Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network Workshop

National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)

Residence Inn Capitol by Marriott • 333 E Street, SW • Washington, DC • 202/543-3704

November 14-15, 2008

 

AGENDA

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

 

AM

  8:30         Registration

 

  9:00         Opening Plenary Session                                                                               Capitol Room

                  Welcome, Purpose, and Introductions

                        Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

 

  9:15         Welcoming Remarks

                  -Overview of NSF

                  -BIO Proposal Preparation and the NSF Merit Review Criteria and Review Process

Parag Chitnis, Acting Deputy Director       

Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)/BIO, NSF

 

10:00         Overview of Programs, Priorities, and Processes by Division in the BIO Directorate

                        LaJoyce Debro and Michael Reddy, NSF Program Directors   

                                    Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)

                        Gregory Warr, NSF Program Director, Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)  

                        Ann Russell, NSF Program Director, Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)   

 

10:30         Coffee Break

 

10:45         Mock Panel Review

                  Starring:

Perfect Program Director: LaJoyce Debro

Superb Science Assistant: Parag Chitnis

Polemical Panelists: Ann Russell, Alison Beason, Michael Reddy, Carl Taylor,

                              Gregory Warr, Casonya Johnson, and Daniel Wubah

 

11:30         Three Concurrent Division-focused Sessions

                  Initial Presentation of Participants’ Proposed Project Summaries

 

                  Session I:   Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) and

                                    Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)                                      Suite 1217

                                    Carl Taylor and Ann Russell, NSF Program Directors

                                    Daniel Wubah, BIO/DBI Award Recipient and

                                    Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, University of Florida

 

                  Session II:  Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)                      Capitol Room

                                    Gregory Warr, NSF Program Director

                                    Casonya Johnson, BIO/MCB Award Recipient, and Associate Professor

                                    Department of Biology, Georgia State University

 

                  Session III: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)             Capitol Room

LaJoyce Debro and Michael Reddy, NSF Program Director

PM

12:30         Lunch

 

  1:30         Three Concurrent Division-focused Sessions Continued

                  Implications of Proposal Preparation and NSF Review Criteria Discussion

                        for Participants’ Proposals/Proposal Concepts

 

                  Session I:   Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and

                                    Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)                                       Suite 1217

                  Session II:  Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)                      Capitol Room

                  Session III: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)              Capitol Room

 

  3:30         Coffee Break

 

  3:45         Plenary Session                                                                                             Capitol Room

                  -Programs for Building Biological Infrastructure

                        Carl Taylor, NSF    

                  -Establishing an Undergraduate Training Program

                        Daniel Wubah, University of Florida    

 

  5:00         Adjournment (Dinner on Your Own)         

 

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15

 

AM

  8:30         Plenary Session                                                                                            Capitol Room

                  -Integrating Research into Teaching – “Best Practices”

                        Casonya Johnson, Georgia State University  

 

                  -Effective Mentoring of Undergraduate and Graduate Students

                        Casonya Johnson, Georgia State University, and     

                          Daniel Wubah, University of Florida

 

  9:30         Three Concurrent Division-focused Sessions Continued                                Capitol Room

                  Refinement of Proposals/Proposal Concepts by Participants

 

                  Session I:   Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and

                                   Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)

                  Session II:  Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)

                  Session III: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)

 

NOON/PM

12:00         Lunch

 

  1:00         Closing Comments

                  NSF Staff, BIO Grantees, and QEM Staff

 

  1:30         Plenary Session: Use of NSF’s FastLane for Submitting Proposals/Required Reports

                        Evelyn Baisey-Thomas, (retired), Former Computer and Information Specialist

                        Office of Information and Resource Management, NSF, and QEM Consultant

 

  3:30         Adjournment