Overview of the agency’s mission and funding priorities, education and special education research programs, and working with program officers. Presenters: Emily Doolittle (Teaching and Learning Division: Program Officer, Rural Education Research, and Grants Administration Liaison) and Huang Haigen (IES, National Center for Education Statistics) Registration is required.
Overview of the NSF S-STEM Program that addresses the need for a high-quality STEM workforce in areas of national priority through institutional scholarships for undergraduate and graduate degrees. Presenters: Penny Rheingans (Director of the School of Computing and Information Science and Professor) and Alex Friess (Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Brunswick Engineering Program) Registration is […]
Why Bioengineering Needs the Humanities: Perspectives from a 2023 NEH Summer Institute on Our SHARED Future: Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Research Ethics, and Deliberation John Muthyala – Professor of English, USM Registration is required.
Discussion of DEI in research with a faculty panel, including how DEI can be successfully integrated into your research program. Presenters: Ned Rubert-Nason (Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UMFK) and Beth Campbell (Maine EPSCoR Outreach and Program Manager) Registration is required.
Learn how work plans and Gantt charts can be utilized for research project management. Presenters: Sue Ishaq (Assistant Professor of Veterinary Sciences), Rachel Schattman (Assistant Professor of Sustainable Agriculture), and Peter Drown (Senior Operations Manager, ASCC) Registration is required.
“Wearable Robotics for Gait Training” NSF Career/NIH Babak Hejrati – Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering-Dynamics and Controls, UMaine Registration is required. Babak Hejrati, director of the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Laboratory in the University of Maine Department of Mechanical Engineering, has received a more than $432,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) of the National Institutes of […]
Writing an NSF IUSE Proposal Presenters: MacKenzie Stetzer (Associate Professor of Physics) Registration is required. MacKenzie Stetzer will share information about his NSF-Improving Undergraduate STEM Education award aimed to provide Faculty Learning Community opportunities for faculty of first-year STEM courses to better understand/support students’ transition from high school to college.
UMS Tourism, Hospitality, and Outdoor Recreation (THOR) Initiative Tracy Michaud- Associate Professor of Tourism and Hospitality, USM Karen Beeftink– Associate Professor of Recreation and Tourism Management, UMM Registration is required. Faculty on the campuses of the University of Maine System (UMS) are building a partnership to create new education and training pathways to bolster Maine’s largest industry: Tourism, […]
NOAA Program Officer Presenter: Alison Krepp-Social Science and Economics Lead; National Sea Grant Office Registration is required.
Research Impacts/Altmetrics Presenters: Kelley Strout-Director, Associate Professor of Nursing, Jen Bonnet- ORD Proposal Development Associate for Special Projects) Registration is required. Presenters will share strategies on measuring and disseminating research impacts; including altmetrics- the use of alternative, or nontraditional, measurements to better understand the extent of a work's scholarly impact.
