Smith Richardson Minerva Initiative Workshop

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Introduction to the Broad Agency Announcement

A DOD-sponsored, university-based social science reasearch initiative

Speaker(s)

William Rees

(Summarizing what Graham Spanier, President of Penn State said about Minerva)

“This is a most difficult area, it is a timely research area, it is an important research area, we only want the A Plus researchers in the area, but we want each and every A Plus researcher in the area.” -- Dr. William Rees

Session Media

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Topics

Introduction of Dr. Rees (4m53s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Why Minerva (1m3s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Current DOD Research (41s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
DOD Basic Research (2m20s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
How DOD Selects Awards (1m7s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Doing Business with DOD (3m50s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Success Criteria (1m51s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Utility of White Papers (1m3s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Combining Elements of Different Proposals (1m25s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
BAA and NSF Topics (2m31s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Funding Training Component (2m9s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
White Paper Deadline (1m45s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Plans for Future Years (22s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Peer Review Process (1m18s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Topic Overlap in BAA and NSF (2m31s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Communicating with Program Manager (36s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Minerva Website (16s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV
Closing Statement (1m11s) MP3 AMR 3GP 3G2 WMV