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; 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.

争夺联邦资金资源的竞争仍然面向服务不足和资源不足的机构挑战。随着协作机会变得越来越普遍，确保所有高等教育机构都可以在驱动地方和国民经济的研究和创新中发挥有意义的作用。需要在研究和创新企业中进行两年，粗糙和初级本科机构（PUI）的全面参与，以确保机会到达并对所有社区产生影响。这次会议旨在确定障碍并促进协作以克服它们。这次会议的结果将包括：（1）对美国西南部整个研究企业面临的挑战的集体了解； （2）为了克服障碍的个人和集体行动的下一步公式； （3）在真实的研究工作中参与更多资源不足的机构和这些机构的研究人员； （4）在地区发展，提议和实施区域能力的增长，以满足机构的个人需求以及较大地区的需求； （5）区域研究开发（RD）和研究管理局（RA）职业景观，提高了工作满意度和保留率。这项工作的长期影响是根据NSF促进科学进步并提高国家健康，繁荣和福利的使命，随着研究和创新企业提高其应对地方和地区优先事项的能力的能力和有效性，学术和经济成功将提高学术和经济上的成功。该提案支持在新墨西哥大学阿尔伯克基大学举行的为期两天的会议上的机构网络。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，小学本科生以及少数派服务和部落机构，并代表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员工，或者是其机构唯一的研究管理/发展联系人。会议包含一系列听力会议和小组讨论，这些讨论从差距和障碍到合作以及共享培训和职业道路。具体主题包括：（1）从西南机构的角度了解研究和创新能力建设的障碍； （2）为研究企业配备； （3）建立成功的研究与创新合作； （4）西南地区的研究与创新，包括创新景观以及与新墨西哥州的国家实验室合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。