The National Science Foundation will hold the 20th National EPSCoR Conference Nov. 6-9 at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott hotel on the Big Island.

EPSCoR is the acronym for Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, and the Hawai’i EPSCoR statewide initiative was founded and now is administered at UH Hilo.

The main portion of the conference consisting of several panel discussions will take place on Nov. 7 and 8. The session on the 6th is UH Hilo’s welcome reception with keynote speech from Edgy Lee, Founder and CEO of Filmworks Pacific. On the 9th will be business meetings of the jurisdictional project directors and administrators.

You can read all about the conference at www.epscor07.com .

“We’re hoping Hawai‘i has plenty of people in attendance,” says Terrilani Chong, NSF Hawai‘i EPSCoR project administrator. “There will be program officers from every directorate of the NSF there who will be available for questions, so it’s a great opportunity to interact with someone from NSF on a personal level.”

“Please try to attend,” she says, “and let’s show the nation what a great place Hawai‘i really is.”

For more info on Hawai‘i EPSCoR, click here .