8:00 a.m.

Registration and Continental Breakfast
MBNA Hall Lobby

8:30 a.m.

Opening Comments / Agenda
Stephen Borleske – State EPSCoR Director
All sessions in the Longwood Auditorium unless otherwise noted

8:40 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions
Dyremple Marsh – Dean, College of Agriculture & Related Sciences, DSU
Allen Sessoms – President, Delaware State University

9:00 a.m.

EPSCoR and Delaware
David Weir – Director, Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI)
The Honorable John Carney – Lieutenant Governor, The State of Delaware

9:35 a.m.

Remarks by NSF
Karl Steiner – Associate Director, DBI
Henry Blount – Office Head, NSF EPSCoR
Lance Haworth – Director, NSF Office of Integrative Activities

10:00 a.m.

Keynote Address

Ambrose Anoruo – Associate Dean, College of Agriculture & Related Sciences, DSU
Larry Robinson – Director, Environmental Cooperative Science Center (ECSC), Florida A&M University
“Solving the Nation’s Research and Scientific Human Resource Needs:  The Necessity of EPSCoR and Minority Serving Institutions”

10:45 a.m.

Break/Networking – MBNA Hall Lobby

11:15 a.m.

EPSCoR Research Highlights
Donald Sparks – Chair, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, UD
Venugopal Kalavacharla – Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture & Natural Resources, DSU

11:45 a.m.

Research Vignettes by selected EPSCoR Researchers
(~5 minutes each)
Joshua Wang – DSU, Clytrice Watson – DSU
Keka Biswas – Wesley College, Yan Jin - UD
Murray Johnston – UD
Harsh Bais – UD
Tom Hanson – UD
John Rabolt – UD

12:30 p.m.

Evaluation Overview
Steven Fifield – Delaware Education R&D Center

12:45 p.m.

Lunch/Poster Session – Rooms 308 & 309 in MBNA Hall
Heavy hors d’oeuvres among posters by students and faculty

2:00 p.m.

Federal/State Program Director Panel
Ambrose Anoruo – Associate Dean, College of Agriculture & Related Sciences, DSU (Moderator)
Bob Scarborough – DNERR Research Coordinator, DNREC, State of Delaware
Teofilo Abrajano, Jr. – Program Director, Division of Earth Sciences, NSF
Tim Fitzsimmons – Program Manager, DOE EPSCoR

3:00 p.m.

Q & A for the Federal/State Program Director Panel

3:15 p.m.

Break – MBNA Hall Lobby

3:30 p.m.

Education and Outreach Panel
Jeanette Miller – Assistant Director, DBI
Bill Hall – Education Specialist, College of Marine & Earth Sciences, UD
Barbara Wiggins – Chair, Campus Science/Medical Laboratory, DelTech
Kelli Martin – Education Associate, Delaware Department of Education

4:00 p.m.

Center Initiatives
Donald Sparks – Center for Critical Zone Research (CCZR), Venugopal Kalavacharla – Center for Integrated Biological and Environmental Research (CIBER), Tom Powers – Science, Ethics and Public Policy (SEPP), Stephen Taylor – The Ethics Resource Site, John Xiao – Center for Spintronics and Biodetection (CSB), Dermott Mullan – NASA EPSCoR

4:40 p.m.

Future EPSCoR Opportunities; Q&A
Karl Steiner – Associate Director, Delaware Biotechnology Institute

5:00 p.m.

Final Remarks
Dyremple Marsh – Dean, College of Agriculture & Related Sciences, DSU
The Honorable Thomas R. Carper – U.S. Senator

5:15 p.m.

Poster Session and Reception
Rooms 308 & 309 MBNA Hall