2025 Iowa NSF EPSCoR Symposium

Jul 24, 2025 - 12:00 AM

to Jul 24, 2025 - 11:59 PM

The Iowa NSF EPSCoR 2025 Chemurgy 2.0 Symposium will be held on July 24, 2025, at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), Schindler Education Center (SEC), 2300 Indiana St., Cedar Falls, IA 50614. Symposium check-in starts at 8:15 a.m. and goes until 8:45 a.m.

Iowa NSF EPSCoR 2025 Annual Meeting Agenda

Location:

Schindler Education Center (SEC),

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls

July 24, 2025

8:15 AM – 4:15 PM

Date:

Time:

8:15 AM

Registration / poster setup / breakfast

Lobby

8:45 AM

Welcome, Announcements, Focused Networking Activity (Industry Task)

Auditorium

9:00 AM

Keynote presentation, Jeff DeGrange: Future-Fab: Redefining Manufacturing with Sustainable Innovation.

Auditorium

10:00 AM

External Evaluators:

Julia Melkers and Eric Welch

Auditorium

10:30 AM

Focal Area Breakout Meetings

PAM
FFR
PDT
EWD / Broader Impacts

216

118

117

222

11:25 AM

Group photo

Lobby

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

Lobby

11:30 AM

Poster Session 1, Even-Numbered Posters

Presenters at their posters.

Lobby

12:15 – 12:45 PM

Open Networking Time

12:45 PM

Poster Session 2, Odd-Numbered Posters

Presenters at their posters.

Lobby

1:35 PM

Year 3: Vision and Planning

Auditorium

1:50 PM

Break

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

2:40 PM

Concurrent Sessions

Communicating Science (R216)

All members welcome; Chemurgy-funded graduate student researchers are expected to attend

EWD Seed Funding

update (R118)

“Open Mic” for new collaborative projects (R117)

2-minute presentations, no slides

Break

Student Oral Presentations (R216),

based upon reported manuscript submissions/

publications:

Daniela Sanchez-Gutierrez, ISU and Bill Bangel, UIowa

Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) update

(R118)

Peer Networking Session (R117)

for Learn and Earn students, Rural Scholars, Pre-Service teachers, PUI Scholars, and other undergraduate researchers

3:20 PM

Focused Networking Activity II Auditorium

3:55 PM

Poster & Networking Awards

Closing Remarks

Auditorium

5:15 PM

Leadership Group Dinner

UNI President’s House

Download agenda as .pdf here

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