Attaining Research Extensive University Status in Puerto Rico: Building a Competitive Infrastructure

在波多黎各获得研究广泛的大学地位：建立有竞争力的基础设施

• 批准号: 0223152
• 负责人: Brad Weiner
• 金额: $ 630万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0223152&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Attaining; Research; Extensive; University; Status

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through the University of Puerto Rico will implement a proposal aimed at (1) increasing the human resource base and research capacity in targeted thrust areas; (2) strengthening institutional research and development infrastructure; (3) accelerating NSF co-funding and movement of researchers into mainstream programs; and (4) continuing to transform the institutional science and technology culture. To achieve these objectives, the Puerto Rico Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (PR EPSCoR) will (1) increase the number and productivity of faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and students; (2) enhance high performance computing to support cutting-edge research that cuts across the disciplines; (3) institutionalize a research management system consistent with the significant increase in research funding and Research Extensive University status; and (4) support technology transfer and mutually beneficial collaboratives.PR EPSCoR will focus on three thrust areas and six sub-areas: (1) Environmental Science and Engineering with Atmospheric and Climate Studies, Terrestrial and Coastal Ecology, and Natural Hazards Mitigation Engineering as sub-areas; (2) Information Technology Research with sub-areas Telecommunications and Networking, and Computational Sciences and Visualization; and (3) Materials Science, including Nanoscience and Nanotechnology as its only sub-area. Furthermore, Puerto Rico has established benchmarks and target milestones for women graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in the fields represented by the thrust areas.

波多黎各将通过波多黎各大学实施一项提案，旨在：（1）增加目标重点领域的人力资源基础和研究能力;（2）加强机构研究和开发基础设施;（3）加快国家科学基金会的共同资助和研究人员进入主流方案;（4）继续转变机构科学和技术文化。 为了实现这些目标，波多黎各刺激竞争性研究实验方案（PR EPSCoR）将（1）增加教师，博士后研究员和学生的数量和生产力;（2）增强高性能计算，以支持跨学科的前沿研究;（3）建立一个与研究经费的显著增加和研究型大学地位相一致的研究管理体系;（4）支持技术转让和互利合作。PR EPSCoR将集中在三个重点领域和六个子领域：（1）环境科学与工程，包括大气和气候研究，陆地和海岸生态学，以及自然灾害减轻工程作为子领域;（2）信息技术研究与子领域电信和网络，计算科学和可视化;及（3）材料科学，包括纳米科学及纳米技术作为其唯一的子领域。 此外，波多黎各还为重点领域所代表的领域的女研究生和博士后研究人员制定了基准和目标里程碑。