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Collaboration Partners
FBRI partners include other educational institutions and programs, small businesses, industry, as well as professional and non-profit organizations.
Outreach Grant Partners
FBRI EPSCoR Research and Educational Outreach Awards (grants) are offered to Maine colleges, universities, small businesses, K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education sectors, and nonprofit organizations involved with relevant activities. The Forest Bioproducts Research Initiative, funded by the National Science Foundation, has a goal to "provide strategic programs and opportunities that will solidify and strengthen Maine’s R&D capacity and competitiveness in the area of forest bioproducts research."
Award categories include forestry, pulp & paper, engineering, chemistry, nanotechnology, wood science, biology, ecology, environmental studies, physics, materials science, math, earth/soil science, resource economics, business, and policy.
Grant partnerships are created to address these project objectives:
- Advance cutting-edge science and engineering capabilities for discovery and innovation
- Build meaningful partnerships with regional, national, and international research institutions and industry, and between Maine educational institutions
- Provide a solid scientific platform for the effective transfer of technology from Maine’s research institutions to the private sector
- Increase Maine high school and undergraduate students’ awareness of STEM career options
- Increase the participation of underrepresented groups including women, minorities and first generation college students, in science and engineering in Maine
For more information on the EPSCoR awards process go to http://www.umaine.edu/epscor/
2007 EPSCoR Grant Partner Projects:
- Maine Center for Toxicology & Environmental Health
- Low Impact logging Education Project
- Improving Woody Biomass Separation by Enzymatic Means
- Upper St. John Valley Community Forest Project
- Education Outreach in Support of the University of Maine Forest Bioproduct Research Initiative
- Teaching middle and high school science using real environmental data
- Engaging Youth through Participation: A Day of Workshops and Activities at the 2008 Forest for Maine’s Future Public Expo
- Upward Bound Bridge Students Become Research Capable
- The Northeast Bioproducts Puzzle: 2007 Forest Products Society Northeast Section Meeting
- Maine Energy Education Program (MEEP) Bioenergy Outreach Education Program
- Professional Development through Collaborative Networks: An Innovative Partnership to Strengthen K-16 Science and Mathematics Education
- Summer Laboratory Mathematics School for Sixth and Seventh Graders
- Green Products Business Plan Competition 2007-08
- Reaching More Maine High Schools through Envirothon to Promote Environmental Awareness and Hands-on Environmental Problem-Solving
- Native Scholar Educational Outreach
