CISMI-2: Preparing for Complexity, Mentoring for Access

Statement about HHMI grant

Goals

Program Elements

• Student Research
  
• Annual proposals for student summer research positions (39 over 4 years)
• Student travel fund
• All Science and Math Poster Session
• Broadening Access
• FOCUS
• Faculty mentoring (4)
• 2 credit seminar (3 terms )
• visiting speakers for seminar
• curricuum development grants
• student recruitment
• Science Fellows
• summer research stipends (28, 4 cohorts of 4 students for up to 2 summers each)
• additional summer research from other sources (8)
  
• travel to conferences or greaduate/mediacl schools
• faculty mentoring (4)
• visiting speakers ($5000)
  
• faculty travel
• New Faculty Development
• Integrative Spatial Modeling Initiative
• GIS unit
• Pathfinder unit
• Current Faculty Development
• Assessment Consortium Project
• 5-6 faculty to participate in steering committee and meetings
• Faculty Development Workshops
• one workshop per year (2 1/2 days, for 20) tied to interdisciplinary science themes and pedagogies.
• Computational Modeling and Visualization
• Atmospheric data mining
• servicing and parts for Beowoulf cluster
• collaboration meetings in computational research
• Midstates Consortium for Math and Science computational modeling meeting
• Small faculty gatherings
• Future Faculty Development
• Postdoctoral Mentoring
• LACAFI Diverse Faculty Recruiting
• Consortium for Faculty Diversity Collaboration
• Curriculum Equipment and Laboratory Development
• Precollege and Other Outreach
• Summer Science Institute
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