Conference: Chemistry Early Career Investigator Workshop

开始独立职业生涯的教师通常会发现，撰写他们的第一份拨款申请的过程很有挑战性。密歇根大学的社区教员领导Corinna Schindler和德克萨斯农工大学的Osvaldo Gutierrez正在组织一个研讨会，旨在为新的化学教员提供对提案撰写和审查过程的见解，以便他们能够确定和开展强有力的研究、教育和推广活动。参与者将有机会相互联系，以及来自不同机构的成功的赠款获得者和联邦项目官员。参与者将参加模拟小组、研究报告和其他活动，旨在让他们更好地了解如何制定一项雄心勃勃、现实而又令人信服的研究计划。在教育活动、外展和对社会问题的技术应用方面，也讨论了更广泛的影响标准。由化学司支持的2023年化学早期职业研究人员讲习班计划于2023年春季在弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市举行。这次研讨会将聚集来自广泛的机构和人口统计学的100名初级教员，讨论在战略性地制定研究想法、规划教育和推广活动以及评估和评估项目目标方面的步骤。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Faculty beginning their independent careers often find the process of writing their first grant proposals to be challenging. Community faculty leaders Corinna Schindler of the University of Michigan and Osvaldo Gutierrez of Texas A&M University are organizing a workshop that seeks to provide new chemistry faculty insight into the proposal writing and reviewing process so that they can identify and develop strong research, education, and outreach activities. Participants will have the opportunity to network with each other as well as successful grant recipients and federal program officers from a variety of agencies. The participants will engage in mock panels, research presentations, and other activities designed to provide them with a better understanding of how to put together a research plan that is ambitious, yet realistic and compelling. Broader impact criteria are also discussed in terms of educational activities, outreach, and technical applications to societal problems. The 2023 Chemistry Early Career Investigator Workshop, supported by the Division of Chemistry is planned for Spring 2023 in Alexandria, Virginia. This workshop will bring together up to 100 junior faculty from a broad range of institutions and demographics to discuss steps in strategically crafting research ideas, planning educational and outreach activities, and assessing and evaluating project aims.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.