Building Relationships with Existing NSF training programs at UF

Take-home messages

• There are lots of existing and planned programs at UF

• It’s important to incorporate them into proposals

Building Relationships with Existing NSF training programs at UF

Why?

What?

How?

Why integrate with other NSF training programs?

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” (Mulla Nasrudin, 1208)

A GK-12 Program

Why integrate with other NSF training programs?

1. To take advantage of local wisdom• SPICE

• Experience on NSF review panels

2. NSF expects it

What NSF training programs currently operate at UF?

1. IGERT - Adaptive management of water, wetlands, and watersheds (AMW3).

CLAS, COE, CALS, LAW

What NSF training programs currently operate at UF?

2. IGERT – Quantitative Spatial Ecology, Evolution, and Environment (QSE3).

CLAS, CALS, COE, VetMed

What NSF training programs currently operate at UF?

3. GK-12 – Science Partners in Inquiry-based Collaborative Education (SPICE)

CLAS, CALS, COE, Med, VetMed

What NSF training programs currently operate at UF?

4. Southeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (SEAGEP)

UF, Clemson, U. South Carolina

What NSF training programs currently operate at UF?

5. Atlantic Coast – Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Alliance (AC-SBES)

U. Florida, Howard U., U. Maryland -College Park, U. Miami, U. North Carolina - Chapel Hill

What NSF training programs currently operate at UF?

6. Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FG-LSAMP)

and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate

UF and numerous other institutions

What NSF training programs currently operate at UF?

7. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site grants in:– Physics (2)– Chemistry– Microbiology & Cell Science– Computer Science– Agricultural & Biological Eng.– Chemical Engineering– Marine Biology

What NSF training programs currently operate at UF?

8. Innovation through Institutional Integration (I-cubed)

http://i3.institutes.ufl.edu/

Other UF partners for graduate training (incomplete list; see I-cubed website)

• Division of Sponsored Research (DSR)• The Graduate School• Collaborative Assessment and Program Evaluation

Services (CAPES)• Center for Precollegiate Education and Training (CPET)• International Center• Florida Museum of Natural History• UF Libraries Grants Management Program • Career Resource Center (CRC)• Center for Excellence for Regenerative Health

Biotechnology (CERHB)• Scientific Thinking and Educational Partnership program

(STEP)

What does NSF want?

What does UF currently provide?

How to integrate with other NSF training programs

Look for “holes” in what UF provides (e.g., critical mass for GK-12)

Use evaluation data (CAPES)

Focus on synergies & common goals (e.g., ethics)Ponder: What

is innovative?

Meet face-to-face with colleagues

Leave enough time to develop true partnerships

Ask for help