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Official 2025 Iowa NSF EPSCoR Symposium Agenda

July 21, 2025

Iowa NSF EPSCoR 2025 Annual Meeting 

Location: 

Schindler Education Center (SEC), 

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls 

 July 24, 2025

8:15 AM – 4:15 PM

 

Date:

Time: 

8:15 AMRegistration / poster setup / breakfastLobby
8:45 AMWelcome, Announcements, Focused Networking Activity (Industry Task) Auditorium 
9:00 AMKeynote 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 photoLobby
11:30 AM – 1:30 PMLunchLobby
11:30 AM

Poster Session 1, Even-Numbered Posters

Presenters at their posters.

Lobby
12:15 – 12:45 PMOpen 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 PMBreak  

 

 

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

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No.2242763   

 

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