SciTS 2010 Conference: Sessions

Emerging Directions for the Science of Team Science and Science Policy

The panelists in this session will discuss emerging directions in the science of team science as it relates to the impact on team science and science policy more broadly. Janie Fouke will highlight strategies to overcome current practices at universities and funding agencies that hinder scientists working in teams. Sara Kiesler will discuss the implications of team science for science policy, in particular, the tradeoffs between meritocracy and other criteria of team success. Nancy Jones will discuss emerging themes for the science of team science policy and some key stakeholders and their needs. Julia Lane will discuss the new NIH-NSF-OSTP data infrastructure initiative and STAR METRICS, which will be used to measure the effect of research on innovation, competitiveness and science, in the context of team science. And finally, Jack Tebes will discuss challenges and opportunities for scholarly publication in interdisciplinary team science.

  • Jacob Tebes, Ph.D., Yale University, Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Sara Kiesler, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Professor, Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction
  • Janie Fouke, Ph.D., University of Florida, Senior Advisor to the President; Co-organizer of the NIH Catalyzing Team Science Conference
  • Julia Lane, Ph.D., National Science Foundation, Science of Science and Innovation Policy, Program Director
  • Nancy Jones, Ph.D., NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Planning and Evaluation
  • Question and Answer Session

Panelists

Jacob Tebes
Jacob Kraemer Tebes

Jacob Kraemer Tebes, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, Child Study Center, and Epidemiology & Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Division of Prevention and Community Research and Deputy Director of The Consultation Center. Dr. Tebes earned a B.S. in Psychology from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Community Research and Action. Dr. Tebes is also Editor of the American Journal of Community Psychology, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Community Psychology and Child Abuse and Neglect. His research has focused on the promotion of resilience in at risk populations, the prevention of adolescent substance use, the evaluation of system-level and community interventions, prevention and evaluation research methodology, and meta-science. Dr. Tebes currently serves as Principal Investigator of the evaluation for the Interdisciplinary Research Consortium on Stress, Self-Control, and Addiction that is funded through the NIH Roadmap Initiative, and is also an advisor to the national evaluation of interdisciplinary research consortia funded through that initiative. At Yale, Dr. Tebes teaches advanced seminars in prevention research methods and clinical methods, and co-directs NIDA training and education programs in substance abuse prevention research and interdisciplinary team science.

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Sara Kiesler
Sara Kiesler

Sara Kiesler, Ph.D. is Hillman Professor of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Kiesler applies behavioral and social science to technology design and to understanding how technology changes individuals, groups, and organizations. She has co-authored or edited 7 books including “Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization” (MIT Press), (“Culture of the Internet,” Erlbaum), and “Distributed Work” (MIT Press). She continues to study multidisciplinary and complex forms of collaboration, geographically dispersed science and project work, information sharing and collaborative analysis, and the design of human-robot interaction.

Janie M. Fouke
Janie M. Fouke

Janie M. Fouke, Ph.D. is the senior advisor to the president for international affairs at the University of Florida, completed her liberal arts degree in biology at St. Andrews Presbyterian College and earned graduate degrees in biomedical mathematics and engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as dean of the College of Engineering at Michigan State University from 1999 to 2005. Prior to that, she was the inaugural division director of the newly created division of bioengineering and environmental systems with the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.

From 1981 to 1999, Fouke rose through the faculty ranks in the department of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland with teaching and research interests in medical instrument design and development. Instrumentation that she has built has been critical to the understanding of the etiology of airway diseases such as asthma and the pulmonary effects of insults such as environmental pollutants.

Dr. Fouke has published roughly 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and conference papers and a dozen book chapters, editorials, and proprietary reports. Her 2000 book, Engineering Tomorrow, received numerous awards including The Dexter Prize, given annually by the Society for the History of Technology for the single best book published during the preceding three years.

She currently serves on advisory boards for several universities, the Engineering Directorate at NSF, and the National Institute of Bioimaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health. She also served two terms as president of the IEEE/Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the largest professional society of bioengineers in the world.

Dr. Fouke is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Biomedical Engineering Society

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Julia Lane
Julia Lane

Julia Lane, Ph.D. is the Program Director of the Science of Science & Innovation Policy program at the National Science Foundation. Her previous jobs included Senior Vice President and Director, Economics Department at NORC/University of Chicago, Director of the Employment Dynamics Program at the Urban Institute, Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau and Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at American University.

Julia has published over 60 articles in leading economics journals, and authored or edited five books. She has been the recipient of over $20 million in grants; from foundations such as the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Institute of Health; from government agencies such as the Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Health and Human Services in the U.S., the ESRC in the U.K., and the Department of Labour and Statistics New Zealand in New Zealand, as well as from international organizations such as the World Bank. She has organized over 30 national and international conferences, received several national awards, given keynote speeches all over the world, and serves on a number of national and international advisory boards.

She is one of the founders of the LEHD program at the Census Bureau, which is the first large scale linked employer-employee dataset in the United States. She is also the PI of the NORC data enclave, a remote access collaborative environment for researcher access to sensitive business micro-data.

A native of England who grew up in New Zealand, Julia has worked in a variety of countries, including Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Sweden, and Tunisia. Her undergraduate degree was in Economics and Japanese from Massey University in New Zealand; her M.A. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Economics are from the University of Missouri in Columbia. She is fluent in Swedish and German and speaks conversational French.

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Nancy L. Jones
Nancy L. Jones

Nancy L. Jones, Ph.D. is a Planning and Evaluation Specialist as an LTS Contractor at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). She also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) and an Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at Trinity International University.

Dr. Jones has tri-expertise in biomedical research, bioethics and science policy. For seventeen years, Dr. Jones was full-time faculty of WFUSM in the Pathology Department conducting NIH and American Heart Association funded projects on the macrophages’ role in atherosclerosis. She spent two years as an 2005-07 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/ National Institutes of Health (NIH) science policy fellow. Currently, as a Planning and Evaluation Specialist, Dr. Jones develops policies, manages NIAID clearance of federal agency documents and participates in strategic planning and evaluation projects at NIAID. Dr. Jones assists with designing evaluations on research programs such as a process evaluation for the Division of AIDS policy implementation program and a needs assessment for the Trans-NIH Genetics and Common Diseases Communication Program. She participates on Trans-NIH committees such as the NIH Science of Science Management and Trans-NIH Bioethics Committee.

Dr. Jones spearheaded the creation and implementation of a cross-disciplinary NSF funded project to develop curriculum on ethics and professionalism for science and engineering graduate students entitled, “Problem-Based Learning for Ethics: Graduate Curriculum for Science and Engineering” at WFUSM. While at WFUSM, she served on many university committees such as WFU Bioethics Task Force, WFUSM Core Teaching Faculty, Institutional Review Board, the Clinical Ethics Committee, Committee on Research Ethics, Embryonic Stem Cell Ad Hoc Committee, Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis and the University Senate. Dr. Jones has served on the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary’s Committee on Human Research Protection (SACHRP) and NC HHS Ad Hoc Living Organ Donor Rules. She also serves as a Fellow and Biotech Ethics Consultant for The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity.

Dr. Jones received her BS in Biochemistry at Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University (1981) and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at WFUSM (1987). She received a Dean’s Fellowship and a National Research Service Award for graduate training in Cell Biology and Pharmacology of Cancer and a postdoctoral National Research Service Award in Molecular and Cellular Pathology (1987-88). Dr. Jones received a MA in Bioethics Magna cum laude from Trinity International University (2003).

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Question and Answer Session

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