Subhash Kuvelker

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• Subhash Kuvelker
• Senior Program Officer
• Policy and Global Affairs Division
• National Research Council
• Email skuvelker_at_nas.edu
• May 21, 2012

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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?key49456
• Shortened URL
• http//bit.ly/LbxBfo

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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

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Legislative Mandate Scope of Work

• 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.

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EPSCoR Study Committee
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 Foundations 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

• 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

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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.

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Questions?
Thank you! Email skuvelker_at_nas.edu