{"id":6854,"date":"2022-04-28T13:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=6854"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:28:07","slug":"karen-houseknecht-has-been-appointed-by-the-governor-to-serve-on-the-the-maine-innovation-economy-advisory-board-mieab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/karen-houseknecht-has-been-appointed-by-the-governor-to-serve-on-the-the-maine-innovation-economy-advisory-board-mieab\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Provost for Research and Scholarship Karen Houseknecht has been appointed by the Governor to serve on the the Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board (MIEAB)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainelegislature.org\/legis\/statutes\/10\/title10sec949.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.mainelegislature.org\/legis\/statutes\/10\/title10sec949.html\">MIEAB<\/a> is a consequential board that\u2019s responsible for developing the State\u2019s five-year innovation action plan, as well as monitoring and reporting annually on the state\u2019s progress against the goals and tactics in the plan.&nbsp; It also serves as the State\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsf.gov%2Fod%2Foia%2Fprograms%2Fepscor%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CJoseph.Boucher%40maine.gov%7C92485122ecdd4973573008d7588adb35%7C413fa8ab207d4b629bcdea1a8f2f864e%7C0%7C0%7C637075226501492003&amp;sdata=aR6md%2F33RAmRo6cOe9bDM8tsJu4bdXb8S3ftj%2BADZPQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">EPSCoR<\/a> Steering Committee and generally provides advisory to policy makers on all things related to our innovation economy.&nbsp; The board is expected to meet quarterly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With respect to our EPSCoR responsibilities, there is a need for MIEAB to convene in early May to review and approve a proposal from Maine for a $20 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Track-1 solicitation.&nbsp; MIEAB\u2019s review and endorsement of the proposal is required for submission.&nbsp; Shane Moeykens, PhD, Director of Maine\u2019s EPSCoR program, will be reaching out to you in the coming days to share a meeting poll.&nbsp; Please try to get your responses to him as soon as you are able so we can get the meeting scheduled when most members are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIEAB is a consequential board that\u2019s responsible for developing the State\u2019s five-year innovation action plan, as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-and-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6885,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6854\/revisions\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6854"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=6854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}