1. National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research 26 Oct 2011 DMR Director’s Meeting PREM Breakout Session Tom Rieker, Mary Galvin and Sean Jones October 26, 2011

2. National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research 26 Oct 2011 OUTLINE 2:15 – 2:40 PMNSF Remarks MRCT Competition PREM Competition Annual Reports Publications 2:40– 3:00 PMHoward University PREM, Josh Halpern Finding Partners: Using Research Opportunities to Build Lasting Relationships with Faculty and Students at Community Colleges and Disabled Serving Institutions 3:00 – 3:20 PMCCNY PREM, Jeff MorrisNew (and Old) Modes of Engaging Students: Outreach to NYC High Schools 3:20 – 3:40 PMUTPA PREM, Arturo Fuentes Building Your Pipeline – Strategies for Recruiting and Keeping Students Engaged in PREM

3. National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research 26 Oct 2011 New MRSECs and MIRTs- 2011 Competition Triangle Center – Duke University, NC State University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill – Programmable Assembly of Soft Matter - build on knowledge from nature – colloidal assembly and syntactomers. University of Utah – Next Generation Materials for Plasmonics and Spintronics – plasmonics and spintronics with focus on organics. University of Michigan – Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials – develop novel multiscale materials for nanophotonics including wide bandgap nanostructured materials and metamaterials. In addition – six MRSECs successfully re-competed with new science. Triangle Center – Duke University, NC State University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill – Programmable Assembly of Soft Matter - build on knowledge from nature – colloidal assembly and syntactomers. University of Utah – Next Generation Materials for Plasmonics and Spintronics – plasmonics and spintronics with focus on organics. University of Michigan – Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials – develop novel multiscale materials for nanophotonics including wide bandgap nanostructured materials and metamaterials. In addition – six MRSECs successfully re-competed with new science. Columbia University MIRT - Building Functional Nanoarchitectures in van der Waals Materials University of Texas at Austin MIRT - Exploring Unusual Properties of Transition Metal Oxides University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MIRT - Stressed Polymers - Exploiting Tension in Soft Matter Columbia University MIRT - Building Functional Nanoarchitectures in van der Waals Materials University of Texas at Austin MIRT - Exploring Unusual Properties of Transition Metal Oxides University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MIRT - Stressed Polymers - Exploiting Tension in Soft Matter http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=12153620

4. National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research 26 Oct 2011 Solicitation NSF 11-562. Changes to solicitation:  Eligible institutions are minority serving institutions only.  Re-competing PREMs must include statement of "Broadening Participation Strategy and Results” and Broadening Participation Results Tables.  Cost sharing is no longer allowed - institutional support of the PREM now covered under “Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources”, not letters of support. Proposals submitted 10/25/2011. Proposals will be reviewed in early 2012. Anticipate funding decisions in time to have a summer program in 2012. Solicitation NSF 11-562. Changes to solicitation:  Eligible institutions are minority serving institutions only.  Re-competing PREMs must include statement of "Broadening Participation Strategy and Results” and Broadening Participation Results Tables.  Cost sharing is no longer allowed - institutional support of the PREM now covered under “Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources”, not letters of support. Proposals submitted 10/25/2011. Proposals will be reviewed in early 2012. Anticipate funding decisions in time to have a summer program in 2012. 2012 PREM competition

5. National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research 26 Oct 2011 Annual Reports Executive Summaries – Present the most important achievements of the PREM for the year. 2 page “Elevator Pitch” – major accomplishment/finding in the research, building the pipeline, and education/outreach activities. Research Accomplishments and Plans – What was accomplished (not detailed list of experiments). Why it was done, i.e. the motivation. What ‘s next. Highlights – Much better this year! Thank you for the hard work and effort.

6. National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research 26 Oct 2011 Publication Reporting Requirements Publications must include the PREM award # listed in the acknowledgement section. Those publications that do not recognize the PREM award will not be counted in the Annual Report. The unique contribution of the NSF funded PI or element of the work performed must also be clearly stated. Publications from your partner that do not have any PREM faculty or student participants should not be acknowledged in the publication or counted in the Annual Report. Same is true with Highlights. Going forward, all new publications from the reporting year must be uploaded via Fastlane when submitting the Annual Report. (new Federal rule).

7. National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research 26 Oct 2011 Tell Us Your Successes in a Timely Manner! High Impact Publications (Nature, Science, etc), News coverage, etc. 3+ weeks notice before publication. UTSA PREM publication chosen for journal cover art-work. NSF did a feature story on the publication through LiveScience. Story is being picked up by ‘Light Years - CNN.com Blogs’.