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This website, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), serves the NSF Research Centers Educators’ Network (NRCEN). NRCEN members are part of a growing, emerging profession in the higher education research environment that provides the necessary assistive link between the academy and the public. Their work is largely “translational,” not only sharing research results, but also synthesizing those results so they are meaningful for a variety of audiences.

The portal serves a broad and diverse group of education and outreach professionals and others with similar job responsibilities who need tools for communication, collaboration and access to resources in order to address common concerns, issues and goals.

NEO-Sphere encourages member-motivated contributions. Site categories include excerpts from members’ education, outreach and diversity-related strategic plans, success stories (“nuggets”), reports and statistical data, publications, people and programs, best practices, shared evaluation tools and instruments, and news & events.