ARIS Toolkit - Additional Resources
This page provides a variety of additional articles, webinars, and tools to help Researchers and BI Professionals enhance their Broader Impacts-related work.
ARIS JCES Special Issue Webinar on Becoming a BI Professional
How do you become a Broader Impacts (BI) professional? This webinar, hosted by the Center for Advancing Research Impacts in Society (ARIS), discusses lessons learned from a two-year study published as a special issue in the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. Panelists reflected and shared lessons learned on how to carve out your own niche in the BI professional field. Recorded May 6, 2025.
May 6, 2025
Watch WebinarARIS Guiding Principles Resource Updated
The Center for Advancing Research Impacts in Society (ARIS) recently updated their Broader Impacts Guiding Principles resource to align with NSF's updated proprieties, announced this month. The ARIS Guiding Principles document is a key reference, used by many researchers and BI Professionals to guide their work and project development. We encourage you to check out the new version.
April 30, 2025
ARIS Guiding PrinciplesUpdates on NSF Priorities
In April 2025, NSF provided updated guidance on the Foundation's priorities, including a change in emphasis on the activities that are acceptable for meeting the Broader Impacts criterion, especially in the area of Broadening Participation. Researchers are encouraged to refer to this page for the latest information.
April 18, 2025
NSF Priorities UpdateARIS JCES Special Issue Webinar on Faculty Development
How do BI professionals support researcher career development? This webinar, hosted by the Center for Advancing Research Impacts in Society (ARIS), discusses lessons learned from a two-year study published as a special issue in the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. Learn how to transform last-minute proposal rushes into a proactive approach to BI brainstorming and proposal development. Recorded April 8, 2025.
April 8, 2025
Watch WebinarWant Your Scholarship to Influence Public Policy?
This article by Alexandra Dufresne, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 13, 2025), provides practical advice for academics on how to work effectively with state and local policymakers to make their research impactful.
March 13, 2025
Read this ArticleAn insider perspective on broader impacts
All NSF proposals are evaluated on both their Intellectual Merit and their Broader Impacts. In this Bioscience article, Susan Renoe descries how BI criteria have evolved over the years, and how researchers can effectively address them.
March 2025
Read this ArticleNSF Broader Impacts
The following page provides background information on how NSF defines Broader Impacts, that is, the societal benefits that may accrue from research, examples of the desired outcomes the Foundation supports, and how Broader Impacts are reviewed.
NSF Broader Impacts