1. LOUISIANA EPSCoR:
AN OVERVIEW
Michael Khonsari
Louisiana EPSCoR Project Director
Associate Commissioner for Sponsored Programs
Research & Development, Louisiana Board of Regents
Dow Chemical Endowed Chair and Prof of Mechanical Engineering
Louisiana State University

2. Louisiana Demographics
Population: 4.5 million
White: 62.7%
African American: 32%
Asian: 1.5%
Other: 3.8%

3. Louisiana Higher
Education Enterprise
Louisiana
Louisiana State University of Southern Community Tech Private
University System Louisiana System University System College System Universities
10 Campuses 9 Campuses 5 Campuses 10 Campuses 2 HBCU Institutions
3 PhD Granting 4 PhD Granting 1 PhD Granting 2 PhD Granting
Institutions Institutions Institution Institutions
Includes Health 1 HBCU 3 HBCU Institutions Includes Tulane
Sciences Center and Tulane Health
Sciences Center

4. EPSCoR Strategically Partners
with Board of Regents
Cash contribution to date
Exceeds $55 million

5. EPSCoR Committee Reflects
Diversity and Expertise
22 Members: Representation from campuses appointed
by System Presidents (public and private)
Representatives from NASA, DOE, DEPSCoR, IDeA
Representatives from three industry sectors
Representation from Governor’s Office for Economic Development
Executive Committee – Chair, Vice Chair, Deputy Commissioner of Board
of Regents, and Project Director

6. EPSCoR Influences
State Innovation
Louisiana Innovation Council
- Members appointed by Governor
- 30 members statewide
- 4 are EPSCoR members
Board of Regents Master Plan
Research Advisory Council
- Chair and Vice Chair are Members of EPSCoR Committee

7. EPSCoR Influences Prioritization of
State Science and Technology
Louisiana S&T Plan

8. EPSCoR Priorities Align with
State S&T Plan
High Growth Materials & Energy Coastal Digital Cyber Bioengineered
Biomedical
Target Industry Chemicals Production Resilience Media Security Solutions
Core Industry Transport,
Petrochem Energy & Info Tech & Arts & Agriculture & Health
S&T Sectors Environ Constr & Mfg Aerospace Services Media Bio Prod Care
Translational
Research Energy Environmental Biomedical
Coastal Digital Agricultural
Domains
Core Enabling Materials Science Computational Science Bioscience
S&T Research Nanotechnology Information Technology Biotechnology
21st Century
Building Blocks Atoms & Molecules Bits & Bytes Nucleic & Amino Acids
Foundational COMP EARTH AGRI BIOL BIOM ECON
PHYS CHEM MATH ENGR SCI SCI SCI SCI & SS
Sciences

9. EPSCoR Strategically
Determines Research Themes
EPSCoR Committee strategically determines general research
themes based on State’s investments, strengths, and needs
Collaborative research proposals are solicited from
universities across the State
Proposals are evaluated by a peer review process
using experts external to Louisiana

10. EPSCoR Helps Create and
Leverage State Investments
LA Tech
LSU
SUBR UNO
ULL Tulane
Xavier (C2)
National Lambda Rail

11. EPSCoR Helps Create and
Leverage State Investments
Economic
LONI Development/
Institute Research
IDeA
EPSCoR: PIXAR
2010: $20M statewide
CyberTools LONI CyberTools-key
Ranked #14played
Faculty in ARI-R2
2007: Bee: tri-state
th Largest
QueenEA Sports digital
2010: $6M Biomedical
2005: Louisiana $15M in
2010: $2M NSF RII
LONI
NSF/EPSCoR to
Currentin I/UCRCHPC of
Developed
2007:HPCOPS:
2007:AVATAR Capacity:
role NSF $15M NIH
LONI
the discovery
media according
2010:Supercomputer
LBRN -
to$12M ToolkitsTrack2
Statewide
NSF/EPSCoR RII (LBRN)
Research BusinessLSU’s data -
Networkproject
advanceBosonProject
Computational
Statewide particle
the Higgs Facilities
$3.8M~100 TFLOP
TeraGrid
CenturyLink
NSF/EPSCoRNIHProject
$16M CI
in the Materials world
academic
in CoastalCERN
at Studies
network infrastructure
Magazine
Gameloft

12. Leading EPSCoR Researchers
Mentor Louisiana Faculty
John Perdew Ward Plummer
TULANE LSU

13. EPSCoR Positively Impacts
Upward Trajectory of
LA Research Expenditures
$350
$307
$300
$300
$260
$250 $273
$240
$239
$224
Millions
$200
$201
$183
$150 $170
$154
$100
$50
$0
FY 1999 FY 2000 FY 2001 FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY2008 FY2009

14. EPSCoR Responds in Aftermath
of Katrina

15. EPSCoR Responds in Aftermath
of BP Oil Spill
Held in collaboration with
Mississippi and Alabama

16. EPSCoR Responds to
Hurricane Isaac

17. EPSCoR Catalyzes Collaboration
LA EPSCoR has broken down
boundaries between campuses
LA EPSCoR is a proven catalyst for
achieving increased statewide
collaboration and national
competitiveness

18. EPSCoR Supports the
STEM Pipeline
Tenured Faculty
Speaking of Science
Undergraduate
Graduate student
Seed funding for
Opportunities for
hasand Post-Doc
student research
reached 13,000
new faculty
established faculty
K-12 students
experiences
training
Tenure-Track Faculty
Undergrad / Graduates /Post
Docs
K-12

19. America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010
‘‘it shall be an objective of the Foundation to
strengthen research and education in the
sciences and engineering, including
independent research by
individuals, throughout the United States, and
to avoid undue concentration of such research
and education’’; and

20. America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010
“the Nation requires the talent, expertise, and
research capabilities of all States in order to
prepare sufficient numbers of scientists and
engineers, remain globally competitive and
support economic development.”

21. EPSCoR is Transforming Louisiana:
In Research
In Education
In Economic Development

22. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION