Monday, 01 Feb 2016
VPR Workshop: Managing your award
This workshop will not only discuss basic principles of award management and introduces to investigators the offices at Iowa State that can assist them, but will also provide researchers with valuable insight into personnel issues that will help them build successful teams.
Thursday, 04 Feb 2016
VPR Workshop: Updates, Initiatives, and Challenges at the National Science Foundation
Dr. Roger Wakimoto, program director at the Geosciences Directorate of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will discuss new NSF-wide initiatives for FY16, recent challenges working with Congress, the broader impacts criteria, reliability and reproducibility of scientific results, and updates regarding the Geosciences Directorate. The seminar is free and open to the public. No preregistration is required.
Monday, 22 Feb 2016
VPR Workshop: NEH Regional Application
This workshop will include an overview of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Humanities Iowa programs and special initiatives, and a session devoted to strategies for winning competitive applications and understanding the review process. A limited number of individual appointments with an NEH program officer will be available.
Tuesday, 23 Feb 2016
VPR Workshop: NEH Regional Application
This workshop will include an overview of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Humanities Iowa programs and special initiatives, and a session devoted to strategies for winning competitive applications and understanding the review process. A limited number of individual appointments with an NEH program officer will be available.
Thursday, 25 Feb 2016
Nanovaccine Initiative Seminar
"Dynamic Hydrogel Matrices: Cell Biology in the Fourth Dimension," Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, Boulder. This event also is the chemical and biological engineering department's Mack Lecture. Refreshments will be provided at 10:30 a.m. in 2061 Sweeney Hall.
Monday, 29 Feb 2016
VPR and EPSCoR Workshop: Building an interdisciplinary research team
Steve Fiore, director of the University of Central Florida's Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, has a long list of publications and external funding in the area of team science. He will discuss frameworks for building 'team syntheses' - from individual expertise into a collaborative network that clarifies roles; maps out flows, iterations and incremental outcomes; anticipates emergent problems; and promotes reflective improvement.