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是一个挑战。随着合作机会变得越来越普遍，确保所有高等教育机构都能在推动地方和国家经济的研究和创新中发挥有意义的作用的挑战变得更大。需要让两年制、农村和主要是本科院校（PUIs）充分参与研究和创新事业，以确保机会惠及所有社区并对其产生影响。本次会议旨在确定障碍并促进合作以克服这些障碍。本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理解；(2)制定克服障碍的个人和集体行动的下一步步骤；(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)提高区域发展、提出和实施满足本机构和更大区域的个体需求的研究和创新的能力；(5)区域研究开发（RD）和研究管理（RA）的职业前景对工作满意度和留任率有显著的影响。这项工作的长期影响，与NSF促进科学进步和推进国家健康、繁荣和福利的使命一致，将增加学术和经济上的成功，因为研究和创新企业增加了其解决地方和区域优先事项的能力和有效性。 该提案支持在阿尔伯克基新墨西哥大学举行为期两天的会议的机构网络会议。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，主要是本科生，少数民族和部落机构以及整个研究企业的代表，特别关注在较小的研究办公室工作的工作人员或作为其机构的唯一研究行政/发展联系人的工作人员。会议包括一系列的倾听会议和小组讨论，这些会议建立在合作和共享培训和职业道路的差距和障碍之上。具体议题包括：(1)从西南院校的角度理解科研创新能力建设的障碍；（二）科研企业的人员配备；(3)建立成功的研究和创新合作；(4)西南地区的研究和创新，包括创新景观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。