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Emerging research institutions (ERIs) have a significant impact on STEM workforce development and the nation's research and development capacity. While often utilizing innovative strategies that leverage limited funding, ERIs disproportionately provide communities across the United States with opportunities to engage in groundbreaking science and technology discoveries, enabling U.S. innovation and competitiveness. This multisectoral summit (supported by the NSF Award No. 2434412) will highlight innovative approaches that engage industry, state, and federal support to increase research capacity, opportunities for engagement and partnerships, and common threads in policy, program design, and practices that promote sustainable research infrastructure growth across the U.S.
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Potential of Emerging Research Institutions To Be Explored at Upcoming National Academies Summit
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Emerging research institutions — which by statute spend less than $50 million in federal research funding annually — are essential in STEM workforce development. In advance of a National Academies summit next week on reenvisioning the future of STEM research at ERIs, we spoke with summit co-chair Bobwealth Omontese to find out more about ERIs, their role in the broader research community, and what the summit is aiming to achieve.
