EPSCoR--Vermont Infrastructure Improvement Program

三个研发重点领域被选为增强基于其对国家经济发展的贡献潜力和在佛蒙特大学的优势的未来愿景的重要性。 它们是：先进材料（电子材料，传感器，多孔固体和聚合物，沿着增加对生物材料的关注）;生物技术（现代分子生物学和遗传学与生物过程相关的测量技术）;环境科学与工程（地下水建模，实地研究和跨部门和学院合作）。 旨在提高个人和机构在重点领域的竞争力的计划包括：1）通过学术与产业联系（GOALI）计划的赠款机会，学术产业合作的种子资金; 2）教学博士后指导/专业发展; 3）微型移民推迟为早期职业教师和小型科技企业提供核心“服务费”仪器的成本; 4）研究生对早期职业教师的支持，并鼓励跨部门/学院项目; 5）为多用户研究仪器购置研究设备; 6）为选定的重点领域教师补充新的教师启动资金。 此外，三项主要举措将解决全州的经济和人力资源发展问题。 其中包括：1）小企业创新研究（SBIR）0期赠款，为概念证明或初步数据收集提供种子资金; 2）本科院校本科生研究参与奖; 3）高中外联，向大量学生介绍科学和工程职业，并在夏季研究活动中选择一组。

Three R&D focus areas are selected for enhancement based on their potential for contributions to economic development in the state and importance in the future vision of strengths at the University of Vermont. They are: Advanced Materials (electronic materials, sensors, porous solids and polymers along with an increased focus on biomaterials); Biotechnology (modern molecular biology and genetics to measurement technologies related to biological processes); Environmental Science and Engineering (groundwater modeling, field based studies and cross departmental and college collaborations). Programs designed to improve competitiveness in the focus areas both at the individual and institutional levels include: 1) seed funding of academic industrial collaborations through Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) program; 2) a teaching post-doctoral mentoring/professional development; 3) minigrants to defer cost of core "fee for service" instrumentation for early career faculty and small science and technology based businesses; 4) graduate student support for early career faculty and for encouragement of cross department/college projects; 5) research equipment acquisition for the multi-user research instrumentation; and 6) supplements to new faculty start-up funds for selected focus area faculty. In addition, three major initiatives will address both economic and human resource development across the state. These include: 1) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase-0 grants to provide seed funds for proof of concept or preliminary data collection; 2) awards for undergraduate research participation at undergraduate institutions; 3) high school outreach to both introduce a large number students to science and engineering careers and to involve a select group in summer research activities.