Conference: Increasing STEM Grant Capacity Across West Virginia

该项目的目标是了解在西弗吉尼亚州的四年制学院和大学中，研究资助提案提交和奖励管理成功的障碍。随着研究补助金的管理工作日趋复杂，资源不足的院校在提交有竞争力的研究补助金申请和管理研究补助金经费方面，已成为一项挑战。该项目将通过建立一种资助文化和必要的支持机制来确保资助研究的成功，为应对这些挑战创造解决方案。该项目有可能扩大规模并作为一种国家模式加以利用，这种模式可能特别适用于资源不足的其他机构。该项目将通过召开地区会议来确定资助成功的具体障碍，随后将召开一次全州范围的会议，来自西弗吉尼亚州四年制大学的与会者将在会上确定和记录研究资助项目的成功和障碍。来自主要本科院校、研究型大学和历史上的黑人学院和大学的不同利益相关者群体，包括新兴的研究机构，将在这个项目中合作。此外，该项目还解决了发展西弗吉尼亚州研究企业劳动力的需求，并包括与专业协会建立伙伴关系的活动，以解决这一问题。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The goal of this project is to understand the barriers to research grant proposal submission and award management success at West Virginia’s four-year colleges and universities. As research grant administration has become increasingly complex, the submission of competitive research grant proposals and management of research grant funding has become challenging for under-resourced institutions. This project will create solutions to address these challenges by developing a culture of grantsmanship and the necessary support mechanisms to ensure sponsored research success. The project has the potential to be scaled and utilized as a national model that may be especially applicable to other cohorts of under-resourced institutions. The project will identify the specific barriers to grant success by convening regional meetings, followed by a state-wide conference in which participants from West Virginia’s four-year institutions will identify and document research grant project successes and barriers. A diverse group of stakeholders from primarily undergraduate institutions, research universities, and historically black colleges and universities, including emerging research institutions, will work collaboratively in this project. In addition, this project also addresses the need for developing the research enterprise workforce in West Virginia and activities are included that will grow partnerships with professional societies to address this issue.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.