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Subhash Kuvelker

Senior Program OfficerPolicy and Global Affairs Division

National Research Council

Email: skuvelker@nas.edu

May 21, 2012

Study Title and Public Information

Title: Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Similar Programs in Other Federal Agencies

Study Author: Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, Policy and Global affairs Division National Research Council

Public information about the study: Status of current projects available on the Academies’ website

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=49456

Shortened URL:

http://bit.ly/LbxBfo

Legislative Mandate & Scope of Work

This study was mandated by the America Competes Act Reauthorization of 2010. The legislation mandates a National Academy of Sciences study to address the following topics:

• A delineation of the policies of each Federal agency with respect to the awarding of grants to EPSCoR States;

• The effectiveness of each program towards achieving respective goals;

• Recommendations for improvements for each agency to achieve EPSCoR goals;

• An assessment of the effectiveness of EPSCoR jurisdictions in using awards to develop science and engineering research, education, and infrastructure; and

• Any other issues that address the effectiveness of EPSCoR as the National Academy of Sciences considers appropriate.

Legislative Mandate & Scope of Work

EPSCoR Study Committee

•NORINE NOONAN (Co-Chair)

•Vice Chancellor

•University of South Florida

•WILLIAM SPENCER (Co-Chair)

•Chairman Emeritus

•SEMATECH

•ROGER BEACHY

•President Emeritus/ Professor Department of Biology

•Donald Danforth Center, Washington University in St. Louis

•RICHARD F. CELESTE

•President Emeritus

•Colorado College

•ROBERT DUNCAN

•Vice Chancellor for Research

•University of Missouri

IRWIN FELLER

Senior Visiting Scientist

American Association for the Advancement of Science

ELISABETH GANTT

Distinguished University Professor Emerita

Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland

C. JUDSON KING

Director; Professor emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering

Center for Studies in Higher Education; University of California, Berkeley

JOHN LINEHAN

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University

PERCY A. PIERRE

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michigan State University

SUBHASH SINGHAL

Battelle Fellow and Director, Fuel Cells

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

CHARLES STABEN

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs/ Professor of Biology

University of South Dakota

GEORGE R. STARK

Distinguished Scientist, Department of Molecular Genetics; Emeritus Professor of Genetics

Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Lerner Research Institute; Case Western Reserve University

ALBERT TEICH

Research Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs

Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University

The Process

• Stakeholders meetings in open sessions• Collection of relevant literature and report• Expert speakers and/or commissioned papers• Committee deliberations• Conclusions• Recommendations• Report Review by external reviewers• Briefing to the sponsors• Publication of report – free access and download on the

National Academy Press – http://www.nap.edu.

Questions?

Thank you!

Email: skuvelker@nas.edu