Citation
Deborah Illman. "Profiles in Team Science". Technical report, National Science Foundation, University of Washington, August, 2007.

Abstract
Increasingly, researchers are tackling questions that transcend disciplinary boundaries, and federal agencies are creating new models for funding team science. Solving "big" problems in science generally requires big teams, big budgets, and a long time frame. It usually involves the collaboration of many different scientists and engineers from a wide variety of disciplines in the context of a research center or institute, which often attempts to integrate research with education, technology transfer efforts, outreach activities, and diversity enhancement programs.

Centers are proliferating, yet their outcomes may not be easily covered within the constraints of the news media. There's a news gap, and many members of the general public may not make the connection between the team mode of operation and the results produced. What is different about team science? How is it working? What can it accomplish that couldn't be done otherwise, if anything? Why is it important for people to know about centers?

This project explores those questions. It is aimed at increasing awareness about team science and of NSF centers in order for policymakers, the scientific community, members of industry, educators, and taxpayers to understand the role that these modes of science funding play in solving critical problems facing society.

The goal is to "put a face" on team science-to provide tangible and specific stories of the real people carrying out this work in order to give us an insight into the way science increasingly is conducted today.

The attached document is the portion of the document that covers the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST). See Profiles in Team Science website for the complete document.

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• _TeamScienceTRUSTPg52-55.pdf · · 1749 kbytes. (A section from the Profiles in Team Science," a project of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Corps Program conducted by Deborah L. Illman at the University of Washington.)

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  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/288.html"><i>Profiles
  in Team Science</i></a>, Technical report, 
  National Science Foundation, University of Washington,
  August, 2007.

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  Deborah Illman. "Profiles in Team Science". Technical
  report,  National Science Foundation, University of
  Washington, August, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @techreport{Illman07_ProfilesInTeamScience,
      author = {Deborah Illman},
      title = {Profiles in Team Science},
      institution = {National Science Foundation, University of
                Washington},
      month = {August},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Increasingly, researchers are tackling questions
                that transcend disciplinary boundaries, and
                federal agencies are creating new models for
                funding team science. Solving "big" problems in
                science generally requires big teams, big budgets,
                and a long time frame. It usually involves the
                collaboration of many different scientists and
                engineers from a wide variety of disciplines in
                the context of a research center or institute,
                which often attempts to integrate research with
                education, technology transfer efforts, outreach
                activities, and diversity enhancement programs.
                
  Centers are proliferating, yet their outcomes
                may not be easily covered within the constraints
                of the news media. There's a news gap, and many
                members of the general public may not make the
                connection between the team mode of operation and
                the results produced. What is different about team
                science? How is it working? What can it accomplish
                that couldn't be done otherwise, if anything? Why
                is it important for people to know about centers?
                
  This project explores those questions. It is
                aimed at increasing awareness about team science
                and of NSF centers in order for policymakers, the
                scientific community, members of industry,
                educators, and taxpayers to understand the role
                that these modes of science funding play in
                solving critical problems facing society. 
  The
                goal is to "put a face" on team science-to provide
                tangible and specific stories of the real people
                carrying out this work in order to give us an
                insight into the way science increasingly is
                conducted today. 
  The attached document is the
                portion of the document that covers the Team for
                Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST).
                See Profiles
                in Team Science website for the complete
                document.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/288.html}
  }
  

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