Phase III: Improvement of the Academic Research Infrastructure

第三阶段：学术研究基础设施的完善

• 批准号: 9874732
• 负责人: Thomas Taylor
• 金额: $ 400万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-02-01 至 2004-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9874732&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Phase; III; Improvement; Academic; Research

The Kansas Science and Technology Advanced Research Program (K*STAR) enhances research competitiveness at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University. K*STAR programs: link faculty members of these universities in cooperative research projects; provide shared major equipment resources; fund junior faculty early on to increase their competitiveness for federal grants; and stimulates formation of research partnerships among the university, state and private sectors. Included are: a New Faculty Hires component to plug gaps in the institutions' research staffing; Acquisition/Upgrading of Multi-user Instrumentation to allow all researchers increase the scope of research that can be conducted; and First Award grants to help early-career faculty become more competitive for extramural research funding. Special Initiative Grants are one-time, opportunistic investments that include: (a) assistance to foster nationally competitive, high-performance computing and networking capabilities; (b) partnerships between EPSCoR researchers and the private sector to effect technology transfer; (c) innovative programs in graduate education and human resource development that expand student career options and facilitate the entry of members of underrepresented groups into high-demand S&T fields; and (d) short-term visits to establish cooperative research links to industrial and/or national laboratories. Planning Grants, meanwhile, allow faculty to develop innovative research proposals focused in areas designated as state and institutional R&D priorities.

堪萨斯州科学技术高级研究项目（K*STAR）提高了堪萨斯大学、堪萨斯州立大学和威奇托州立大学的研究竞争力。K*STAR计划：将这些大学的教职员工与合作研究项目联系起来；提供共享的重大装备资源；尽早为初级教师提供资金，以提高他们在联邦拨款方面的竞争力；并促进在大学、国家和私营部门之间形成研究伙伴关系。其中包括：新教师招聘部分，以填补机构研究人员的空缺；获取/升级多用户仪器，允许所有研究人员增加可进行的研究范围；以及第一奖（First Award）资助，以帮助早期职业教师在争取校外研究资金方面更具竞争力。特别倡议赠款是一次性机会性投资，包括：(a)协助培养具有全国竞争力的高性能计算和网络能力；(b) EPSCoR研究人员与私营部门之间的伙伴关系，以实现技术转让；(c)研究生教育和人力资源开发方面的创新项目，扩大学生的职业选择，并促进代表性不足的群体成员进入高要求的S&amp；T领域；(d)短期访问以建立与工业和/或国家实验室的合作研究联系。与此同时，规划补助金允许教师在指定为国家和机构研发重点的领域制定创新的研究建议。