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2021 National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Annual Meeting SHAPING 21ST CENTURY STEM GRADUATE EDUCATION Jan. 28-29, 2021|Virtual Meeting Overview Agenda (Note: All times shown are Eastern Standard Time) * webinar Day 1: Jan. 28, 20201 10:00-10:45 am: Welcome Remarks, Meeting Logistics: DGE/NSF Officials* 10:45-11:45 am: Breakout Sessions - I Theme A: What do I know now that I wish I knew then? PI's Perspectives - I Moderators: Mujdat Cetin (Univ. of Rochester 1922591) Daniel Denecke (NSF ) Speakers: Kristen A Fichthorn (Pennsylvania State Univ. 1449785) Lessons from Six Years of NRT Colin Phillips (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1449815) This toothpaste won't go back in the tube: from training grant to culture change Claudia Gunsch (Duke Univ. 1545220) Lessons of Experience: Optimizing Programming for Maximum Impact Cagdas Onal (Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1922761) Our first year Theme B: How do we know our NRT is working? Evaluator's Perspectives - I Moderators: Mary Anne Sydlik (Univ. of Georgia 1545433) Vinod Lohani (NSF ) Speakers: Shirley Vincent (Colorado State Univ. 1828902) Building Food-Energy-Water-Systems Graduate Education Capacities Cheryl Schwab (Univ. of California Davis 1734999) Video Conferencing and Participation Vijay Kanagala (Univ. of Vermont & State Agricultural College 1735316) Transforming STEM grad ed with an asset-based framework Lorenzo Ciannelli (Oregon State Univ. 1545188) The benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary team science Theme C: Creating Niches: Interdisciplinary STEM Success Stories - I Moderators: Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2021871) John Weishampel (NSF ) Speakers: Sarah Klain (Utah State Univ. 1633756) Reconciling indigenous ecological restoration goals with a changing climate: Co-production of a land stewardship plan at Boa Ogoi Cultural and Interpretive Center Kevin Leonard (Univ. of Kansas 1922649) Internet of Catalysis Erica Smithwick (Pennsylvania State Univ. 1828822) Expanding the solution space in the Chesapeake Bay Sennai Habtes (Univ. of the Virgin Islands 1735222) A description of the approaches by the Strong Coast program to integrate teaching and mentorship from partner institution USF into curriculum and graduate education programs at UVI. This is to fill needed gaps of faculty expertise in Environmental Engineering, Systems Modeling, Anthropology, and FEWS. Theme D: Adapting to COVID-19 - I Moderators: Victoria DeRose (Univ. of Oregon 2022168) Elizabeth Webber (NSF ) Speakers: Surita Bhatia (SUNY at Stony Brook 1922639) Refocusing Efforts and Building a Community of Support Vuk Mandic (Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1922512) Developing an NRT program in a pandemic Kiona Ogle (Northern Arizona Univ. 1829075) Adapting to COVID-19 Challenges Andrea Bertozzi (Univ. of California Los Angeles 1829071) Harnessing the Data Revolution in the Age of COVID19 11:45 – 1:00 pm: Working Lunch/Poster Session 1 Group Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Materials Science Kenneth R Carter (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst 1545399) NRT: Soft Materials for Life Sciences Kai-Mei Fu (Univ. of Washington 2021540) NRT-QL: Accelerating Quantum-Enabled Technologies Margaret Kowalik (Pennsylvania State Univ. 1449785) CoMET: A NRT on Computational Materials Science Raymundo Arroyave (Texas A&M Univ. 1545403) NRT-DESE: Data-Enabled Discovery and Design of Energy Materials 1A Juan De Pablo (Univ. of Chicago 2022023) NRT-HDR: AI-enabled Molecular Engineering of Materials and Systems (AIMEMS) for Sustainability Harley Johnson (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1922758) NRT-HDR: Data and Informatics Graduate Intern-traineeship: Materials at the Atomic Scale (DIGI-MAT) Andrew Jenny (Univ. of Kansas 1922649) Internet of Catalysis Catherine Brinson (Duke Univ. 2022040) NRT-HDR: Harnessing AI for Understanding & Designing Materials (aiM) Eduardo (EJ) Chichilnisky (Stanford Univ. 1828993) NRT-FW: NeuroTech - Bringing Technology to Neuroscience Tim Rogers (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison 1545481) NRT-DESE LUCID: A project-focused cross-disciplinary graduate training program for data-enabled research in human and machine learning and teaching Walter Wu (Univ. of Minnesota 1734815) Student Research Highlights from the CogniSense NRT Program Thomas Bifano (Boston Univ. 1633516) Neurophotonics at BU 1B James Magnuson (Univ. of Connecticut 1735225) Science of Learning & Art of Communication Jorge Maldonado De-Jesus (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1735252) Miniature Brain Machinery: Year 3 Brian Burrell (Univ. of South Dakota 1633213) Reimagining STEM Graduate Education at The University of South Dakota Siddhartha Sikdar (George Mason Univ. 1922598) Community-engaged STEM graduate training in disability-related research Claudia Gunsch (Duke Univ. 1545220) Integrative Bioinformatics for Investigating and Engineering Microbiomes (IBIEM) Program Overview Kristin Powell (Univ. of Colorado 2022138) Integrated Data Science (Int dS): Teams for Advancing Bioscience Discovery Dalton George (North Carolina State Univ. 1828820) Relationships between crop diversity-area patterns, productivity, and GE crop adoption in USA Agriculture 1C Michael Scanlon (Cornell Univ. 1922551) Team training to develop new hardware and software applications for digital plant science: predicting genotype to phenotype relationships across multiple scales Laura Galloway (Univ. of Virginia 2021791) NRT-URoL: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Phenotype: EXPANDing Training in Research and Careers Julius Lucks (Northwestern Univ. 2021900) Synthesizing biology across scales – a convergent synthetic biology NRT training program Julia Bailey-Serres (Univ. of California Riverside 1922642) NRT-INFEWS: Plants-3D (Discover Design and Deploy): Training Diverse Graduate Student Cohorts in Plant Synthetic Biology 1/8/2021 2021 NRT Annual Meeting 1 of 5 Jyothi Kumar and Tammy Long (Michigan State Univ. 1828149) IMPACTS: an intersection of plant and computational science Nicole Scott and Julie Dickerson (Iowa State Univ. 1545453) Predictive Plant Phenomics 1D Daniel Serrano (Univ. of Maryland College Park 1632976) COMBINE: Computation and Mathematics for Biological Networks Eamonn Keogh (Univ. of California Riverside 1631776) Using Robots to Capture Insects (for under $40!) Scott Saleska (Univ. of Arizona 2022055) NRT-URoL: BRIDGES-Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences Toccara Houston (Georgia Tech 1545287) Building a Skill Set With ARMS Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt Univ. 1922697) NRT-FW-HTF: Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering (NISE) Nancy Gaudette (Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1922761) Future of Robots in the Workplace Kristin Dana (Rutgers Univ. New Brunswick 2021628) Socially Cognizant Robotics 1E Laine Mears (Clemson Univ. 1829008) THINKER NRT: The importance of technology-human interaction Jonathan (Joff) Silberg (Rice Univ. 1828869) NRT: A Bioelectronics Incubator for Training Students (BITS) at the Cell/Material Interface Victoria DeRose (Univ. of Oregon 2022168) The University of Oregon NRT in Molecular Probes and Sensors Thomas Chen (Colorado State Univ. 1450032) GAUSSI: Generating, Analyzing, and Understanding Sensory and Sequencing Information – A Trans-Disciplinary Graduate Training Program 1:00-2:00 pm: Breakout Sessions- II Theme A: Leveraging Diversity in NRT Programs Moderators: Victoria Interrante (Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities 1734815) Daniel Denecke (NSF ) Speakers: Nathalie Duval-Couetil (Purdue Univ. 1735282) A Diversity and Leadership Course for Trainees Lois Trautvetter (Northwestern Univ. 1450006) Lessons Learned for Recruiting and Retaining Underrepresented Trainees Caesar Jackson (North Carolina Central Univ. 1633094) Sustaining an MS Bridge-to-PhD Program after NRT Funding Michael Scanlon (Cornell Univ. 1922551) Strategies for Diversity and Inclusion Theme B: How Would You Design NRT 2.0? Moderators: Jennifer Leestma (Georgia Tech 1545287) Vinod Lohani (NSF ) Speakers: Robert Weiss (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ. 1735139) Life after NSF funding Emily Padston (Univ. of Chicago 1735359) Bootcamps for All Evan Kuras (Boston Univ. 1735087) NRT’s as Change Agents: Design Interventions for Broadening Participation Thomas Bifano (Boston Univ. 1633516) NRT 2.0: Winning strategies for NSF and proposers Theme C: Is My NRT Providing Added Value? Student's Perspectives Moderators: Julie Leibenguth (Colorado State Univ. 1828902) John Weishampel (NSF ) Speakers: Matthew Krugh, Chris Flathmann (Clemson Univ. 1829008) Contributing to the NRT Structure and Content David Cwiertny (Univ. of Iowa 1633098) Trainees perceptions on the value of internships to inform career pathways in engineering graduate education Joseph Graves (North Carolina A&T Univ. 1735258) The value of the NCAT NRT Experience - Student Perspective Tanner Cook and Colleen Yanarella (Iowa State Univ. 1545453) Organizing a student-led symposium within a national conference Theme D: Miscellaneous Topics Moderators: Shafiqul Islam (Tufts Univ. 2021874) NCC MEMBER TBD (NSF ) Speakers: Timothy Miller (Univ. of Connecticut 1735225) The Other Thing: Leveraging New Media Methodologies for Broader Science Impacts Laurie Yung and Sarah O’Keefe (Univ. of Montana 1633831) Building Translational Skills to Better Connect Science to Practice Ana Bento (Indiana Univ. 1735095) COVID-19 Pandemic as an ideal problem for interdisciplinary graduate training Valerie Shirley (Univ. of Arizona 1735173) Decolonizing FEWS STEM education 2:00 – 3:00 pm: Networking Moderators: PIs, Co-PIs, and Senior