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Crafting Successful Broader Impacts Plans for NSF Proposals

Two opportunities for you to schedule this popular professional development session! 
Tuesday, April 26 | 7:00-8:00 pm
Thursday, April 28 | 7:00-8:00 pm
San Francisco Marriott Marquis Hotel
Yerba Buena Salon 3

Sue Whitsett  Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow   National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB)

NSF Broader Impacts from a K-12 Educator’s Viewpoint 

If you have plans to submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation, you need to think about broader impacts in a rigorous, yet creative way. One of the NSF’s two merit review criteria, “broader impacts” means sharing your research with an audience broader than that of your research peers. You might do this through a range of possible approaches, including diversifying the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) pipeline, engaging in education and outreach, addressing social relevance and impact of your research, and more. This challenge may leave you feeling overwhelmed, inexperienced, or even apathetic. This seminar will change that by helping you understand the strategies and resources behind creating an effective, thorough, and dynamic broader impacts plan, which will make your proposal even stronger.

The presentation will include ideas, suggestions and examples on how to include outreach to preK-12 as part of the broader impacts statement.

Admission is included with your 2011 MRS Spring Meeting registration.  No additional registration required. 

Presentations conducted by Sue Whitsett of the National Science Foundation.

This session is sponsored by the NISE Network and the National Science Foundation.