Slide title: Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE)

Slide words: First CREATIV Awards in FY 2012
Creating a culture of collaboration, innovation, risk-taking and experimentation

Slide images:

Top row (left to right): Polarization microscope image of liquid crystals; close-up photo of a circuit board; photo of the Research Vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer in Barilari Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

Bottom row (left to right): Photo of a flexible photovoltaic module that incorporates an interconnected array of microscale, gallium arsenide solar cells on a thin sheet of plastic; photo of aphids on milkweed; photo of Very Large Array telescopes; photo of a hatchling loggerhead sea turtle heading toward the ocean after emerging from its nest

Image credits:

Top row (left to right): Oleg Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University; Thinkstock; Adam Jenkins, National Science Foundation

Bottom row (left to right): J. Rogers, University of Illinois; Kailen Mooney; courtesy of NRAO/AUI; GSTC Turtle Patrol

Slide background image: Photo illustration of Earth from space

Background image credit: John Prusinski, National Science Foundation