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WVNano Participant Policy

  1. The WVNano Initiative is an infrastructure development program to firmly establish and advance WVU on the NSEE stage as evidenced by strong funding, academic output, and regional/national/international collaborations, with the goal of achieving center status in three years.
  2. WVNano is a competitively supported, accelerated research program comprised of several highly interdisciplinary and interactive research teams conducting discovery in selected focus areas.
  3. WVNano is an open initiative, and all faculty members are encouraged to become WVNano Participants. It is the philosophical intent and policy of WVNano to expand the number of Participants to produce the highest quality nanoscale science, engineering, and education enterprise.
  4. Participants are accepted into the WVNano Initiative based on a satisfactory statement of research, collaboration or other focused intentions consistent with the stated goals of WVNano and on a demonstrated (or, in the case of new faculty, potential for) positive publication and external funding record.
  5. Participants in the WVNano Initiative form a pool of researchers interested in the opportunity to become engaged in efforts performed by the WVNano Initiative faculty. They will be invited to meetings and receive email and announcements about focused input needs, focused group topics, applications and opportunities for collaboration to conduct interdisciplinary research with WVNano shared resources in the spirit of “intellectual collisions” and “bridging science and education”.
  6. WVNano shared resources include people, ideas, and tools.
  7. It is up to individual Participants to become engaged in their area of interest within WVNano. The level of engagement is determined by concrete actions based on individual contributions and competitiveness

Becoming a WVNano Participant

  1. A Participant in the WVNano Initiative is accepted by the WVNano Faculty based on a satisfactory review of a statement of research intentions consistent with WVNano goals and on a positive publication and external funding record.
  2. The research intentions comprise the annual Participation Statement.
  3. The Participation Statement shall consist of the following information:
    1. Objective of research/outreach activity and how it is consistent with WVNano’s goals
    2. Specific targeted funding opportunities related to the research
    3. Approach
    4. Accomplishments to date
    5. Relevant publications
    6. Plans for the next year
      1. Intellectual collisions
      2. Bridging science and education
      3. Shared resources contributed and/or requested
    7. Impact on WVNano Initiative
  4. Following review and acceptance of the Participation Statement, applicants for new and renewed participant status will provide a presentation to the WVNano group.
  5. Applicants will be informed of their application status pending completion of group deliberations.