NSF GRANTED Project
About this Project
Building a Regional Research Ecosystem among Emerging and Minority Serving Universities and Community Partners is a grant project funded by the National Science Foundation’s GRANTED program which focuses on addressing systemic barriers within the nation’s research enterprise by improving research support and service capacity. More information can be found here.
For more information on this project, visit the Award 2324405 page or contact the project staff below.
John Fife, PI, [email protected]
Shari Garmise, Co-PI, [email protected]
Jose G. Alcaine, Co-PI, [email protected]
Convenings
This effort to build regional partnerships among emerging and minority serving universities and community partners consisted of three convenings each with a unique theme identified by collaborating partners:
Workshop 1: Building Corporate and Community Partnerships for Research in the Central Virginia Region.
Workshop Program @ VCU
February 16, 2024, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm
VCU’s Cabell Library, Lecture Hall Room 303, 901 Park Avenue, Richmond
Thank you to all those that attended the Convening at VCU! We appreciate your engagement! Stay tuned for follow up information from this workshop.
Workshop 2: Establishing Technology Transfer and Commercialization Infrastructure at Smaller Institutions
Workshop Program @ VSU
April 3, 2024, 8:00 am to 1:30 pm
Virginia State University, Gateway Event Center, Salon 3
Thank you to all those that attended the Convening at VSU! We appreciate your engagement! Stay tuned for follow up information from this workshop.
Workshop 3: Human Capital Development to Advance Research at Smaller Institutions
Workshop Program @ Longwood
May 28, 2024, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Longwood University, Blackwell Ballroom, Blackwell Hall
Thank you to all those that attended the Convening at Longwood! We appreciate your engagement! Stay tuned for follow up information from this workshop.
Workshop Design
Each workshop kicks off with local speakers discussing the barriers and strategies for building a collaborative research infrastructure and the needs of regional stakeholders to make it work. Also in some workshops, we will work in small groups using human centered design techniques to set a vision and identify initial action steps on how we can work together as a region to support a wider range of stakeholders advance regionally relevant research and new types of community partnerships to advance research to meet regional needs.