Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network Workshop
National Science Foundation (NSF)Õs Directorate for
Biological Sciences (BIO)
Embassy Suites Hotel ¥BWI Airport ¥ 1300 Concourse
Drive ¥Lithicum, MD ¥ 410/850-0747
October 21-22, 2005
AGENDA
Note:
Participants are reminded that, at Embassy Suites Hotels, a full breakfast is
free with each nightÕs lodging. Workshop participants who wish to have
breakfast should do so prior to the opening session on Friday and Saturday
mornings in Chophouse 13.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21
AM
8:30 Registration Outside JFK Room
9:00 Opening
Plenary Session
JFK Room
Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network
9:15 Welcoming
Remarks
James Collins, Assistant Director, Directorate for
Biological Sciences (BIO)
Overview
of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the
Directorate
for Biological Sciences (BIO)
Tom Brady,
Division Director
BIO/Division
of Integrative Organismal Biology (IOB)
9:45 BIO
Proposal Preparation and the NSF Merit Review Criteria and Review Process
Parag
Chitnis, Program Director
BIO/Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)
10:30 Coffee
Break
10:45 Four
Concurrent Division-focused Sessions
-Overview
of Programs, Priorities, and Processes by BIO Division
-Initial
Presentation of ParticipantsÕ Proposed Project Summaries
Session
I: Division of Biological
Infrastructure (DBI) LAX I
Jane Silverthorne, Program Director, BIO
Daniel Wubah, BIO Award Recipient, James Madison
University
Session
II: Division
of Integrative Organismal Biology (IOB) LAX II
Ione
Hunt von Herbing, Program Director, BIO/IOB
Derrick Brazill, BIO Award Recipient
Hunter
College, City University of New York
Session
III: Division
of Environmental Biology (DEB) BWI Room
Saran
Twombly, Program Director, BIO/DEB
Martyn
Caldwell, Program Director, BIO/DEB
Elvia
Melendez-Ackerman, BIO Award Recipient
University
of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Session
IV: Division
of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) JFK
Room
Joanne
Tornow, Program Director, BIO/MCB
Parag Chitnis, Program Director, BIO/MCB
Carla Mattos, BIO Award Recipient
North Carolina State University
PM
12:30 Luncheon
Plenary Session
JFK
Room
– Administrative Review of
Submitted Proposals
Michelle
Kelleher, Science Assistant, BIO/DEB
– The NSF Review Process from the
Perspective of Panelists/Reviewers
Derrick
Brazill, Hunter College, City University of New York
Mildred
Ofosu, Morgan State University
2:00 Four
Concurrent Division-focused Sessions Continued
Implications
of Proposal Preparation and NSF Review Criteria Discussion
for
ParticipantsÕ Proposals/Proposal Concepts
Session
I: Division of Biological
Infrastructure (DBI)
LAX I
Jane
Silverthorne, Program Director, BIO
Daniel Wubah, James Madison University
Session II: Division of Integrative Organismal
Biology (IOB)
LAX II
Ione
Hunt von Herbing, Program Director, BIO/IOB
Derrick
Brazill, Hunter College, City University of New York
Session
III: Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)
BWI Room
Saran
Twombly, Program Director, BIO/DEB
Martyn
Caldwell, Program Director, BIO/DEB
Elvia
Melendez-Ackerman, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Session
IV: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) JFK
Room
Joanne
Tornow, Program Director, BIO/MCB
Parag Chitnis, Program Director, BIO/MCB
Carla
Mattos, North Carolina State University
3:30 Coffee Break
3:45 Post-Award
Responsibilities
JFK
Room
Tarsha
Johnson, Grant and Agreement Specialist
Division
of Grants and Agreements (DGA)
Office
of Budget, Finance and Award Management (BFA)
4:30 Strategies
for Building Biological
Infrastructure and On-Campus STEM Collaborations
James Collins, Assistant Director, BIO
Jane
Silverthorne, Program Director, BIO
Jody Chase,
Program Director
Tribal Colleges and Universities Program
(TCUP)
Directorate for Education and Human
Resources (EHR)
6:00 Dinner
Friendship Room
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 22
AM
9:00 Plenary
Session Friendship
Room
-Integrating
Research into Teaching – ÒBest PracticesÓ
Daniel Wubah, BIO Award Recipient
James
Madison University
-Effective
Mentoring of Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Carla
Mattos, BIO Award Recipient
North Carolina State University
10:15 Coffee
Break
10:30 Four
Concurrent Division-focused Sessions
Refinement
of Proposals/Proposal Concepts by Participants
Session I: Division
of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)
LAX I
Jane
Silverthorne, Program Director, BIO\
Daniel Wubah, BIO Award Recipient, James Madison
University
Session
II: Division of Integrative Organismal
Biology (IOB) LAX
II
Ione Hunt von Herbing, Program Director, BIO/IOB
Derrick Brazill, Hunter College, City University of New York
Session
III: Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) DFW Room
Saran
Twombly, Program Director, BIO/DEB
Charles Lydeard, Program Director, BIO/DEB
Elvia
Melendez-Ackerman, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Session
IV: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) Friendship
Room
Joanne
Tornow, Program Director, BIO/MCB
Parag Chitnis, Program Director, BIO/MCB
Carla
Mattos, North Carolina State University
NOON Luncheon
Plenary Session JFK Room
Closing
Comments
NSF
Staff, BIO Grantees, Consultants, and QEM Staff
1:30 Plenary
Session: Use of NSFÕs FastLane
for Submitting Proposals/Required Reports
Evelyn
Baisey-Thomas, Computer Specialist
Division
of Information Systems (DIS)
Office
of Information and Resource Management, NSF
3:30 Adjournment
Additional NSF Resource Personnel Attending the Workshop:
Maryanna Henkart, Division Director, BIO/MCB
Margaret Johnson, Program Director, BIO/MCB
Egda Morales, Albert Einstein Fellow, BIO/MCB
Sally O'Connor, Program Director, BIO/DBI
John B. Pascarella, AAAS/NSF Science & Technology Policy
Fellow, BIO/IOB