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The National Science Foundation has long prioritized the need to identify and address the broader impacts of NSF-funded research through its proposal review criteria. Over the past two decades, other federal funding agencies, including NIH, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense, have also increased their focus on broader impacts by requiring new sections of proposal narratives and introducing new funding opportunities.

Broader impacts activities, which are those intended to contribute to one or more desired societal outcomes, can often be connected to stakeholders in the P-12 education sector. In this session, the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Broader Impacts will provide an overview of meaningful and effective broader impacts approaches, examples of fruitful broader impacts activities, and a set of essential considerations when developing a vision and scope for broader impacts work -- all focused on engaging a range of P-12 audiences. Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring draft ideas for potential broader impacts activities or draft proposal descriptions to critically examine and refine during the active working portions of the session.

For those interested in: Academia-Industry Connections, Broadening Participation in Engineering and Engineering Technology, New Members, and Pre-College

Moderated by

1. Dr. Katey Shirey

Speakers

1. Dr. Gina Navoa Svarovsky

   University of Notre Dame

   Dr. Gina Navoa Svarovsky has nearly two decades conducting research and evaluation on several NSF-funded projects and outreach efforts focused on STEM education. She has led multiple large-scale evaluations of public impact and learning around STEM learning as part of the National Informal STEM Education Network, conducts research on integrated STEM teaching and learning in formal classrooms and out-of-school learning contexts, and also leads strategic planning and logic model development sessions with program leaders. Dr. Svarovsky earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

2. Catherine Wagner

   University of Notre Dame

   Catherine Wagner serves as associate program director for the Center for STEM Education. Wagner earned her Master of Education degree from the ACE Teaching Fellows program in 2019 as a member of the 24th cohort. She taught middle school science and religion at Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic School in Mobile, AL. In the STEM Center, she collaborates with faculty on various research projects, ranging from early childhood engineering education to high school science pedagogy, and is actively involved in multiple undergraduate research labs. Wagner coordinates communication, data collection, and social media for the STEM Teaching Fellows program. She supports the formation of the STEM Teaching Fellows as part of the core team, and she helps teach the science methods summer course for second-year ACE Teaching Fellows. Wagner also serves as support staff for the Center for Broader Impacts.

   Wagner is a 2017 graduate of the University of Notre Dame in biology and poverty studies and is originally from St. Louis, MO.

3. Dr. Victoria E Goodrich

   University of Notre Dame

   Victoria Goodrich joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2011 and spent 7 years as Director of the First-Year Engineering Program, where she also researched how students form engineering identity and select engineering majors. She now directs the undergraduate laboratory courses for junior and senior chemical engineers while still teaching in the first year curriculum. Her teaching focuses on educational research efforts on how chemical engineering students translate learning goals from previous classes to more practically applied laboratory classes.

   She serves as the advisor to Notre Dame’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers and is the faculty lead for the Notre Dame site of GE Girls, a summer STEM camp for middle school girls attending South Bend Community Schools.

   Professor Goodrich has received the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2019-2020), Thomas P. Madden Award (2015-2016), Women in Engineering Impact Award (2016), and the SAO Club Advisor of the Year (2019-2020).