Event Description

Organizing Committee:

• Prof. Idalia Ramos (UPRH), Prof. Frank Gomez (CSULA), Prof. Mikhail Noginov (NSU)

NSF PREM Program Directors

• Dr. Maija M. Kukla and Dr. Thomas Rieker

Agenda

April 17, 2007

• 7:30-8:00Breakfast and Coffee
• 8:00-8:30 Lance Haworth, DMR Division Director, NSF
• 8:30-8:45 Maija Kukla and organizing committee: General instructions and charge to the panel
• 8:45-9:00 Tom Rieker and Maija Kukla, NSF PREM Program
• 9:00-12:00Presentations 2004 PREM Awardees
• 9:00-9:30 Idalia Ramos, Crafting a Successful Partnership through two Cultures: The UPRH- Penn PREM, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao
• 9:30-9:45 Discussion
• 9:45-10:15 Oscar Suárez, PREM: Paradigm and Realization of Excellence in Materials, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Download this presentation (.pdf)
• 10:15-10:30Discussion
• 10:30-11:00 Peter Kalu, Comprehensive Integration of Research and Education in Materials Science, Florida A& M Download this presentation (.pdf)
• 11:00-11:15Discussion
• 11:15-11:45 Frank Gomez, Empowering Students via Interdisciplinary Research, California State University, Los Angeles Download this presentation (.pdf)
• 11:45-12:00Discussion

12:00-1:00Lunch

• 1:00-1:30 Cora Marrett, EHR Assistant Director, NSF
• 1:30-1:45Split in Groups
• 1:45-4:30Working Groups Discussions
• 4:30-4:45Break
• 4:45-6:15Working Groups Reports & Discussions
• 4:45Report Group A
• 4:55Discussion
• 5:15Report Group B
• 5:25Discussion
• 5:45Report Group C
• 5:55Discussion
• 6:15-6:30Break
• 6:30-8:30Writing report/more discussions

April 18, 2007

• 7:30-8:30 Breakfast and Coffee
• 8:30-9:00NSF Presentation and Remarks
• 9:00- 2:45Presentations 2006 PREM Awardees
• 9:00-9:30 Paresh Ray, Research and Education in Organic NLO and Nanostructure Biological Materials, Jackson State University Download this presentation (.pdf)
• 9:30-9:45Discussion
• 9:45-10:15 Mikhail Noginov, Nurturing a new-born PhD program in the PREM environment, Norfolk State University Download this presentation (.pdf)
• 10:15-10:30Discussion
• 10:30-10:45Break
• 10:45-11:15 Gabriel López, UNM-Harvard PREM: Success Stories and Lessons Learned, University of New Mexico Download this presentation (.pdf)
• 11:15-11:30Discussion
• 11:30-12:00 Joshua Halpern, Building a pipeline for materials careers, Howard University Download this presentation (.pdf)
• 12:00-12:15Discussion

12:15-1:15 Lunch

• 1:15-1:45 Nicholas Kioussis, Multidisciplinary Research and Education in Computational Materials, California State University at Northridge Download this presentation (.pdf)
• 1:45-2:00Discussion
• 2:00-2:30 Shaik Jeelani, Tuskegee-Cornell PREM-A Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Science and Engineering, Tuskegee University
• 2:30-2:45Discussion
• 2:45-3:00 Break
• 2:45-3:30NSF PD short presentations
  • C. Bouldin (IMR/MRI)
  • G. Tessema (NAF)
  • C. Huber (IMI/MWN)
  • U. Venkateswaran (REU)
  • L. Madsen (CER)
• 3:30-3:45 Break
• 4:00-5:00Draft Report of working groups and final discussions
• Concluding Remarks, Maija Kukla, NSF

Attendees

Panel

• James W. Mitchell, Howard University
• Dolores Miller, IBM-Almaden
• Odessa Petzold, Corning Inc.
• Laurence Henry, Southern University and A&M University
• Sarah Young, Montana State, American Indian Research Opportunities
• Theodore Hodapp, American Physcical Society
• Martin Moskovits, UC Santa Barbara
• Frank W. Snowden, UMN Twin Cities
• Jagannathan Sankar, NCAT, North Carolina A&T State University
• Mark Lundstrom, NCN Purdue University
• Graciela Blanchet, Dupont
• Branislav Vlahovic, North Carolina Central University
• David Zubia U. of Texas, El Paso
• Keith H. Jackson, Florida A&M University
• Carlos Vargas-Aburto, Kutztown University

PREM teams

Topics of group discussions

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Group A: Impact of PREM

• Effect of PREM on performing research
• Student training and Career paths
• Visibility of PREM on campus and/or surrounding community.
• Does the PREM address the needs of the community in a best way?
• Effect of PREM on education in terms of teaching and learning.
• Other

Group B:Building Partnerships

• Effect of PREM on performing research.
• Cyber-science and cyber-learning and how is it used in PREM.
• Effect of PREM on education in terms of teaching and learning.
• Other

Group C:Future of PREM

• What should be the future of the PREM program to maximize the impact?
• How to make PREM more visible?
• PREM and American Competitiveness
• Other