Quality Education
for Minorities (QEM) Network Workshop
National Science
Foundation (NSF)Õs 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
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 ParticipantsÕ 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
ParticipantsÕ 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 – ÒBest PracticesÓ
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
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)
1:00 Closing
Comments
NSF
Staff, BIO Grantees, and QEM Staff
1:30 Plenary
Session: Use of
NSFÕs 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