The Office of Research and Engagement, in partnership with the Tickle College of Engineering (TCE), will host a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) workshop on Tuesday, May 14 in the Toyota Auditorium of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy.

The Office of Research and Engagement is hosting a visit by Dr. Jeffrey Nichols, associate laboratory director for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computing and Computational Sciences.

The new Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge provides unprecedented opportunity to perform modeling and simulation and artificial intelligence at a scale that is an order of magnitude greater than prior supercomputer systems.

Dr. Nichols will discuss the technologies used in Summit, and how supercomputers have changed the way science is conducted in the national lab complex. He will give examples of how integrating supercomputers, artificial intelligence, experiments, and new theories help to solve the nation’s largest science problems.

“How can new scientific research and technology breakthroughs address non-kinetic threats to global sociopolitical stabilities?”

Dr. Lisa Troyer, social science program manager at the Army Research Office, will visit campus on April 22 to present this question to UT researchers.

For the first time, the National Science Foundation is offering a live webcast of their biannual Grants Conference from Phoenix, AZ on November 13-14. The Office of Research and Engagement will be streaming selected presentations in Blount Hall Room A004. UT faculty, staff and students are invited to join ORE staff to view the following sessions:

Monday, November 13

10:45-11:15      Types of NSF Funding Opportunities

11:35-1:45       Proposal Preparation

3:00-4:40         Merit Review Process

Tuesday, November 14

4:30-6:00         Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

Registration Deadline:  Wednesday, February 22

Please note: Participation in the 2017 NSF CAREER PWI Track is restricted to those CAREER-eligible faculty members who are preparing to submit a proposal to the July 2017 deadlines.

The NSF CAREER PWI Track will comprise five monthly sessions of three hours each, starting in late February. All sessions will be held in Blount Hall A004. The tentative schedule is listed below.  Each session will include a presentation by UT faculty and/or staff with experience in the NSF CAREER program and small group critiques. Participants will be assigned a proposal advisor from the Faculty Development Team, with whom they will work through the iterative writing process up until the submission deadlines.

Session 1: Monday, February 27, 1:00-4:00

Session 2: Monday, March 27, 1:00-4:00

Session 3: Monday, April 24, 1:00-4:00

Session 4: Tuesday, May 30, 1:00-4:00

Session 5: Monday, June 26, 1:00-4:00

Participants will be required to submit a draft proposal title along with a 1-page Background and Significance statement by noon, Friday, February 24, to Alan Rutenberg. Writing assignments will be due every month, prior to each subsequent session.