Schedule

Agenda

Monday, October 17
6:00 – 8:00pm	Registration Inn@VT Lobby Registration
7:00 – 8:00pm	Reception Sponsored by the Virginia Tech Center for Coastal Studies (Coastal@VT) with Welcome from Dan Sui, Senior Vice President and Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Virginia Tech Latham Ballroom and Foyer
Tuesday, October 18
9:00 – 9:30am	Welcome and Opening Remarks from the National Science Foundation Latham Ballroom Daniel D. Denecke, Lead Program Director, NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) James L. Moore, Assistant Director, NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources Philip Nolan, Director General, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
9:30 - 10:30am	In-Person Poster Session I Latham Ballroom
10:45 - Noon	Breakout Sessions: Panels Recruiting and retaining diverse trainee cohorts Solitude Measuring, evaluating, and reporting impact Cascades Sustaining programs beyond the NSF NRT funding Smithfield Negotiating institutional barriers to interdisciplinary programs Duckpond Developing trainees’ professional skills (ethics, communication, team science, e-ship, leadership) Assembly Hall Graduate Student Track Latham Ballroom
12:00 - 12:45pm	Working Lunch and Panel Summaries Latham Ballroom Lobby
12:45 - 2:15pm	Breakout Sessions: Meetings by Role Faculty/PIs Assembly Hall Program Coordinators Solitude Evaluators Smithfield Building Bridges for Collaboration: A Participatory Grad Student Workshop in Communicating Science Latham Ballroom Communicating Research: An Introduction to Improvisation for Grad Student Scientists on Zoom Science Foundation of Ireland Centers for Research Training (PDF) Cascades
2:30 – 4:30pm	NSF-sponsored Industry Panel (PDF) Latham Ballroom Vinod K Lohani, NSF NRT Program Director Thyaga Nandagopal, Division Director, NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) Rapid-fire Talks: Collaboration in NRT projects with Industry and Government Lab Partners Kevin C. Leonard, Peggy Nelson, Pamela Templer, Arthi Jayaraman, Cara Shopa, Sybil Sharvelle, Junhong Chen, Angela Slates, Shana McAlexander Industry Panel: Christopher Cowan, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Gabriela Cruz-Thompson, Intel Corporation; Sharon Feng, PPG; David Parrillo, Dow; Irina Ramos, AstraZeneca; Mallik Tatipamula, Ericsson
4:30 - 5:30pm	Virtual Poster Session Latham Ballroom
5:30pm	Working Reception: Nutshell talks hosted by VT Center for Communicating Science, Featuring Graduate Student Research Latham Ballroom
Wednesday, October 19
9:00 – 10:30am	Breakout Sessions: Convergence Research Meetings Food, Energy Water Nexus Smithfield Humans & Technology Solitude Climate Change & Resilience Duckpond Quantum Leap Cascades Graduate Student Track Assembly Hall
10:30 – 11:30am	In-Person Poster Session 2 Latham Ballroom
11:30	Closing lunch and summary remarks (boxed lunches available to go) Latham Ballroom Aimée Surprenant, Dean of the Graduate School, Virginia Tech Daniel D. Denecke, Lead Program Director, NSF Research Traineeship (NRT)
12:00	Post-closing Q&A with NSF Program Officers