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Trainees: join the IGERT annual meeting from your desk!
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NSF and the IGERT program are pleased to announce that portions of the annual meeting in Washington, DC, will be live video streamed right here on igert.org! On Twitter? We’ll live-tweet sessions using the #IGERT2012 hashtag (follow us @NSF_IGERT), allowing all IGERT trainees, associates, and faculty to participate in the discussions and engage with IGERT colleagues from across the country.
Tentative streaming schedule (all times Eastern):
Thursday, May 31
8:30 – 9:00: Welcome and Agenda Overview
9:00 – 10:00: Keynote Address – Creating an Innovation Ecosystem. C. Daniel Mote, Jr., Regents Professor &
Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Former President of University of Maryland, College Park
10:15 – 12:15: PI Technical Session Presentations – Nanoscience & Materials Science
1:15 – 2:15: Broadening Participation: Effective Practices from successful IGERT PIs
2:15 – 3:15: Annual reporting and managing your IGERT
Friday, June 1
8:15 – 9:15: Keynote Address – Collaboration Networks. Griffin Webber, CTO Harvard Medical School
9:30 – 11:30: PI Technical Session Presentations – Energy and Sustainable Development
1:00 – 2:00: Institutionalizing your IGERT
2:00 – 3:00: IGERT of the Future
Note: Streamed sessions are subject to change.
Additionally, the following sessions will be recorded and made available on igert.org as quickly as possible:
Thursday, May 31
10:15 – 12:15: PI Technical Session Presentations – Bioinformatics and Bioengineering; Climate, the Environment, and Ecology
2:15 – 3:15: Career Development, Part 1 plenary with IGERT alumni
3:15 – 5:15: Communicating Science Workshop for trainees
Friday, June 1
9:30 – 11:30: PI Technical Session Presentations – Cognitive, Social, and Economic Science; Computation, Sensing, and Devices
1:00 – 2:00: Career Development, Part 2 Federal Post-Doctoral Opportunities for trainees
