RISE PARTNERSHIP GUIDE PUBLISHED ONLINE!

Carol Lynn Alpert

Major sections include:

  • The Partnership Landscape, including a primer on university-based STEM research, motivational factors for researchers, and the NSF's Broader Impacts Criterion.
  • Building a Partnership, including the tale of the last-minute phone call, the nature and characteristics of successful partnerships, laying the groundwork for partnerships, vetting an offer of partnership, and principles of good stewardship.
  • Recruiting a Partner, including an overview of the many ways science museums can serve the research community, strategies for finding and recruiting a partner, starting small and growing big.
  • Getting Grants, including a comparison of typical ISE funding sources versus funding through science and engineering subawards and contracts, partnering on grant proposals, and getting started.
  • Partnerships in Nanoscale Informal Science Education, including an introduction to the NISE Network, a sample of partnerships in nano education and outreach, an overview of nano pedagogy, an analysis of the evolving role of science museums, and a concluding comment on the power of partnerships
  • Resources, including ISE resources, funding resources, partnership resources, bibliography and references, and a brief primer on nanotechnology.
  • Glossary of relevant terms.
  • Comments and Discussion blog.

The guide is illustrated delightfully by Jeanne Antill.  Please see the About section in the Guide for a list of all the great folks who contributed to its development. The Guide was two years plus in the making and based on a decade of experience in  forming partnerships with university-based research centers, and informed as well by the experience of many colleagues.

At the last ASTC meeting,  Larry Bell and I  introduced the Guide to an audience of CEOs, VPs, and other senior management folks.  We are also offering a session at the NISE Net Annual Meeting.

We welcome comments, feedback and contributions. 

Cheers,

Carol Lynn