Conference: NSF GRANTED: Improving the Research and Innovation Enterprise Across the Southwest Region

会议：美国国家科学基金会授予：提高西南地区的研究和创新企业

• 批准号: 2324239
• 负责人: Hannah Torres
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2324239&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; NSF; GRANTED; Improving; Research

Competing for federal funding resources remains challenging for underserved and under-resourced institutions. As collaborative opportunities become more common, the challenge is even greater to assure that all institutions of higher education can play a meaningful role in the research and innovation that drives both local and national economies. Full participation of two-year, rural, and primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) in the research and innovation enterprise is needed to ensure that opportunity reaches and has an impact on all communities. This conference seeks to identify barriers and promote collaboration to overcome them. Outcomes of this conference will include:  (1) greater collective understanding of the challenges facing the entire research enterprise in the Southwest United States; (2) the formulation of next steps for individual and collective action to overcome barriers; (3) engagement of more under-resourced institutions, and researchers at those institutions, in authentic research endeavors; (4) growth in regional capacity to develop, propose, and implement research and innovation that meets the individual needs of the institution as well as those of the larger region; and (5) a regional research development (RD) and research administration (RA) career landscape with increased job satisfaction and retention. The long-term impacts of this work, in line with NSF's mission to promote the progress of science and advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare, will be increased academic and economic success as the research and innovation enterprise increases the capacity and effectiveness of its ability to address local and regional priorities.  This proposal supports a network of institutions meeting at a two-day conference at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The target audience includes stakeholders from the Southwest region – New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Southern Colorado and Southern Utah. Participation is focused on two-year, primarily undergraduate, and minority serving and tribal institutions as well as representatives across the research enterprise, with a particular focus on staff who work in smaller research offices or as the sole research administration/development contact at their institution. The meeting contains a series of listening sessions and panel discussions that build from gaps and barriers towards collaborations and shared training and career pathways. Specific topics include: (1) understanding barriers to research and innovation capacity building from the perspective of Southwest institutions; (2) staffing the research enterprise; (3) building successful research and innovation collaborations; and (4) research and innovation in the Southwest including the innovation landscape and collaborating with New Mexico’s National Laboratories. 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.

对于服务不足和资源不足的机构来说，争夺联邦资金资源仍然具有挑战性。随着合作机会变得越来越普遍，确保所有高等教育机构能够在推动地方和国家经济的研究和创新方面发挥有意义的作用，挑战就更大了。需要两年制、农村和主要是本科院校(PUI)全面参与研究和创新企业，以确保机会到达所有社区并对其产生影响。本次会议旨在找出障碍并促进合作，以克服这些障碍。这次会议的成果将包括： (1)对美国西南部整个研究企业面临的挑战有更大的集体认识；(2)为个人和集体行动克服障碍制定下一步行动；(3)让更多资源不足的机构和这些机构的研究人员参与真正的研究工作；(4)地区能力的增长，以开发、提出和实施研究和创新，以满足机构和更大地区的个人需求；以及(5)地区研究发展(RD)和研究管理(RA)职业前景，工作满意度和保留率提高。这项工作的长期影响，符合国家科学基金会的使命，即促进科学进步，促进国家健康、繁荣和福利，随着研究和创新企业提高其解决地方和地区优先事项的能力和有效性，将增加学术和经济成功。 这项提议支持在阿尔伯克基新墨西哥大学举行的为期两天的会议上举行的机构网络会议。目标受众包括来自西南地区的利益相关者-新墨西哥州、德克萨斯州、亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州南部和犹他州南部。参与的重点是两年制，主要是本科和少数族裔在职和部落机构以及整个研究机构的代表，特别侧重于在较小的研究办公室工作的工作人员或作为其机构唯一研究行政/开发联系人的工作人员。会议包括一系列倾听会议和小组讨论，从差距和障碍中建立合作，分享培训和职业道路。具体主题包括：(1)从西南机构的角度理解研究和创新能力建设的障碍；(2)为研究企业配备人员；(3)建立成功的研究和创新合作；(4)西南地区的研究和创新，包括创新前景和与新墨西哥州国家实验室的合作。 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。