Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network Workshop

**National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Directorate for Biological
Sciences (BIO)**

**Residence Inn Capitol by Marriott• 333 E Street, SW • Washington, DC•
202/543-3704**

**September 15-16, 2006**

**AGENDA**

**FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15**

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#########  8:30 *Registration* 

9:00 Opening Plenary Session

##  Welcome, Purpose, and Introductions 

Shirley McBay, President, QEM Network

9:15 *Welcoming Remarks*

*Overview of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the*

*Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)*

Joanne Tornow, Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, Policy, and
Analysis

Office of the Assistant Director, BIO

9:45 *BIO Proposal Preparation and the NSF Merit Review Criteria and
Review Process*

Parag Chitnis, Program Director

BIO/Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)

10:30 *Coffee Break*

10:45 Three Concurrent Division-focused Sessions

*-Overview of Programs, Priorities, and Processes by BIO Division*

*-Initial Presentation of Participants' Proposed Project Summaries*

Session I: Division of Integrative Organismal Biology (IOB)

Paul Farel, Program Director

Diane Witt, Program Director

Daniel Wubah, BIO Award Recipient, and Special Assistant to the
President

James Madison University (Joining Session I in the afternoon)

Session II: Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and

Divison of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)

Judith Skog, Deputy Division Director, DBI

Rebecca Rosengaus, BIO Award Recipient, and

Assistant Professor of Biology, Northeastern University

> Peter McCartney, Program Director, DBI
>
> Jane Silverthorne, Program Director, DBI

Session III: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)

Parag Chitnis, Program Director

J. Ellis Bell, Program Director

Marilyn Gunner, BIO Award Recipient, and

Professor, The City College of New York

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12:30 *Luncheon Plenary Session*

1:15 *Mock Panel Review*

Judith Skog, Program Officer

Marilyn Gunner, Panelist

Rebecca Rosengaus, Panelist

J. Ellis Bell, Panelist

Paul Farel, Panelist

2:00 Three Concurrent Division-focused Sessions Continued

*Implications of Proposal Preparation and NSF Review Criteria
Discussion*

*for Participants' Proposals/Proposal Concepts*

Session I: Division of Integrative Organismal Biology (IOB)

Session II: Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and

Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)

Session III: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)

3:30 *Coffee* *Break*

3:45 *Strategies for* *Building Biological Infrastructure and On-Campus
STEM Collaborations*

Jane Silverthorne, Program Director, DBI

Roosevelt Johnson, Program Director

Human Resource Development (HRD) Division

Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate

5:15 *Break*

6:00 *Dinner*

**SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16**

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9:00 Plenary Session

\-*Integrating Research into Teaching -- "Best Practices"*

Marilyn Gunner, BIO Award Recipient, The City College of New York

\-*Effective Mentoring of Undergraduate and Graduate Students*

Rebecca Rosengaus, BIO Award Recipient, Northeastern University

10:15 *Coffee Break*

10:30 Three Concurrent Division-focused Sessions

#####  *Refinement of Proposals/Proposal Concepts by Participants*

Session I: Division of Integrative Organismal Biology (IOB)

Session II: Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and

Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)

Session III: Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)

##### NOON *Luncheon Plenary Session* 

*Closing Comments*

NSF Staff, BIO Grantees, and QEM Staff

1:30 Plenary Session: *Use of* *NSF's FastLane for Submitting
Proposals/Required Reports*

Evelyn Baisey-Thomas, Computer Specialist

Division of Information Systems (DIS)

> Office of Information and Resource Management, NSF

3:30 *Adjournment*

[Additional NSF Resource Personnel Attending the Workshop]{.underline}:

Maryanna Henkart, Division Director, BIO/MCB