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The
National University
Community Research Institute
(NUCRI) is an entity and
institutional resource
organized to facilitate National
University's commitment to a
collaborative future as a full
community partner.
Essentially, the Institute is
a Community Research and
Technology Collaborator for
Creative and Smart Community
Building a Resource Network
Partner for Broadening
Participation in the Science,
Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics (STEM) fields
through Education, Outreach,
Training, and Interdisciplinary
Practice and a) Facilitator for
Knowledge Mobilization.
Moreover, the
academically-oriented,
practitioner-based Institute
is a service
provider for professional
development online programs, new
skills training, and
project-based learning.
NUCRI is headed by an Executive
Director and University Vice
President who also is
responsible for a University
Consultant Corps (UCC) of
resident and telecommute
fellows, faculty associates
across schools and disciplines,
a technical staff, student
interns and community
practitioners. NUCRI has a
Faculty Liaison who is the
Associate Director of Community
Research and a Senior Fellow who
is the Associate Director for
Community Technology. NUCRI also
has a 15-member Advisory Board
drawn from the business,
science, technology, education
and human services communities.
Through PDX
(Professional Development
Extension) Online for teachers
and community practitioners and
its CIERRA (Cyber-Infrastructure
Education, Recruitment,
Retention, Advancement)
initiative, NUCRI offers
education, outreach and training
programs to broaden
participation in the Science,
Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics (STEM) fields and
integrate Cyberinfrastructure
into the Humanities Arts, Social
Science through
Interdisciplinary Practice and
Project-based learning.
National
University/NUCRI is a member of
the nationally-recognized HASTAC
Leadership Group (www.hastac.org)
and a branding institution for
the 2006-07 HASTAC
InFormation Year (http://nucri.nu.edu/incommunity).
NUCRI also is a community-based
research partner with the
National City
Collaborative/Family Resource
Centers and service provider to
the University of San
Francisco's TEAMS AmeriCorps
program and EMS Independent
Charter School System teachers
for at-risk youth in the Los
Angeles Basin. The Institute has
a working relationship with
the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the
National Center for
Supercomputing Applications
(NCSA), the Illinois Center for
Computing in the Humanities,
Arts, Social Sciences (ICHASS)
at the University of Illinois,
Urbana Champaign, the National
Center for Advanced Technology
(CeNAT) in Costa Rica, and the
Virginia Bioinformatics
Institute at Virginia Tech
University in Blacksburg,
Virginia
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