24th NSF EPSCoR National Conference

非技术描述激励竞争性研究实验计划(EPSCoR)举办全国性会议，将来自所有EPSCoR司法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。这项两年一度的活动是EPSCoR项目主任和参与者讨论地方、州、国家和国际层面的机遇和挑战，以及EPSCoR努力如何共同促进科学和工程研究和教育进步的论坛。本次会议还展示了由NSF EPSCoR资助的项目的成果。第24届全国EPSCoR大会将于2015年11月1日至4日在新罕布夏州朴茨茅斯举行，预计将有约300至400人参加。这次会议是由新罕布夏州和缅因州EPSCoR共同组织的，重点是建立强有力的合作和有效的沟通技能。第24届全国EPSCoR会议的主题是？合作：推进科学在服务社会中的作用。会议旨在确定有效的协作战略并推进以下目标：展示EPSCoR辖区的协作努力及其社会贡献；探索基于EPSCoR研究基础设施改进(RII)项目建立协作的方法？该计划的主要目标是加强科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)工作人员队伍的连贯性；培养教职员工、学生和全州EPSCoR委员会的能力，以便更好地了解和交流研究的价值及其对不同受众的更广泛影响。这次会议将帮助建立一个强大的、协作的EPSCoR社区，根据NSF EPSCoR的目标，在国家舞台上做出重大贡献并很好地竞争。会议活动与目标一致，包括全体会议和分组会议。学生海报环节将持续两天的会议，并将突出NSF EPSCoR RII奖项促进的研究和教育成果。本次会议将体验的独特部分包括：会议前研讨会，讨论强有力的合作努力的战略和工具，以及如何评估其成功；由斯通尼布鲁克大学艾伦·阿尔达科学传播学院主办的沟通研讨会，以了解向广泛的利益攸关方有效传播EPSCoR活动和影响的战略；与合作的力量相关的主题的科学咖啡馆S；以及关于教师招聘过程中的性别和种族偏见的应用剧场活动。

Non-technical DescriptionThe Experimental 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 24th National EPSCoR Conference will be held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire from November 1-4, 2015 and is expected to have about 300-400 attendees. This meeting is co-organized by New Hampshire and Maine EPSCoR with a focus on building strong collaborations and effective communications skills. Technical Description The theme for the 24th National EPSCoR Conference is ?Collaboration: Advancing the Role of Science in the Service of Society.? The conference aims to identify effective collaboration strategies and advance the following objectives: showcase collaborative efforts in EPSCoR jurisdictions and their societal contributions; explore ways to build collaborations based on EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) projects? research themes; promote collaboration across universities and K-12 schools in EPSCoR jurisdictions to strengthen the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce continuum; build capacity among faculty, staff, students and statewide EPSCoR committees to better understand and communicate the value of research and its broader impacts to diverse audiences. This conference will help build a strong, collaborative EPSCoR community that contributes significantly and competes well on the national arena in alignment with NSF EPSCoR goals.The conference activities are aligned with the objectives and consist of plenary and break-out sessions. A student poster session will run through two days of the meeting and will highlight results from the research and education facilitated by NSF EPSCoR RII awards. Unique components that will be experimented at this meeting are: a pre-conference workshop to discuss strategies and tools for strong collaborative efforts and how to assess their success; communications workshops facilitated by Alan Alda School of Science Communication at Stoney Brook University to learn about strategies to effectively disseminate EPSCoR activities and impacts to broad range of stakeholders; science cafés on topics related to the power of collaboration; and an applied theater event on gender and racial biases in faculty hiring process.