NSF Reverse Site Visit in Washington D.C.
Reverse Site Visits for NSF Research Infrastructure Improvement Track 1 Awards
The NSF EPSCoR Office instituted the Reverse Site Visit (RSV) process in FY 2006 for Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) projects. The Reverse Site Visit (RSV) is one of the important mechanisms that the NSF EPSCoR Office uses for project management and oversight, and for providing feedback and guidance to awardees. The RSVs for the Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track 1 awards are designed to allow awardees opportunities to provide interim progress reports on their current RII project relative to its established goals and objectives. RSVs are also designed to enable a panel of experts, comprised of NSF program staff and external members, to hear and assess each of the status reports, and provide feedback to the reporting jurisdictions.
Each reporting jurisdiction may bring a small team (2-4 members) to NSF for the RSV. The team will make a one and a half hour (1.5 hr) formal presentation. At the conclusion of this formal presentation, a maximum of 1 hour will be devoted to awardee responses to panel questions and comments, and further discussion among the team and panel members. The panel will then convene in executive session for three-quarters of an hour to discuss initial findings. Subsequently, the panel will meet with team leaders and EPSCoR Office staff to share its initial findings and recommendations.
The dates, time and venues for the 2009 Reverse Site Visits for the members of the Tri-State Consortium, are as follows:
The NSF EPSCoR Office instituted the Reverse Site Visit (RSV) process in FY 2006 for Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) projects. The Reverse Site Visit (RSV) is one of the important mechanisms that the NSF EPSCoR Office uses for project management and oversight, and for providing feedback and guidance to awardees. The RSVs for the Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track 1 awards are designed to allow awardees opportunities to provide interim progress reports on their current RII project relative to its established goals and objectives. RSVs are also designed to enable a panel of experts, comprised of NSF program staff and external members, to hear and assess each of the status reports, and provide feedback to the reporting jurisdictions.
Each reporting jurisdiction may bring a small team (2-4 members) to NSF for the RSV. The team will make a one and a half hour (1.5 hr) formal presentation. At the conclusion of this formal presentation, a maximum of 1 hour will be devoted to awardee responses to panel questions and comments, and further discussion among the team and panel members. The panel will then convene in executive session for three-quarters of an hour to discuss initial findings. Subsequently, the panel will meet with team leaders and EPSCoR Office staff to share its initial findings and recommendations.
The dates, time and venues for the 2009 Reverse Site Visits for the members of the Tri-State Consortium, are as follows:
Idaho: September 14, 2009 from 8:30 am to noon, Room 535, Stafford IIReverse Site Visit Presentation 10MB PDF
New Mexico: September 14, 2009 from 1:30 pm to 5 pm, Room 535, Stafford II
Nevada: September 15, 2009 from 8:30 am to noon, Room 535, Stafford II