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Randolph Stephen Duran

Educational Background: 1987 PhD, Polymer Chemistry, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France 1981 BS, Macromolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University Certifications: 2016 Harvard Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE) 2015 Academic Impressions, A Holistic Approach to Corporate Engagement, San Diego, CA 2013 SACSCOC Institute on Quality Enhancement and Accreditation, Daytona Beach FL 2012 CUR Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate Research Programs Institute (ISURP) 2010 CASE Development Course for Deans, Washington DC 1986 Grenoble/Saclay CEA short course in X-Ray and Neutron Scattering, Grenoble, France

Professional History:

Aug 2009-present Director, LSU Office of Undergraduate Research, Office of Research and Economic Development Portfolio: Undergraduate Research, International Research, STEM Literacy Aug 2009-present Executive Director Gordon A. Cain Center for STEM Literacy 2006-2009 Professor, University of Florida, Gainesville FL Affiliate Professor, Department of Materials Sci 2002-2009 Affiliate Prof, McKnight Brain Institute 2007-9 Affiliate, Emerging Pathogens Institute 2004-2009 Adjunct Professor, Ecole Natl. Superieure de Physiques et de Chimie de Bordeaux, France 1994-2006 Associate Professor, University of Florida 1989-1994 Assistant Professor, University of Florida 1988-1989 National Institute for Standards and Technology, Post Doc (advisor G. B. McKenna) 1987-1988 Max Planck Institute, Mainz, W. Germany Post Doc (Advisor: Prof. G. Wegner)

Selected Honors and Awards:

Chevalier (knight) dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academique, French Embassy, 2009 Teaching Improvement Program Award, University of Florida, 1996 Naval Research Laboratory, Alan Berman Research Publication Award, 1994 NSF Young Investigator Award (formerly Presidential Young Investigator), 1993-98 Editorial Advisory Board Supramolecular Science, 1994-1999 Lavoisier Scholarship, Scientific Mission of the French Embassy, 1986-88

Publications: more than 100 publications in a variety of peer-reviewed journals Page 2

Research and Major Initiatives (13 examples) including: #1) Optical tweezing and NIH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 #5) Launching a Research Office, Abu Dhabi, Petroleum Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 #7) Major Instruments, Telepresence, Synchrotrons, and Neutrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 18 #8) Development, Industry, Foundations: Keck, HHMI, Beckman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 20 #9) Organizing Groups and Events in Support of Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 26 #11) Promoting Diversity, Undergraduate REU, and European Master’s Degree Equivalence . . . . . Page 35 #13) International Activities, France, Abu Dhabi, Panama, South America, Japan . . . . . . . . . . Page 50 Professional Activity: NSF panels, workshops Page 58

Grants, Contracts, and Awards: More than $22 million from a variety of agencies Page 60 Meetings and Contributed Papers: My students and I have presented all over the world Page 68

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PUBLICATIONS: The last 25 are shown – full list on request ( c indicates R. Duran is the corresponding author, 35 total undergrad co-authors, and co-inventors are bolded and italicized). Together these illustrate undergraduate research activity throughout my career (the first undergraduate is publication 26 in 1993). They also show strength in surface/interface science and beyond this a broader range of areas than many research-active faculty: materials, chemical synthesis, synchrotron science, life sciences, and even space sciences. 105. Hoppens, MA; Sylvester, CB; Qureshi, AT; Scherr, T; Czapski, DR; Duran. RS; Savage, PB; Hayes, cD “Studies on the Formation of Organosilica Ceragenin Mediated Selectivity of Antimicrobial Silver Nanoparticles” ACS Appl Matls & Interf 6 13900 (2014) 104. “Three Routes To Modulate the Pore Size of the MscL Channel/Nanovalve” Yang, LM; Wray, R; Parker, J; Wilson, D; Duran, RS; Blount, P ACS NANO 6: 1134-41 (2012) 103. Firuza Sabri, N. Leventis; J. Hoskins; AC Schuerger; M. Sinden-Redding; D. Britt; Duran, RS “Spectroscopic evaluation of polyurea crosslinked aerogels, as a substitute for RTV-based chromatic calibration targets for spacecraft” Advances in Space Research 47 (3) 419-427 (2011) 102. Martin Andersson, Joshua Jackman, Danyell Wilson, Patrik Jarvoll, Viveka Alfredsson, George Okeyo, and Randolph Duran “Vesicle and Bilayer Formation of Diphytanoylphosphatidylcholine (DPhPC) and Diphytanoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DPhPE) Mixtures and their Bilayers’ Electrical Stability” Colloids Surf. B: Biointerfaces 82 (2) 550-561 (2011) 101. Jorge L. Chavez; Hui Jiang; Randolph S Duran “A study of the compartmentalization of core-shell nanoparticles through fluorescence energy transfer of dopants” Nanotechnology 21 (5) 55703 (2010) 100. Alan R. Katritzky, L. Wang, Y. Song, R. Gyanda, R. Sakhuja, N. Meher, S. Hanci, K. Gyanda, S. Mathai, F.Sabri, D. Ciaramitaro, C. Bedford, R. Duran “Preparation and Mechanical Properties of Crosslinked 1,2,3,-Triazole-Polymers as Potential Propellant Binders” J. Applied Polymer Science 117 (5) 2612-21 (2010) 99. Alan R. Katritzky, L. Wang, R. Gyanda, R. Sakhuja, M. Cavallaro, D. Jackson, N. Meher, D. Ciaramitaro, C. Bedford, R. Duran “Effect of the Crosslink Functionality on the Mechanical Properties of Crosslinked 1,2,3,-Triazole Polymers as Potential Binders for Rocket Propellants” J. Applied Polymer Science 117 (1) 473-8 (2010) 98. Alan R. Katritzky, R. Sakhuja, L. Huang, R. Gyanda, L. wang, D. Jackson, D.Ciaramitaro, C. Bedford, R. Duran “Effect of Filler Loading on the mechanical Properties of Crosslinked 1,2,3,-Triazole Polymers” J. Applied Polymer Science 118 (1) 121-127 (2010) 97. Alan R. Katritzky, Yuming Song, Rajeev Sakhuja, Reena gyanda, Nabin K. Meher, Ling Wang, Randolph S. Duran, Ciaramitaro, Clifford D. Bedford “Synthesis of Boltorn1,2,3-Triazole dendrimers by Click Chemistry” J. Polymer Science 47 (15) 3748- 3756 (2009)

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96. c Maria Stjerndahl, Patrik Jarvoll, Martin Andersson, Ryan Kohout, Randolph S. Duran “Studies on the Formation of Organosilica Nanoparticles and Their Ability To Host Hydrophobic Substances” J. Phys Chem C 112 (44) 17063-17070 (2008) 95. c Henk M. Keizer, Martin Andersson, Chris Chase, William P. Laratta WP, Josh B. Proemsey, Joel Tabb, Joanna R. Long, Randolph S. Duran RS “Prolonged stochastic single ion channel recordings in S-layer protein stabilized lipid bilayer membranes” Coll Surf B-Biointerfaces 65(2) 178-185 (2008) 94. cMaria Stjerndahl, Martin Andersson, Holly E. Hall, Daniel M. Pajerowski, Mark W. Meisel, Randolph S. Duran “Superparamagnetic Fe3O4/SiO2 nanocomposites: Enabling the tuning of both the iron oxide load and the size of the nanoparticles” Langmuir 24 (7) 3532-3536 (2008) 93. Alan R Katritzky, Nabin K Meher, Sureyya Nansi, Reena Gyanda, Srinivasa R Tala, Sindhu Mathai, Randolph S. Duran, Sophie Bernard, Firouzeh Sabri, Sandeep K.Singh, Jacek Doskocz, David A. Ciaramitaro “Preparation and characterization of 1,2,3-triazole-cured polymers from endcapped azides and alkynes” Journal of Polymer Science, Part A Polymer Chemistry 46 (1) 238-256 (2008) 92. c Martin Andersson, Goerge Okeyo, Danyelle Wilson, Henk Kaizer, Paul Moe, Paul Blount, Daniel Fine, Ananth Dodabalapur, and Randolph S. Duran, “Voltage-induced gating of the mechanosensitive MscL ion channel reconstituted in a tethered lipid bilayer membrane” Biosensors and Bioelectronics 23 (6) 919-923 (2008)

91. c Martin Andersson, Ashwin Madgavkar, Yanrong Wu, Weihong Tan and Randolph S. Duran “Using optical tweezers for measuring the interaction forces between human bone cells and implant surfaces: System design and force calibration," Rev Sci Inst 78 (7) 074302 2007 90. c Thomas J. Joncheray, Kristina M. Denoncourt, Michael A. R. Meier, Ulrich S. Schubert, Randolph S. Duran, “Two-dimensional self-assembly of linear poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(epsilon-caprolactone) copolymers at the air-water interface” Langmuir 23 (5) 2423-2429 (2007) 89. c Thomas J. Joncheray, Rachid Matmour, Daniel Taton, Yves Gnanou, and Randolph S. Duran “Polystyrene-b-Poly(tert-butylacrylate) and Polystyrene-b-Poly(acrylic acid) Dendrimer-like Copolymers: Two-Dimensional Self-Assembly at the Air-Water Interface”, Langmuir 23 (5) 2531-2538 (2007) 88. c Martin Andersson, Henk M. Keizer, Chenyu Zhu, Daniel Fine, Ananth Dodabalapur and Randolph S. Duran, “Detection of Single Ion Channel Activity on a Chip using Tethered Bilayer Membranes”, Langmuir 23 (6) 2924-2927 (2007). 87. c Rachid Matmour, Thomas J. Joncheray, Yves Gnanou, and Randolph S. Duran, “Cross-linking of polybutadiene at the air/water interface: Toward an easy access to two-dimensional polymeric materials”, J. Coll. Int Sci. 311(1) 315-321 (2007) 86. c Rachid Matmour, Thomas J. Joncheray, Yves Gnanou, and Randolph S. Duran “Two-Dimensional Polymeric Nanomaterials through Cross-linking of Polybutadiene-b-Poly(ethylene oxide) Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface Langmuir 23 (2) 649-658 (2007)

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85. c Randolph Duran, Henk M. Keizer, Brian R. Dorvel, Martin Andersson, Daniel Fine, Rebecca B. Price, Joanna R. Long, Ananth Dodabalapur, Ingo Köper, Wolfgang Knoll, Peter A. V. Anderson “Functional Ion Channels in Tethered Bilayer Membranes; Implications for Biosensors" ChemBioChem 8 (11) 1246-1250 (2007) 84. c Brian R. Dorvel, Henk M. Keizer, Daniel Fine , Jorma Vuorinen , Ananth Dodabalapur, and Randolph S. Duran “The Formation of Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes on Microelectrode Arrays” Langmuir 23 (13): 7344-7355 (2007) 83. c Jovanovic AV, Flint JA, Varshney M, Morey TE, Dennis DM, Duran RS “Surface modification of silica core-shell nanocapsules: Biomedical implications” Biomacromolecules 7 (3): 945-949 (2006) 82. c Sophie Bernard, Jennifer L.Logan, and Randolph S. Duran “Blends of a Polystyrene-block-Poly(ethylene oxide) and its Corresponding Homopolymers at the Air-Water Interface” submitted Langmuir 81. c Jorge L. Chávez, Jeffrey, L. Wong, Thomas and Randolph S. Duran, “Core-shell nanoparticles: Characterization and study of their use for the encapsulation of hydrophobic fluorescent dyes Langmuir 24 (5): 2064-2071 (2008) 80. Jeffrey M. Sharp, Randolph S. Duran, Richard B. Dickinson “Direct measurement of forces between a colloidal particle and a phospholipid bilayer”, J. Coll. Int Sci 299 (1): 180-188 (2006)

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Research and Major Initiatives While research in my own group has focused on the properties of polymers at surfaces and interfaces, for twenty years I have also been involved in collaborations that involve larger and broader groups. For the past several years, much of my effort is devoted to the daily activities of the research office, forming teams, and generally enhancing the ability of other faculty to win funding in research. For example, at LSU I serve as the executive director of the Gordon A. Cain Center for STEM Literacy including its 10+ staff and many millions in funding. While not a PI on much of this funding, I am supporting initiatives in Panama, Germany, Chile, Abu Dhabi, and Grenoble that would each significantly increase funding and impact other groups at LSU. Enhancing interactions with minority-serving institutions forms another major activity. I had a scientist from the Morehouse College science dean’s office named as adjunct professor at LSU and am currently leading efforts with NSF LSAMP (Lewis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) programs nationwide. Activities aimed at the professional development of faculty, students, and staff pervade many of the sections below and some specific presentations are found in the meetings section (starting on Page XX) as 109, 105, 102, 101, 100, 97, 93, 89, 87, 85, 81, 77, 75, 59, 57 and a few others that appear below. The examples below also show my experience in forming dozens of teams, searches, organizational structures, management, and budgeting. My research and teaching has been highly multidisciplinary. In many cases a research or education theme integrated with other activities that accompanied it either in teaching, internationalization, and the like. Thirteen examples follow and where possible I illustrate where active extramural research and scholarship programs intersect to outputs of grant activity, publication activity, and professional development. Example 1) Optical tweezing and NIH page 5 Example 2) Planning, Assessment, and LSUs QEP, LSU Discover page 6 Example 3) Langmuir Monolayers and International Joint Doctoral Degrees page 10 Example 4) DARPA and Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels page 13 Example 5) Launching a Research Office, Abu Dhabi, Petroleum Institute page 14 Example 6) NSF Center, Core-Shell Nanocapsules for Drug Detoxification page 17 Example 7) Major Instruments, Telepresence, Synchrotrons, and Neutrons page 18 Example 8) Development, Industry, Foundations: Keck, HHMI, Beckman page 20 Example 9) Organizing Groups and Events in Support of Research page 26 Example 10) STEM Literacy, The Cain Center, and Community Interactions page 30 Example 11) Promoting Diversity and Undergraduate REU Efforts page 35 Example 12) Undergraduate and Graduate Educational Activity page 44 Example 13) International Activities, France, Abu Dhabi, South America page 48 Example 1) Spatiotemporal Modulation of Osteogenesis in a 3-D Stromal/Stem Cell Model This 2015 NIH R01-funded project seeks to advance fundamental knowledge of cell signaling and osteogenesis generally by employing transformed stem cell sheets as a model for osteochondral interfaces, and their subsequent use in artificial tissue applications. My group (30% effort as a co-investigator) contributes via the use of laser tweezing to

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manipulate individual osteoblast cells and laser capture microdissection to precisely define cell sheet geometries for layer-by-layer assembly into 3D bone templates. The NIH award was enabled by a collaboration in the mid 2000s with Professor Rich Dickinson in Florida’s Chemical Engineering department to use the optical trap-based methods developed by Rich to measure the surface force-distance curves between particles including living cells and monolayer modified surfaces. The advantages of the optical trap methods include the measurement of sub-piconewton forces at large separation distances. The LB technique provides a quantitative means to apply monolayers of lipids and polymers to interfaces ranging from solids to the air/water surface. Graduate student Jeff Sharp routinely went back and forth between the two labs for a variety of collaborative measurements. We also sought to use this technique, combined with pulsed UV laser microbeams, to investigate the vesicle fusion process at solid surfaces. The work was funded via a DoD DURIP award for acquisition of an additional workstation for my research group. To date this has resulted in publications 80, 91, and 105 and research grants 76 and 110. In early 2015 I led an effort to establish a collaboration with a synergistic group that is more-clinician heavy.

Example 2) Planning, Assessment, and LSU’s QEP, LSU Discover: The past few years, provided valuable experience in planning, staffing, administering, and assessing programs at a campuswide scale. This has also included awards events and retreats associated with the research and academic affairs offices. This section will describe examples with the LSU research office strategic plan and accreditation. Predating this, all of the private foundation and federally funded programs described in the following sections required tracking and assessment of student participants and the larger ones required documentation of planning. ORED Strategic Plan and Retreats: In 2010 I was part of a team that developed LSU’s research org chart and then its strategic plan for research, led by KT Valsaraj, the current VP for Research and Economic Development. For the last two years I have been a big

part of organizing campuswide annual retreats around the themes of this document. The retreats of ~100 people involve the most active research stakeholders, the leadership of every college at LSU,

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and every major center. Most recently I collaborated with the business manager and wrote the position description for a new coordinator position and will lead the hire. QEP: I gained exposure to a significant new activity as part of LSU’s last accreditation cycle. This has given me additional experience in gannt charts, logic models, focus groups, budgeting, concept papers, striking leadership teams, searches, assessment (including eportfolios), and assembling and working with advisory boards. I was appointed to the initial committee to identify the “quality enhancement plan” or QEP topic, and now chair the oversight committee as the resulting QEP on undergraduate research, called LSU Discover, enters its third year of operation. LSU Discover is now formalizing the articulation with the research office (ORED), and ORED will undoubtedly be a part of its eventual institutionalization. The

undergraduate research theme was chosen from among more than 20 submissions by a selection committee that numbered more than two dozen and represented the breadth of the entire institution. Upon the selection of undergraduate research as the theme, I led the committee that developed the program and together we wrote the 100 page QEP report. I submitted LSU’s institutional application to join CUR, led a team of the Honor’s College Dean and two other faculty to a CUR institute in 2012, and we did a comparative analysis of some of the major undergraduate research programs from smaller institutions like Wellesley, Furman, Embry-Riddle, and Wooster, to larger schools like Michigan, Florida, and UNC. This analysis helped define the QEP and, data within the report was based on regular collaboration with LSU’s offices of institutional advancement, assessment, and registrar, as well as focus group surveys, and other instruments. I presented the project and got feedback at numerous

One performance from the 2014 research day, “Origin” from the College of Performing Arts E. Mix (Left) R. Foster (Center) A, O’Connell (Right) Mentor: Prof. N. Erickson, Physical Theatre. The program also featured Art, Music, Architecture, English, History, Agriculture and many other humanities and social sciences in addition to STEM entries.

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meetings including student government, faculty senate, industrial representatives, alums, dean’s council and other stakeholders. It gave me experience with LSU’s residential colleges (learning community housing) for the first time, as well as student recreation, and a variety of the main support offices of the university. From this, I am now an advocate for the notion of a co-curricular transcript for undergraduates including “assists” as introduced in item 9 on page 26. We also worked with an external consultant and had frequent interactions with the leadership of several other institutions nationwide that have adopted undergraduate research at a large scale. I was a major collaborator in working with public relations on the significant campaign for campuswide messaging related to the effort and was a main organizer of two major poster session events – one of which was 3 days before the on-site visit. I then presented the QEP to the on-site visiting committee from SACSCOC in the spring of 2014, and led the committee that established the initial implementation steps. LSU was reaffirmed in 2014. LSU Discover is based around five student learning outcomes or SLOs. The program was also organized into four major activities: co-curricular, curricular transformation, mentored research, and an annual research meeting. At QEP report submission, undergrad research and the five corresponding SLOs were defined as follows: Undergraduate Research Definition: “Inquiries or investigations, conducted by undergraduate students, guided by faculty, that solve problems, make original intellectual contributions, or make creative contributions to a discipline or practice.” Students will:

(SLO 1) identify and effectively evaluate essential supporting information and/or literature sources associated with a research project;

(SLO2) utilize tools and strategies for gathering and evaluating data, and apply the results to the solution of the research problem;

(SLO3) demonstrate awareness of the responsible conduct of research; (SLO4) identify and describe an original disciplinary or interdisciplinary research question; (SLO5) articulate research findings through written, visual, performance, and/or oral presentation.

Assessment was, in part, via eportfolio and analysis using modified AAC&U Value rubrics. I led the effort that defined the organizational structure and corresponding position descriptions. Over the QEP process, twelve colleges at LSU were recruited to participate and I appointed a college advisory board with a dean’s representative from each college. Over the process so far, I was part of a successful worldwide search that recruited a QEP librarian and led a second search that recruited a QEP coordinator. A taskforce of 8 faculty members representing units ranging from Theatre and English to Education, Biology, and Environmental Science was also recruited and appointed. For example the 2014 Discover Day event featured 120 posters overall and more than 30 posters from Education alone. The QEP librarian is in the process of implementing information literacy skills linked to SLO1 above to thousands of first-year students via modules in courses that are tied to a Bloom’s Taxonomy-driven assessment. The goal, in addition to changing the campuswide culture in support of additional undergraduate research, is to involve very large numbers of freshmen in activities that provide authentic training in information literacy and research ethics, and to recruit as many as possible to continue with multi semester research activities.

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Predating the QEP effort, the majority of my federally- and private foundation-funded programs aimed at workforce development required tracking and assessment of student participants. My approach was to establish collaborations that led to the desired results in a manner that also provided extra value and national impact. For example, we partnered with Arizona State in the late 1990’s to do a vertical assessment of our REU site. This was performed by graduate student Erla Kristendotter under the supervision of Professor J. Martin, leading to a dissertation and placement of the graduate student into

a tenure-track faculty position within the SUNY system. A second report on a four year vertical assessment is being prepared for publication and recently the results were affirmed by the computer science (CISE) division of NSF. With the REU Leadership Group (introduced below on page 34), we collected data on the nationwide undergraduate

applicant pool. These data, over a three year period, show that it is twice as difficult to get an NSF-funded summer research experience in chemistry as getting into medical school. They also illustrate that the size of the nationwide applicant pool is approximately equal to the capacity of graduate programs around the country, but only one in four receive an NSF-funded summer research experience – a troubling statistic in light of pipeline issues in STEM graduate enrollment. Through the Science for Life program (page 30), we established a team of three faculty from Florida’s College of Education and two graduate students to help with student tracking and assessment. They in turn developed a series of instruments with an underpinning based on a logic model, but also incorporating rigorous psychometric validation. This involved working across UF to get IRB protocols accepted. We always sought to report our data in a publishable format most meaningful to other institutions of higher education and for this reason, under the lead of T. Sadler and L. Ponjuin, we partnered with several other institutions to develop a common assessment instrument that was also quantitatively rigorous. These efforts have resulted in manuscript 78 and proposal 4, and Troy Sadler is a co-PI on proposals 92, 93, and 94. It should also be noted that Troy Sadler received his own 3 year stand-alone NSF grant and Luis Ponjuin was invited to apply for an award by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue and expand his work. The process has given me a deeper understanding of institutional efforts to enhance quality student learning, stakeholders and roles involved, and the assessment and evaluation that underlie these efforts. It has also given me experience with leveraging such efforts in support of research grants and contracts, and harnessing the data generated to communicate the impact of a given institutional intervention. It provided experience navigating the sometimes divergent opinions of faculty agendas and administrative needs and leveraging these types of programs for faculty recruiting and professional development. Overall, more than a dozen proposals in the last year have included connections to the QEP and more than eight are now funded, those with my name as PI, co-PI, or presenter include Grants 107, 109, 111, and 112 and meetings 106, 109, and 110.

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Example 3) Langmuir Monolayers and International Joint Doctoral Degrees: As a beneficiary of multiple competitively funded grants from different agencies, I have personal experience in repeated proposal attempts via multiple agencies. I enjoy working with colleagues to engourage and optimize proposal submissions. I started my academic research career by departing from liquid crystals (my doctoral work) and launching a research program that involved Langmuir Blodgett troughs, an area that was very active at the time. In particular, I was interested in exploiting Langmuir Blodgett techniques to control the assembly of monolayers of molecules. Success in this

area led to a significant and long-term relationship with KSV Instruments (Helsinki, Finland) that involved joint development work, regular travel to Helsinki and other locations, and significant in-kind contributions to my group. After a few years, I had the great privilege to be invited for a five month stay at Riken, a major research lab on the outskirts of Tokyo, to learn scanning probe microscopy. During this time I met Virgil Elings, the owner of the company then-named Digital Instruments, and he agreed to donate an STM/AFM instrument which became a significant part of the NSF Young Investigator Award match. For many years, we used Langmuir Blodgett techniques to control and characterize the polymerization of chemically (as

opposed to photochemical) induced polymerization reactions and assembly of two and three dimensional structures of “non-traditional” amphiphiles. Langmuir monolayers, and then their combination with visually appealing AFM techniques were a theme that was of interest to students and faculty at many primarily undergraduate institutions across the US. As a result, I gave seminars broadly at schools ranging from Lincoln (PA), to Harvey Mudd, to Wellesley, the Air Force Academy, Furman, Rollins, and others. Early on in my career, Professor Pedro Bernal of Rollins came to my group for a year-long sabbatical. This gave me additional insight into the Liberal Arts College culture and helped shape many follow-on collaborations, grants, and other significant interactions with primarily undergraduate institutions that are scattered throughout this document. Regarding the initial Langmuir polymerization research, by working under isobaric conditions, we often coupled traditional LB techniques with related probes such as surface potential, viscometry, X-ray diffraction (above), in situ UV-Vis spectroscopy, AFM, and Brewster Angle Microscopy to quantify the kinetics and the reactivity of these systems. We investigated several different systems including anilines, alkyl silanes, pyrroles, and PPV precursors at air/water and hydrocarbon/water interfaces. This research led to the first example of real-time synchrotron X-ray GID of a floating Langmuir monolayer (publication 56), and several other innovative means of exploiting kinetic monolayer data (publications 32, 34, 51, 53, 61, 69). The ensemble of the publications likely represents

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among the most comprehensive Langmuir monolayer studies of anilines and alkyl silanes in the literature. Funding success allowed me to move to the behavior of liquid crystals at interfaces, reconnecting to my graduate and postdoc work. We alo moved on to other systems and one of these was block copolymers. While many research groups studied the behavior of linear diblock copolymers at interfaces, very little work had been reported on star-block systems. The synthesis in Bordeaux and characterization in Florida led to many extended deep international immersion research stays for students and inspired their interest in international degrees and the establishment of a joint doctoral degree. The collaborations with the grad school deans were valuable training and preparation for multiple areas of interaction with Florida’s LSU’s grad school dean. In addition to the international and multidisciplinary science facets, this experience gave me experience with the steps that are necessary to establish joint and dual degrees. In the late 90’s, we established a collaboration with Yves Gnanou in Bordeaux France to investigate the behavior of star copolymers at the air/water interface. The work started with an REU student that synthesized C60 terminated 3 armed stars as part of an undergraduate degree with highest honors. The research continued with the synthesis of 3, 4, 6, and 8 arm stars based on PS and PEO. PEO cores and periphery were synthesized in Bordeaux as well as a certain number of dendritic and mictoarm systems. Many of these have been investigated by LB methods including hysteresis and viscometry. Many of these were also transferred to solid substrates and investigated by AFM.

The work continued with poly(butadiene) cores and PEO periphery. These copolymers form fluid, well behaved monolayers and also interesting morphology by AFM. The butadiene rich domains can also be photocrosslinked, and we hope to utilize this to lock in structure. Another system investigated is PS cores and Poly(tert butyl acrylate) periphery. These are also well behaved structures with the interesting property that hydrolysis yields poly(acrylic acid) periphery which should show interesting pH sensitivity. In 2003, Fan Ren of Florida’s Chemical Engineering department joined this collaboration and brought his expertise on GaN-based semiconductor devices. We then examined the change in gate current-voltage characteristics as a result of star copolymer adsorption. Encouraging systematic structure, solvent, and MW dependence were observed and we moved on to peptide-terminated triblock systems.

We followed up with a collaboration with Ulich Sutter of the Technical University of Eindhoven to investigate the properties of star copolymers synthesized by robot-automated techniques.

AFM scan illustrating micelle chaining in star block copolymers, 1 micron scale. From publication 70.

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The Bordeaux collaboration continued and expanded significantly in the early 2000s with T. Baer (Chapel Hill), J. Boggs (Austin), D. Treise (Florida – Journalism) and Y. Gnanou (Bordeaux) we organized a network of six US and French institutions (UNC, UT, and UF …. And Paris, Bordeaux, and Strasbourg) with a goal of allowing graduate students to obtain significant international experience by spending two years of their PhD research abroad. The students would have also been cross-trained in chemistry and science communications so the process involved working with the science and journalism colleges of each of the US campuses. This provided experience working with academic units across campuses and also with several members of the US National Academies who would have been involved and who were strong proponents. This involved working with academic support units of the Office of the Provost to negotiate the terms of the interdisciplinary training, housing, credit tracking, and many other matters. A planning grant was funded by the NSF and by the French Ministry of research (via J. Livage, Paris). The French Ministry of Research initially funded three French PhD Fellowships in 2001 and six in 2002; proposals were submitted to the NSF IGERT, Dept. of Education US/EU, and Packard Interdisciplinary Science Programs. While the NSF funding was not secured (we “just missed” as a finalist), a total of nine, 3-year fellowships for French PhD students to collaborate with US partners nonetheless resulted from this initiative, Grant 54, and my affiliation as Adjunct Professor at the Ecole de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux. This also resulted in the development of Florida’s first joint doctoral degree (one diploma, two institutions signing). In turn it required presentations to the UF faculty senate and graduate council and close collaborations with two different deans of the graduate school. In September of 2006, the University of Florida Graduate Council approved a joint doctoral degree (with Univ. of Bordeaux) for my student Rachid Matmour and he defended his dissertation in Dec 2006

Overall this has resulted in a number of grants 69, 61, 60, 55, 53, 51, 44, 38, 34, 32, 9 and publications 90, 89, 87, 86, 83, 80, 76, 75, 73, 71, 70, 69, 67, 65, 64, 61, 59, 57, 56, 53, 52, 51, 50, 48, 47, 46, 44, 41, 37, 36, 34, 32, 28, 25, 22, 20, 18, and 12.and meetings 101, 100, 9, 79, 77, 59, and 57 . The

“Undergraduate research has been a defining experience for me. As an undergraduate, it gave me the opportunity to try different areas and experience what graduate school would be like. It gave me a “study abroad” opportunity and opened

doors, helping me win different scholarships (eg, an NSF GRF). Now, as an assistant professor of chemistry, I have the opportunity to mentor undergraduates myself. If a student is interested in a particular topic, I find it fun to either create a project for them or help them find the perfect internship. The best feeling is seeing them present their own

work, either on-campus or at a national conference.”

Jennifer Logan

The role undergraduate research has played in my life

Jennifer Logan was an undergraduate REU student from Rollins College in

my collaboration with Bordeaux (left). She continued with me for graduate studies and spent two years in Bordeaux doing synthesis. After co-authoring multiple publications, she turned down a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon to go to a teaching postdoc at Harvey Mudd. She then turned down a faculty position at New College and took one at Washington and Jefferson. Her

reason, “I wanted a liberal arts culture”. She continues with her research and has also taken groups of students to Grasse (Provence) to do a study abroad course in perfume chemistry.

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collaborations with the grad school deans were extremely useful and preparation for multiple areas of interaction with LSU’s grad school dean. One of then-students, Travis Bailey, now on the chemical eng. faculty at Colorado State, just got a Fulbright award to spend a sabbatical in the same group at Eindoven. Likewise, the collaboration with Yves Gnanou persisted through a major subcontract to Bordeaux (grant 60) and Dr Gnanou’s subsequent positions at the Ecole Polytechnique and now dean at KAUST while the Bordeaux part became dormant for a few years. Coming full circle, Page 21 shows that I was involved in the search for a Director of Sponsored Research for PI and we were able to tap the staff at KAUST for that position. Likewise, in 2015, the collaboration with Bordeaux was rekindled in support of an iREU, a new MOU in research and economic development is in negotiation, and Bordeaux committed to bringing and funding an LSU faculty member for one month in 2016 or 2017. Example 4) DARPA and Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels As PI of a DARPA DSO grant, I learned how to manage a multidisciplinary and multi-institution effort. I now serve a frequent teaming role in building teams and strategically developing partnerships that strengthen the institution PIs in getting their grants funded. “Moldice” was a DARPA and AFOSR- funded program between the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP, Mainz, Germany), the University of Texas-Austin, Agave Biosystems Inc, the Naval Research Laboratories, and the University of Florida. UF groups involved were Joanna Long and Art Edison at Florida’s Brain Institute, Steve Pearton in Materials Science, and Peter Anderson at Florida’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Science. This program provided significant executive experience under an environment where several competing teams were rewarded or cut on a quarterly year cycle based on performance metrics.

We formed films of oriented, addressable, ion channels by surface immobilization and modification with stabilizing overcoatings. This was accomplished by incorporating a logically chosen sequence genetically modified ion channel mutants into bilayers consisting of mixtures of extremophile lipids and polymerized lipids. The bilayers were covalently tethered to a variety of ion sensitive field effect transistor-like devices (ISFET’s), and micro-electrode

arrays (MEA’s) consisting of Au, Si, GaN, and InAs surfaces. The stochastic response of single channel ion current fluctuations and gating signatures of a variety of analytes of interest to DARPA were investigated. Agonist/antagonist as well as voltage gating effects were examined. We sought to demonstrate the formation of ion channel-containing bilayer assemblies by general methods, not requiring intricate chemical modification of each biomolecule system. Ultimately we sought to arrive

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at film/chip array geometry assemblies that will be integrated with mixed populations of different ion channels for eventual water sensor applications. This project allowed me to employ a half-time secretary over a four year period and required semiannual full-day on site reviews by a team of DARPA and DoD staff and quarterly high stakes meetings around the country and videoconferences. We maintained an extensive interactive website in support of the collaboration. The work has resulted in a large number of meeting presentations, one symposium I organized at the 2005 national ACS meeting, manuscripts 101,95, 92, 88, 85, 77, 76, 74 and several others in preparation, and several related research grants (64, 66, 72, 73, 76, 77, 78, 81). Previous collaborations, contracts, and grants with the Naval Research Laboratory (and subsequent ONR) and other DoD agencies helped prepare me for this role as a DARPA principle Investigator. The number of grants given (and no cuts) over this project are a reflection of the success, as is the fact that this work was followed with an “almost-funded” DARPA phase 2 that gave me experience at authoring a $25M request collaboratively with the very impressive professional grant writing team at SAIC. The resulting 50+ page phase two request was a work of art that few universities alone could match and helped me far better understand the value of a proposal development group like the one being set up at LSU now. I also got experience with the “DARP-teaming” process that would have involved Regina Dugan’s company before she went on to head DARPA. Example 5) Launching a Research Office, Abu Dhabi, and the Petroleum Institute My interactions with the compliance, sponsored programs, research deans, and post-award account ting has increased in recent years. In 2014, LSU established a master research agreement with the Petroleum Institute (abbreviated “PI” in this section only, for brevity) in Abu Dhabi and signed three contracts. I am a co-principle investigator on two of these contracts and the institutional liaison for the collaborations with PI. The collaboration is providing training in planning and re-envisioning the launch of a major research office in a context different from that usually seen in US higher education. The second contract involves collaborations around student services including living-learning communities, one stop shop, and bridge programs. In addition, I supported three additional proposals to NSF involving collaborations with PI and sent three LSU undergraduates in the summer of 2014 for REU-like research projects. This project has provided my first extensive experience in collaborating with a lawyer. It is an invigorating and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to closely observe an institution transform from teaching-centric to teaching and research including faculty culture, training, and hires in a model without tenure in the Western sense. It is providing experience in the operations, and sensitivities required in a high level education and research model in which male and female students are segregated yet supported by a unified and mixed gender staff and faculty. It is also my first deep dive into the underlying workings of an institution wherein the financial model is entirely different and government/cultural constraints affect the ability to hire, and even interactions between different offices. The Petroleum Institute is the wholly-owned university of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). ADNOC sunsetted its decades-old agreement with four multinationals and took full control of their operating companies in 2014. They (ADNOC) also established corporate research and established a pay grade for PhDs within the last year. Only 12 years old and still in very rapid expansion mode, PI is making a massive investment in a new research building which will add some 30 new laboratory suites called the PI Research Center (PIRC) with some 300,000 square feet of space. I am part of a team that is midway through a contract to grow the research office at PI from

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two people (a VP and a secretary) to a few dozen and effectively launch the research office at PI and its integration with the new research center building. The project is called “Development of a Model Research Operation and Administration (ROAd) Program for the Petroleum Institute”. The team members are:

Winona Ward, Executive Director, Office of Sponsored Programs, LSU Jo Ann Smith, Ph.D., Director of the Master of Research Administration, UCF Kalliat Valsaraj, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, LSU Randy Duran, Executive Director, Gordon A. Cain Center for STEM Literacy, LSU Jennifer Rood, Professor, Associate Exec Director for Cores & Resources, PBRC J. Michael Slocum, Owner, Slocum & Boddie, PC, Adjunct Professor, USUHS Peggy Lowry, Program Manager, National Council of University Research Administrators

(NCURA) Peer Review Program

In addition, NCURA is contracted to do an independent review and they are doing so with a team composed of research heads from Univ. New Mexico, CalTech, and Univ. Cal-Irvine. In this project, LSU and the ROAd Team have been contracted to provide support to PI in establishing a fully operational research office with the proper office structure, policies, operations and recruitment of key positions. The ROAd Team is in the midst of conducting a thorough needs assessment and recommend an administrative plan, including structure, organizational structure, core units and staffing needs, policies and operating procedures, grant/contract templates, budget templates, and training manuals. To date an initial report was written by the NCURA team, and after consulting with a variety of stakeholders, the ROAD team crafted a 35 page response report outlining initial HR, graduate student pipeline, and policy issues pertaining to research. The ROAd Team will also recommend guidelines and policies for research proposals: receipt, selection criteria, review and approval, with particular attention to internally funded programs. Finally, the ROAd Team is in the process of assisting in recruitment and onboarding of key staff, including providing recommended job descriptions for core personnel. To date, the ROAd team collaborated with PI on a worldwide search for a director of sponsored research and after two rounds of interviews identified a finalist from the KAUST in Saudi Arabia. I helped with the development of a roles and responsibilities matrix that analyzes the current responsibilities of several dozen staff in supply chain, HR, Travel, procurement, administration and research. We are developing suggested policies for routing signature authority. We have written draft position descriptions for are now assisting with six additional searches after having collaboratively developed the research org chart. Taking into account an institution transforming from teaching to research, we have developed a menu of several dozen faculty and staff (research) development workshops and are negotiating on PI’s priorities for these and their rollout. Indeed, launching a research office in an environment where the institution is so young and the funding profile is so different from the US is a fascinating experience.

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A second contract involves student services and was launched in Dec 2014. This contract is led by Dr

Darrell Ray, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Services at LSU and also involves Keena Arbuthnot, a professor in education, Brenda Nixon of the Cain Center, and myself at 25% effort. The project is a collaboration with the Deans of Student Services and Academic Affairs at PI. PI is mandated to increase enrollment of engineering students significantly each year by ADNOC as part of their workforce development. ADNOC also mandates that approximately 90% of PI undergraduates must be UAE nationals. The challenge to this engineering school of recruiting and increasing enrollment in a country that is not only a demographic of some 7:1 non-UAE citizens to UAE nationals, but one in which 70% of high school students opt for the non-STEM curricular route is extreme. As a result, some 75% of incoming PI engineering students are put into a full year “bridge program” in which they are given supplemental instruction in mathematics and English. PI also made dramatic gains in recruiting female engineers in this conservative Moslem country to the point that now a full 50% of the undergraduate population are women. This contract involves efforts to strengthen student life, outreach, and first year (bridge year) activities to enhance undergraduate learning in targeted areas so that retention and performance are enhanced. To do this, a program involving LSU graduate interns in non-STEM areas is being implemented. The first cohort was recruited by a campuswide process, trained over the summer, and as of Aug 1, 2015 arrived in Abu Dhabi. This, and several other initiatives throughout the document illustrate ways in which embedding graduate students for short stays ranging from one semester to a year can provide an experience which is formative to both undergraduates as well as the grad students involved. To complete the second contract, an outreach effort will be implemented and policies and procedures will be developed. The two other proposals in review at PI involve collaborations with HR and the Cain Center (mathematics education) at LSU. Together, this interaction has strengthened my experience with contracts and international collaborations in ways that are not typically seen in a research office. I have the privilege of writing the institutional nomination that helped get Winona Ward this year’s

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“Partnership Award” from the Society of Research Administrators (SRA) for her leadership of the ROAd project. Collaboratively reviewing the research needs of PI with NCURA has been an invaluable experience. Finally, working across cultures in an institution that is split into a women’s and men’s campus and in which the connection to a major corporation dominates the research landscape has been fascinating.

Example 5) NSF Center, Core-Shell Nanocapsules for Drug Detoxification: For six years, I participated in a multidisciplinary team effort through Florida’s $60M NSF Engineering Research Center for Particle Science and Engineering aimed at exploring routes to injectable systems

for drug detoxification applications. Over this time, I obtained significant experience in collaborating within an engineering-centric large center environment and its dozens of industrial partners. ERCs are at the pinnacle of the NSF grants portfolio and this one involved institutional matching funding a building with a major incubator/translational character, and a number of tenure-track faculty hires. In this one, I was an active part of twice annual reviews in which ~100 stakeholders including companies, NSF, and institutional leadership came together for advisory sessions. My group’s contribution was via core-shell nanocapsules. The concept relies on having a suspension of biocompatibilized solid nanocapsules, with a liquid

core that can sequester hydrophobic toxic substances. We used microemulsion droplets of monodisperse size as templates and initiation sites for the sol-gel polymerization of a mesoporous silicate-like shell. Depending on the nature of the toxin, both the core and the mesoporous silicate-like shell can be varied so that toxin uptake is maximized. Moreover, by varying the preparation conditions we could reproducibly vary the shell thickness from approximately 3 to 100 nm. We suppose that the selectivity of the particles to a given toxin in a complex mixture like human blood will also depend on the mesoporosity of the silica, which can also be varied, but is difficult to access accurately; therefore we used several techniques to measure the diffusion of hydrophobic drug or toxin molecules of different sizes and properties during uptake. Biocompatibility and detoxification measurements are made with human blood, rats, and guinea pig models in collaboration with Tim Morey and Donn Dennis in the Anesthesiology Department at Florida’s Shands Hospital. An NSF

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grant in 2003 allowed us to extend these measurements to a neonatal myocyte model on microelectrode arrays. We routinely perform transmission electron microscopy as part of these measurements and installed the first two quasielastic light scattering instruments in the Florida chemistry department to measure particle size. A follow on collaboration with Magnus Nyden at Chalmers University in Gothenburg Sweden resulted in a grant from NHMFL for collaborative NMR work. Thomas Joncherey also spent 2 months at the Ecole Normale Superieure for collaborative measurements involving fast electrochemical methods to monitor uptake with Pierre Audebert’s research group at the Ecole Normal Superieur (Cachan). Overall this activity has resulted in a number of meeting presentations, grants 79, 75, 74, 62, 34, and publications 96, 94, 84, 81, 78, 72, 68, 62, 60. My NSF Young Investigator Award came at a time when NSF provided a dollar-for-dollar match for company funding and this proved to be an invaluable training for me to be able to “last” six years as a funded part of the ERC when so many other basic science faculty did not. However, the experience of a significant association with an NSF Center was part of LSU’s interest during my recruitment. In the longer term, the ERC activity prepared me to be far more effective at LSU where I have been part of the leadership teams of two efforts (the Cain Center and the QEP) that report to Academic Affairs and where I now interact on a daily basis with other centers (coastal studies institute, materials center, synchrotron, computation, etc.) and can better understand their roles to enhance research, teaching, and scholarship as well as the complexities to sustain, staff, and nurture them. Involvement with an Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) over a multi-year period is now an asset with the newly assigned industrial liaison part of my portfolio. In the past two years, I also directly support ongoing efforts of various groups of faculty that are in various stages of advancement. These efforts include one NSF ERC (simulation of biphasic flows), two I/UCRC (wind/disaster and industrial construction), and two three NSF STC (coastal studies, inland waterways, and knowledge engineering for STEM curricula efforts) in which this preparation has been beneficial. Example 7) Major Instruments, Telepresence, Synchrotrons, and Neutrons - The Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT) Synchrotron Beamlines: Early in my career I had the great pleasure of being accepted to the Saclay shortcourse on neutron and X-ray scattering and subsequently did experiments at two ILL beamlines. In the past few years, I have been more active in leveraging interactions between LSU’s participation in major instruments and external funding. This builds on earlier successes with personal instrument grants and was greatly expanded in 1997 when I took over Executive Committee (EC) membership (from S. Nagler, Physics, founding Florida member), gained my first significant executive experience, and for more than five years represented the University of Florida’s participation in Sector 10, the MRCAT beamlines, at the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron at Argonne National Laboratory (see http://ixs.csrri.iit.edu/mrcat/ ) this was continued by Mark Davidson at Florida. During my time, this involved securing more than $750 K of cash matching funds from the Florida Administration, participating in several successful large proposals, and coordinating procurements in excess of $1M of equipment and supplies through Florida as the undulator beamline was constructed. This also gave me experience interacting with a major national laboratory and the institutions Northwestern, Notre Dame, and Illinois Institute of Technology. I participated in EC meetings several times each year in Chicago and coordinated an annual EC meeting each year at Florida. I was directly responsible for Florida’s organization and staffing including striking search committees, hiring and firing,

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evaluations, and importantly aligning these activities with parallel efforts by the other institutions and aligning with a national user base that was given 25% of the beamtime. I led design, construction, and commissioning of a Langmuir Trough/grazing incidence diffraction and spectroscopy experiment. I established interdisciplinary teams from dozens of Florida users representing several different academic departments and scheduled experiment priorities, collaborative participation in shared beamtime, travel, and the like for seven years at the rate of six weeks of beamtime per year. This gave significant experience in leading teams of faculty and student who had to work in shifts over 24 hour days. It also gave experience in negotiation differing points of view from (sleep deprived) faculty. I also ran two national searches for a beamline scientist paid through Florida and supervised beamline scientists Dr. Holger Tostmann for several years. We had to consider academic infrastructure such as housing, property, distance delivery of course materials, and registration. The scale of the overall beamline budget was between $5 and $10M per year, but it leveraged other grants, gifts, contracts and programs that were into the $10s of millions per year. With other EC members I helped implement MRCAT’s independent investigator program. In this work, I reported to Karen Holbrook who went on to be the president of Ohio State and she tells me that she still has a framed burn paper commemorating “first light” in the experimental hutch hanging on her wall; I also supported a majority of users not associated with my own research group and impacted many publications, dissertations, and grants. By metrics directly associated with me, the MRCAT work alone resulted in a number of meeting presentations, grants 32, 33, 39, 43, 52, 53, 59, 60, 68, and publications 69, 63, 62, 61, 56, 55, 54, 49.

Enabling science at a distance is crucial for off-campus programs. In this spirit, I worked on four proposals aimed to facilitate high bandwidth “telepresence” of remote experiments at the APS synchrotron; an internal proposal for $99K from Florida was funded in 1998; in 1998 and 1999 I led with J. Graybeal two (failed) proposals to the NSF Knowledge Distance Interface program with Florida, the APS synchrotron and the national magnet laboratory; and in 2000 I participated in a NSF Science and Technology Center preproposal involving telepresence at the synchrotron led by P. Avery (Physics, Florida). At Florida, my synchrotron work involved four colleges and

collaboration with six external institutions nationwide. Undoubtedly, securing an NSF MRI grant for two X-ray diffraction instruments (grant 21) and my hire as an assistant professor into “the Butler Laboratory”, an endowed macromolecular science lab in which millions of dollars of other instrumentation was shared among ~50 graduate students from three groups helped prepare me for the MRCAT role. At LSU the interactions associated with my position are now much broader and my past experience (and postdocs at Max Planck and NBS -now NIST) have given me experience and credibility approaching US and international “national lab” facilities regarding funding and collaboration. In 2013, I funded and accompanied Ward Plummer, one of our National Academy

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Members, to go the ESRF synchrotron. In Grenoble for his first visit. This may have been a factor in the LSU win, two years later, of a multimillion dollar DOE center grant to establish a scattering center for hard and soft matter. The latter entailed accompanying, in turn co-PI Evgueni Nesterov to give a colloquium at the ILL neutron source in Grenoble in late 2014 that netted applicants for two faculty positions associated with the grant. LSU has its own (small) synchrotron called CAMD, optimized for broad energy range operation and device manufacture, and as possible I support it though it is not part of my portfolio of responsibilities. For instance, a recent trip with two faculty to Dublin and Galway identified several possible collaborators. Example 9) Development, Industry, and Prestigious Private Foundations: Keck, HHMI, Beckman and Development Funding: The last few years have given me the experience of internal competitions and serving as institutional liaison for the office of research. Indeed, I am a long-time proponent of seeking support from foundation and industrial sources. The comprehensive grants listing in this document shows that unlike many assistant professors, it was fortunate that my NSF Young Investigator Award (now NSF CAREER) was not my first major federal grant (it is number 19). The NYI Award, however, was the first grant of my career that really incentivized fundraising of unrestricted gifts of companies, due to a dollar-for-dollar matching program at the time, as evidenced by string of donations that follow. The NYI Award was also the first grant of my career that forced me to think beyond the narrow boundaries of my own research and incorporate broader impact activities. Since that time, I have been a proponent of looking beyond “traditional” grant opportunities. Indeed, prestigious foundations have been one way to support activities that tie authentic research with the strategic goals of both Florida and LSU. Likewise, companies and donors from the extended communities associated with Florida and LSU have proven to be another resource. The CASE Dean’s Development Training has also been very helpful to allow me to more actively help other faculty in this regard. Recent corporate engagement training impressed on me the value of implementing a culture where “assists” are documented such that faculty, staff, and students are more easily engaged in and formally rewarded by the development process. An “assist” can be a meaningful interaction with a donor prospect, an award, negotiation of an in-kind or other cost saving measure, and a variety of other ways in which the entire campus community can be engaged to collaborate/support development in ways that foster scholarship and professional development. Leading the successful search for an Assistant Vice Chancellor for Tech Transfer in 2014 and the recent addition of industrial liaison has given me more perspective. I have the great privilege to have received support from several prestigious private foundations. These institutions often give awards to communities that span the best of large research universities to Liberal Arts Colleges and other private colleges. As I result, I have experience interacting with dozens of institutions and have established enduring collaborations with several. Several examples from my own activities follow. Together, these experiences have given experience with interactions that build to requests involving a variety of companies, individuals, private foundations, and others. Keck Delta Research Minor: In 2014, LSU received its first awards from the WM Keck Foundation. One of these is a collaboration to establish LSU’s first academic minor centered in research. This minor is motivated by U.S. Census data that reports approximately 39% of the U.S. population lives in shoreline counties and likewise that the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates 55% of all Americans live within 50 miles of a coast. Students attending Louisiana State University (LSU) study within the living laboratory of the Mississippi delta and Louisiana coast,

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one of the most distinctive, complex, and culturally rich environments in the nation. As a result of land subsidence, sea level rise, and Gulf storms, this delta is also one of the most vulnerable. In this program, the LSU School of the Coast & Environment, College of Engineering, and College of Art & Design (specifically the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) have combined strengths to create a new multidisciplinary undergraduate applied research program of study, the Delta Research Minor. Built around a collaborative, “design thinking” methodology, this program will focus on coastal issues and distinct but interrelated components: a series of multidisciplinary research courses; a business/industry internship; a faculty-mentored research project in collaboration with the Office of Research and Economic Development; and creation of the Delta Research Studio, an active learning environment shared by students and mentors. Graduates of the Delta Research Minor will be uniquely prepared for the emergent challenges facing coastal Louisiana and similarly vulnerable coasts worldwide. So far, the WM Keck Foundation has funded a $50,000 planning grant in 2014, and a $250,000 “Implementing the Delta Research Minor” funded in June 2015 by Keck. My effort in this program is 25% as a co-PI (developing UG research internships with industry) with a PI of Jeff Carney, and other co-PIs of Vince Wilson and Clint Willson. Beckman Scholars: I led a successful proposal for Beckman Scholars program at Florida in 2003 and directed the program for five years. Florida’s Beckman Scholars Program is a collaboration between its Chemistry, Botany, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Departments. In the program, we recruited scholars extremely young as second semester freshman, with criteria that applicants have 770 quantitative SAT scores (top 1%), have passed 2 science AP examinations, and have previous research experience (in high school). Beckman provides two summers and one academic year support and Florida provided an additional summer of support for research. Scholars wrote a research proposal and worked with a single mentor chosen from ten faculty at Florida over a three year period to obtain as many publishable results as possible. In addition to the Florida mentors, we have chosen ten “external” mentors, all of whom are eminent scientists and four being members of the US National Academy of Sciences. The idea was that over three years, the external mentor got to know the Beckman Scholar well enough to be able to provide advice and write a letter of recommendation; most scholars also spent some time in the external mentor’s laboratory. A renewal proposal for the Beckman Scholars program was awarded in 2007. It involved expanding the program to 11 UF faculty mentors and adding the Colleges of Engineering and Pharmacy. We obtained special permission to add UF Assistant Professor as a twelfth faculty mentor and she proposed an innovative coupling of Beckman Scholars as part of her Beckman Young Investigator application in 2006.

With Lisa McElwee White and Jackie Dorrance (and Harry Gray) I was the lead organizer of a symposium which was a presidential event at the spring 2008 ACS national meeting on “10 Years of Beckman Scholars in Chemistry”. At the symposium 13 invited speakers and dozens of invited posters participated. This involved interaction with manprimarily undergraduate institutions. A final activity we worked towards with University of Florida Foundation staff and the

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Office of the Provost was hosting the annual Beckman Scholars meeting (some 200 participants and top world class scientists often including Nobel Laureates) in Gainesville. These activities gave a deeper experience in interacting with the Beckman Foundation, its board, and National Academy member Professor Harry Gray. This activity led to grants 67 and 91, manuscripts 72, and 81 co-authored by Beckman Scholar Jeffrey Wong, patent 2, and also Mr. Wong’s poster presentations at 6 national scientific meetings (as a sophomore and junior), and his obtaining a 2006 Goldwater Scholarship. A second Beckman Scholar in my group, Josh Jackman, was at Stanford University through Dec of 2008 working with his external mentor Kurt Frank and several publications resulted from this. Development/Endowment Activity: Part of my hire at LSU was development training for deans and administrators and this activity remains a passionate interest. At Florida, I worked with the University of Florida Foundation (UFF) on a set of endowment fundraising activities in support of undergraduate activities at UF. The first of these was an endowment to fund 4 Florida-Beckman Scholars. This endowment would have funded the additional 4 scholars and was intended to be a collaboration with the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The director of the Beckman Foundation visited UF on Oct 14, 2006 in support of this activity. The second of these is the Europe Scholars Program, which was first presented to the entire UFF staff in an invited presentation by myself and Associate Provost Sheila Dickison in 2004. This program would have been the first joint endowment between the University of Florida and a foreign university, in this case the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (ULP). In this program, undergraduates in chemistry and one in political science would be funded to spend one academic year abroad in Strasbourg, France, participating in courses, doing research, and also having an internship in one of the “European Institutions” located in Strasbourg. In 2004, UF student Edwin Homan was sent to the laboratory of Nobel laureate Prof. JM Lehn as the first student in this program; two more students followed in 2006, two in 2007, and two in 2008. The ULP has formally contacted its faculty and identified potential donors, and in 2007, the Vice President for International Affairs of ULP visited UF which resulted in the identification of a number of prospects. In June of 2008 I traveled to ULP with the dean of UFs engineering college to participate in a ceremony honoring the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, a prospect, and we explored possibilities for his support. The third of these is an endowment for term professorships. To this end a gift agreement was signed in early 2005 to create the ~$1M Dunlevie endowment. This endowment was then managed by the UF Honors Program and was intended to provide 3-year term professorships for faculty mentors of Beckman scholars who show exceptional success in mentoring undergraduate researchers. As part of the HHMI-USE effort, I obtained matching commitments for a total of 27 HHMI Distinguished Mentor Awards; these awarded faculty who showed excellence in mentoring undergraduate researchers with a two-year $5K/yr award which was also introduced above in the section on Science for Life. I worked with the development staff of several colleges at UF towards endowing these. In an effort described further below, we worked with UFF staff and HHMI program directors to secure a $250K Courtelis match in support of laboratory renovation of the HHMI Undergraduate Core Laboratory also introduced above.

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These interactions have resulted in some 20 requests of industrial sources, a campaign with parents of HHMI awardees, identification of the first pool of UF Honors Program potential donors, the Dunlevie and Courtelis gifts mentioned above, seminars 150 and 181, and grants 87 and 67.

HHMI: In 2009 shortly after arriving at LSU, I was able to arrange for an African-American LSU Lab School student named Amanda Hardy, and biology teacher (and IB coordinator) Marty Loupe to attend the HHMI Holiday Lectures in Washington. This was funded via my endowment, and the theme was on biodiversity and drug discovery. Amanda joined some 200 other honors high school students

as the first-ever participant from outside the DC area. As an audience member, she is now featured on a DVD that has been distributed to thousands of schools worldwide. The event was so successful that Marty Loupe received a small award from HHMI (the third at LSU) and returned in Dec. 2010 to participate in an expert teacher panel, to align the content of that year’s lecture to the International Baccalaureate biology curriculum. I co-wrote one of the HHMI awards at LSU on this initiative, which extended sustained HHMI support at LSU beyond 25 years. Several of my original ideas were incorporated in the program which is now under Andy Maverick, Associate Dean for Education in the College of Science. For the first time, there is also significant collaboration with Isiah Warner’s HHMI Professors award as well. One area new to LSU is international undergraduate research opportunities. To this end, we were funded to establish programs with several countries, notably South Africa in collaboration with Morehouse College and I. Warner. A second international location is France and to this end, the Pasteur Institute-

Edwin Homan is the first UF undergraduate sent to Strasbourg as part of the Europe Scholars program. He worked with Nobel Laureate Jean Marie Lehn at the ISIS Institute founded by Prof. Lehn. Above are photos of Edwin at play and some of his reactions. Edwin is a Hispanic student originally from south Florida and was a 2005 Goldwater Scholarship winner, a 2006 NSF GRF awardee and is continuing graduate studies at Harvard.

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Lille hosted a number of students in France. The list below shows eight of the initial students sent represented five different institutions. In the summer of 2010, I hosted a very successful workshop on “off campus research” at the HHMI national program directors meeting and served on the advisory committees for Spelman, Morehouse, and Furman.

HHMI at Florida: In 2005, I led a campuswide effort to develop an HHMI undergraduate science program and it was funded. The UF “Science for Life”, is a university-wide program with a life-science focus and initial partnerships with Scripps-Florida, Morehouse College, and international partners. One part of this program involves a faculty awards competition. Subsequently we expanded

collaborations, via the faculty awards and other activities, with Furman, Harvey Mudd, Emory, and LSU. The award from HHMI was $1.5M and gifts, matching and other real cash support brought this to ~$6M. The program formally started Sept 1, 2006, ran for four years, and was then renewed in 2010 based on good results. While I was at Florida, we hosted visits from both Peter Bruns and Jack Dixon , Vice Presidents of HHMI. In 2009 the off-campus “extramural undergraduate research” part

of that program was so significantly expanded that I had more than 80 students doing research abroad (more than 100 off-campus overall) funded via HHMI and various NSF grants. In 2008 we also started a major new initiative that has involved extensive interactions with the deans of the arts/humanities colleges at UF and Morehouse and the directors of the art and natural history museums at UF to organize the first-ever poster session across both museums on campus to involve both the sciences and the arts. I was also active in coordinating poster sessions at Furman University and at the Univ Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris.

1) Morayo Abebiyi Spelman Microchip analysis 2) Nathalie Malcolm LSU Opthamology 3) Elizabeth Lissy LSU Cancer Biology 4) Danielle Fusilier LSU Infectious Disease 5) Yun Min Chan Florida Aptamers 6) Will Towler Furman Biology 7) Annelise Gorensek Furman Medicinal Chemistry 8) Sayo Lawal Morehouse Sickle Cell

Peter Bruns, VP of HHMI visited Science for Life in 2007

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The Science for Life effort was led by myself and a leadership team, the Chemistry Dept., the Office of the Provost, and the Honors Program, with participation from some twenty units across the campus including the colleges of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine, the University of Florida Foundation (development office) and a significant number of faculty representatives from across campus. I had an Executive Committee, an external consultant, and three UF faculty who served as Associate Directors

for this program including the dean of the college of education. I also supervised an office staff that consisted of a full time office manager and full-time secretary, a part-time accountant, and three student assistants. This program worked with many academic support units on tasks ranging from creation of new courses, laboratory renovation, student tracking, awards, and more. Short abstracts of the four major program elements are below. A) Mentored research experiences for undergraduates (Dunn/Duran/Guillette) •Target of placing 100 young, high ability UF students/yr in labs for at least 3 semesters, with an aim to extend the experience further and result in publications. More than 100 students received support and each year ~20 publications appeared, and one of the students was featured in the Aug 2008 HHMI Bulletin. Notably, the program led all ~100 HHMI sites in nursing and clinical placements that year. •Extramural program with Scripps and international partners. Each year we sent more than 20 students to outstanding research groups around the world, including South America, Europe, and Asia as well as Harvard, Stanford, MIT and other outstanding research groups. This program also included some students from other institutions. •A number of events were launched to enhance the undergraduate research culture at UF including the visits of HHMI scientists as can be seen from the photos. We also organized large regional poster sessions jointly with both the Art and Natural History Museums at UF in events that involved collaborations with the Art and Humanities deans at both UF and Morehouse College.

B) Curriculum development (Julian/Sadler) • Establish HHMI Undergraduate Core Laboratory, “incubator” for life science teaching. This was a 2500 sq ft new facility in the UF medical complex. The ~$750K renovation was completed and the facility was used for near-simultaneous instruction of undergraduate laboratory courses physics, chemistry, and biology which are taught in an entirely new cross-disciplinary and integrated manner. •Seminar course for undergraduates. This new course was established and in 2008 its enrollment tripled to ~300 early undergraduates.

More detail can be found at www.honors.ufl.edu/hhmi

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•Education minor with qualification to teach K-12 in Florida schools. This program was a major element in helping UF to obtain a multimillion dollar 2008 award from the ExxonMobil national math and science initiative to establish the “Florida Teach” program to train science teachers.

C) Faculty development (Emihovich/Duran) • HHMI Distinguished Mentor Awards were established for faculty, leading to endowment activities by colleges. The award is $5K/yr over a two year term and is based exclusively on merit criteria related to mentoring undergraduate researchers. This award was the first of its type at Florida and was an enormous success, with “after the fact” contributions increasing the number of awards to more than 35 in the initial four years of Science for Life. The resulting university-wide competitions have also been a great success and they engendered partnerships to expand the program to Morehouse, Furman and LSU.

•HHMI Faculty Fellow (HHMI-FF) awards in collaboration with Scripps Florida and Morehouse College. These are two-year teaching postdoc awards where the dean of UF’s education college also serves as a pedagogy mentor for the awardees. Goal: academic placement of HHMI-FF awardees, and externally funded research collaborations •Education elective for graduate students D) Outreach (Koroly/Sadler). The outreach portion of Science for Life was significantly reduced, but one year after our award we received the wonderful news that MJ Koroly was awarded her own stand-alone pre-collegiate award from HHMI and both programs collaborated. •the main effort supported by Science for Life is a two-week summer program involving training for in-service, high school teachers from UF Alliance schools. The schools are a set of four underperforming high schools in poor, inner city settings, with failing school grades.

Example 10) Organizing Groups and Events in Support of Research- NSF CAREER, Pan-REU: The last several years have given me direct experience in leading many activities of a research office that enhance grant funding: internal competitions for limited submission rfps, developing and managing travel awards and other internal programs, coordinating institutional matching and overhead reduction requests, messaging to deans and directors, campuswide training workshops, engaging industry and private sector partners, and other activities. Since early in my career, organizing groups, events, and meetings in support of enhanced research funding has been a high priority. These activities have given me the opportunity to interact with a broad range of institutions of higher education across the US. Recently, these types of activities have also been more and more in support of other faculty at LSU and their collaborators around the US and the world. As a result, I have put together teams of collaborators and program/steering committees on different occasions as well as organizing the significant local logistical support necessary to pull such events off. Several examples of larger-scale efforts are shown below and in other sections.

Jack Dixon visited Science for Life in the spring of 2008.

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INTERNATIONAL MENTORING SYMPOSIUM Mentoring Students for Placement in an International Setting: In the spring of 2016, I was PI of a team that hosted a three day workshop on international research. The event involved collaboration with 7 Native American Nations, twelve LSAMP programs, as well as representatives from the European Union, Brazil, Thailand, CERN, LIGO, Fulbright, AAC&U, and others and some 80 participants. The workshop led to a series of recommendations of characteristics that lead to authentic research success for undergraduates doing research in another country. It also considered themes in optimally connecting US and international mentors, and engaging students from socially disadvantaged and culturally displaced backgrounds, as well as students of color.

CAREER Workshop: In 2010, and in collaboration with Tulane and Southern Universities, I received a grant from NSF to host the first statewide workshop involving NSF early career faculty awardees (CAREER) in the history of this program (Grant 98). The two day workshop took place in fall 2011 and involved some 280 participants from nearly every higher education institution in Louisiana, representatives from six other EPSCoR states, and representatives from many school districts in the state. The program also involved collaborations with the LA Board of Regents and Department of Education.

Project summary: Exploring a Louisiana Academy of NSF CAREER Awardees Randy Duran (NSF NYI, 1993) and David Kirshner, LSU, Brian Mitchell, Tulane Univ.

Michelle Claville (NSF CAREER, 2009), Southern Univ. We propose a workshop and poster session for Louisiana (LA) NSF CAREER awardees. The overarching goals of the event are to seed an enduring organization of PYI, NYI, and CAREER awardees in the state, facilitate a broad group of young faculty to apply, consider topics of interest to LA and the region, and analyze award impact. The intellectual merit of the proposed project is in part from the proposed workshop. We plan a two day, mid week event. This meeting will unite some 50 awardees statewide for the first time, along with Vice-Provosts for Research from 22 Louisiana universities. In addition, we plan to include a variety of participants to realize the full potential of this event: a junior faculty “promising researcher” nominated by each Louisiana university to experience this community of excellence in manners difficult to achieve at home; practicing K-12 professionals to speak directly to educational and outreach needs and opportunities; and leaders from corresponding research offices in other states as a way to seed the NSF Career Academy idea regionally or nationally. We also plan to have a keynote lecture from a highly visible “success story” of a PYI/NYI/CAREER awardee. Participants at the workshop will discuss successes and best practices for our state and region, and promote broader participation in the NSF CAREER program. For perspective the approximately 60 awards made to LA since the program started have involved eight different institutions across the state. The Cain Center for STEM literacy, The LSU Provost, LSU Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, and the LA Board of Regents will co-host the event.

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Further intellectual merit is associated with seeding the proposed organization of a “Louisiana Academy of NSF CAREER Awardees”. This group would: (i) enhance continued career development of awardees, (ii) coordinate and strengthen educational/outreach activities, (iii) systematically identify, encourage and mentor potential future awardees, and (iv) undertake whatever additional scientific, policy, and service activities the awardees themselves may collectively determine. Finally, this group would also serve as a resource to stimulate collaborations across the state and to help young faculty be successful in applying for CAREERs. It is hoped that the group would subsequently seek an NSF grant for its activities. Michelle Claville, an awardee at Southern University will assist with optimizing this effort in the workshop and organizing the poster session with the PIs to feature best practices in the “educational plans” that are the common feature of all their NSF awards.

The broader impacts of the proposed work are in the assessment and dissemination. The project will compile data on the statewide regional impact of this award program. To this end, a collaboration has been established with Brian Mitchell, Associate Provost for Graduate Studies and Research at Tulane University. The LSU-Tulane collaboration will start by data gathering well in advance of the workshop (asap) and will continue for a 24 month period. The project will assess the impact of the NSF funding on the winners via trends in retention, longitudinal grant and professional success, and other indicators. The results will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. A second activity involves compiling a “yearbook” summary of awardees to date to serve in print form as a reference to policy makers, and as an updatable electronic database. The LSU Press has agreed to collaborate and host the latter effort.

The REU Leadership Group From 2001-2007, I was a member of the REU Leadership Group and am now a Past Chair. This group has the responsibility of articulating with ~70 REU Sites nationwide that span large R1 institutions, to MSI’s, to primarily undergraduate institutions, community colleges, and national laboratories. In 2004 I was PI of a successful NSF renewal proposal (grant 69) that expanded the group’s activities over a subsequent three years. The group continues today and hosted all the chemistry REU sites (~60) at a meeting in San Antonio Texas in the summer of 2015. Specifically, this activity and other HHMI, Beckman, REU, and now Keck activities have put me in routine contact with private primarily undergraduate colleges across the US for a number of years. Specifically, the Leadership Group (LG) has:

Created a travel grants program to help (50 per year) REU students attend the spring National Meeting of the ACS. Students submitting abstracts for presentations at the meeting can obtain a travel grant to help defray travel costs.

Organized a series of symposia around emerging themes in undergraduate research at each of the spring National ACS meetings beginning in 2002.

Continue to compile and evaluate data about the pool of students who apply to Chemistry REU programs nationwide.

Organized a workshop with the NSF LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) program.

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Met with directors from other “REU-type” programs to explore potential partnerships (NIH, and other federal agencies). This has now resulted in a multi-million dollar MOU between DoD and NSF for cofunding NSF REU sites and one site co-funded by NIH.

The NSF/AAAS Pan REU Workshop at Congress With more than 600 sites across the US and

around the world serving more that 6,000 science and

engineering undergraduates, the National Science

Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for

Undergraduates (REU) program is the largest single

science-based summer undergraduate program in the

US. The program has been supported for some 15

years and over this time it has generated very large

numbers of highly trained American scientists and

engineers that continue for graduate degrees

nationwide and around the world. I led the organization of a cross-disciplinary or “pan-

REU” Workshop in Washington DC from Sept 20-

22, 2005. I was assisted by a steering committee

spanning seven institutions across the US and about 15 NSF program directors. This was the first time

ever that the seven directorates of NSF and external agencies participated in such an event. The major goal of the workshop was to provide a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas spanning a wide range of divisions and directorates at NSF, and other agencies, to recognize and enhance the REU program across disciplines. The workshop lasted two days, with one day centered at NSF and a kick-off poster session at the House Science Subcommittee room at the Rayburn Building cosponsored by AAAS. The workshop was organized into six themes within three symposia: “Impact of the REU Program at the National Level”, “Impact of the REU Program on Students”, and “Running and Assessing REU Sites: Strategies and Models”. Other topics within these themes included:

Comparing, contrasting, and critiquing various models for REU (e.g., 10-12 week summer program, multi-week programs during the academic year, REU as a part of STC or ERCs, or international programs);

Stimulating REU programs in various divisions/directorates to find areas of commonality and differences including major elements of the programs and what works and what does not;

Creating or broadening new programs including supplements (e.g., RET, ethics programs), and entirely new interdisciplinary undergraduate research programs;

Enhancing REU interaction with national science meetings, other agencies and the corporate world;

Broadening diversity in the REU participant pool and the impact of REU sites; Comparing, contrasting and critiquing assessment tools and statistical analysis of the

programs.

Overall the poster session on the hill drew about 200 people including at least six congressmen, 38 congressional staffers, two university VPs and dozens of program directors. The subsequent workshop at NSF headquarters was in the National Science Boardroom and was attended

Economist C. Becker from Duke, R. Duran, and Congressman V. Ehlers

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by about 150, including site directors from 32 US states, DC, Puerto Rico, and Strasbourg, France. These participants were joined by delegations of key program officers from the NIH, NASA, DOE, HHMI, CUR, AAAS, DoD, McNair Scholars, and of course NSF to form the most complete gathering of the undergraduate research community in recent years. One followup activity involved an invitation by the AAAS legislative affairs staff to Washington DC so that I could brief them on workshop outcomes as Congressman S. Reyez had instructed his staff to begin the process of preparing legislation in support of additional funding for undergraduate research. The event was covered by Science Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and C&E News and a final report was submitted. Example 11) STEM Literacy and The Cain Center: My position at LSU has given me considerable experience in better articulating the K-12 world with higher education for enhanced funding, and above all to optimize student learning. This has also been invaluable in creatively implementing new funding models during challenging economic times. Likewise, the experience has strengthened my skills at leveraging these activities in support of their own underlying research and the ongoing research across the campus. I was hired at LSU as Executive Director of the Cain Center. The position has dual reporting to Academic Affairs and to the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. In the context of Academic Affairs, I work with the center leadership on strategic, nationwide, international, and long-range initiatives. The center currently has Alumni Professor of Mathematics Frank Neubrander as its Director of day-to-day operations. The center leads LSU in most aspects of K-12 STEM programs. Recent initiatives include a major role in “Engage New York’s” implementation of the mathematics curriculum for the Common Core. A college readiness program providing dual enrollment-level support for some 10,000 high school students in math, chemistry, physics and biology is slated to greatly increase in size next year (2016-7), adding English, kinesiology, history, and agriculture this year and already providing major tuition-based support for five colleges and the Cain Center. The center has negotiated a five year $2.5M contract to collaboratively launch several STEM initiatives (a biotechnology institute, computation, pre-engineering, robotics) within Lee High School, a school recently renovated by the East Baton Rouge School District with $1M of these funds for embedding graduate student assistant “externs” in the school as mentors. An example of initiatives is found in the 2009 abbreviated annual report below. My role is advisory on most of these activities, though I led its strategic plan in 2015 (example pages are on pages 34-5 below) and do directly collaborate with the center in the student services Abu Dhabi contract (page 16) and the iREU (page 38) and about 10 staff report to me and I am supporting a collaboration between the Cain Center, the “Mathematikum” museum in Giesen (Germany) and Baton Rouge’s new “Knock Knock” children’s museum currently under construction. I also support a new effort to use artificial intelligence and semantic web tools in support of a center for knowledge engineering applied to curricula. The goal is, among other things, to tailor curricula in hybrid learning environments to optimize learning gains a little analogous to approaches taken with personalized medicine. These efforts have given me experience in many aspects of productively bridging the worlds of K-12 and higher education. They have also given experience in communication with superintendents, teachers, and other stakeholders. The potential for funding, by tuition/fees, contracts, and grants in this area is significant and the potential for development has hardly been touched.

The Gordon A. Cain Center Abbreviated Report 2009

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Role/Scope/Mission: The Gordon A. Cain Center for Scientific, Technological, Engineering and Mathematical (STEM) Literacy fosters and supports STEM initiatives and collaborations among LSU faculty from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Basic Sciences, Education, and Engineering and serves as the bridge to link LSU to K-20 colleagues from across Louisiana. The Cain Center informs and educates policy-makers to support and improve teaching and learning in formal and non-formal education settings. It is committed to local, statewide, and national partnerships, and a research and evaluation agenda that is national in scope and statewide in approach. Supported by $36.8 million in current grant and contract support, the Center's primary 2009-10 project strands and strategic efforts are as follows.

The Cain Center houses and coordinates LSU’s undergraduate STEM teacher preparation program, GeauxTeach. With over 220 math and science freshmen and sophomores joining GeauxTeach since 1/1/2009, it has become one of the national leaders in recruiting students into secondary STEM teacher certification programs. In addition, The Cain Center is providing substantial extra-mural funding and professional support for recent college graduates and career-changers to receive Alternative Teacher Certification in STEM fields.

The Cain Center is coordinating the restructuring and expansion of LSU’s professional Masters of Natural Sciences (MNS) program for in-service teachers. It played a pivotal role in securing over $18,000,000 in federal funding for this purpose, positioning the MNS program to become one of the leading content-based professional master degree programs for teachers in the nation.

The Cain Center has become the key provider for K-12 STEM support and professional development in Louisiana, presently serving over 800 teachers per year. Key programs are traditional LaSIP projects, Math Science Partner-ships, Singapore Math Project with City of Baker School System, AP and Dual Enrollment Programs, School Reconstitution and Recovery School Assistance, STEM alternative teacher certification pathways, and the development of an advanced degree/certification program for content coaches and teacher leaders serving academically underperforming elementary schools.

The Cain Center is an active partner in several federally funded projects that address Louisiana’s dramatic shortage of undergraduates majoring in core STEM disciplines, the limited capacity of Louisiana high schools to adequately prepare students for STEM undergraduate study, and the need of the LSU STEM departments to implement recruiting, mentoring, and retention strategies that significantly enhance their competitiveness for federal support for their educational missions and goals. In particular, the Center supports STEM education initiatives such as (1) Summer Workshops and Camps for Students, Teachers and Faculty Members; (2) Leadership Training, (3) High School Tutoring Programs, (4) LSU’s STEM on the Geaux! Materials Resource Center, (4) Mentoring and Minority Recruiting Programs, (5) Robert Noyce Fellowships,

The Cain Center facilitates interactions between the K-12 statewide world and the most talented research faculty across all of LSU and business leaders. As such, (1) the Center advises STEM faculty in developing education- outreach and related initiatives, (2) collaborates with the LSU Graduate School to coordinate workshops on applying to the NSF graduate fellowship program (3) actively works with junior STEM faculty in developing the education components of NSF CAREER proposals, (4) coordinates LSU and faculty participation in science fairs and other outreach activities, (5) works with departments across several colleges to assist in recruiting new faculty to LSU (6) works with companies on collaborative educational activities, (7) participates in STEM policy boards and committees including assisting the state in submitting its

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Race to the Top proposal in 2010, and (8) generally works to integrate Research into Education in STEM Disciplines.

The Cain Center Evaluation Division has developed into a major operation directing the evaluation of several large-scale education initiatives for the Louisiana Department of Education, the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, and The Rapides Foundation in Alexandria. The Center also provides evaluation services for several NSF-funded programs in the Colleges of Education, Basic Sciences and Engineering, and provides assistance for developing the evaluation plans for proposals.

2) Need and Relevance: The Cain Center provides valuable, relevant services to our state and institution by successfully leveraging LSU's intellectual, pedagogical and technological capital to improve STEM education for the entire state of Louisiana and by focusing on projects and initiatives that connect the state's and industry’s K-20 STEM education and research priorities and needs with the overall mission of our flagship and land-grant university.

3) Faculty, Staff, and Student Participation:

Core Faculty: Randy Duran (Cain Chair and Executive Director), Frank Neubrander (Director), David Kirshner, James Madden, Nell McAnelly, Brenda Nixon, and Bill Wischusen (all Co-Directors). In addition, The Cain Center is providing direct support and resources to over 25 faculty from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Basic Sciences, Education, and Engineering.

Full-Time Staff: Catriona Anderson, Sharon Besson, David Blackburn, Leslie Blanchard, Belinda Brand, Robyn Carlin, Barbara Freiberg, Jennifer Loftin, Sharon Moses, Anthony Picado, and Cindy Sullivan. In addition, The Cain Center is supporting over 50 part-time coordinators, workshop consultants, and mentor teachers.

STEM Graduate students fully supported by Cain Center projects: 11

MNS graduate students supported (stipends and/or tuition & fees): 21 (2009-10) (projected growth to over 100 in 2011-12).

Undergraduate students supported (stipends): over 200 (Noyce and GK-12 Fellowships, NMSI stipends, etc.)

4) Research, Creative, Scholarly or Support Activity. The Cain Center is currently the lead or core collaborating partner in over 25 large-scale STEM education initiatives (see attached). As expected by the funding agencies, each project leads to measurable and substantial research, scholarly, or support activities that warrant continued funding. A major activity in 2009-10 was the search and hire of Randy Duran to the Cain Chair position. This involved a national search and resulted in significant evolution of the Cain Center structure. As Cain Chair, Duran was appointed to four units (Engineering, Education, Honors, and Basic Sciences) with an adjunct appointment at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. The four tenure-track faculty in the Cain Center were given formal partial appointments through the center. Four collaborators from other institutions (Morehouse College, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Southern, Univ. of Strasbourg) were given adjunct appointments at LSU and Bill Wischusen was given an adjunct appointment at Southern University. Appendix 1:

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Gordon A. Cain Center

Active Grants & Collaborations 2009

Name Funding Source PI’s Amount Years 1. Cain STEM on the Geaux! Materials Resource

Center Gordon A. Cain $500,000 Endow.

2. Quality Science and Math Program (QSM) Annual Appropriation $180,000 Annually

3. Math and Science Partnership Programs Louisiana DoE McAnelly, Nixon, Madden, Neubrander

$2,940,000

2004-11

4. EBRPSS/LSU/SU Partnership: Glen Oaks Middle School

Board of Regents Neubrander, Madden, McAnelly, Nixon, Meyinsse

$1,000,000 2006-10

5. LSU/SU Regional Collaborative for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching

Shell Oil Company, University TX Austin

Nixon, Meyinsse(SU) $205,000 2006-11

6. Baton Rouge Transition to Teaching Partnership US DoE Nixon, McAnelly, Neubrander $2,219,354 2007-11

7. Geaux Teach: A Replication of UTeach at LSU, SELU and Southern

National Math and Science Initiative

Wischusen, McAnelly , Nixon, Besson, Neubrander, Kirshner

$2,400,000 2008-12

8. Rapides Foundation Evaluation of the Systemic Init. Rapides Parish School s Nixon, McAnelly $391,523 2005-10

9. Project HPMP: Building a High Performing Math Program in the City of Baker Schools

LaSIP McAnelly, Baldridge $564,032 2008-11

10. LSU’s MNS: Supporting EBR Secondary Math/Science Coaching Model

LaSIP Madden, Neubrander, N. McAnelly $387,691 2008-11

11. Professional Master’s Degree Programs for K-12 STEM Teachers

Board of Regents Madden, Kirshner, Cherry, Maverick, Wischusen, et al

$140,336 2008-10

12. Human Resource Development in the Mathematical Sciences

Board of Regents Baldridge, Cygan Smolinsky, McAnelly, Neubrander, Madden

$140,000 2008-10

13. Minority Recruiting and Mentoring in Mathematics Board of Regents Tom, Lisan, Ferreyra, Neubrander $150,000 2008-10

14. High School Redesign Support: The LSU, LSUA, SELU, and SU Advanced Math Init.

LaSIP Neubrander, Rouse $183,510 2008-10

15. SEL Partnership for Noyce Scholars NSF Meyinsse, Nixon, Madden $750,000 2008-10

16. NSF GK-12 Fellows Program at LSU NSF Neubrander, Cartledge, Pang, Richardson, Warner

$1,558,502 2005-10

17. AP Incentive Program: LA AP Academy U.S. DoE Honore, Duhon, Neubrander $999,291 2006-10

18. Scholarships, Mentoring, and Academic Enhanc. Training for Science and Math Undergrad Students

NSF Pang, Smolinsky, Warner, Triantaphyllou, Neubrander

$492,560 2006-10

19. Integration of Education and Mentoring Programs at Louisiana State University

NSF Merget, Nixon, Neubrander, Li, Warner, Pang

$1,000,000 2009-14

20. LaRET Site: Linking Teachers with Researchers to Improve Engineering Education

NSF Waggenspack, Rusch, Nixon $499,998 2008-12

21. LaSIP Pilot Professional Development Project LaSIP McAnelly, Neubrander, Willis, Sulentic-Dowell

$965,000 2009-12

22. Teacher Quality Partnership: Central Louisiana Academic Residency For Teachers

US DoE Byerly, Fleener, Neubrander $13,200,000 2009-14

23. The Louisiana Math and Science Teacher Institute NSF Brister, Byerly, Cancienne, Madden

$5,000,000 2009-14

24. Evaluation for the EBRPSS American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Program

EBRPSS McAnelly, Nixon, Kennedy $346,000 2009-11

25. LSU NOYCE TIGERS: Teaching Investigating Guiding Engaging Researching Serving

NSF Fleener, Kirshner, Neubrander, Nixon, Gansle

600,000 2009-13

26. Louisiana Department of Education "Ensuring Numeracy For All" Evaluation

Louisiana DoE McAnelly, Nixon $54,488 2008-10

27. Early Science Learning Evaluation Audubon Nature Institute Nixon 5,000 2009-11

Total: $36,872,285

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The LSU Lakes Project This project is giving me experience interacting with the university community and regional stakeholders in a shared project between LSU and the community. It also is a first of its kind collaboration between

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the massive facilities planning office of LSU with the Office of Research and Economic Development. The LSU lakes, with running paths of more than 5 miles and a variety of attractive venues are one the most popular urban recreation venues in Baton Rouge. The lakes are co-owed by the city and university with miles of $1M+ homes lining the about half the shoreline. Unfortunately silting processes over the years have left an average depth of only 2.5 feet at this point and water quality concerns. The Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF) approached LSU, the city, and the neighbors about commissioning a master plan to dredge and rennovate the lakes in early 2014. This was enthusiastically approved and I became involved shortly afterwards in support of the research office.

After several meetings with the landscape architecture firms heading the design work, BRAF, the Army Corps of Engineers, and university leadership determined that the overall project would be in the range of $100M. At this juncture, I convened a campuswide committee with a charge of looking at scholarship and research that might naturally align with this massive project. In particular, the priority is to align potential university development and philanthropy, associated grants and contracts (such as water quality studies) , teaching opportunities so that the university community would have a chance to shape and to benefit from the project. The committee deliberated and developed a white paper and the abstract below identifies Health/Recreation and Wellness, Stewardship and Maintenance,

Research and Scholarship, Sense of Place, and Education and Teaching as five initial priorities to engage the faculty. In June of 2015, BRAF brought the master plan as well as our and other documents to the State Legislature with a request of $40M towards dredging and initial paths work. The State included the plan in a funding bill with the likelihood that an initial $3M and a potential additional $10M may be

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awarded this year. With bonds, milage, Corps of Engineers and other funding options also available the Committee is now gearing up to take next steps. At this juncture, Landscape Architecture laready plans to incorporate the master plan ( see http://www.batonrougelakes.org/ ) as an exercise in one of its studio courses such that students conceve alternative renderings of defined portions of the master plan It is hoped that some of these, in turn, will be used as additional elements to inform the public, shape the plan, and motivate additional funding. In any event, this will provide a uniquely timely and motivational tool to enhance student learning as part of a process that will take many years and for which the ultimate go, no-go, funding portfolio andscope remain uncertain .

Example 12) Promoting Diversity, Undergrad REU, and European Master’s Degree

Equivalence: I have been active in promoting diversity since my NSF NYI award in the 1990s. At LSU, I was able to secure Adjunct Professor status for my long-time collaborator Dr James Brown of Morehouse college. I was able to secure many grants with HBCU collaborators and organize a variety of events. I routinely interact directly with large numbers of minority serving institutions across the US. In the last year, I was able to negotiate conditions at Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Grenoble, for US undergraduates to obtain equivalence for the European “M2” year based on research experience in the US and abroad. Interactions with minority programs appear in several of the sections preceding this one and several more examples follow.

United Houma Nation Visit: In December 2014 I organized a formal visit of delegation from the United Houma Nation to the LSU campus. This followed a one-on-one visit with the principle chief in July and a visit of LSU Vice Chancellor and myself to the Houma in the fall.

http://www.batonrougelakes.org/

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LSAMP iREU Site in Translational Chemistry and European Master’s degree: In 2012, NSF awarded LSU’s first international REU Site and I am PI. The France/Belgium REU is also the first iREU site that recruits only from the nationwide LSAMP community. Through this and several other LSAMP related interactions, I now have a strong working relationship with dozens of small and large minority serving institutions across the US. In its first three years, the site has sent 28 students to Grenoble, Lille, Leuven, and Toulouse and is already closing in on 10 peer-reviewed publications from participants. The recruiting has been nationwide and 84% students of color. Of note in 2014 is that three Native Americans were sent abroad (one to Brazil with endowment funds), a contract to collaboratively send two students from Spelman to Europe also occurred in 2014. Over the last three years, we launched two distinctive features of the program. First, we no longer recruit

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students via a traditional application process. Instead, we require nominations from an LSAMP faculty member who knows the student well. We also require a statement from a mentor with specifics as to what skills each student has that make them a good match for a (top choice) French or Belgian mentor that is identified as part of the nomination. We also abolished “end of program reports” instead, we require early identification of the European mentor and a corresponding US co-mentor that each receive a short weekly report, with a targeted goal of “one publication quality result each week” from the US participant. In this way, both mentors have a much closer relationship with the student and the barriers to collaboration between the mentors are greatly reduced.

In 2015, we were able to negotiate two significant breakthroughs in preparing for a five year renewal proposal. The first is the agreement by the “ecoles docorales” of Grenoble, Toulouse, and Bordeaux that each will work to provide a route for US undergraduates to equivalence with the European Masters (or “M2” year at their institutions. The significance is that this will allow US students to start directly on the Doctoral degree, which is funded, compared to having to first go through master’s degree years, which only receive token funding. In particular, the equivalence is based on the US Bachelor’s degree, multiple semesters of undergraduate research, and six months of full-time research abroad. As second feature will be several $5K awards designed to catalyze collaboration between several of most promising pairs of US and European mentors each year. The hypothesis is that by adding value of a degree equivalence to the student experience and enhancing communication between the mentors that a more solid basis for student learning gains will be realized. NSF-funded Participants for the initial three years are shown below.

Olaseni Sode was a summer undergraduate researcher in 2005 at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (Toulouse). After a PhD at Illinois, he won a Ford Foundation award to continue with a postdoc in computational chemistry at the University of Chicago. He is joining the chemistry faculty at

the University of Tampa as an Assistant Professor starting in August. This summer I invited him to the French American workshop in Grenoble where he gave an inspirational talk entitled “Electron Transfer and Proton Transport in [FeFe]-Hydrogenase with Multiscale Computer Simulations” to a large group of undergraduate researchers.

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Name LSAMP Minority

Grad School Pub/Pres Location

2013

Edgar Campbell CSU-LSAMP Hispanic Stanford Yes1/No Grenoble

Drew Harding No - LSU White Texas A&M No/Yes 2 Grenoble

Aaron Hargrove GA LSAMP Afr Am St. Louis College of Pharmacy Yes3 4/No Grenoble

Jessica Jones VA-NC LSAMP Afr Am 7th Grade Science Teacher No/No Grenoble

Rachelle Richardson LS-LAMP Afr Am Applying to grad schools Yes5 / Yes6 7 Grenoble

Christopher Wills GA LSAMP Afr Am Rice University Yes8 9/No Grenoble

2014

Dara Bobb-Semple SUNY LSAMP Afr Am Stanford Yes10 11 /No Leuven

Jacinto de la Cruz CSU-LSAMP Hispanic Applied to grad schools Yes 12 13 Lille

Rosalyn Kent LS-LAMP Afr Am University of Michigan Yes 14 15 16 17 Lille

Corey Landry LS-LAMP White Georgia Tech Yes 18 19/ Yes20 21 Grenoble

Erika McClain LS-LAMP Afr Am Applying for Ph.D/MD Yes22/Yes23 24 Lille

Manon Raval No - Illinois White MIT Yes25,26 Leuven

Keely Redhage OK-LSAMP Nat Am Mayo Clinic No Lille

Dhruv Seshadri No - CWRU White Texas A&M Yes27/Yes28 29 30 31 Grenoble

Monica Trejo CSU-LSAMP Hispanic Industrial Job No Grenoble

Ashlie Walker OK-LSAMP Nat Am University of Kansas Yes32/ Yes33 34 35 Grenoble

Jonathon Watson LS-LAMP Afr Am Still undergrad No/Yes 36 Grenoble

2015

Andres Guerrero Criado OK-LSAMP Hispanic Still undergrad Yes37/Yes38 39 40 41 Grenoble

Dakari Franklin GA LSAMP Afr Am Still undergrad No/Yes42 43 44 Grenoble

Natisnet Ghebrendrias CSU-LSAMP Afr Am Still undergrad No/Yes45 46 Toulouse

Amir Hobson GA LSAMP Afr Am Applying for Ph.D/MD No/Yes47 48 Grenoble

Anastasia LeBeaud LS-LAMP White Applying for Ph.D/MD No/Yes49 50 51 Grenoble

Nick Means OK-LSAMP Hispanic Applying for Ph.D

Yes52/Yes 53 54 Grenoble

Lydia Mensah LS-LAMP Afr Am University of Michigan Yes55/Yes56 57 58 59 60 61

Grenoble

Alexandra Saxberg CSU-LSAMP Hispanic Still undergrad No/Yes62 63 Toulouse

Roberto Tovar CSU-LSAMP Hispanic Applying to grad school Toulouse

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Towards an LSAMP Center for International Undergraduate Research In 2008 NSF funded a proposal to test the feasibility of establishing an LSAMP Center for International Undergraduate Research (Grant 93). The idea behind this center is to connect the 41 LSAMP Programs nationally with a similar number of international REU Sites. We initially designated France, Brazil, Argentina, and Ghana as “primary” host sites since UF directly managed active NSF REU grants with each of these at the time. Half of the LSAMP students are thus embedded in the summer activities of one of these countries and half will be embedded in one of more than 20 other REU Sites spanning much of

the globe and many STEM research areas. As PI of this grant, I have maintained close contact with many of the LSAMP programs nationwide and dozens of REU PIs. A copy of the flyer we prepared to advertise the program is shown below. The initial year proved to be a great success, and with my move to LSU, we applied for a second $600K pilot. This expanded second year program adds collaborations with international research locations and with international research laboratories of major (IBM, ExxonMobil, BASF, Schlumberger, for example). Though not yet fully funded, the effort is a priority for me. Morehouse Hopps Scholars and other Diversity Poster Sessions: In 2013, and in collaboration with the Honos College at LSU, I organized a poster session, program, and six near-simultaneous seminars by Morehouse science faculty in support of their Hopps scholars. More detail is shown in the abstracts below, but nearly 50 African American Hopps Scholars presented posters

with a similar number of LSU undergraduates and hundreds attended.

Means Nick Oklahoma Grenoble UJF 1 Hispanic Oklahoma State Univ

Criado Andres GuerreroOklahoma Grenoble UJF 2 Hispanic Oklahoma State Univ

Tovar Roberto CSU-LSAMP Toulouse 1 Hispanic San Jose State

Saxberg Alexandra CSU-LSAMP Toulouse 2 Hispanic Cal State Fresno

Franklin Dakari Georgia Grenoble GIIP1 African Am Morehouse

Hobson Amir Georgia Grenoble GIIP2 African Am Morehouse

Mensah Lydia LS-LAMP Grenoble GIIP3 African Am Xavier Univ LA

LaBeaud Anastasia LS-LAMP Grenoble GIIP4 White Xavier Univ LA

Ghebrendrias Natisnet CSU-LSAMP Toulouse 3 African Am Cal State Fresno

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For eight years in the 2000s, I led a fall undergraduate poster session at Florida involving our REU programs and students from HBCU institutions. With co-organizers M. Scott, B. Smith, and faculty from the HBCUs we have steadily grown these events each year. In the fall of 2007, we were able to partner with the Florida Museum of Natural History to host a much larger fall poster sessions. Some 100 posters were presented and groups came from Dillard, Morehouse, Lincoln, Univ Puerto Rico, Spelman, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, as well as other undergraduate REU students from all across the US. The posters were displayed in the main exhibit area and left up for the entire week so that the general public and school groups, numbering ~800, could benefit. I have also been active with the NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) and HBCU-UP communities for a number of years. In 2003 I co-organized an LSAMP/REU workshop at NSF headquarters. This was followed up in 2005 by co-organizing a large poster session at the national ACS meeting. In 2006 and 2008, I was an invited plenary speaker at the NSF Joint Annual Meeting (2,000 participants) in the LSAMP session. In Oct 2006, I was invited to participate in the Florida A&M NSF LSAMP renewal proposal in terms of an international undergraduate research activity for minority students. Finally, after inviting her to the Pan REU Workshop, I assisted

Top: LSU leadership with June Hopps, who accompanied the students Center: J Sullivan/J Erdman, Design/Architecture respectively in front of their display Bottom: students at poster session

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Associate Dean Vivian Correa in bringing Cheryl McNair (McNair Scholars) to the Florida campus in 2006. At LSU, I nominated bringing Shirley Malcolm (AAAS) to the campus in Nov 2010.

The Department of Defense Initiative and LSU/Xavier/Jefferson Parish DoD STEM Center Initiative When I started at LSU, I worked with Vice Chancellor of Research Brooks Keel to do a gap analysis of research funding at LSU. This revealed low NIH support and very low support by the US Department of Defense (Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA). We developed a multifaceted plan to increase DoD support, which was not implemented due to his departure. However, in the summer of 2010, we were able to organize a large ($5M) proposal to the US Army HBCU STEM center program in collaboration with Xavier university and Jefferson Parish schools. The abstract of this major proposal is below. This one “just missed” (half a point and it went to Jackson State in this case) – but remains of interest to me.

XU/LSU DoD STEM Research Center: Taking the lab to the field

Gloria Thomas, Xavier University PI Randy Duran, LSU PI

Evgueni Nesterov, LSU DuPont Durst, US Army ECBC

“Taking the Lab to the Field”, or ‘Lab to Field’ for brevity is a proposed DoD-supported STEM Research Center at Xavier University of Louisiana, in partnership with Louisiana State University (LSU) and Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC). The ‘Lab to Field’ Center research focus will be on various aspects of research related to field-deployable measurements appropriate for ‘fields’ ranging from urban locales to wetlands, atmospheric, manufacturing, and rural landscapes, and measurements that include chemical, environmental and biological targets. The projects will range from fundamental research in mechanisms and pathways, to enabling materials/physics/surface chemistry areas, to applications such as the development of sensors and instrumentation. Research teams will consist of XU and LSU faculty and students from chemistry and physics, Edgewood scientists, teaching postdoctoral fellows and high school teachers. The overarching theme is to involve Xavier and LSU minority students in projects that persist over an extended timeframe and culminate in collaborative research experiences at ECBC.

The 2003 REU/LSAMP Workshop

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The corresponding education/outreach/workforce development activities center on the collaborative development of two parallel Masters Degree tracks. The Masters in Natural Science will provide in-service teachers with professional development in chemistry and physics while integrating them in the center’s research projects. We will collaborate with the Jefferson Parish school system, a high minority-serving district that is one of the epicenters of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and adjacent to Xavier. We will also work towards developing a new XU/LSU professional Masters Degree for center participants with a ‘Lab to Field’ focus. The reinforcing ‘Lab to Field’ research and education themes are structured to address the national need for innovative models that provide students of color with motivational pathways to discover and excel in research that has field-based or translational components. Structured and highly integrated involvement of the K-12 through faculty and ECBC scientists will establish a sustainable pathway for workforce development. ECBC will not only host students and teachers, but will also partner in enhancing curricular content by translational efforts to bring its DoD results to a broader and diverse community.

Other REUs: In the early 1990s I was a founding coauthor of Florida’s NSF REU proposal, led several of the renewal and supplement proposals, and directed and/or participated in one or more REU programs in most years since then. This involved working with multiple academic support units including the registrar, implementing international exchange agreements, academic advising, student health services, libraries, housing, minority programs, and others. With C. Quivoron (Paris) and M. Vala (Florida) I also established the US/France REU program in 1997 and helped negotiate its cofunding with the French Ministry of Education and the CNRS (through Univ. Paris VI, Univ. Bordeaux I, and then Univ. Louis Pasteur). Significant numbers of participants were honored: Goldwater Scholars (E. Manning, Z. Sandlin, K. Johnson, K. Griffeths, J. Smith, T. Miller, V. Ulery, A. Taube, E. Homan and others), NSF Predoctoral Fellows (J. Logan, B. Thompson, N. Aboellela, E. Homan and others), Fulbright Scholar (J. Watawa and others) , Marshall (S Robinette) and Rhodes Scholar (M. Sweet) and at this point more than seven alums of the programs have accepted faculty positions. I served on the NSF International REU best practices workshop in 2001 and am a past chair of the NSF Chemistry Division REU Leadership Group. The US/France REU program was featured in an NSF presentation at the UN World Summit in Johanessburg in fall 2002, was submitted to NSF’s report to Congress in 2002, and was featured nationwide in 20915 in a broadening impacts workshop. I organized a number of REU science workshops with eminent scientist-participants including a poster session in Paris in Sept. 2008, and a workshop for Univ Campinas (Brazil) in August 2009 that set a new attendance record for NSF science workshops abroad. Other examples include:

1999, Florida with G. Stucky (Santa Barbara), C. Sanchez (Paris), M. In (Rhodia/Princeton) and D. Massiot (Orleans)

2000, Paris with J. Livage (Paris), J. Frechet (Berkeley), M. Salmaron (LBL/Berkeley), A. Gourdon (Toulouse)

2001, Montpellier with A. Hoffmann (Seattle), S. Webber (Austin), O. Eisenstein (Montpellier), C. Royer (Montpellier)

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2002, Strasbourg with A. Bard, A. Cowley, A. Campion, (Austin) A. Katritzky, K. Schanze, R. Bartlett, (Florida), E. Rose, B. Charleux (Paris), JP. Sauvage, M. Rhomer (Strasbourg) and approx 100 participants http://www.chem.ufl.edu/~duran/IGERT/june13-15mtg.pdf

In 2002, we started a fall REU poster session which has grown to include students from two HBCU institutions and some 150 attendees and the creativity event introduced in the section above on Science for Life.

The US/France REU was renewed in 2004 with an approx 50% budget increase and again in 2007 featuring partnerships with Furman and Morehouse. Another version was funded again at LSU in 2012 as noted above (the original remained funded and continues at Florida). South America In 2000 NSF awarded a supplement to send three US undergrads to Sao Paulo and in 2006 an NSF planning grant for South America was funded. As a result of this, a proposal was funded by NSF in 2008 to establish a bidirectional program with Brazil and Argentina. Notable in the South American initiative is cofunding we were able to negotiate with FAPESP (the science agency of the state of Sao Paulo) and the Argentinean Ministry of Education to make this a bidirectional initiative. This also made possible the proposed placement of 15 South American undergrads in the US per year and indeed some 40 REU Sites from all across the US volunteered to house such students at their own cost. In Dec 2009, I organized a two day visit of Fernando Costa, President of UNICAMP to LSU. Overall this activity has resulted in one Rhodes Scholar, one Marshall, at least one Fulbright, approximately 15 Goldwater awardees, and more than a dozen NSF Graduate Research Fellowships,

A Special Presentation of the Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Programs University of Florida

Brain Institute Auditorium Friday, June 23, 2000 – 8am

Live Teleconference Between UF and Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Introduction – 8 am Provost David Colburn, University of Florida

Promoting Science and Technology Cooperation between the US and France – 8:05 am Professor J.F. Large, Scientific Counsel to the French Ambassador, Washington, D.C.

Chemistry with Individual Atoms and Molecules – 8:15 am Dr. Miguel Salmeron, LBNL – University of California – Berkeley, CA

Design and Properties of Biogels – 9:20 am Professor Jacques Livage, Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris, France

Coffee Break – 10:35 – 11:00 am

Molecular electronics : from Solution Studies to Single Molecule Devices – 11 am Dr. André Gourdon, CEMES – Université de Toulouse, France

Concluding Remarks - 12:15pm Prof. Michael Scott, University of Florida

Made possible by the generous support of

For more information contact: [email protected]

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approximately 200 of the participants have continued with graduate studies at many locations in the US, Europe, and Canada. I have organized two symposia at national ACS meetings in this area and have given a number of presentations in the US and Europe and manuscript 78 . Grant support has been maintained over many years as reflected by grants 24, 28, 36, 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 59, 51, 56, 57, 58, 61, 65, 70, 71, 74, 83, 84, 86, 90, 92, 93, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109. Overall these diversity activities have resulted in meeting presentations 80, 75, 71b, 71f, 62, seminars 180, 172, 148, 137,

and 116, and grants 86, 84, 69, 65, 50, 36, and recommended proposal number 3 (page 63).

Example 13) Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching and Educational Activity: At LSU, I teach one course per year and most recently taught sophomore Organic Chemistry for the first time in my career. I remain interested in new ways of teaching part of this and in anticipation of other educational policy developments that will impact the HHMI program and broader LSU course offerings for premedical students. The HHMI core lab gave me invaluable experience with the planning, staffing, and operations of the nation’s first combined undergraduate biology/chemistry/physics laboratory located in a medical complex and its subsequent move to a purpose built facility in Biomedical engineering. I have been involved in a variety of teaching and course development initiatives. Combined with reporting to Academic Affairs for the last six years has given me experience in a range of academic policies and issues. For many years, I have been a proponent of additional research-for-credit and tutorial activities as academic underpinnings of independent study and undergraduate research. Previous sections have introduced several academic initiatives and a few more examples are below. I developed two courses and taught an average of two courses per year in the 20 years I was at Florida. I taught graduate polymer physical chemistry, graduate polymer physical chemistry laboratory, undergraduate thermodynamics and kinetics, and 5 different undergraduate general chemistry courses. I also redeveloped and taught the accelerated one semester honors general chemistry course. I sought to be the first faculty member at Florida to have taught the undergraduate Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and introductory physics (Physics Dept.)courses. I have also led a team-taught large (1000 student, 3 faculty, 6 T.A.) general chemistry course. I taught thermodynamics and have given workshops on undergraduate teaching in French. In 1996, I was selected as one of ~150 from a pool of ~2500 eligible faculty as a Teaching Improvement Program Awardee ($5000 salary increase). I have served on teaching committees and consulted with major academic publishers to improve text content and new media tools. In 1998, I developed a one-week short course on polymer chemistry for Argonne National Laboratory. On several occasions I organized and led teaching-related proposals and worked to establish a new joint PhD degree program, which was awarded to one of my graduate students as noted above.

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Courses developed: I developed a graduate Physical Chemistry of Polymers course and have taught this course eight times. In 1996, I developed extensive web material for a general chemistry course and this was used with three sections (about 900 students). This was the first large use of web-assisted teaching in chemistry at Florida and by far the largest web-assisted course in all the university as of that time. The CHM2047 Course: For close to ten years I taught a one-semester general chemistry course, the highest level honors course offered by the department capped at 45 students. Starting in 2004, in collaboration with Florida’s academic advising office, this course was expanded to two sections. I implemented several innovations. The first of these is an honors seminar course wherein students agree to attend ten research seminars around campus over the course of the semester. The seminars are focused on a scientific theme and the students read introductory material beforehand. Participants also write a series of short typed essays on each seminar for one credit of advanced independent study. About 2/3 of the course took advantage of this opportunity in 2003 and many are now doing research with various groups across campus. In 2003 I implemented two “alumni teaching assistant” positions. These were taken by top 2047 students from the previous year. The alumni TAs met with the class for 30 minutes before each lecture (8am – with remarkable attendance) and “previewed the lecture topic. These TAs also helped bridge the gaps between lecture content and a laboratory course also associated with chm2047. Finally, the alumni TAs held homework solving sessions at the honors dormitories two evenings per week. The alumni TAs receive one credit of advanced independent study with a grade. This activity is particularly useful for students interested in an eventual teaching career. For 2004, I implemented “The Florida Honors Chemistry Volunteers Program”. The idea is that Florida has a very large population of honors students who return to their homes all across the state many weekends each semester. Furthermore, many Florida honors students are not destined for research careers yet they seek experience that will broaden their backgrounds. This program linked with the chm2047 course and provided motivated students a means to sign up for one additional credit of IDH or CHM independent activities. The idea is to take advantage of the numbers of UF students who return to their hometowns in Florida each weekend. Participants volunteered to work with a high school teacher and a small group of advanced chemistry high school students from their hometown or in the area schools around Gainesville. They tutored students on advanced chemistry topics over at least seven weekends during the semester, composed a diary/log of their activities, and maintained e-mail contact. The high school teacher tracked student progress and commented on the progress of the high school students. This program is an activity for Florida students to strengthen their chemistry skills while reaching out to the community in a valuable way. Furthermore, this provides very positive and visible outreach to the high schools and especially those high school science teachers that feed the Florida Honors Program. High school students get great tutoring and an inside track on what to expect at the college level. This course has been used as part of the proposed activities in grant 67 and proposal 5.

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IDH 3931 Science for Life: As part of the HHMI award, Ben Dunn, other members of my executive committee and I developed the new IDH3931 Science for Life seminar course. Setting up this course required close interaction with UF Academic Advising. In this weekly seminar course, students learn about the opportunities available in top faculty laboratories campuswide. During each session, three professors from several colleges, Scripps-Florida, and occasionally other renowned visitors to UF do presentations on modern topics in the life sciences with some emphasis on the biological and health sciences. About forty faculty per semester have been scheduled for each of the last 5 semesters. The faculty present brief summaries of their laboratory philosophy and research interests. As part of the course, students contact at least four professors to learn more information and prepare a report on each of them. The topics will be new each semester and students may register up to three times for the course series accumulating up to 3 credits over 3 semesters. The course has operating from in the McKnight Brain Institute and UF Genetics Institute Auditoriums and other locations in an attempt to showcase different areas to the early undergraduates who populate it. It should be noted that enrollment in the course nearly tripled to about 300 for fall 2008. Medical student Initiative and PUI schools In 2007, the success of the seminar course was such that we received approval to develop a complementary on-line version. The idea is that with each semester we accumulate ~40 more video presentations of the faculty mentors. At this moment we have a library of about 90 presentations. We are implementing an on-line version of the course that takes advantage of this digital library and has been approved as an elective course by UF’s Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine. The idea is that these professional students will be encouraged to take the course, either on-line or “live” with the freshmen each week as they wish. This will be the first ever freshman/professional student course at UF. The other elements of the medical student initiative are to make this an integrated university-wide effort to promote more basic research activity by our professional students. With Professors Colin Sumners and Ben Dunn, we developed several research tracks that articulate how students can optimally move through undergraduate through post medical school in an integrated research intensive manner. We also successfully obtained approval for an institution-wide supplement of $15K to recipients of the HHMI Medical Fellows program. Finally, the seminar course has been embraced by both Furman and UPR-Cayey as part of their proposed HHMI Colleges Programs. The idea is that the on-line versions of the seminars can provide early undergraduates at these institutions an introduction to specialized research areas (example – deep brain stimulation with microelectrodes) that they would not have on campus in such a way that local faculty can guide/animate the topics and or make a hybrid course by supplementing with some “live” lectures by their own faculty. Science Education Minor: In an effort being led by Professor Troy Sadler in the UF College of Education and as part of our HHMI award, I assisted in the implementation of a new science education minor at UF. The Science Education Minor consists of 18 credit hours, and students majoring in any science discipline are eligible to add the minor to their degrees. The minor involves coursework offered through the UF College of Education and field experiences in local schools. The program has four interrelated foci. First, the program challenges students to build expertise in the teaching, learning and assessment of science. Second, the program prepares students for science teaching certification in grades 6-12. Third, the program promotes science teaching as a viable and exciting profession for talented individuals interested in the sciences. Finally, the program introduces science education as an academic discipline with its own unique set of theoretical underpinnings, methods and standards of inquiry. It should be noted that our initial discussions of this idea were then picked up by Professors Alan Dorsey of Physics, Troy Sadler, Dave Richardson of Chemistry and spun off “Florida Teach”

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which was endorsed by the UF administration as an LBR and as noted above UF also won a large “U-Teach” replication award in the Exxon National Math and Science Initiative and immediately secured the required $1M match from the Helios Foundation. HHMI Undergraduate Core Laboratory: The operations of undergraduate laboratories in chemistry (freshman chemistry lab), physics, and biology are among the most expensive at any institution. At smaller institutions, these labs often remain idle or underutilized for much of the day. Under my leadership and in another effort linked to the HHMI award, Professor David Julian of the Zoology Department and a committee he established that spanned five colleges to establish a

new freshmen laboratory teaching facility. This involved continual deep discussions with many UF support services including considerations on enrollment management and tracking. The interdisciplinary HHMI Undergraduate Core Laboratory (HHMI UCL) provided faculty and students with the opportunity to fundamentally change undergraduate life-sciences instruction at UF. Located in the Health Science complex, the HHMI UCL started with courses in the spring of 2008 as a flexible, purpose-designed laboratory facility that promoted interdisciplinary laboratory instruction by providing a centralized location to house cutting-edge biology laboratory instrumentation and staff expertise, as well as shared reagents and standard laboratory equipment. This facility was designed to facilitate and promote coordination across departments that were historically separated in undergraduate coursework, while also increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness with which traditional undergraduate laboratory courses could be taught. I negotiated authorization for a faculty search, chaired by D Julian, to staff this facility. I also led efforts to integrate the new faculty applications to the NSF Career program with HHMI-UCL, the Courtelis $250K match, and industrial gift giving with Margaret Atherton at Univ. of Florida Foundation. The laboratory was then slated to expand into purose-designed space in Florida’s biomedical engineering building (above). While I left Florida for LSU, this effort continues at the “X laboratory” http://x-laboratory.org/ . Undergraduate Educational tools: In 1995, I served as a consultant with Addison Wesley/Benjamin Cummings for the “Activchemistry” laboratory simulation software (see http://heg-school.awl.com/bc/companion/actchem/overview.html). I worked extensively as one of a six-member team to review alpha software, suggest functionality, edit lessons, and suggest appropriate laboratory modules to be covered. From 1998 to 2007, I served as a consultant for McGraw Hill and the Silberberg general chemistry text now adopted by dozens of major universities and colleges around the U.S.. I served as the materials consultant (see http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/ chemistry/silberberg/author.mhtml) for the second and third editions, did extensive reviewing of the entire text, and provided drafts of the liquid crystals and polymer chemistry sections to the author. I also served as media consultant and worked closely with the author and animator to develop 10 animations to accompany the text. I have given several seminars and workshops on incorporating multimedia tools in large general chemistry courses.

In 2010 the HHMI-UCL was slated to expand into new space in the Biomedical Sciences Building in collaboration with the Department of Biomedical Engineering in collaboration with then chair W. Ditto.

http://x-laboratory.org/

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Educational Proposals and Initiatives: In 1994, I led a proposal to the Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GANN) program. This involved cross-training of graduate students between the chemistry, mathematics, and physics departments at Florida; Florida did provide “seed” graduate fellowship funds to all three departments so that graduate students could gain teaching assistanceship experience in one of the other departments. About 30 companies pledged

matching support totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars but unfortunately the proposal failed. In 1995 (with C. Foti from Florida’s College of Education), I led a proposal to New Media Centers to develop interdisciplinary multimedia teaching supplements. I successfully obtained funds from NSF for high school teachers and students to be integrated into Florida’s REU site; in 1995 (D. Riggins , AM Heller) and 1997 (R. Stoesz) did research in Florida and France respectively for the summer; in 1997 Prof. T. Adams of Florida’s College of Education and I arranged for two pre-service teachers to perform REU research and shadow high school science teachers. In 1999 Dr. D. Powell and I led a proposal to the Dreyfus Foundation special grants in chemistry to establish an interdisciplinary course on chromatography, light scattering, and mass spectroscopy for chemistry and health science students at Florida. In 1999 and 2000 I led two proposals to NSF Division of Materials Research educational initiative to establish an “Interactive Polymer Laboratory Training Program” (also not funded).

For several years I adopted the chem. skill builder problem solving software for large general chemistry sections. In 2001, I taught a large (300 student) general chemistry course with WebCT. I also used the Hyper-Interactive Teaching Technology (www.h-itt.com) IR-based receivers and software in the honors undergraduate curriculum. Overall these activities resulted in seminars 110, 102, 96, 94, 91, 88, 86, and 85 and grant 41. Example 14) International Activities: Supporting research that has international components and revealing/optimizing/developing funding opportunities with funding agencies abroad is part of my portfolio at LSU. A master agreement and strategic partnership in research and economic development, as well as European Union funding have all provided invaluable experience

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in expanding the global reach of LSU. My international experience starts with the great honor of being an invited professor (mostly one month each) for 15 times over the last 20 years and adjunct professor at the University of Bordeaux for several years, in addition to a variety of international experiences over several decades have given me broad experience in managing these interactions and developing programs that optimize student learning and professional impact. Some of these programs have been presented in previous sections and a few more are below. Unlike many of the other programs and grants in the previous examples, significant international interactions take longer to bring to fruition and have given me experience in cultivating professional relationships over long periods of time. Two years ago, the LSU research office was given the authority to sign research-based MoUs (study abroad and academic-centered agreements remain centered in the international programs office). We signed research MoUs with Grenoble (including a new strategic partnership agreement just approved), Romania, Toulouse, Chennai, Kochi , IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and Abu Dhabi, and Croatia and I am working on Panama, Qatar, Paris, Indonesia, and a few others. Indeed, International activities have been a significant part of my efforts over my entire career. In 2009 I received the great honor of being named as “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academique” by the French Embassy including a ceremony and medal. This award is given for lifetime contribution to French Education. The activities have spanned student exchanges to funded research collaborations, scientific meetings, and activities related to science policy and best practices. Overall my activities have resulted in grants 105, 103, 102, 101, 97, 95, 94, 93, 92, 90, 87, 86, 71, 70, 65, 63, 62, 61, 55, 54, 50, 48, 46, 45, 26, 23, proposals 1, 2 and 3 (on page 71), and meetings 115, 114, 113, 112, 111, 110, 109, 108, 107, 104, 103, 101, 100, 99, 77, 71, 62, 59, 57, 54b, 52a, 52g. At Florida, I was also on the Academic Affairs SACSCOC committee for the institution’s work on internationalization. Over my career, more than three hundred American students have been sent to “deep immersion” research experiences abroad by the programs for which I obtained grant funding. Likewise, reverse exchanges steadily built the graduate programs at Florida from zero to a steady state of a few dozen French doctoral graduate students in Chemistry and several other departments at UF. For the last several years, I have been interested in better understanding the personal and professional attributes that lead to research success in a deep-immersion international setting. After collecting mentor data, I presented an initial set of results in spring 2015 at the national American Chemical Society meeting. This resulted in a second workshop, focused on a panel of students who obtained publications from their research abroad at a national LSAMP meeting in the fall of 2015. Just recently, NSF recommended for funding a focused effort to systematize these charateristics. The latter will be done in collaboration with SACNAS, the LSAMP community, and five Indian Nations. The abstract of the proposal (proposal 3 , Page 71) is pasted below.

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HOW TO MENTOR STUDENTS FOR PLACEMENT IN AN INTERNATIONAL SETTING:

ENGAGING STUDENTS – ENGAGING MENTORS

Randy Duran, Office of Research and Economic Development, Louisiana State University,

[email protected]

Jason F. Kirksey, PI Oklahoma LSAMP, and Vice President for Institutional Diversity Oklahoma state

University, [email protected]

LeRoy Jones II, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Director of the Louis Stokes Midwest Center

of Excellence, Chicago State University, [email protected]

The US/France/Belgium iREU Site in Translational Chemistry, collaborating with Oklahoma State

University (OSU) Stillwater campus, Louisiana State University (LSU), and the Louis Stokes Midwest

Center for Excellence (LSMCE) propose two interrelated activities that will strengthen the experiences of

Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) scholars and other students of color as they

seek and conduct research experiences abroad. While a growing number of funded international

research experiences are becoming available, many students are not well prepared or work for mentors

who are not engaged with international collaborators. The project will also include representatives

including but not limited to, the Houma, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Muscogee, and Potawatomi Nations.

Intellectual merit: The symposium will involve 15 participants funded by NSF and a significant number

of others to enhance active engagement of U.S. students at their foreign sites and to establish new

international collaborations. The overarching hypothesis is that when U.S. mentors are able to

strengthen targeted “non-traditional-academic” skills and attributes in REU students, those students will

subsequently have more research productivity while they are abroad. We envision a symposium that

will develop a set of best practices and recommendations in the context of “Student Learning

Outcomes” to enhance the mentoring of undergraduate students interested in an international

experience. Likewise, by optimally engaging the NSF LSAMP mentors of eligible students, additional

opportunities for extended research abroad will ensue. The research development of the iREU students

will be enhanced by U.S. mentors spending time abroad, by extending the total time abroad for a given

project and/or by having the research return to their U.S. labs.

Broader Impact: This effort will enable the creation of a concise report with a set of recommendations

in the context of Student Learning Outcomes that can be adopted by higher education institutions and

best practices that can easily be broadly disseminated. The symposium will directly impact the NSF

Belgium/France iREU site on Translational Chemistry and all international REU sites. The symposium will

also be webcast to a broader audience, presenting a diverse range of contexts through which to inform

the mentoring process. Activities involving visits and interactions with the five participating American

Indian Nations will be one defining feature of the event. Indeed, asynchronous webcasts and the report

resulting from event will be inspirational to a broader audience as the Houma are a francophone nation

and others have centuries-old ties to Europe and/or collaborative efforts today. Finally, the workshop

will cultivate and strengthen a deep cultural connection between the historic homelands of so many

Native Americans in the Mississippi Delta/Southeast and their contemporary presence in Oklahoma.

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In February 2015, I arranged the week-long visit to LSU of Dr. Anne Milet, Vice President for International Affairs of the University Joseph Fourier. The purpose was to follow up on the MoU introduced above and expand collaborative interactions between LSU and Grenoble. Among the results so far is that Grenoble has invited LSU to collaborate in an EU Erasmus plus exchange program with funding just announced for 24 faculty and staff to be exchanged in addition to funding for a number of undergraduate students. Dr Milet also made arrangements for Charles D’Agostino of LSU’s innovation park to visit the massive “GIANT” innovation campus in June 2015. So far, I arranged for 20 LSU faculty to visit Grenoble. We share one EU FP7 contract and several other collaborative grants. In Late January 2015, I led a delegation of eight from LSU to the Petroleum Institute. We had our kick-off meeting of one of the contracts and discussed collaborations around the anticipated launch of the Petroleum institute’s doctoral program in the fall of 2016.

Slide prepared for the director of NSF

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In the fall of 2014, I participated in a week-long trade mission from the State of Louisiana to Panama with the state’s economic development agency, four other universities, and several dozen industrial representatives (hospitals, shipping, energy, agriculture, etc.). The follow up is that we have invited the Panamanian Minister of Science to LSU and are negotiating dates. We are also taking steps to establish dual degree courses with the Metropolitan school of Panama and several other initiatives. One major potential source of funding for LSU faculty is the $80B EU Horizon 2020 initiative. In collaboration with Winona Ward, LSU’s Director of Sponsored Programs, we have been trying to facilitate opportunities for our faculty. To this end, we visited the EU delegation to the US in early 2013. This allowed us to set the stage for hosting Dr James Gavigan, the EU Minister to the USA in Oct 2013 as illustrated in the flyer below. The visit also allowed me to coordinate a reception and dinner with business representatives: Ravi Armilli a Fellow of the IBM corporation, Dr B. Bayham Exec VP of the Celtic Group and their massive film studio, J Brandon of the Nucor Steel Plant in Louisiana, E do Val, statewide director for Dow Chemical’s facilities, L Kissam, CEO of Albemarle, and T Yura, Senior VP of BASF. Dr Gavigan’s visit in turn enabled me to make a visit to EU headquarters with VC Valsaraj in Jan of 2014 and a second visit to EU Headquarters in Dec 2014 that included a meeting with Jan Smits, Director General of all H2020 programs.

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Finally, as part of 2014-funded EU ERASMUS Plus award with Univ Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), we have just enhanced our existing research MOU to a Strategic Partnership Agreement that is now

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involving greatly enhanced activity with the UJF Foundation and its economic development units.

A selection of additional international activities appear below and some are in other sections of this document:

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A full list can be presented if helpful. I was lead author on report of European Commission Meeting, “Transatlantic Mobility of Researchers” with G. Bellettini, A. Damiani, G. Einaudi in 2004. From 2002-9, I served as Associate Director, of the FFRI Centre Pleuridisciplinare. (grant 63) and also contributed significantly to the successful proposal that brought it to Florida. In 2001-2, I participated in the workshop and helped co-author “Looking Beyond the Borders: A Project Director’s Handbook of Best Practices for International Research Experiences for Undergraduates”, produced by the NSF Workshop on Best Practices for Managing International REU Site Programs, 2001. In 1997 I spent a six month sabbatical leave as an Invited Professor at University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France and lectured at various universities in France and Germany. In 1995, I Organized the US/France Workshop on Order in Polymers held in Gainesville, FL after giving an invited presentation of an analogous CNRS/NSF workshop in France in 1992. In 1993, I spent 5 months doing research at the RIKEN Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan. Finally, over the years, I sent and received dozens of graduate students, faculty, and postdocs for short (one month-one year) research visits in various laboratories in Europe.

2006 REU students Marisa Winkler and Pedro Valencia in the countryside near Toulouse

Evan Schwartz, a US/France REU student from Harvard in Paris

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Professional Activities and Experience: I have interacted with many program directors at US federal agencies for many years. At LSU, and in the last two years I chaired the nationwide search for the Assistant VC for Tech Transfer, hired LSU’s QEP coordinator, and participated in the faculty search for a QEP Librarian. Since coming to LSU, my focus is much more on getting our faculty to the funding agencies for the kinds of experiences listed below and a number that are listed in previous sections. A complete list of professional activities is available on request. Participant, State of Louisiana Trade Mission to Panama, Oct 2014 Developed campuswide undergraduate travel awards program 2014 (launched in 2015) Develop housing for international researchers awards with Residential Life 2014 Presented QEP at SACSCOC on-site review spring 2014 (also lead author for LSU Discover section of QEP report) Invited Professor, Univ. Joseph Fourier, Toulouse, 2013 Helped organize and run ORED retreat 2013, 2014 External Advisory Board, Spelman Environmental Science CREST program 2012 Directed all LSU ORED internal research grants programs 2011 Organized NSF CAREER Workshop Nov 8-9, 2011 with more than 200 participants Programmed regular research development workshops 2009- present External reviewer of Spelman Environmental Science Program 2011 External Advisory Board NSF Islands of Opportunity LSAMP program 2010 Assisted with preparation of ORED Strategic Plan 2010-11 External Advisory Board Morehouse HHMI program 2009 NSF SBIR Panel Aug 2010 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Panel 2009 NSF SBIR Panel Dec 2009 NSF IGERT Panel, June 26-28, 2008 NSF Engineering Panel Oct 2007 Chair – Chemistry Panel NSF Graduate Res. Fellowship Panel Feb 9-11 2007, Arlington, VA NSF PIRE (International) program 2007 Panel Beckman Foundation, 2007 Beckman Scholars Advisory Panel NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Panel Feb 2-4 2006, Arlington, VA NSF Engineering Division REU Panel, Nov 29-30 2005 Invited Professor, Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, 2005 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Panel Feb 2-4 2005, Arlington, VA Director, University of Florida, Beckman Scholars Program 2004-9 Adjunct Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chemie et de Physique de Bordeaux, July 2004 -9 Invited Professor, Univ. Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 2004 NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment Panel 2004 NSF Undergraduate Research Centers Panel 2003 Invited Professor Ecole Normale Superieure – Cachan, 2003 Chair-elect of the REU Leadership group 2003-4, Chair 2004-5, past chair 2005-present

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Lombardi Scholars Advisor- UF Honors program 2003- present Science and Engineering Awards Advisor for UF Honors Program 2003-2006 NSF MPS Distinguished International Postdoc Panel, December 18-19, 2003 Organizer of the Fall REU Poster Session with two HBCU institutions with Mike Scott, approximately 30 participants and 150 attendees, Oct. 22, 2003 Co-Organizer REU/LSAMP workshop at NSF Sept 21, 2003 (~50 participants), with M. Boyd Reviewer for JACS, Macromolecules, Langmuir, Chemistry of Materials, Science, Nature, J Phys Chem., and ONR, ARO, PRF, NSF, AFOSR Organized REU poster session and workshop (approx. 25 participants) at NSF headquarters with Mike Scott, April 14, 2003 Affiliate Scientist, McKnight Brain Institute 2002 – 9 NSF Chemistry Division REU Panel, Nov. 2002 Associate Director, France Florida Research Institute 2002 – 9 NSF Chemistry Division REU Leadership Group member, 2001-6 Invited Professor, Univ. of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 2001 (two months). Director, NSF REU Site in Chemistry at the Univ. of Florida, 1994-5, 1997-2009 Invited Professor, Univ. Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2000 (one month). Media Consultant to McGraw-Hill Publishers for animations and multimedia to accompany Silberberg general chemistry text, 2000-present. Invited Professor, Univ. of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 1999 (one month). Faculty Team Member of NSF ERC for Particle Science and Engineering, 1998-2006 Materials Chemistry Consultant to McGraw-Hill Publishers for Silberberg general chemistry text, 1998 – 2004 Director, US/France REU Site, 1998-2009. Invited Lecturer (two weeks), Chemical Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratories, Chicago, IL, 1998. Invited Professor, Univ. Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France, 1998 (one month). Media Consultant (Addison-Wesley Publishers) “Activchemistry” multimedia package, 1997. Executive Committee Member for the Univ. of Florida’s participation at the MRCAT Beamline of the Advanced Photon Source Synchrotron, 1997-2002. Invited Professor, Univ. Maine, Pau, France, 1997 (one month). Invited Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique et de Chemie de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 1997 (one month). Associated Professor, Univ. Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, 1997 (six months). Member: American Chemical Society, 1982-Present; American Physical Society, 1992-1995; Society of Rheology, 1990-91; Japanese Society for Polymer Science, 1996-1998. Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept. of Materials Science, Univ. of Florida, 1998-2009 Review Panel Member, NSF International Post-doctoral Program, 1996. Director, NSF US/France Workshop in Polymer Chemistry at the Univ. of Florida, 1995. Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1994-2006. Editorial Board, Supramolecular Science, 1994-1999. Visiting Researcher, Frontier Matls. Research Program, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Tokyo, Japan, Mar 1993-Aug 1993. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1989-94. Undergraduate Researcher, Dow Chemicals, Granville, OH, Supervisors: M. Bussey, J. Donald, Summer 1981.

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Grants, Contracts, and Awards: Grants and awards in excess of $22 million have been obtained from a variety of agencies and industrial sources as detailed below. Several active proposals are under consideration and one is recommended for funding (page 63). 116) Subcontract from Northeast LSAMP – iREU for NE LSAMP students - $70,999 R Duran PI 6-16-6-17 115) NSF “How to Mentor Students for Placement in an International Setting: Engaging Students – Engaging Mentors” $47K R Duran PI with K Porter (Oklahoma LSAMP) L Jones (Illinois-LSAMP) 8/16 – 8/17 114) National Science Foundation renewal of “France/Belgium iREU in Translational Chemistry” $480,000 6/01/2016-5/31-2020 PI R Duran 113) European Union Erasmus Plus “Grenoble - LSU Student, Faculty, and Staff exchanges” ~$125K 8/15- 7/17 A Milet (VP Grenoble) PI with R Duran LSU lead scientist 112) WM Keck Foundation “Implementation of the Delta Research Minor” $839,795 with $250,00 awarded by Keck 6/15 – 5/18 R Duran co-PI, F. King Alexander overall principle investigator

111) National Science Foundation “Ground Level Measurements of Terrestrial Gamma Flashes” $300,000 5/01/15 – 4/30/18 PI Mike Cherry, with R. Duran Co-PI

110) National Institutes of Health (R01) Spatiotemporal Modulation of Osteogenesis in a 3-D Stromal/Stem Cell Model $1,787,590 12/1/2014 – 11/30/2019 PI Dan Hayes, Co-PI R Duran (30% effort and distribution) 109) National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) “NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program – Gaithersburg” $9,500 6/01/2014-5/31-2015 PI R Duran 108) Spelman College “Coordination of Spelman College Student Research Experiences in Grenoble, France” $10,000 6/01/2014-5/31-2015 PI R Duran 107) Board of Regents - BOR “Terrestrial Gamma Flashes at Ground Level -- Search for Gamma Rays Produced by Lightning” $160,347 06/01/2014 06/30/2016 PI Mike Cherry, R Duran Co PI 106) National Science Foundation “France/Belgium iREU in Translational Chemistry” $300,000 6/01/2013-5/31-2015 PI R Duran

105) French Embassy “Support for US/France/Belgiun REU” $30,000 6/01/2013-5/31/2015 PI R Duran

104) WM Keck Foundation “The Louisian Delta Research Minor (planning grant)” $50,000

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1/01/2014-12/31/2015 PI Jeff Carney with Co-PI R Duran 103) Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi “Development of a Model Research Operation and Administration (ROAd) Program for the Petroleum Institute” $805,743 7/01/2014 – 6/31/2016 PI Winona Ward with R Duran Co PI

102) Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi “Providing Human Resources Assistance in Student Life” $843,804 12/01/2014 – 11/30/2016 Pi Darrell Ray with R Duran Co-PI 101) National Science Foundation (BoR): “Incremental International Support for LA-BRIDGE” $47,548.00 PI R Duran, 6/-01/2011 – 5/31/2013 100) HHMI Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP) for Angelica Simmons $4,500 PI R Duran 6/01/2011 – 12/31/2011 99) HHMI Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP)for Cristina Murphy $4,500 PI R Duran 6/01/2011 – 12/31/2011 98) NSF Establishing a Louisiana Academy of NSF CAREER Awardees” $244,000 PI with Brian Mitchell (Assoc. Provost, Tulane), and Michelle Claville (Chair Chemistry, Southern) 97) HHMI “The LSU HHMI Undergraduate Program”$1,400,000 PI, 9/1/2010-8/31/2014 96) ONR “Synthesis and Mechanical Characterization of Highly Energetic compounds and Triazole Polyemeric Binders” , $600K CoPI with A. Katritzsky 1/09-1/11 95) NSF “US-Brazil Workshop on Functional and Nanomaterials” $37K 2/09-2/10 PI Duran, with co-PIs James Brown, Miguel Garcia-Garibay 94) NSF “Towards an LSAMP Discovery and Innovation Center for International Undergraduate Research Experiences”, $272K 8/1/08-7/31/09 PI Duran, with co-PIs M Scott, T Sadler, J Brown, T Emmel. 93) NSF “ The US/South America REU Site in Chemistry and Molecular Biodiversity” $520K PI Duran with co-PI A Roitberg, J Eyler, J Brown 3/08-3/10 92) NSF “renewal of the US/France REU Site” $395K PI Duran with co-PI M Scott, T Hanks, J Brown 3/08-3/10

91) Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, “The Beckman Scholar Program at the University of Florida” (renewal), $333K 5/01/07 – 4/28/10 PI Duran, with co-PIs L. McElwee White and S. Dickison 90) NSF “A Planning Visit to Establish the US/South America REU” PI Duran with co-PIs A Roitberg, J Eyler, J Brown $18,000 5/2007-5/2008

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89) DSR opportunity award “Assessing Undergraduate Research at UF” co-PI with L. Ponjuin and T Sadler $52,000 6/2007-6-2009 88) DSR opportunity award “Quantitative Biology” co-PI with L. Moroz $60,000 6/2007-6-2009 87) Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Undergraduate Science Education) “Science for Life” PI Duran, with co-PIs C. Emihovich, B. Dunn, L. Guillette, D. Julian $1.5M award and ~$3.5M match and gifts, 8/31/06 – 8/30/10 86) NSF “Supplement for a US/France REU participant from Morehouse College” $7.5K 4/1/05-3/31/06 PI Duran with co-PI M Scott 85) ONR “Synthesis of Acetylenes/Di-Acetylenes, Study of their 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition” $573,957 ($80,363K direct to Duran) 3/15/06-2/14/09 co-PI Duran with PI Alan Katritzky 84) NSF “An REU Experience for Katrina-Displaced Students from Dillard” PI with co-PIs M. Scott and L. Guillette $20K, 5/1/06-4/30/07 83) NSF, “Chemistry and life, A Chemistry/Zoology REU Site” PI with co-PI M. Scott $195K 3/15/06-2/14/08 82) FACE foundation “Collaborative graduate program with Univ. Bordeaux, Univ central Florida, and Univ. Florida, co-PI with Laurent Sarger PI and David Hagen co-PI $50K with $6.7K at UF, 6/1/05-6/1/07 81) AFOSR, “Optimization of Ion Channels Tethered to Device Surfaces” (PI Duran with co-PI P Anderson) $250,000, 7/1/05-12/31/05 80) NASA/UCF “Calibration targets for planetary missions”, (PI D. Britt with co-PI Duran) $20,000, 6/1/05-5/31/06 79) Altor Biosystems Inc “T-Cell Receptor Modified nanocapsules”, (PI Duran) $10,000, 4/1/05-1/31/06 78) AFOSR “Supplement to “Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels: Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels: GaN and InAs Devices”, (PI Duran with co-PI S. Pearton) $80,000, 1/1/05-12/31/05 77) AFOSR – “Transmembrane Biopolymers at Engineered Surfaces” (symposium support for ACS meeting – including $2K from COLL), PI Duran $11,800 1/1/05-12/31/05 76) DoD (AFOSR) – DURIP An Optical Trap Workstation for the Investigation of Vesicle Fusion Processes, PI Duran $235,079, 05/01/05-05/01/06

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75) National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, In House Research Program “High Magnetic Gradient Studies of Multi-Component Core-Shell Particle Dynamics”, PI Duran, with S. Blackband and M. Nyden. $176,000, 08/01/04-08/01/06 74) NASA Space Research Initiative “Advanced, Space-Qualified, Radiometric Calibration Targets for Mars and Planetary Exploration”, co-PI Duran with D. Britt (U. Central Florida), $108,000, 01/01/05- 07/01/05 73) DARPA: “Supplement to Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels: Project to Identify Analytes from the Analysis of Single Cannel Currents”, PI Duran with K. Magleby $100,000, 8/01/04-1/01/05 72) DARPA, (MOLDICE) “Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels: Immobilized Ion Channels Containing Modified Maxi-K channels”, $230,000, 5/15/04-12/31/04 (PI with co-PI P. Anderson) 71) Scientific Mission of French Embassy, “Extending the REU program to graduate students”, $24,000, 3/01/04-3/01/07 (PI Duran with co-PI Mike Scott) 70) NSF, “The US/France REU Site”, more than $500,000 with matching from French ministry of research, 2/01/04-2/01/08, (PI Duran with co-PI M. Scott) 69) NSF, Renewal of developing an active & diverse undergraduate chemistry research program, (PI Duran with co-PI Mary Boyd), $160,000 5/1/04- 4/31/07 68) Dept. of Energy “Operations Funding for the MRCAT beamline”, (co-PI with C. Segre), ~$200,000, 6/01/03-6/01/06 67) The Beckman Scholars Program at the University of Florida, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, (PI Duran with co-PI B. Dunn, L. Guillette, J Mastrodicasa), $200,000 with matching, 3/1/04-3/1/06 66) AFOSR “Supplement to “Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels: Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels: GaN and InAs Devices”, (PI Duran with co-PI S. Pearton) $105,000, 1/1/04-12/31/04 65) National Science Foundation, “2003 supplement to the US/France REU Site, a Lincoln University faculty mentor experience”, $3,500, 3/15/03-12/1/03 (PI Duran, with R. Langley) 64) DARPA, (MOLDICE) “Addressable Immobilized Ion Channels”, $1,106,000 7/01/03-12/01/04 (PI Duran, with W. Knoll and P. Anderson) 63) French Embassy, a “Centre Pluridisciplinaire”, The Florida-France Research Institute, $240,000 8/1/02-8/1/04 (co-PI with Carol Murphy) 62) National Science Foundation, SGER “Nanoparticulate Detoxification Agents and Their Effects on Myocyte Biosensors”, $49,000, 8/1/02-1/31/04 (PI Duran, with T. Morey and A. Donnelly).

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61) National Science Foundation, “A Supplement for US/France REU Student Reintegration Meetings” $6,100, 8/01-8/03 (PI Duran, with J. Martin, M. Scott). 60) Department of Energy, “Synthesis, Surface Assembly, and X-ray Investigation of Amphiphilic Star Copolymers”, $494,690 9/15/01-9/14/04 (PI Duran, with Y. Gnanou). 59) Univ. of Florida Div. of Sponsored Research Special Board Allocation, “Materials Research Collaborative Access Team”, $15,000, 8/23/00-6/30/05, PI Duran. 58) Univ. of Florida Gatorade Allocation, “Allocation to Provide Support for NSF REU Program”, $10,500, 12/21/99-2/28/02 PI Duran. 57) National Science Foundation, US/France REU Renewal, $199,650, 4/1/01-3/31/04 (PI Duran with M. Scott). 56) National Science Foundation, "An REU in Chemistry at the University of Florida", $141,000, 3/15/99-2/28/02 (PI Duran, with M Scott). 55) Embassy of France to the US, “US/France Scientific Exchange Program”, $13,793, 9/6/00 PI Duran. 54) National Science Foundation, “A Planning Visit to France to Establish an International IGERT Program”, $9780 3/15/01 – 2/28/02 (PI Duran with J. Boggs, L. Dykstra, D. Colburn). 53) Department of Energy, Supplemental Funding for “Instrumentation for the MRCAT Undulator Beamline at the Advanced Photon Source”, $85,000, 6/1/00-5/31/01 PI Duran. 52) Illinois Institute of Technology, “Operations Funding for MRCAT, $411,303, 4/15/00-4/14/05 co-PI with Segre). 51) National Science Foundation, "A Trial REU Program at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. A Supplement to US/France REU Program", $19,960, 4/1/00-9/30/00 (co-PI Duran with J. Eyler). 50) National Science Foundation, "Inter-REU Activities Involving the University of Florida", $17,000, 3/6/00-3/5/01 (PI Duran, with M. Scott). 49) UF Gatorade Fund, "Allocation to Provide Support for the NSF REU Program", $3500, 12/21/99-2/28/02 PI Duran. 48) IBM, Supplemental funding for the REU site, $3,000, Summer 1999, Co-PI w/R. Bartlett 47) Allied Signal, Supplemental funding for the REU site, $4,000, Summer 1999, Co-PI w/A. Rinzler. 46) French Embassy, “Funding for French REU participants”, $6000, Summer 1999

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45) National Science Foundation, “Supplemental Funding to International US/France REU: University of Central Florida/CREOL”, $50,157, 5/1/99-4/30/01, co-PI w/K. Ricardson, University of Central Florida 44) National Science Foundation, "Synthesis and Surface Properties of Novel Functionalization Star Copolymers", $17,000, 3/1/99-2/28/02. (PI with Y Gnanou for CNRS funding) 43) Department of Energy, “Funding to Commission In-Hutch Instruments at MRCAT Beamline”, $212,008, 10/15/98-10/15/99 42) 3M, Supplemental funding for the REU Site, $3,000, Summer 1998, co-PI w/A. Katrtzky 41) National Science Foundation, "Pre-service Teachers' Participation in the REU Program in Chemistry at the University of Florida, $11,096, 5/1/98-4/30/00. (PI Duran, with T. Adams) 40) National Science Foundation, "Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Chemistry at the University of Florida - US/France", $272,465, 5/1/98-4/30/01 (PI Duran, with M. Scott). 39) Division of Sponsored Research Opportunity Fund, University of Florida, “Enhancing Florida’s Link to the Advanced Photon Source Synchrotron and National High Magnetic Field Lab: Adding Value to Interdisciplinary Interactions at a Distance”, $99,000, 2/21/98-12/31/01 (PI Duran, with J. Graybeal). 38) National Science Foundation, “Request for Fifth Year Funding (Young Investigator Grant)”, $62,500, 8/1/97-7/31/98 37) Goddard Space Flight Center (formerly NASA), “High Performance Polymers for Cation Separation and Detection in Aqueous Environments”, $22,000, 7/1/97-6/30/98 36) National Science Foundation, “Supplement to REU program” $8750, 6/97-6/98 (PI Duran, with J. Boncella) 35) American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund, “Sequencing and Structural Investigations of Copolymerization Reactions in Restricted Dimensions”, $50,000, 1/1/97-8/31/00 PI Duran. 34) Engineering Research Center, University of Florida/National Science Foundation, “Engineered Particulates”, ~$300,000, 9/1/96-2003 PI Duran. 33) Department of Energy, “Instrumentation for the MRCAT Undulator Beamline at the Advanced Photon Source”, $1,054,162, 8/15/96-6/14/01 (co-PI with B. Bunker, P. Dutta, C. Segre). 32) Division of Sponsored Research, University of Florida, “Special Board Allocation for Support of the MRCAT DOE Equipment Proposal for Design and Construction”, $245,000, 7/17/96-6/30/97 31) Micron Technology, "Memory Upgrade", $10,000, 10/95-11/96 PI Duran.

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30) Perkin Elmer Corporation, "Acquisition of a Thermal Analysis System", $75,000, 11/95-11/96 PI Duran. 29) Eastman Chemical Company, "SPM Studies of Polyester Surfaces", $25,000, 6/95-6/96 PI Duran. 28) National Science Foundation, "REU Augmentation/Summer Workshop for High School Students", $10,000, 3/95-2/97. (PI Duran with G. Myers) 27) NASA Headquarters, Washington, “High Performance Polymers for Cation Separation and Detection in Aqueous Environments” (with J. Batten) $66,000 1/95-1/98. 26) National Science Foundation, “Dissertation Enhancement for Research in Germany” $4000 (PI Duran with T. Herod) 6/96-6/97 25) Rhone Poulenc, “Superwetting and Silicone Surfactants”, $51,646 6/96-6/97 PI Duran. 24) National Science Foundation, "Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Chemistry Site", (PI Duran with D Talham, J Boncella) $49,221, 3/95-2/98. 23) National Science Foundation, "US/France Workshop: Order in Polymers", $12,668, 8/95-7/96 PI Duran. 22) Division of Sponsored Research, University of Florida, "Matching Funds for NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Site in Chemistry", $10,000, 9/94-6/97 PI Duran. 21) NSF/ARI, "Acquisition of X-ray Diffraction System", $480,000, 9/94-3/96(PI Duran, with K Abboud). 20) Division of Sponsored Research, University of Florida, "Matching Funds for NSF Academic Infrastructure Program", $120,000, 9/94-8/95 PI Duran. 19) National Science Foundation, "Young Investigator Award", $312,500(+ industrial matching), 7/93-7/98 PI Duran. 18) NASA, Renewal of "Electro-Optically Active Monomers: Synthesis and Characterization of Thin Films of Liquid Crystalline Substituted Polyacetylenes", $35,000, 3/93-3/94 PI Duran. 17) National Science Foundation, "US/France Collaboration on Synthesis and Characterization of Thin Substituted Polyacetylenes", $15,250, 4/93-4/96 PI Duran. 16) NATO, "Investigations of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals as Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface and Formation of Orientational and Compositional Superlatives by Controlled Alternate LB Dipping", $7,000, 1/93-12/93 PI Duran.

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15) NASA, "Electro-Optically Active Monomers: Synthesis and Characterization of Thin Films of Liquid Crystalline Substituted Polyacetylenes", $72,644, 3/92-2/93 PI Duran. 14) Office of Naval Research/AASERT, "Oxidative Coupling Polymerization Confined to Free Surfaces: An Extension to Liquid/Liquid Interfaces and Emulsions", $183,000, 4/91-5/96 PI Duran. 13) American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, "Monolayers and Multilayers of Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers", $5,000, 5/92-8/93 Pi Duran . 12) Air Force Office of Scientific Research, "Monolayers of Conducting Polymers", $24,000, 8/91-8/93 (co-PI Duran with E. Deumans and Y. Ohrn). 11) National Science Foundation, "Studies of Monolayers of Glass Forming Polymers", $42,500, 6/91-6/92 PI Duran. 10) KSV Instruments, "Interfacial Tensions of Conducting Polymers Confined to Free Surfaces", $30,000, 6/91-6/92 PI Duran 9) Office of Naval Research, "Chemical Reactivity as a Function of Molecular Distance and Orientation: A Fundamental Study of Oxidative Coupling Polymerization", $272,000, 6/91-6/94 PI Duran. 8) American Chemical Society PRF, Supplement to "Monolayers and Multilayers of Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers" for Summer Faculty Member, $4,500, 6/91-6/92 PI Duran. 7) AT&T Bell Labs, "Dilatometric Aging Studies of Polymeric Glasses", $12,000, 7/91-7/92 PI Duran. 6) Naval Research Laboratories, "Structure and Physical Properties of Monolayers and Multilayers of Liquid Crystals Showing Bulk Ferroelectric Properties", $300,000, 10/90-10/93 PI Duran. 5) American Chemical Society PRF-G, "Monolayers and Multilayers of Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers", $18,000, 2/90-2/92 PI Duran. 4) KSV Instruments, "Unrestricted Grant to Send Students to Scientific Meetings", $1,000, 7/90-7/91 PI Duran. 3) AT&T Bell Labs, "A Precision Automated Dilatometer for the Measurement of Polymer Glasses", $30,000, 7/90-7/91 PI Duran. 2) KSV Instruments, "A Floating Barrier for the Measurement of Surface Pressures at the Air/Water Interface", $60,000, 10/89-10/90 PI Duran. 1) Akzo America, "Blends of Polymer Liquid Crystals at the Air/Water Interface", $41,000, 11/89-11/90 PI Duran.

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Meetings and Contributed Papers (presenter underlined) (*indicates invited talk ++ indicates symposium or meeting organizer): For many years, students from my research group were preferentially sent to meetings to enhance their careers, while in recent years I have generally organized or supported meetings.

(Initial 75 meetings available on request) 117. ++ “How to Mentor Students for Placement in an International Setting: Engaging Students – Engaging Mentors” Apr 17-19, 2016 Stillwater OK - Organizer with J. Kirksey (OK State VP Diversity and PI OK-LSAMP), L. Jones (PI NSF LSMCE Center and Dean, Chicago State), and tribal elders from the Houma, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Potawatomie Nations, and SACNAS - workshop goal is to define and disseminate undergraduate research learning outcomes associated with characteristics not usually associated with traditional academic courses 116. * “Enhancing impact of international research” Transatlantic Friendship and Mobility Initiative Bilateral Conference, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international Paris, France, March 7-8, 2016 115. ++ “Moving Study Abroad Research to Publication: Characteristics of Successful Undergraduate Co-authors”. (workshop co-organizer with K Porter, L Jones) to be held at the LSMCE Annual Conference, Accelerating Diverse Talent Along the STEM Pipeline, Oct 23- 25, 2015 Indianapolis, Indiana 114. ++ Co-organizer, with A Milet (Univ Joseph Fourier) and P Rannou (CEA-Grenoble) 2015 French-American Workshop 14-16 June, 2015 Grenoble, France 100 attendees (also organized an concurrent delegation of five from LSU focused on Economic Development) 113. * “The Mentoring Experience Behind Successful iREU Participants”, ACS National Meeting Mar 22-26 March, 2015, Denver Colorado. 112. ++ “Workshop on collaborative research” Feb 1-2 , 2015 Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE Led delegation of VP Research and two colleges 111. ++ Organizer “Workshop on the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Grants Program” Oct 28-9, 2014, Baton Rouge Workshop involved 150 participants. Was the main organizer for Dr J Gavigan, the EU Minister-delegate in Washington DC and a working dinner with the leadership of Celtic Studios (film and digital media) , BASF, Dow, IBM, Houmas House Plantation, Albemarle, and the Louisiana State Economic Development Agency (LED) 110. ++ Co-organizer with S Ferstel and 12 colleges at LSU “LSU Discover Undergraduate Research Poster Session” Mar 7, 2014 , Baton Rouge – 150 posters and 600 participants 109. *”The importance of international undergraduate research”, Avertist (French diplomatic corps) Meeting 3 Dec, 2014 Paris, France

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108. ++ Co-organizer, with M Olivier (Louisiana Committee of 100) “Meetings with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute” – meeting with STRI director Matt Larsen and staff for statewide trade delegation of 50 as part of Louisiana Mission to Panama, Panama City, Panama, Oct 12-17, 2014 107. ++ Co-organizer, with I Schuster (CEA-Grenoble) French-American Workshop, Grenoble, France July 1-2 2013 100 attendees

106. ++ Organizer, with N. Clark (Dean of LSU Honors College) “Visit of Morehouse College Hopps Scholars to LSU” Mar. 11. 2013 6 seminars by Morehouse faculty, and posters by 45 Morehouse undergraduates as part of 130 posters in session and 250 attendees overall. 105. *”Integrating Undergraduates in CAREER Awards” Provost’s lunch, SACSCOC annual meeting Dec 2012, Dallas, TX (150 attendees) 104. ++ Organizer, with T Mitchell (NSF) and John Wheeler (Furman) 2-day Pre-Departure meeting in Washington, D.C. for students from University of Florida, LSU and Furman participating in summer research program in France and Belgium. Included full-day science symposium at the French Embassy, March 23-25, 2012 103. ++ Co-organizer, with C Locht (Pasteur) and John Wheeler (Furman) with , U.S. – France Science Mini-Conference: A Celebration of US and French STEM Excellence, University of Pasteur – Lille, Lille, France, June 20, 2011. (80 attendees, including 8 Visiting US faculty, 20 US undergraduate and graduate students representing 11 US institutions, representatives from the Fulbright Commission and the French Ministry). 102. ++ (Principle Investigator and lead organizer, with B Mitchell, Tulane Univ) “2011 CAREER Award Regional forum: Linking research, Government, Education, and Industry” Nov 8-9, 2011 Baton Rouge (280 attendees from 7 EPSCoR States and 25 Higher Ed. institutions of Louisiana) 101. * “Joint/Dual PhD Programs with International Universities: Program Description and Funding Opportunities” Hawaii Center for Advanced Communication, Oct , 2011 Oahu, HI 100. *“Off Campus Research: Best Practices” (Co-presented with Lisa Hibbard, Chemistry Chair, Spelman) HHMI Biannual Professors and Program Directors Meeting, Oct 2010, Washington DC 99. *”The LSAMP Center for International Research”, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science National Awardees Meeting, Mar 2010, Fort Collins, CO 98. *”Impact of Undergraduate Research” (keynote), Triple Ex meeting, LSU Nov 2009. 99. ++ Organizer (and PI of NSF award), with R Pilli (UNICAMP) and M. Garcia-Garibay (UCLA) “US/South America Workshop on Nanomaterials and Functional Materials” August 2009, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil - more than 200 attendees from five South American countries.

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98. Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Feb 28 – Mar 4, 2009 Boston MA “Modulating the conductance and ionic preference of MscL, a biological nanovalve” LM Yang, D Wilson, R Wray, RS. Duran and P Blount 97. * AAU Colleges of Education Deans Meeting, Nov 6-7, 2008, Washington DC “An Effective Collaboration Between an HHMI Award and a College of Education” R. Duran

96.*Mississippi LSAMP Regional Meeting, Nov 5-6, 2008, Jackson MS “The New LSAMP Center for International Undergraduate Research” R. Duran 95. California LSAMP Regional Meeting, Oct 1, 2008 “The LSAMP Center for International Undergraduate Research” MJ Scott and RS Duran 94. North Carolina AMP Regional Meeting, Sept 26, 2008 “The LSAMP Center for International Undergraduate Research” MJ Scott and RS Duran

93.* NSF AGEP Fifth Annual Institute for Postdoctorate Preparation, Sept 28, 2008 Washington DC, “Teaching Postdocs: Another approach to Academia” R. Duran 92. ONR Energetic Materials Program Review, Sept 9, 2008 Washington DC, “1,2,3-Triazole Polymers as Propellant Binders” A. Katritzky and R. Duran 91. * XIV Brazilian Meeting on Inorganic Chemistry, Foz d’Iguasu, Brazil, 1 Sept, 2008 “2D Materials: Assembling and Coupling Alkoxysilanes at Interfaces” R. Duran 90. Florida-Georgia AMP Regional Meeting, Sept 26, 2008 “The LSAMP Center for International Undergraduate Research” MJ Scott and RS Duran 89. *NSF Joint Annual Meeting (LSAMP session), Washington DC, June 18, 2008 “International REU Programs and Their Impact” R. Duran 88. ++ Co-organized with B Dunn (UF) and J Wheeler (Furman) 1-Day Symposium, “Furman University/University of Florida International Undergraduate Research Conference” including Plenary Lecture and 62 presentations from UF, Furman, Brazil and France, Furman University, July 29, 2008. 87.* NSF AGEP Fourth Annual Institute for Postdoctorate Preparation, Sept 21, 2007 Washington DC, “Teaching Postdocs and Science for Life” R. Duran

86.*Society of Plastics Engineers ANTEC, “interfacing Ion Channels to Microelectronic Devices” , May 9, 2007 Cincinnati, OH R Duran 85. ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Apr. 6-10, 2008 a) “Functional analysis of maxi-K potassium channels in a tethered bilayer lipid membrane system” GO. Okeyo, CR. Williams, RB. Price, PAV. Anderson, D Fine, A Dodabalapur, and RS. Duran

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b) “Investigating vesicles composed of Phytanoyl lipids and their interactions with solid surfaces” JA. Jackman, MPJ. Andersson, and RS. Duran. c) ++(Presidential event) ACS National Meeting symposium, “Ten Years of Beckman Scholars Research in Chemistry”, Apr 6-10, 2008 New Orleans LA Co organizers R. Duran, L McElwee-White, J. Dorrance (Beckman Foundation) 84. Biophysical Society National Meeting, Feb 2-6, 2008 Long Beach, CA a) “Maxi-K Single-Ion Channel Activity And Pharmacology Studied In Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes - Role In Biosensor Development” GO. Okeyo, D Fine, RB. Price , A Dodabalapur, PAV. Anderson and RS. Duran b) “Single Channel Analysis of a Mechanosensitive Channel Reconstituted in a Tethered Lipid Bilayer Membrane Gated by an Applied Voltage”, DS. Wilson, M Andersson, G Okeyo, P Blount and RS Duran 83. Biophysical Society National Meeting, Baltimore MD, Mar 3-7, 2007 “Structural studies of model ion channels reconstituted in lipid phases of varying composition” JR.Long, F Mills, RS Duran, HM Kaiser 82.Towards Institutional Transformation, HHMI Joint Program Directors and Professors Meeting, Chevy Chase, MD, Oct 16-18, 2006 poster “The Science for Life program” R. Duran 81.* NSF AGEP Third Annual Institute for Postdoctorate Preparation, Sept 28, 2006 Washington DC, “Teaching Postdocs and Science for Life” R. Duran 80.++ HHMI Science for Life Mini-Symposium on Emerging Pathogens, Sept 25, 2006, University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute (with G. McFadden, R. Moyer) 79. ACS National Meeting , San Francisco, Sept 10-14, 2006 “The US/France chemistry research experiences for undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Florida” M J Scott, RS. Duran, C Grosdemange-Billiard, and C Roux 78.*E-MRS, the European Materials Research Society International Meeting, 1 June, 2006 Nice, France “Direct Measurement of Single Ion Channel Currents on Microelectronic Devices” R. Duran, H. Keizer, P. Anderson, J. Long, D. Fine, A. Dodabalapur, B. Dorvel, M. Andersson 77.* Forum USA 2006 International Exchange meeting hosted by the Scientific Mission of the French Embassy Apr 12, 2006 Berkeley CA “US/France Exchange Programs at the University of Florida” R. Duran 76.ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Mar. 26-30, 2006

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a) Electrophysiological studies of M2δ ion channel using a patch clamp - Danyell Wilson, Henk M. Keizer, Chenyu Zhu, Joanna R. Long, and Randy Duran b) Synthesis of silica coated gold nanoparticles for use in electro-rheological ink devices - Omar F. Ishaq, Pierre Audebert, and Randolph S. Duran c) Design and characterization of polysiloxane/silicate core-shell nanoparticles for dynamic uptake and delivery systems - Jeffrey L. Wong, Jorge L. Chávez, Thomas J. Joncheray, and Randolph S. Duran d) Single channel activity from ion channels in engineered tethered bilayer membrane arrays - Henk M. Keizer, Brian Dorvel, Dan Fine, Joanna R. Long, Ananth Dodabalapur, Ingo Köper, Wolfgang Knoll, Peter AV. Anderson, and Randolph S Duran e) Characterization of the M2δ oligopeptide ion channel mutant in an artificial lipid membrane Chenyu Zhu, Henk M. Keizer, Danyell Wilson, Joanna R. Long, and Randolph S Duran f) Biosensors using Maxi-K potassium channels in engineered tethered bilayer membrane arrays - Henk M. Keizer, Brian Dorvel, Rebecca B. Price, Peter AV. Anderson, Dan Fine, Ananth Dodabalapur, and Randolph S Duran g) Purification and reconstitution of Maxi-K ion channels into artificial membranes - George O. Okeyo, Brian Dorvel, Henk M. Keizer, Christopher R. Williams, Rebecca B. Price, Peter AV. Anderson, and Randolph S Duran h) Single Channel activity from Gramicidin A ion channels in engineered tethered bilayer membrane arrays - Martin PJ. Andersson, Henk M. Keizer, Daniel Fine, Joanna R. Long, Ananth Dodabalapur, Ingo Köper, Wolfgang Knoll, Peter AV. Anderson, and Randolph S Duran i) Microemulsion based hydrophobic-core hydrophilic-shell nanoparticles: Physical characterization and study of their potential use as encapsulating agents - Jorge L. Chávez, Jeffrey L. Wong, Thomas J. Joncheray, and Randolph S Duran j) Exchange dynamics in nanocapsules monitored by NMR diffusometry - Maria Stjerndahl, Aleksa Jovanovic, Lyuba Shtykova, Magnus Nydén, and Randolph S Duran k) Protein-silica nanocomposites for drug detoxification purposes - Aleksa V. Jovanovic, Jorge L. Chávez, Manoj Varshney, and R. S. Duran l) Formation of oil filled silica shell nanocapsules and hollow silica nanoparticles using double microemulsion technology - Aleksa V. Jovanovic, Thomas J. Joncheray, Manoj Varshney, and R. S. Duran m) Lowering Dust Adhesion to Mars Exploration Rover Calibration Targets - F. Sabri, R.S. Duran T. Werhner, J. Littlehose, D. Britt, A. C. Schuerger

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n) Interfacial behavior of poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(ε-caprolactone) copolymers at the air-water interface - Kristina M. Denoncourt, Thomas J. Joncheray, Michael A. R. Meier, Ulrich S. Schubert, and Randolph S. Duran o) Ion channels reconstituted into tethered black lipid membranes: Engineering functional biomimetic systems - Brian R. Dorvel, Henk M. Keizer, Christopher R. Williams, Peter AV. Anderson, and Randolph S Duran p) Isocyanate-crosslinked metal oxide-doped silica aerogels in chromatic calibration targets for planetary exploration - Abigail M. Hobbs, Randolph S Duran, Nicholas Leventis, and Lynn A. Capadona, q) Two-dimensional self-assembly of poly(ethylene oxide)-b-poly(ε-caprolactone) copolymers - Thomas J. Joncheray, Kristina M. Denoncourt, Claire Mathieu, Michael A. R. Meier, Ulrich S. Schubert, and Randolph S. Duran r) Ion channels reconstituted into tethered bilayer lipid membranes: Engineering functional biomimetic systems - Brian R. Dorvel, Henk M. Keizer, Christopher R. Williams, Peter AV. Anderson, and Randolph S Duran s) Interfacial behavior of polystyrene-block-poly(t-butyl acrylate) star copolymers - Sophie Bernard, Kristina M. Denoncourt, Thomas J. Joncheray, Young H. Kim, Rachid Matmour, Rita J. El-khouri, Yves Gnanou, Warren T. Ford, and Randolph S. Duran t) Interfacial behavior and cross-linking at the air/water interface of amphiphilic star block copolymers based on polybutadiene and poly(ethylene oxide) - Rachid Matmour, Randolph S. Duran, and Yves Gnanou 75.*2006 Joint Annual Meeting of the NSF HRD Directorate, LSAMP symposium, Washington DC, Mar 16-17, 2006 “REU and LSAMP Interactions”, R.S. Duran

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