This conference brought together leaders in the NSF EPSCoR program and invited guests from the national research and science policy communities to consider selected strategies for achieving mainstream research competitiveness. By mainstream research competitiveness, we mean the sustained ability to win a proportional share of research and development awards in merit reviewed competition with other institutions across the country. Participants worked to identify and develop programmatic resources within NSF, AAAS and the individual state EPSCoR programs for effectively pursuing strategies for competing in the mainstream

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