Cooperative Agreement Project Date: July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2025NSF Epscor Rii Track-1 Strategic Plan • September 29th, 2022
North Dakota (ND) EPSCoR’s Strategic Plan details the conceptual, programmatic, and management framework for successfully accomplishing the goals of ND-ACES (New Discoveries in the Advanced Interface of Computation, Engineering, and Science), ND’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) Track-1 Cooperative Agreement. ND-ACES is a $24M five-year (July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2025) federal ($20M)/state ($4M) partnership led by principal investigator (PI) and project director (PD) Colleen Fitzgerald, Ph.D. (Vice President for Research and Creative Activity, North Dakota State University [NDSU]). The Co-PIs are John Mihelich, Ph.D., Interim Vice President for Research and Economic Development, University of North Dakota (UND), and Jean Ostrom- Blonigen, Ph.D., CPA, Project Administrator, ND EPSCoR.
Cooperative Agreement Project Date: July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2025 Original NSF Submission/NSF Approval: September 30, 2020 / October 19, 2020NSF Epscor Rii Track-1 Strategic Plan • June 19th, 2023
Expected Benefits of Project to the Jurisdiction including the Jurisdiction’s Academic Research and Education Infrastructure 5
