Empowering and Enabling Effective
Research Teams
Curriculum and Facilitation
The science is complex. The teamwork doesn't have to be.
Your team has been awarded — or is pursuing — an NSF Tech Accelerator, NIH, or other funding award that leverages interdisciplinary convergence research.
We have experience partnering with organizations to design, plan, and execute curriculum designed to support teams as they intentionally form, launch, and sustain themselves in pursuit of productivity and innovation.
We're available to partner with your team and bring team science curriculum to life.
We Played a Key Role in the NSF Convergence Accelerator Program
When NSF launched the Convergence Accelerator in 2019, we were engaged first as program advisers and then as faculty instructors delivering team science as part of the Innovation Curriculum — a required, multi-month experience for all Phase 1 grantees.
Working alongside collaborators Michael O'Rourke and Edgar Cardenas of the Toolbox Dialogue Initiative at Michigan State University, we developed and delivered a unified, integrated team science curriculum across multiple cohorts of NSF-funded research teams.
That curriculum is now being integrated into the Tech Accelerator program.
The content is the same. The need is the same. And the people who built it are available to partner with your center.
NSF Tech Accelerator centers are responsible for identifying and engaging their own team science experts and facilitators. We are actively seeking to partner with awarded centers — as subcontractors, co-facilitators, or embedded faculty — to deliver the curriculum your grantees need.
What we Developed and Delivered

Curriculum Design

Instruction and facilitation

Collaboration agreement template

Toolbox Dialogue workshops

NSF video series — content and on-screen expert

Team consultation and office hours
By the Numbers
Four
NSF-produced videos featuring our content
Seven
Months working along slide multiple teams in each cohort
>200
Interdisciplinary research teams taking ideas to societal good
5,000+
Views and downloads of the collaboration agreement
