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Full Proposal Deadline Dates: February 24, 2009 and August 25, 2009

For Fiscal Year 2009, proposals are being solicited in nine EHR programs that advance the goals of
Innovation through Institutional Integration (I³): CREST, GSE, HBCU-UP, ITEST, LSAMP, MSP, Noyce, RDE, and TCUP.

---------------------------------- SPRING 2009 WORKSHOPS ------------------------------------------

Register for the March 13–14, 2009 I³ Regional Workshop in Atlanta, GA   Deadline: February 20
Register for the March 27–28, 2009 I³ Regional Workshop in Houston, TX   Deadline: March 6
Register for the April 3–4, 2009 I³ Regional Workshop in Los Angeles, CA   Deadline: March 13

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September 26-27, 2008 I³ Regional Workshop in Washington, DC   AGENDA
October 3-4, 2008 I³ Regional Workshop in Nashville, TN                  AGENDA
October 10-11, 2008 I³ Regional Workshop in Albuquerque, NM       AGENDA

Innovation through Institutional Integration (I³)

OUTREACH AND INFORMATION WORKSHOPS ON THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION’S INNOVATION THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRATION (I-CUBED) EFFORT NOVEMBER 2008

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the QEM Network is conducting a series of workshops in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 focused on the NSF Innovation through Institutional Integration (I³) effort. The overall goal of this QEM initiative is to increase, through regional workshops, the participating institutions’ knowledge and understanding of the Foundation’s I³ effort and to broaden participation in the submission of I³ proposals. The workshops are designed to ensure that minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are more aware of the I³ effort and to offer assistance in the development of their ideas for FY 2009 I³ proposals. Institutions that previously submitted unsuccessful I³ proposals are especially encouraged to participate in the QEM workshops.

See frequently asked questions about I³I³ awards are continuing grants of up to $250,000 per year for up to five years, for a total of $1.25 million, with funding for years four and five dependent on performance. For Fiscal Year 2009, I-cubed proposals are being solicited in nine EHR programs that advance I³ goals:

– Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST)
– Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE)
– Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)
– Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)
– Alliances for Broadening Participation in STEM: Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
– Math and Science Partnership (MSP)
– Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce)
– Research in Disabilities Education (RDE)
– Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)

The deadlines for the submission of I³ proposals are common for all of these programs: February 24, 2009 and August 25, 2009. Eligibility is limited to institutions of higher education (including two- and four-year colleges). If the proposal is exclusively for I³ STEM educational or related research, then all categories of proposers identified in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide are eligible to submit. Given the focus on institutional integration, an institution may submit only one proposal to the I³ competition for each deadline.

Spring 2009 QEM Regional I³ Workshops

Workshop Date	Workshop Location	States Reached	Registration Form (Deadline Date)
Friday-Saturday March 13-14, 2009	Atlanta, GA	GA, FL, NC, SC, PR, VI	REGISTER HERE February 20
Friday-Saturday March 27-28, 2009	Houston, TX	TX, LA, OK, MO, AR, KS	REGISTER HERE March 6
Friday-Saturday April 3-4, 2009	Los Angeles, CA	CA, HI, WA, OR, AK	REGISTER HERE March 13

Invitations to participate in the QEM workshops are being extended to MSIs that have at least three active STEM-focused projects on campus funded by the National Science Foundation, other federal agencies, private organizations or foundations and that are interested in submitting an I³ proposal to NSF in FY 2009. A team’s campus (alone or in combination with potential collaborators) must have at least three STEM projects that would be involved in the I³ initiative, at least one of which must be an NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)-supported STEM project (unless the proposed initiative is to focus solely on research). The registration form should be completed and returned electronically at smmcbay1@qem.org by the deadline date noted for the respective workshops.

Each regional workshop is designed to accommodate 12 institutional two-person teams. An institution’s two-person team is to consist of an institution’s chief academic officer, who would be expected to serve as principal investigator of an I³ initiative, and a STEM faculty member who would be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the proposed initiative. At the workshop, each institutional team will be asked to discuss the potential integration of their active STEM projects. Each institutional team is to bring to the workshop a list of active STEM-focused projects on campus, with a brief description (no more than three lines) of the overall goal of each such project. This list and brief descriptions will facilitate the identification and discussion of potential integrative themes. See frequently asked questions about I³

Fall 2008 QEM Regional I³ Workshops

Workshop Date	Workshop Location	States Reached	AGENDA (with links to presentations)
Friday-Saturday September 26-27, 2008	Washington, DC	DC, DE, MD, VA, PA, and NY	AGENDA
Friday-Saturday October 3-4, 2008	Nashville, TN	TN, KY, IL, OH, AL, MS, MN, WI	AGENDA
Friday-Saturday October 10-11, 2008	Albuquerque, NM	NM, AZ, CO, MT, ND, SD, NE	AGENDA

For more information on the QEM I³ Initiative please contact Shirley McBay, Project Director, at (smmcbay1@qem.org) or by telephone at 202/659-1818.