Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
1815 The University of Texas at El Paso (143703)
Principal Investigator: Velasco,Aaron A
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 500,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 8/1/22 - 8/31/24
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Earth, Environ & Resource Sci
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Earth, Environ & Resource Sci
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Track 1: Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES): Building Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community into Earthquate Science
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
CFDA Link: NSF
47.050
Program Title:
Geosciences
CFDA Linked: Geosciences
Note:
We propose to develop the Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES) with a mission to advance earthquake science with the aim of meeting the natural hazard mitigation needs of all communities in regions of low probability, high impact (LPHI) earthquake risk and to develop a more diverse workforce in geosciences and related practitioners. The center will be housed at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), a major research university with an 83% Hispanic student population. The vision for the center is to become a world-class earthquake research center dedicated to improving resiliency from geohazards in an equitable, accessible, and sustainable manner. The core values of the center are: Scientific integrity, equity, inclusive excellence, diversity, access, justice. The goals of the center will be to: 1) Advance basic earthquake science and engineering; 2) Establish a foundation for sharing, value-driven understanding of science; 3) Be responsive to the needs of all communities through use-inspired research; 4) Grow to national prominence; 5) Recruit, retain, and train the next generation of diverse earth scientists; and 6) Develop a framework for impactful geoscience that translates results of scientific discovery into actions that can improve resilience and reduce risk from geohazards. To achieve these goals requires an innovative and robust research plan that incorporates community engagement, and we adopt collective impact as our model for establishing this center. The C-CIES will emphasize research with potential to respond to the needs of vulnerable populations that have been historically underserved by current science, engineering, and public policy. By adopting collective impact as a guiding principle for the center, we will, by necessity, make Inclusive Excellence, Diversity, Equity, and Community (IEDEC) a fundamental principle of the center.
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