Planning grant for the development of a New Mexico EPSCoR program

该奖项为NSF提供规划拨款支持，以帮助新墨西哥州确定改善其基础科学和工程基础设施的优先事项。 规划活动将包括1）数据库的建设，以记录新墨西哥州的六所大学的研究竞争力的当前和潜在状态，2）编目的障碍，必须克服有前途的大学计划在科学和工程发展成为国家和国际公认的卓越中心，3）制定一个十年实施战略，以改善新墨西哥州的科学和工程研究基地。该计划拨款将收集数据，建立一个国家指导委员会，选择有针对性的EPSCoR研究主题和子项目，并制定一个选择国家EPSCoR项目主任的过程。预计规划活动将导致提交EPSCoR可持续基础设施改善实施提案，这将使新墨西哥州的研究人员能够更有效地竞争联邦和私人研发资金。

This award provides NSF support for a planning grant to help New Mexico set priorities for the improvement of its basic science and engineering infrastructure. Planning activities will include 1) construction of databases to document the current and potential state of research competitiveness in New Mexico's six universities, 2) cataloging of barriers that must be surmounted for promising University programs in science and engineering to develop into nationally and internationally recognized centers of excellence, 3) developing a ten-year implementation strategy to improve New Mexico's science and engineering research base. This planning grant will collect data, establish a state steering committee, select targeted EPSCoR research themes and subprograms, and develop a process for selecting a state EPSCoR Project Director(s). The planning activity is excepted to result in submission of an EPSCoR Implementation Proposal for sustainable infrastructure improvements which will enable New Mexico researchers to more effectively compete for federal and private R&D funding.