Upcoming Events

Mike Lanagan, Assistant Director of the Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Office (SIRO) and Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics will discuss the support SIRO offers for investigators pursuing complex or non-traditional funding opportunities.

Presentation By: Paul Heinemann, Professor and Head, Agricultural & Biological Engineering Scott Richardson, Associate Research Professor, Meteorology & Atmospheric Science David Stensrud, Professor and Head, Meteorology & Atmospheric Science

Presentation by: Ming Xiao, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Dan Azzara, Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, and Maria Spencer, the John and Patty Warehime Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the College of Agricultural Sciences, will discuss how your intellectual property can be harnessed to help broader audience.

Presentation by: Alan Rotz, Agricultural Engineer, USDA/ARS and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Taylor Scott, Asst. Research Professor in the Penn State Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, will discuss the Research-to-Policy Collaboration, which aims to understand how research can inform decision makers at every level of government and has established models to help support scientists in understanding how policymakers use research.

Anne Sylvester, Program Director of the National Science Foundation, will provide an overview of programs at NSF that support cross-disciplinary collaborative research. These programs include the Biology Integration Institutes, the Plant Genome Research, Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems, Dynamics of Integrative Socio-Economic Systems, the Convergence Accelerator, and the NRT (NSF Research Traineeship) program.

Presentation by: Jenn Fetter, Extension Water Resources Program Team Leader, Penn State Extension