NSF Build and Broaden Workshop

Diversifying Diversity: New Research Opportunities in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

Join the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) at NSF for an in-depth, 2-day workshop series for researchers interested in the Build and Broaden program, including presentations by an exemplary group of current Build and Broaden grantees and discussions with program officers about how to prepare proposals and submissions.

Pre-registration is required.

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Workshop Agenda (all times are Central)

Day 1: Tuesday, Nov. 1

10:00-10:15 a.m. CDT Welcome: Dr. Enrique Pumar, Build and Broaden Program Director

10:15-11:45 a.m. CDT Panel I. Principal Investigator Presentations, moderated by NSF program officer Lee Walker

• Judah Viola, National Louis University
• Mangai Natarajan, CUNY, and Yasemin Irvin, George Mason University
• Christine Mallinson, University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Joseph Stevens, North Carolina A&T State University

11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CDT Break

12:00-12:30 p.m. CDT Introduction: Dr. Enrique Pumar, Build and Broaden Program Director

Program Overview and Objectives: Dr. Kellina Craig-Henderson, NSF’s Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

12:30-12:45 p.m. CDT Break

12:45-2:00 p.m. CDT Mini-Seminars

• How to respond to the Build and Broaden solicitation led by NSF program officer Siobhan Mattison
• How to draft an effective budget led by NSF program officer Brian Humes
• How to organize a winning proposal led by NSF program officer Jeremy Koster

Day 2: Wednesday, Nov. 2

10:00-10:15 a.m. CDT Welcome: Dr. Enrique Pumar, Build and Broaden Program Director, SBE

10:15-11:45 a.m. CDT Panel II. Principal Investigator Presentations, moderated by NSF program officer Josie Miranda

• Amber Crowell, California State University Fresno and Mark Fossett, Texas A&M University
• Periloux Peay, Georgia State University
• Logan Yelderman, Prairie View A&M University
• Pablo Gomez, California State University San Bernardino, and Ramesh Srinivasan, University of California Irvine

11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CDT Break

12:00-12:15 p.m. CDT Keynote introduction: Vipin Arora, NSF’s Acting Deputy Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

12:15-12:45 p.m. CDT Keynote Address: Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Executive Director, Center for Minority Serving Institutions, Rutgers University

1:45-2:00 p.m. CDT Break

2:00-3:30 p.m. CDT Best Practice Roundtable
Led by NSF program officers from Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

• Jeremy Guinn for TCUP
• Sonja Montas-Hunter for HSIs
• Carleitta L. Paige-Anderson for HBCUs

About Build and Broaden

Build and Broaden (B2) supports fundamental research and research capacity across disciplines at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and encourages research collaborations with scholars at MSIs. Growing the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce is a national priority. National forecasts of the impending shortage of workers with science and engineering skills and essential research workers underscore a need to expand opportunities to participate in STEM research (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2012).