Sharon Franks

Dr. MacFadden’s course sounds terrific, and I enthusiastically agree that graduate students are an ideal target audience for BI training. Good idea to perhaps play down the emphasis on the NSF-specific term Broader Impacts, as increasingly other funding sponsors call for BI-like plans in proposals. An additional consideration is while…[Read more]

Hi Jennifer, Britt and Janice have already posted some great ideas and resources, so perhaps it’s best not to send you off in too many directions. I’ll encourage you to be a little careful about how much you propose to do in terms of non-research activities. You probably noticed this statement in the solicitation: “As […]

As written, the BI statement seems to raise more questions than it answers: To whom do the writers propose “to show the relevance and importance of science and …”? Are the bulleted items the intended objectives? Who will do the design/creation of the display/website/kiosk? What is the basis for thinking that the public will be […]

The statement proposes to create a “module”… but it doesn’t describe what is meant by or included in the module. There is no evidence presented that the module is needed, or that something like it doesn’t already exist. The first sentence may need revision: What does it mean that the module “…meets the… NASA GLOBE […]

Among the merits of this BI statement: It addresses the first of the five BI questions – the one that asks about promotion of teaching, training and learning. Plans include a collaboration by the research team with an established educational organization. Some shortcomings of the statement: 1. The goal, as stated in the first sentence, […]