Matt Kane (pictured at right), program director of the National Science Foundation Ecosystem Science Cluster, will visit UAF Sept. 20-23, hosted by Alaska EPSCoR and the Institute of Arctic Biology.
All interested faculty, staff and students are invited to attend his two seminars and to meet with him individually. Please contact Mary Beth Leigh to schedule an individual or group meeting during the day or for lunch or dinner through the week.
Matt Kane will be giving two seminars:
"The NSF Proposal Submission and Merit Review Process," Tuesday, Sept. 20, O'Neill 201, 1 p.m.
“NSF Trends and Funding Opportunities in the Biological Sciences,” Friday, Sept 23, Elvey Auditorium, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Dr. Matthew D. Kane is a program director in the Ecosystem Science Cluster in the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation and has an appointment as a Visiting Fellow at Yale University. In his 12 years at NSF he has served in both DEB and the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, managed or co-managed a dozen different programs and the review of over 2,000 proposals and worked with colleagues throughout the foundation and with other federal agencies.
He currently serves as a program director for the NSF Ecosystem Studies, Long Term Ecological Research sites and Dimensions of Biodiversity programs, and has oversight of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education.
Dr. Kane served for four years as the leader of the General and Applied Microbiology Divisional Group of the American Society for Microbiology. Prior to joining NSF, he held positions at the Smithsonian Institution and Harvard University, and was a postdoctoral fellow for NSF at the University of Illinois. Dr. Kane received his B.S. with honors in biology at the University of Michigan, and his PhD in microbiology at Michigan State University.
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