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Subhash Kuvelker Senior Program Officer Policy and Global Affairs Division National Research Council Email: skuvelker@nas. edu May 21, 2012

Study Title and Public Information Title: Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCo. R) and Similar Programs in Other Federal Agencies Study Author: Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, Policy and Global affairs Division National Research Council Public information about the study: Status of current projects available on the Academies’ website http: //www 8. nationalacademies. org/cp/projectview. aspx? key=49456 Shortened URL: http: //bit. ly/Lbx. Bfo

Legislative Mandate & Scope of Work This study was mandated by the America Competes Act Reauthorization of 2010. The legislation mandates a National Academy of Sciences study to address the following topics:

Legislative Mandate & Scope of Work • A delineation of the policies of each Federal agency with respect to the awarding of grants to EPSCo. R States; • The effectiveness of each program towards achieving respective goals; • Recommendations for improvements for each agency to achieve EPSCo. R goals; • An assessment of the effectiveness of EPSCo. R jurisdictions in using awards to develop science and engineering research, education, and infrastructure; and • Any other issues that address the effectiveness of EPSCo. R as the National Academy of Sciences considers appropriate.

EPSCo. R Study Committee • NORINE NOONAN (Co-Chair) • Vice Chancellor • University of South Florida • WILLIAM SPENCER (Co-Chair) • Chairman Emeritus • SEMATECH IRWIN FELLER SUBHASH SINGHAL Senior Visiting Scientist Battelle Fellow and Director, Fuel Cells American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ELISABETH GANTT CHARLES STABEN Distinguished University Professor Emerita Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs/ Professor of Biology Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland University of South Dakota • ROGER BEACHY • President Emeritus/ Professor Department of C. JUDSON KING • Donald Danforth Center, Washington Director; Professor emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering Distinguished Scientist, Department of Molecular Genetics; Emeritus Professor of Genetics Center for Studies in Higher Education; University of California, Berkeley Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Lerner Research Institute; Case Western Reserve University Biology University in St. Louis • RICHARD F. CELESTE • President Emeritus • Colorado College • ROBERT DUNCAN • Vice Chancellor for Research • University of Missouri JOHN LINEHAN Professor of Biomedical Engineering Robert R. Mc. Cormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University PERCY A. PIERRE Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan State University GEORGE R. STARK ALBERT TEICH Research Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs Center for International Science and Technology Policy, George Washington University

The Process • • • Stakeholders meetings in open sessions Collection of relevant literature and report Expert speakers and/or commissioned papers Committee deliberations Conclusions Recommendations Report Review by external reviewers Briefing to the sponsors Publication of report – free access and download on the National Academy Press – http: //www. nap. edu.

Questions? Thank you! Email: skuvelker@nas. edu