana PFI: Creating Infrastructure for Technology Growth, Northwestern
State University of Louisiana
Polar Programs: ANDRILL Program: A New Phase of Continental Margin Drilling in
Antarctica, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (pending)
New: STC
New: IGERTs
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Technical Assistance
• CDI provides a range of technical assistance services to
EPSCoR university researchers, including:
– Providing guidance to strengthen centers proposals
– Pre-reviewing proposal drafts and materials
• white papers, pre-proposals, prior proposals, reviewers’ comments, full
proposals and offering constructive reviews along with suggestions to
improve competitiveness
– Helping to identify, recruit, and support appropriate consultation
from outside experts (with scientific discipline and/or specific NSF
center program expertise)
– Serving as an information resource and providing guidance about
existing and emerging centers programs
– Working with PIs to arrange productive dress rehearsals for
upcoming NSF site visits
• CDI does NOT write proposals, we only make them better.
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Centers Development Workshops
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Green Chemistry and Engineering (June 2002)
IGERT (August 2002)
Cyberinfrastructure for Large-Scale S&E (April 2003)
Large-Scale Biological Sciences (July 2003)
MRSEC (August 2003)
(Regional) Nanoscale S&E (August 2003) [partner: SD EPSCoR]
GK-12 (November 2003) [partner: U. Oklahoma]
Environmental Observing Systems (February 2004)
IGERT (March 2004)
Large-Scale NSF CISE (November 2004)
EPSCoR University Research Leadership Retreat on Centers
Development (February 2005)
Information about each of these workshops is available on CDI’s website.
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