Discovery Circle Request
Please use this form when requesting ORSP support for your Discovery Circle
This will be used for announcements and/or correspondence regarding your series or gatherings.
Please provide a short description or purpose of this Discovery Circle
This is the primary individual who ORSP should contact to coordinate arrangements related to gathering/series.
This is the individual for ORSP to contact in the event the Primary Contact is not available
A one time gathering would be discrete, with a clear beginning and end. It may be in-person or virtual. A limited series of gatherings would be several discrete occasions (e.g., seminar series, brownbag lunch series, etc...). A continuous gathering space over a longer period of time would be a Google Group or Blackboard Community. If choosing "other," please describe.
When will the gathering(s) take place? (e.g., at noon on the first Monday of each month for 9 months; for one hour some afternoon in the fall; or Oct 31 at 4 pm, etc...)
Where will the gathering(s) take place? For in-person meetings, the UM campus is preferred; for virtual synchronous meetings, Zoom is preferred.
Please estimate how many scholars you you envision participating, and from what roles. (e.g. 10 or 20 UM faculty; 5 UM faculty and 10 or 20 external visitors from industry; etc...)
What potential will the gathering(s) have to spark interests or ideas that could lead to new interdisciplinary collaborations?
How do you envision that ORSP would know whether a new collaborative interest or idea was sparked by this Discovery Circle? If you are not yet certain, you may leave this section blank.
How much cumulative human effort do you envision would be required from ORSP RD to support the envisioned gathering(s)?
Please use this space to add any additional information you wish for ORSP to consider.
In submitting this application, I confirm that, if the proposed gathering(s) are selected for ORSP RD support as a Discovery Circle, I will work with ORSP RD to identify which tasks ORSP RD will perform and which tasks I will perform. I will also work with ORSP RD to track and follow up with participants to identify and new IDR leads and collaborations resulting from this(these) gathering(s).