Wyoming NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement

提案：EPS-0447681提案标题：怀俄明州NSF EPSCoR研究基础设施改善机构：怀俄明州大学怀俄明州EPSCoR研究基础设施改善奖将建设自然资源科学领域国家竞争力的能力和能力，特别强调与生态系统和全球变化相关的不同空间和时间尺度的生态拓扑学：目前，该大学在这个非常广泛的跨学科领域的不同部门有20名教职员工。该奖项将为五名新员工提供部分创业支持，以填补新启动的跨学科博士项目中特定的所需职位。设备和专业技术人员将得到支持，以加强稳定同位素、核酸探测和地理信息系统设施，从而增强研究竞争力，促进在这一研究重点领域的更多合作，并为发展大型、多研究者、竞争性研究计划所需的关键研究和教育专业知识做出贡献。这种与生态系统对全球变化的反应有关的关注对怀俄明州乃至更广泛的国家和国际关注都具有重大的当前价值和重要性。人们越来越认识到需要在不同的空间尺度上对生态过程进行建模和理解。该项目将提供与该大学需求相关的研究和教育重点。更重要的是，怀俄明州在地质学研究方面的实力将增加能够在不同的时间尺度和空间尺度上解决问题的价值。这一观点在为政策决策提供信息方面将特别有价值。该项目的所有方面都将强调研究和教育的结合。在教师招聘中，将寻求既是优秀教师的研究人员，以加强新的跨学科博士项目。该奖项将补充大学的研究生津贴水平，这种更高水平的支持将要求参与其中的学生参加一门针对科学家和工程师的教学课程。为科学教育项目的研究生导师提供一种不同类型的研究生支持。获得导师支持的学生将帮助中等科学教育的学生进行暑期研究体验。为大学和社区学院学生提供的本科生奖学金将使这些学生参与研究经历。外展努力将扩大参加以前成功的暑期研究项目的高中生数量。此外，还将提供技术援助，努力提高公众对研究在高等教育中的作用及其对州经济增长的贡献的认识，特别是让高中生及其家长更多地认识到本科生的研究机会。

Proposal: EPS-0447681Proposal Title: Wyoming NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Institution: University of WyomingThe Wyoming EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement award will build capacity and capability for national competitiveness in Natural Resource Sciences, especially emphasizing ecological topology of different spatial and time scales as it relates to ecosystem and global change: Currently, the university has 20 faculty members in diverse departments for this very broad, interdisciplinary area. The award will provide partial start-up support for five new hires to fill specific needed niches in a newly initiated interdisciplinary PhD program. Equipment and committed technical staff will be supported to enhance the Stable Isotope, Nucleic Acid Exploration, and GIS facilities, thereby strengthening research competitiveness and fostering additional collaborations in this research focus area and contributing to the development of a critical mass of research and educational expertise necessary for large, multi-investigator, competitive research programs. This focus relating to ecosystem responses to global change has significant current merit and importance both for Wyoming and, more broadly, for national and international concerns. There is growing recognition of the need for modeling and understanding ecological processes at different spatial scales. This project will provide a research and education focus related to that need for the university. More importantly, Wyoming's strength in geological studies will give added value in being able to address questions in different time scales as well as spatial scales. This perspective will be of particular value in informing policy decisions. Integration of research and education will be emphasized in all aspects of the project. In the faculty recruitments researchers who are also excellent teachers will be sought to strengthen the new interdisciplinary PhD program. The award will supplement the university's level of graduate student stipends and this greater level of support will require that participating students take a course in Teaching for Scientists and Engineers. A different kind of graduate student support is to be provided for graduate student mentors for the Science Education program. Students receiving this mentorship support will assist secondary science education students in a summer research experience. Undergraduate fellowships for university and community college students will engage these students in research experiences. Outreach efforts will expand the number of high students participating in a previously successful summer research program. In addition, technical assistance will be engaged for efforts to increase public awareness of the role of research in higher education and its contribution to the state's economic growth and especially to make high school students and their parents more aware of undergraduate research opportunities.