1. Building Relationships with Existing NSF training programs at UF Take-home messages There are lots of existing and planned programs at UF It’s important to incorporate them into proposals

2. Building Relationships with Existing NSF training programs at UF Why? What? I 3 program SPICE GK-12 Spatial Ecology IGERT AMW 3 IGERT SEAGEPFGLSAMPAC-SBESLSAMP-BD REU Sustainable Building Systems REU Science for Life REU Biology in Ghana CERHB, CPET, STEP How?

3. Why integrate with other NSF training programs? “Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” ( Mulla Nasrudin, 1208) A GK-12 Program

4. Why integrate with other NSF training programs? 1.To take advantage of local wisdom SPICE Experience on NSF review panels 2. NSF expects it

5. What NSF training programs currently operate at UF? 1.IGERT - Adaptive management of water, wetlands, and watersheds (AMW3). CLAS, COE, CALS, LAW

6. What NSF training programs currently operate at UF? 2. IGERT – Quantitative Spatial Ecology, Evolution, and Environment (QSE3). CLAS, CALS, COE, VetMed

7. What NSF training programs currently operate at UF? 3. GK-12 – Science Partners in Inquiry- based Collaborative Education (SPICE) CLAS, CALS, COE, Med, VetMed

8. What NSF training programs currently operate at UF? 4. Southeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (SEAGEP) UF, Clemson, U. South Carolina

9. What NSF training programs currently operate at UF? 5. Atlantic Coast – Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Alliance (AC-SBES) U. Florida, Howard U., U. Maryland -College Park, U. Miami, U. North Carolina - Chapel Hill

10. What NSF training programs currently operate at UF? 6. Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FG-LSAMP) and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate UF and numerous other institutions

11. What NSF training programs currently operate at UF? 7. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site grants in: –Physics (2) –Chemistry –Microbiology & Cell Science –Computer Science –Agricultural & Biological Eng. –Chemical Engineering –Marine Biology

12. What NSF training programs currently operate at UF? 8. Innovation through Institutional Integration (I-cubed) I 3 program SPICE GK-12 Spatial Ecology IGERT AMW 3 IGERT SEAGEPFGLSAMPAC-SBES LSAMP- BD REU Sustainable Building Systems REU Science for Life REU Biology in Ghana CERHB, CPET, STEP http://i3.institutes.ufl.edu/

13. Other UF partners for graduate training (incomplete list; see I-cubed website) Division of Sponsored Research (DSR) The Graduate School Collaborative Assessment and Program Evaluation Services (CAPES) Center for Precollegiate Education and Training (CPET) International Center Florida Museum of Natural History UF Libraries Grants Management Program Career Resource Center (CRC) Center for Excellence for Regenerative Health Biotechnology (CERHB) Scientific Thinking and Educational Partnership program (STEP)

14. What does NSF want? What does UF currently provide? How to integrate with other NSF training programs Look for “holes” in what UF provides (e.g., critical mass for GK-12) Use evaluation data (CAPES) Focus on synergies & common goals (e.g., ethics) Ponder: What is innovative? Meet face-to-face with colleagues Leave enough time to develop true partnerships Ask for help