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Appendix E Major Benefits and Challenges
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From page 49... ... . Benefits: Ensures duration and consistency at all levels in the institutional relationship Challenges: New approach, not yet tested outside SNL Large User Examples: Facility � Advanced Photon Source (APS) Read the entire page →
From page 50... ... Most user facilities have easily navigable web signups; some have hosting facilities for visitors � Use of collaborative scientist teams to partially fund and design user facilities leads to more innovative science results than the government-funds-all approach used in Europe � External science advisory committees also ensure high scientific quality. � Users are 50 percent academic; therefore, there is a direct impact of user facilities on quality of education in the United States � Siting of user facilities at national laboratories enables experiments requiring permanent professional staff (project duration > graduate student lifetime) Read the entire page →
From page 51... ... intensive ongoing technical support. Because these required human resources are available only at national laboratories, their small facilities tend to be nationally unique � Funding for $2 million to $20 million facilities is possible in the laboratory context; it is nearly impossible in the university context where equipment proposals are limited to much smaller sums Challenges: � The case for the support of these facilities at the national laboratories has not been made clearly to Congress or DOE � Accordingly -- and despite their quality -- the smaller facilities tend to be characterized by poor national recognition, little advertising within the scientific community, and inconsistent or deficient user support budgets and processes � However, there is no substitute for many of the capabilities offered by these smaller facilities Joint Institute Examples: or Program � Applied Sciences Program at University of California, Davis (UC Davis-LLNL) Read the entire page →
From page 52... ... � Nicholas Center for Structural Genomics and other beamline consortia (ANL) Benefits: � Development and growth of regional expertise; increased scientific networking, data access, and material sharing � Possibility of state funding for building construction � Higher success rate for proposals due to existing collaborative networks � Access to and cultivation of minority workforce located at historically black colleges and universities; access to scarce workforce in certain technical areas � Increased access of universities to laboratory facilities Challenges: � ASCI appears to be the most prominent example of a success story in this area, but the multilayered structure of that initiative was never replicated elsewhere Read the entire page →
From page 53... ... , Stony Brook � Argonne National Laboratory�University of Chicago Benefits: � Superb flexibility for the individual scientist � Additional laboratory space � Translation of laboratory-based findings to university environment and students � Potential recruitment bridge for labs to obtain high-quality students as future employees � Prestige for laboratory employees carrying university title � Reduction of cultural barriers between laboratory and university when there are joint professors who routinely make the crossover � Sabbaticals can be used to support professors at laboratories for short periods of time, even when joint appointments are not possible Challenges: � Very difficult to surmount different accounting or overhead systems with a single salary package when the laboratory is not owned by a university � For contractor-managed laboratories, different accounting systems typically lead to double overhead for both salaries and projects � Joint faculty appointments require physical proximity between institutions and consistent performance metrics across the institutions Creative Solution: A joint institute can be an "accounting path solution" for institutions with differing salary and overhead structures, who would otherwise find such appointments impossible Collaborative Examples: Projects Grid Computing Project at ANL and many others (by individual Benefits: co-PIs or joint � For both sides: an ability to do scientific projects not possible without groups) both sets of expertise. Read the entire page →
From page 54... ... Ability of scientists doing classified work to have their more fundamental, unclassified ideas thoroughly vetted and critiqued by the scientific community -- resulting in much higher-quality work on the classified side � For the universities: partial support and training of involved students; access to unique equipment; and substantial technician, engineering, and programmer support. These permanent professional staff are especially difficult to find at universities � University researchers also gain the ability to be involved in a scientific endeavor that lasts more than the lifetime of a single graduate student. Read the entire page →
From page 55... ... Converting them to national laboratory employees requires extensive bureaucracy, including assurance programs for green card applications, sequential or extended temporary positions until citizenship is granted, and cyber access Student Examples: Outreach � Student Research Apprentice Program at PNNL � Classroom studies and laboratory visits by students to the High Field Magnetic Resonance Facility at PNNL � University Relations Program at LLNL � Student Employee Graduate Research Fellowship Program at LLNL Benefits (anticipated) : Robust future workforce Challenges: � Congressionally mandated cutbacks for education programs in the Office of Science (from $60 million to $6 million) Read the entire page →
From page 56... ... 56 APPENDIX E Type of Collaboration Examples, Benefits, Challenges and Solutions (where indicated) Student � Disappearance and/or inconsistent application of agency-supported Outreach graduate programs is a partial contributor to current workforce deficit in critical skills � Large fraction of advanced technical workforce is of non-U.S. Read the entire page →

From page 49...

... . Benefits: Ensures duration and consistency at all levels in the institutional relationship Challenges: New approach, not yet tested outside SNL Large User Examples: Facility � Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Read the entire page →

From page 50...

... Most user facilities have easily navigable web signups; some have hosting facilities for visitors � Use of collaborative scientist teams to partially fund and design user facilities leads to more innovative science results than the government-funds-all approach used in Europe � External science advisory committees also ensure high scientific quality. � Users are 50 percent academic; therefore, there is a direct impact of user facilities on quality of education in the United States � Siting of user facilities at national laboratories enables experiments requiring permanent professional staff (project duration > graduate student lifetime)

Read the entire page →

From page 51...

... intensive ongoing technical support. Because these required human resources are available only at national laboratories, their small facilities tend to be nationally unique � Funding for $2 million to $20 million facilities is possible in the laboratory context; it is nearly impossible in the university context where equipment proposals are limited to much smaller sums Challenges: � The case for the support of these facilities at the national laboratories has not been made clearly to Congress or DOE � Accordingly -- and despite their quality -- the smaller facilities tend to be characterized by poor national recognition, little advertising within the scientific community, and inconsistent or deficient user support budgets and processes � However, there is no substitute for many of the capabilities offered by these smaller facilities Joint Institute Examples: or Program � Applied Sciences Program at University of California, Davis (UC Davis-LLNL)

Read the entire page →

From page 52...

... � Nicholas Center for Structural Genomics and other beamline consortia (ANL) Benefits: � Development and growth of regional expertise; increased scientific networking, data access, and material sharing � Possibility of state funding for building construction � Higher success rate for proposals due to existing collaborative networks � Access to and cultivation of minority workforce located at historically black colleges and universities; access to scarce workforce in certain technical areas � Increased access of universities to laboratory facilities Challenges: � ASCI appears to be the most prominent example of a success story in this area, but the multilayered structure of that initiative was never replicated elsewhere

Read the entire page →

From page 53...

... , Stony Brook � Argonne National Laboratory�University of Chicago Benefits: � Superb flexibility for the individual scientist � Additional laboratory space � Translation of laboratory-based findings to university environment and students � Potential recruitment bridge for labs to obtain high-quality students as future employees � Prestige for laboratory employees carrying university title � Reduction of cultural barriers between laboratory and university when there are joint professors who routinely make the crossover � Sabbaticals can be used to support professors at laboratories for short periods of time, even when joint appointments are not possible Challenges: � Very difficult to surmount different accounting or overhead systems with a single salary package when the laboratory is not owned by a university � For contractor-managed laboratories, different accounting systems typically lead to double overhead for both salaries and projects � Joint faculty appointments require physical proximity between institutions and consistent performance metrics across the institutions Creative Solution: A joint institute can be an "accounting path solution" for institutions with differing salary and overhead structures, who would otherwise find such appointments impossible Collaborative Examples: Projects Grid Computing Project at ANL and many others (by individual Benefits: co-PIs or joint � For both sides: an ability to do scientific projects not possible without groups) both sets of expertise.

Read the entire page →

From page 54...

... Ability of scientists doing classified work to have their more fundamental, unclassified ideas thoroughly vetted and critiqued by the scientific community -- resulting in much higher-quality work on the classified side � For the universities: partial support and training of involved students; access to unique equipment; and substantial technician, engineering, and programmer support. These permanent professional staff are especially difficult to find at universities � University researchers also gain the ability to be involved in a scientific endeavor that lasts more than the lifetime of a single graduate student.

Read the entire page →

From page 55...

... Converting them to national laboratory employees requires extensive bureaucracy, including assurance programs for green card applications, sequential or extended temporary positions until citizenship is granted, and cyber access Student Examples: Outreach � Student Research Apprentice Program at PNNL � Classroom studies and laboratory visits by students to the High Field Magnetic Resonance Facility at PNNL � University Relations Program at LLNL � Student Employee Graduate Research Fellowship Program at LLNL Benefits (anticipated) : Robust future workforce Challenges: � Congressionally mandated cutbacks for education programs in the Office of Science (from $60 million to $6 million)

Read the entire page →

From page 56...

... 56 APPENDIX E Type of Collaboration Examples, Benefits, Challenges and Solutions (where indicated) Student � Disappearance and/or inconsistent application of agency-supported Outreach graduate programs is a partial contributor to current workforce deficit in critical skills � Large fraction of advanced technical workforce is of non-U.S.

Read the entire page →

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Appendix E Major Benefits and Challenges Pages 49-56

Appendix E Major Benefits and Challenges
Pages 49-56