Emerging Frontiers of Research Innovation - by SUSTAIN SLO
Channel: Linda Vanasupa
Date: 2015-03-19

Background:
My colleagues (Liz Schlemer, Roger Burton) and I submitted a theme to the National Science Foundation's (NSF) open community call for themes on the Emerging Frontiers of Research Innovation (EFRI).   This particular call is run by the Engineering Directorate every two years.  NSF evaluates and votes on the 150-300 submissions and submitters and invites 8 to present the idea on-site. This year's call resulted in 300 submissions and seven were chosen for on-site consideration. The senior advisors in the Engineering directorate and special external expert consultants then use the ideas to inform the $15-30M EFRI call for proposals.  The details of the call and program can be found here (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15018/nsf15018.pdf). 

Our view: A community Effort
Along with my primary co-authors (Roger Burton and Liz Schlemer), we consider what was submitted to be a product of what the SUSTAIN learning initiative (https://sustainslo.calpoly.edu/) has learned together as a community in collaboration with our community partners and the 3rd Person Research Network. This network represents 13 researchers at institutions across the United States (http://sustainslo.blogspot.com/p/3rd-person-research-network.html)

Contact information: 
Linda Vanasupa (lvanasup@calpoly.edu); Lizabeth Schlemer (lschleme@calpoly.edu); Roger Burton (rogersburton@gmail.com).

You can download a detailed outline of this talk with time stamps, 
and the exact text that was submitted to the call by going to this link: https://sustainslo.calpoly.edu/static/media/uploads/EFRI-outline-submission.rtf