Conference: GRANTED Initiative Collaborative Planning WORKSHOP: Convening to Explore Research Enterprise Solutions for Academic Institutions in Insular or Remote Areas

维尔京群岛大学（UVI）和伙伴机构，夏威夷大学-希洛，阿拉斯加大学-费尔班克斯，波多黎各大学，马亚圭斯和关岛大学，加入这一共同奋进，揭示并提出解决方案，以应对偏远和岛屿大学面临的挑战，进行和扩大参与研究。该项目将为地理隔离等挑战提供伙伴关系和解决方案，并保留和培养多样化的STEM人才，这些人才专注于维持推进这些机构独特的研究和创新潜力所需的研究支持系统。 UVI及其合作伙伴将召开一系列会议，提出克服障碍的创新解决方案，并提出培养人才的新方法，培养教职员工和学生的创新思想。通过同行之间的集中讨论，确定可扩展的解决方案，可以帮助处于美国研究和创新生态系统边缘的新兴和发展中的研究型大学（E DRI）克服地理距离，财务限制和有限的人力资本的挑战。 每个合作伙伴都是指定的少数群体服务机构，拥有独特的本土人才。 这一合作努力完全有能力揭示战略，从而将地理上孤立的区域的“失踪的数百万人”的一部分包括在内。该奖项反映了NSF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 University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) and partner institutions, the University of Hawai’i-Hilo, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, and University of Guam, join in this common endeavor to reveal and propose solutions for the challenges facing remote and insular universities for conducting and broadening participation in research. This project will seed partnerships and solutions to challenges such as geographic isolation and retaining and cultivating diverse STEM talent that are focused on sustaining the research support systems needed to advance these institutions’ unique research and innovation potential. UVI and its partners will convene a series of meetings to propose innovative solutions to overcoming barriers and propose novel ways to develop talent and cultivate innovative ideas from faculty, staff and students. The identification of scalable solutions, through focused discussion among peers, can assist emerging and developing research universities (E&DRI’s) at the edges of the U.S. Research and Innovation Ecosystem, to overcome challenges of geographic distance, financial limits, and limited human capital dedicated to research support. Each of the partners is a designated Minority-Serving Institution, and has unique and indigenous talent. This collaborative effort is well positioned to reveal strategies leading to the inclusion of a portion of the “missing millions” located in geographically isolated regions. Doing so will strengthen the U.S. Science & Technology enterprise.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.