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Broader Impacts Committee Seeks Input from Researchers across the University
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Research has created a new Broader Impacts (BI) committee comprised of invited faculty and staff. The committee is charged with characterizing the current BI resources and making recommendations for how the University could enhance the impact of research activities as well as increase the competitiveness of research proposals to federal agencies. With their first survey deployed to over 100 units, the committee has initiated a self-study to better understand which units support BI activities across the University and the types of programs they offer.
The committee seeks to gather information from research faculty on current BI activities and feedback on the ways that the University might better support them and their colleagues in the area of BI. The committee has developed a brief survey for research faculty to describe:
- What are your current BI activities?
- Who are your BI partners?
- What expertise would benefit you in planning and implementing your BI activities?
- What infrastructure might improve BI at Penn State?
Penn State research faculty from every location are encouraged to complete the survey. Participation in the survey will provide a chance for researchers from across the University community to play an active role in conceptualizing BI infrastructure that will (1) best support research faculty and (2) deliver BI programs that operate at the highest levels of excellence. Committee recommendations to the University will be informed by the data collected from both BI providers and research faculty. As such, it is critical that we have a significant number of faculty respond to the survey.
Broader Impacts Committee
- Jennifer Lynn Anderson, Program Director, Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center, Penn State Outreach
- Leila Bradaschia, Humphrey Fellowship and International Programs, Department of International Programs, College of Education
- Leo Conway, Assistant Director, Upward Bound Programs, Penn State Educational Equity
- Teresa Diehl, Associate Dean of Administration, Eberly College of Science
- Melanie Ford, Director, Youth Education Outreach and Engineering K-12 Outreach Center, Penn State Behrend
- Tim Gleason, Director, Office of Science Outreach, Eberly College of Science
- Rita Graef, Director, Pasto Agricultural Museum, College of Agricultural Sciences
- Kathy Hill, Director, Center for Science and the Schools, College of Education
- Stephen Holoviak, Senior Director of Penn State Talent Search/EOC Programs, Penn State Educational Equity
- Jennifer Hooven, Childhood Education Coordinator, The Arboretum at Penn State, Penn State Outreach
- Francesca Lopez, Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy, College of Education
- Lori Miraldi, Director , Engineering Ambassadors Program, Leonhard Center, College of Engineering
- Ashley Patterson, Assistant Professor of Education, College of Education
- Tonya Peeples, Associate Dean, Center for Outreach and Inclusion, College of Engineering
- Meg Small, Director of Social Innovation, The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, College of Health and Human Development
- Amanda Smith, Director of K-12 Engagement, Assistant Professor of Education, Executive Director of ENGINE of Central PA, Penn State Outreach
- Julianne Snider, Managing Director, EMS Museum & Art Gallery, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
- Ann Taylor, Assistant Dean of Distance Learning & Teaching Professor, Director, John Dutton E-Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences