26th NSF EPSCoR National Conference: Science and Partnerships Across Disciplinary Boundaries

激励竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）举办全国会议，将来自EPSCoR所有管辖区的代表聚集在一起，讨论促进EPSCoR建设STEM研究和教育能力以提高国家竞争力的目标的战略。这个两年一度的活动是EPSCoR项目负责人和参与者讨论在地方，州，国家和国际层面的机遇和挑战的论坛，以及EPSCoR的努力如何共同促进科学和工程研究和教育的进步。本次会议还展示了由NSF EPSCoR资助的项目的结果。第26届全国EPSCoR会议将于2019年10月27日至30日在南卡罗来纳州的哥伦比亚举行，预计将有300-400名与会者。这次会议是由南卡罗来纳州EPSCoR组织的，重点是跨学科的科学和教育。第26届全国EPSCoR会议的主题是“跨学科边界的科学与合作伙伴关系”。该计划将包括五个子主题，为会议提供组织框架：1）通过NSF EPSCoR投资促进跨学科研究和教育; 2）通过伙伴关系扩大STEM的参与; 3）促进教育和研究中的公私伙伴关系，从而提高经济竞争力; 4）跨学科视角下的大数据：跨越边界;（5）评估跨学科研究并向更广泛的受众传达其重要性。 全国会议将展示高影响力的计划，并探讨使其在科学和经济发展方面取得长期成功的要素和战略。会议计划将包括平台和海报会议，以鼓励EPSCoR获奖者的积极参与-主要研究者，项目管理员，教育，外联，多样性协调员以及其他高级人员和早期职业研究人员（包括学生）。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Nontechnical Description The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) holds National Conferences that bring representatives from all EPSCoR jurisdictions together to discuss strategies to promote EPSCoR goals of building STEM research and education capacity to increase their national competitiveness. This biennial event is a forum for EPSCoR project directors and participants to discuss opportunities and challenges at the local, state, national, and international levels and how EPSCoR efforts can collectively contribute to the advancement of science and engineering research and education. This meeting also showcases results from projects funded by NSF EPSCoR. The 26th National EPSCoR Conference will be held in Columbia, South Carolina from October 27-30, 2019 and is expected to have 300-400 attendees. This meeting is organized by South Carolina EPSCoR with a focus on transdisciplinary science and education. Technical Description The theme for the 26th National EPSCoR Conference is "Science and Partnerships across Disciplinary Boundaries". The program will include five sub-themes to provide a organizing framework for the meeting: 1) Promoting transdisciplinary research and education through NSF EPSCoR investments; 2) Broadening participation in STEM through partnerships; 3) Promoting public-private partnerships in education and research leading to economic competitiveness; 4) Big data in a transdisciplinary perspective: crossing boundaries; and 5) Evaluating transdisciplinary research and conveying its importance to a broader audience. The National Conference will showcase high-impact programs and explore the elements and strategies that make them successful over the long-term in their capacity for scientific and economic advancement. The conference program will include platform and poster sessions to encourage the active participation of EPSCoR awardees - Principal Investigators, Project Administrators, Education, Outreach, Diversity Coordinators as well as other senior personnel and early-career researchers (including students). Plenary sessions featuring national experts will highlight different aspects of the meeting theme.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.