26th NSF EPSCoR National Conference: Science and Partnerships Across Disciplinary Boundaries

非技术描述现有的激励竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)举行全国性会议，将来自所有EPSCoR司法管辖区的代表聚集在一起，讨论促进EPSCoR目标的战略，建设STEM研究和教育能力，以提高其国家竞争力。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26届全国EPSCoR大会将于2019年10月27-30日在南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚市举行，预计将有300-400人参加。这次会议由南卡罗来纳州EPSCoR组织，重点关注跨学科的科学和教育。第26届全国EPSCoR会议的主题是“跨越学科界限的科学与伙伴关系”。该计划将包括五个分主题，为会议提供组织框架：1)通过NSF EPSCoR投资促进跨学科研究和教育；2)通过伙伴关系扩大对STEM的参与；3)促进教育和研究方面的公私伙伴关系，从而提高经济竞争力；4)跨学科视角下的大数据：跨越边界；以及5)评估跨学科研究，并向更广泛的受众传达其重要性。全国会议将展示高影响力的项目，并探索使它们在科学和经济进步能力方面取得长期成功的要素和战略。会议计划将包括平台和海报会议，以鼓励EPSCoR获奖者-首席调查人员、项目管理人员、教育、外联、多样性协调员以及其他高级人员和职业早期研究人员(包括学生)的积极参与。由国家专家参加的全体会议将突出会议主题的不同方面。这一奖项反映了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。

Nontechnical Description The Established 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 26th National EPSCoR Conference will be held in Columbia, South Carolina from October 27-30, 2019 and is expected to have 300-400 attendees. This meeting is organized by South Carolina EPSCoR with a focus on transdisciplinary science and education. Technical Description The theme for the 26th National EPSCoR Conference is "Science and Partnerships across Disciplinary Boundaries". The program will include five sub-themes to provide a organizing framework for the meeting: 1) Promoting transdisciplinary research and education through NSF EPSCoR investments; 2) Broadening participation in STEM through partnerships; 3) Promoting public-private partnerships in education and research leading to economic competitiveness; 4) Big data in a transdisciplinary perspective: crossing boundaries; and 5) Evaluating transdisciplinary research and conveying its importance to a broader audience. The National Conference will showcase high-impact programs and explore the elements and strategies that make them successful over the long-term in their capacity for scientific and economic advancement. The conference program will include platform and poster sessions to encourage the active participation of EPSCoR awardees - Principal Investigators, Project Administrators, Education, Outreach, Diversity Coordinators as well as other senior personnel and early-career researchers (including students). Plenary sessions featuring national experts will highlight different aspects of the meeting theme.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.