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Idaho NSF EPSCoR Research Infrastructure
Improvement (RII): Water Resources in a Changing Climate
The Idaho NSF EPSCoR Research
Infrastructure Improvement (RII) project is a 5-year, $15 million
award focused on building research capacity at Idaho's public
universities - University of Idaho, Boise State University, and Idaho
State University - related to
Water Resources in a Changing Climate.
View
the Project Summary
View Water
Resources in a Changing Climate Website
View
Innovation for Idaho - RII Strategic Plan
What is EPSCoR?
EPSCoR
represents a federal-state partnership
to enhance the science and engineering research, education, and technology
capabilities of states that traditionally have received smaller amounts of
federal R&D funds. Through EPSCoR, participating states are building a
high-quality, academic research base that is serving as a backbone of scientific and technological (S&T) enterprise
consistent with
S&T strategic plans and
technology platforms.
Idaho
EPSCoR currently is led by an
EPSCoR Committee composed of
18 members with
diverse professional backgrounds from both the public and private
sectors and from all regions of the state.
The EPSCoR Committee reports to the Governor's Office and
receives matching funds via the
Higher
Education Research Council (HERC).
The Idaho EPSCoR office and the State of Idaho EPSCoR Project
Director are located at the University of Idaho, and partner
institutions are Boise State University and Idaho State University.
EPSCoR
increases the R&D competitiveness of an eligible state by
developing and using the S&T resources in its major research
institutions (those that grant significant numbers of the
state's Ph.D. degrees in science and engineering disciplines) and
partner institutions
(more
information about the S&T environment in Idaho). EPSCoR achieves this by:
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Stimulating
sustainable S&T infrastructure improvements at the state and
institutional levels to increase the ability of EPSCoR
researchers to compete for Federal and private sector R&D
funding.
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Accelerating the movement of EPSCoR researchers
and institutions into the mainstream of Federal and private
sector R&D support.
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2009 Idaho NSF EPSCoR Annual Meeting
August 31-September 1, 2009
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Pipeline Web Portal
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Western
Consortium of Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico
Innovation Working Group Proposals Due Dec.
1, 2009
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Innovation for Idaho - RII Strategic Plan
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