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The event will take place on Sunday, October 19, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2014), to be held Monday-Wednesday, October 20-22, in Rochester, NY. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies. This includes the use of technology by and in support of: individuals with hearing, sight and other sensory impairments; individuals with motor impairments; individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments; individuals with multiple impairments; older adults; and professionals who work with these populations. Researchers and developers from around the world in both academia and industry will meet to exchange ideas and present their latest work. More information about the conference may be found at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets14. \n\nA key component of building this community is through its youth. The ASSETS 2014 Doctoral Consortium will provide an opportunity for graduate students from diverse backgrounds (computing, engineering, psychology, architecture, etc.) to come together and explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of the PI and a panel of other distinguished experts in the field, so that they can appreciate the broader spectrum of research and development approaches to assistive technologies and universal usability, and also experience the community in which they can pursue their endeavors. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the consortium, and will receive constructive feedback from the faculty panel. The feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. Thus, the consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this emerging interdisciplinary area, and will also expose these promising young researchers to a larger community. In an effort to further integrate Doctoral Consortium participants into the conference itself, a (poster) session has been set aside in the technical program to allow all Doctoral Consortium participants to present their research to the full conference. In addition, one student from the Doctoral Consortium will be selected to deliver the closing plenary presentation. An evaluation of the consortium will be conducted and the results made available to the organizers of future such events. \n\nThe Doctoral Consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. The organizers will take special steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from under-represented groups; to further increase diversity, participation will be limited to at most one male and one female student from the same institution.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "3656", "attributes": { "award_id": "1738311", "title": "Workshop: Creating a Guide for Programmatic Assessment, Review, and Improvement in Undergraduate Physics Programs", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "Integrative Activities in Phys" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 11906, "first_name": "Kathleen", "last_name": "McCloud", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2017-05-01", "end_date": "2018-04-30", "award_amount": 47620, "principal_investigator": { "id": 11910, "first_name": "Theodore", "last_name": "Hodapp", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1154, "ror": "https://ror.org/05j8hg602", "name": "American Physical Society", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 11907, "first_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Jackson", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 11908, "first_name": "David A", "last_name": "Craig", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 11909, "first_name": "Sarah B", "last_name": "McKagan", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1154, "ror": "https://ror.org/05j8hg602", "name": "American Physical Society", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "In the United States there is a growing emphasis on accountability in higher education, and departments are increasingly asked to set and assess learning goals. At the same time, physics departments face several challenges: Physics acts as a gateway for physics and engineering careers, yet it is among the least diverse of all science disciplines and widely used traditional teaching methods do not yield learning increases commonly obtained with newer methods. There is an abundance of research-based pedagogies that have demonstrated improvement in learning gains and student retention - especially of underrepresented groups, but unfortunately there are obstacles that can make it difficult for physics departments to implement these learning strategies. Furthermore, there is a need for physics programs to better prepare graduates for a diverse range of non-research careers, and to educate more well-prepared high school physics teachers to meet national demand.\n \nTo address these concerns, the American Physical Society (APS) recognizes that there is a unique opportunity to develop meaningful assessments of physics programs required of nearly every department, while fulfilling their desire to improve the education of their students by implementing known best practices. APS leadership has formed and formally charged a nationally recognized task force of leaders in physics program evaluation and revitalization to create a guide for programmatic assessment, review, and improvement, and to undertake the training of departmental reviewers and department chairs in using the guide. The guide will be an operational document designed to be immediately useful to a department chair or faculty member engaging in programmatic assessment, review, or improvement. The workshops funded through this award will allow the APS to lay the groundwork to ensure that APS can achieve national impact.\n \nAn initial workshop for the task force to meet in person will be held May 18-19, 2017 in College Park, MD to plan project phases, and to construct a comprehensive plan for engaging community leaders in adopting and shaping guide practices. Outcomes of this workshop will include specific written plans for each phase of the project, and clearly articulated positions on the underlying framework of the guide and its implementation. In addition, the APS Committee on Minorities will hold a special workshop with leaders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Atlanta, prior to their fall 2017 in-person meeting to explore potential actions by the APS to address the devastating reduction of African American participation in undergraduate physics. Specific outcomes of this event will include recommendations to the task force, and plans for synergistic efforts by the APS, the Committee on Minorities, and their programs.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4781", "attributes": { "award_id": "1350764", "title": "WORKSHOP: Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2014 Doctoral Research Colloquium", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "HCC-Human-Centered Computing" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 16585, "first_name": "William", "last_name": "Bainbridge", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2013-11-01", "end_date": "2014-10-31", "award_amount": 25049, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16586, "first_name": "Darren", "last_name": "Gergle", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 317, "ror": "https://ror.org/000e0be47", "name": "Northwestern University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 317, "ror": "https://ror.org/000e0be47", "name": "Northwestern University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award supports a research development workshop for promising doctoral students to be held in conjunction with the 2014 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2014). CSCW 2014 will take place in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on February 15-19, 2014 and will be attended by approximately 500 CSCW professionals from around the world. Research reports published in the CSCW Conference Proceedings are heavily refereed and widely cited.\n\nThe Doctoral Colloquium (DC) is a research-focused meeting of 12 selected Ph.D. candidates and a panel of 4-6 research mentors. Prior colloquia have helped launch the careers of many outstanding CSCW researchers. The colloquium seeks to (a) build a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of colleagues spread out across the world, (b) guide the work of the new researchers by having the experts in the research field give advice, (c) encourage and support the selection of CSCW research topics, (d) enable new entrants to the field to attend a key research conference, (e) illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of CSCW research, and (f) make the new entrants' experience at CSCW an intellectually stimulating and rewarding experience, encouraging them to return and submit papers, panels, demonstrations, and posters, to the conference. Key efforts of the organizers will encourage participation from diverse fields and underrepresented populations and universities.\n\nThe primary intellectual contributions of this project lie in close intellectual mentoring of the selected Ph.D. participants and the development of a cohort of future leaders within the CSCW community. Furthermore, bringing together these students with the faculty panel, both during the workshop and during the conference poster presentations, will support the development of interdisciplinary dialogs, creating an environment for exchange and conversation that will further enable progress on every project represented at the DC. The specific projects of students selected for the DC will generate additional intellectual contributions.\n\nThe consortium will have considerable benefits to society and the CSCW community, both short and long-term. In the short term, the panelists will provide significant feedback to the students participating in the DC. In the long-term, the expectation is that students who have participated in the DC will give back to the community by engaging as mentors to undergraduate students, and in the future to doctoral students. Furthermore, these exceptional students are anticipated to be among the future leaders of the CSCW community, and it is durable long-term benefit to that community to support them in their early research. These values of continuity and knowledge community will be explicitly expressed at the consortium.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "3381", "attributes": { "award_id": "1840364", "title": "Workshop: Best Practices in International Research Experiences for Graduate Students", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Office Of The Director", "GVF - Global Venture Fund" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 10754, "first_name": "Fahmida", "last_name": "Chowdhury", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2018-09-01", "end_date": "2021-08-31", "award_amount": 99384, "principal_investigator": { "id": 10755, "first_name": "Brian", "last_name": "Mitchell", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 305, "ror": "https://ror.org/04vmvtb21", "name": "Tulane University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 305, "ror": "https://ror.org/04vmvtb21", "name": "Tulane University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The development of global competencies in advanced degreed holders in STEM fields is critical to innovation, competitiveness, and economic development in the increasingly international marketplace of science and engineering. This workshop brings together experts from different types of organizations (universities, non-profit entities, funding agencies, private sector) that participate, engage in, or have significant roles in STEM graduate education/training programs to formulate a series of recommendations on how best to structure programs that provide international experiences for graduate students. The goal would be to identify the most efficient ways to support graduate students in their development of global competencies that will not increase time-to-degree or detract from their technical contributions. The workshop also explores related topics such as how to provide international research experiences to students from under-represented groups and those who are economically disadvantaged. This event addresses concerns common to international research experiences for graduate students across all STEM disciplines. Attendees/participants include representatives from the natural sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, engineering, and social sciences; experts in educational psychology, program evaluation, and international relations add to the breadth of the conversation.\n\nThe main goals of the workshop are to address the following topical research questions;\n-- What is the appropriate role of the student's faculty research advisor (research mentor) in identifying, defining, permitting, and evaluating the advisee's international research activity?\n-- What are the appropriate timing and duration for introductory, follow-on, and subsequent international research experiences during a STEM PhD student's education/training? What about a STEM master's student?\n-- What are the appropriate entities/metrics for assessing the international research activity experiences, defining the appropriate assessment tools, collecting and archiving data, and conducting longitudinal studies on international research experiences?\n\nPresenters/attendees are selected by the organizing committee to reflect as broad a view as possible, including those calling for major changes in how international research activities are structured and funded. The outcomes of the workshop will be a publicly-accessible report with recommendations to the higher education, industry, non-profit, and governmental agency communities on how to improve global skills development in STEM advanced degree holders through effective international research activities.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "821", "attributes": { "award_id": "2109974", "title": "Workshop: An Evidence-based Industry Perspective on STEM Education for the Future", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Education and Human Resources (EHR)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1952, "first_name": "Alexandra", "last_name": "Medina-Borja", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2021-03-15", "end_date": "2022-03-31", "award_amount": 85800, "principal_investigator": { "id": 1955, "first_name": "Yasaman", "last_name": "Moghaddam", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 430, "ror": "", "name": "International Society of Service Innovation Profes", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 1953, "first_name": "Haluk", "last_name": "Demirkan", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, { "id": 1954, "first_name": "Louis", "last_name": "Freund", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 430, "ror": "", "name": "International Society of Service Innovation Profes", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This project aims to serve the national interest by further informing higher education leaders about industry perspectives concerning skills needed for STEM jobs of the future. The project will focus at a 10-year and beyond horizon. It will also take account of the disruptive changes driven by advanced digital technologies, work behaviors, and business models. These changes are profoundly affecting the nature of work, skills needed for work, and the composition of the workforce. In many industries, the most in-demand occupations, specialties, and skills did not exist five or ten years ago. The pace of change is likely to accelerate going forward and to have tremendous impacts on how the workforce of the future acquires and applies new skills. This project will examine the new research questions that emerged from an earlier project on the industry perspective on STEM education for the future. These research questions include: 1) How has industry perspective on needed skills changed because of the COVID-19 crisis? 2) How are industry recruiters and hiring managers screening STEM graduates for both specialized and foundational skills? 3) From industry perspective, which colleges/universities and curricula/pedagogies better align with current and future industry demand? 4) Can a set of desirable curriculum/pedagogy attributes be developed? and 5) How are industry recruiters using badges and certifications to assess job-readiness of college graduates? To examine these research questions, this project will organize and host four virtual workshops in fall and winter 2021. The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP), in collaboration with the University of Washington, will execute the project. With more than 1400 members representing multiple industry sectors, academia, and government, ISSIP is uniquely positioned to conduct this research. By presenting an evidence-based industry perspective, this project aims to further explore how to close the gap between undergraduate education and employment, to ensure the Nation continues to have a thriving STEM workforce in the future. Workshop 1 will focus on the industry hiring process: How are industry recruiters and hiring managers screening STEM graduates for technical skills/foundational skills? And how does that map to the undergraduate curricula and/or pedagogies of the universities with which they have had the most and least success hiring new graduates? Workshop 2 will examine industry perspectives on badging and evolution of credentialing. Workshop 3 will explore industry perspectives on university curricula and pedagogies that are best aligned with the needs of industry. Workshop 4 will examine the industry perspective on the impact of COVID-19 on the future of work and of learning. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4098", "attributes": { "award_id": "1638860", "title": "WORKSHOP: 2016 GRS/GRC on Biomineralization", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "BIOMATERIALS PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 13762, "first_name": "Aleksandr", "last_name": "Simonian", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2016-07-01", "end_date": "2017-06-30", "award_amount": 10000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 13763, "first_name": "Derk", "last_name": "Joester", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 226, "ror": "https://ror.org/05rad4t93", "name": "Gordon Research Conferences", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 226, "ror": "https://ror.org/05rad4t93", "name": "Gordon Research Conferences", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Nontechnical: \nThis award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to Northwestern University is in support of the participants' travel and/or registration to attend and present recent scientific development by US-based researchers for the 2016 GRS/GRC on \"Biomineralization\" to be held at PGA Catalunya Business and Convention Centre, Girona, Spain from August 14 to 19, 2016. This award is cofounded by the Global Venture Funds in the Office of International Science and Engineering. This conference is committed in bringing young and senior scientists together, and to discuss their current research and builds informal networks with their peers fostering collaborations and interactions between scientists from different countries and fields that may lead to a lifetime of collaboration and scientific achievement. To fulfill these scientific goals and broader impacts, the organizers have invited a significant number of early career faculty and postdoctoral scientists as well as senior scientists to speak at the meeting. The proposed travel and registration stipends will be used to bring early career scientists from the US, and to encourage the participation of young faculty members at the meeting. Exposing a diverse mix of scientists to this kind of intensive interactive meeting will be an excellent way to stimulate broader participation in cutting edge international projects. \n\nTechnical: \nThis Gordon Research Conference will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists, and would provide a stimulating platform to discuss the latest ideas and recent advances on how (and why) organisms synthesize biomineralized tissues, and on how one may apply these insights in areas as diverse as materials research, biotechnology, regenerative medicine, and address environmental issues. The meeting is expected to assemble a group of best and brightest scientists investigating biomineralization across all domains of life, from nanoparticles made by bacteria to meso-structured assemblies and live tissues in plants and vertebrates. The conference will particularly highlight the use of novel high-resolution techniques and the synergetic use of modeling and experiments. The goal of this workshop is to bring together top class pure and applied scientists with the aim of interfacing multiple disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, etc.) to understand the fundamentals of biomineralization, and develop applications based on these novel concepts. These interactions at this conference will be critical in generatng an understanding of how particular materials should be designed to be \"symbiotic\" with biological entities and how to get similarity in functioning of biomaterials with their living counterparts.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5156", "attributes": { "award_id": "0930811", "title": "Workshop: Models of Intercultural Service Systems: Scholarly Discussion for Building a Research Agenda; San Juan, Puerto Rico;May 19 to 22, 2009", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "SERVICE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-04-01", "end_date": "2011-12-31", "award_amount": 44987, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18318, "first_name": "Viviana", "last_name": "Cesani", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 1024, "ror": "", "name": "University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 18317, "first_name": "Omell", "last_name": "Pagan-Pares", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1024, "ror": "", "name": "University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PR", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Workshop: Models of Intercultural Service Systems: Scholarly Discussion for Building a Research Agenda \n\nSan Juan, Puerto Rico, May 19 to 22, 2009 \nChairperson: Alexandra Medina-Borja, Ph.D.\nOmell Pagán, Ph.D., Viviana Cesaní, Ph.D.\nInternational Service Systems Engineering Research Lab, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez\n\n\nThis grant will provide funding for a research workshop involving a wide range of interdisciplinary researchers discussing and identifying key aspects of inter-cultural service encounters in the design and implementation of service delivery systems. The standardization of services is difficult, if not impossible, because of the customer participation in the service ?co-production?. Some attempts have been made to incorporate human considerations into service models, but truly interdisciplinary system design has not yet occurred. Service system design, and the accompanying technology, is usually the work of engineers and computer scientists while services and culture have been studied by marketing researchers, behavioral scientists, anthropologists, ethnographers and human resources researchers. Thus, a truly inter-disciplinary research workshop is needed to foster this new field of inquiry and advance a research agenda. The main goal of the workshop is to hasten the development of modeling frameworks that include inter-cultural considerations by fostering interdisciplinary research among a variety of fields, academic disciplines and technical clusters spanning the areas of, but not limited to, industrial engineering, complex systems, cognitive and behavioral science, anthropology/ethnography, information systems, and management and human resources. \n\nIf successful, this workshop will (1) identify and extend an inter-cultural service systems (ICSS) research community; (2) define ICSS issues and propose interdisciplinary methodologies and, (3) articulate a common agenda for the emerging research frontier of inter-cultural Service Science and Engineering. The development of this research direction is of increasing importance given the distributed locations of service providers and their customers; sometimes coming from radically different cultures. For the diverse participants in the service encounter, perceptions of politeness, time, sympathy and expertise might be quiet different. Call centers in international locations, hotel chains, and domestic health care centers serving diverse populations are only few of the many service systems whose design would benefit from this research direction.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "3001", "attributes": { "award_id": "1944020", "title": "Workshop: Deciphering the Microbiome: Exploiting theory, cross-system analyses, and innovative analytics to propel advances in microbiome science; Dec. 8-10, 2019; Alexandria, VA", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Biological Sciences (BIO)", "Symbiosis Infection & Immunity" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 9194, "first_name": "Joanna", "last_name": "Shisler", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2019-09-01", "end_date": "2021-08-31", "award_amount": 99000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 9195, "first_name": "Linda", "last_name": "Kinkel", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 227, "ror": "", "name": "University of Minnesota-Twin Cities", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 227, "ror": "", "name": "University of Minnesota-Twin Cities", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Non-technical paragraph: Every habitat on earth host its own microbiome, which can include bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists. Recognition of the diversity and complexity of microbial communities that colonize humans, plants, animals, soil, and water has changed in fundamental ways how we think about the relationships between big and small organisms, as well as our basic understanding of disease, health, and immunity. Collectively, there is widespread recognition of the significant roles that microbiomes play in organismal and ecosystem health and functioning, and significant incentives to harness this potential. Private investments in microbiome research have expanded dramatically over the past decade, with hundreds of companies focusing on the potential manipulation or management of microbiomes in human and animal medicine and in agriculture. Despite the expanding research footprint, there have been remarkably few deliberate efforts to engage researchers across the breadth of microbiome science in discussions of key resource needs?conceptual, technical, or analytical?to support cross-cutting advances. The project will support a workshop bringing together 60+ scientists in person, plus another 100+ scientists virtually, including researchers working on plant, animal, environmental, and human microbiomes. Participants will use ecology and evolutionary biology as an integrating framework, as they provide a powerful context for integrative, cross-discipline discussion. Small-group and interactive sessions will stimulate researchers to identify key resource and knowledge gaps across microbiome science, conceptual and theoretical foundations that can advance hypothesis testing, big ideas to drive advances in microbiome applications, and a path forward for collaborative research and synthetic analyses. \n\nTechnical paragraph: Significant technical innovations have propelled exponential increases in the volume of microbiome data generated over the past decade. Yet development of conceptual, theoretical, and practical infrastructure to advance our collective understanding of microbiomes lags behind. Microbiome research suffers from a lack of reliance on explicit conceptual frameworks for ecological and evolutionary hypothesis testing, and there have been few attempts to develop generalizable models for microbiome community dynamics or assembly. Moreover, fragmentation of research efforts across systems (animal, human, plant, environmental), and even among researchers using different approaches to study the same system, has restricted opportunities to identify common principles of microbiome structure or organization. This workshop will address these gaps, targeting 4 objectives: 1. Explore cross-cutting themes and key challenges in microbiome science; 2. Facilitate advances in the development of rigorous ecological foundations and hypothesis-testing within microbiome research; 3. Stimulate the search for generalizable concepts, principles, and language for microbiome assembly and functions; 4. Identify key cross-community knowledge and resource gaps and opportunities for advancing the field. The workshop will provide significant opportunities for cross-disciplinary scientific interactions to advance the microbiome research community. Early-career post-doctoral scientists will be enlisted to serve as virtual discussion leads, providing an opportunity to develop skills in distance communication to support new models for scientific meetings and education. Collectively, this workshop will identify critical gaps in resources and understanding of microbiomes across disciplines, and stimulate community-wide, collaborative efforts to address these key resource and knowledge gaps.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5091", "attributes": { "award_id": "1049144", "title": "WORKSHOP: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Doctoral Colloquium", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "HCC-Human-Centered Computing" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2010-07-15", "end_date": "2011-06-30", "award_amount": 25783, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18176, "first_name": "Gloria", "last_name": "Mark", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 177, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Irvine", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This workshop will support the Doctoral Colloquium (DC) at ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011) in Hangzhou, China (March 19-23, 2011). The workshop will bring together 15 dissertation-stage doctoral students in the field of CSCW for one day of talks and interaction with six mentors who are distinguished CSCW researchers from Universities and top research laboratories. The focus of the CSCW DC is the students? doctoral dissertation research which represent state-of-the-art research in the field of computer-supported cooperative work. The DC allows the students to create a social network both among themselves and with several senior researchers, which plays a major role in their enculturation into the profession. The students and faculty will be a diverse group on several dimensions (gender, race, nationality, scientific discipline), broadening the students? experiences at a critical stage in their professional development.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "583", "attributes": { "award_id": "2049670", "title": "Workshop: Aligning AI and U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Competitiveness", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Engineering (ENG)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 1265, "first_name": "Bruce", "last_name": "Kramer", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2020-09-01", "end_date": "2021-08-31", "award_amount": 98280, "principal_investigator": { "id": 1266, "first_name": "James F", "last_name": "Davis", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 151, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Los Angeles", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 151, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Los Angeles", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The Workshop on Aligning AI and U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Competitiveness will convene the advanced manufacturing research and practitioner communities, relevant companies, federal agencies and national laboratories and the Manufacturing USA Institutes and experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications, information technology, and computer science to comprehensively assess the role of AI in manufacturing competitiveness. The workshop, held under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing and the Subcommittee on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence of the National Science and Technology Council, seizes on a moment of opportunity that results from the converging effects of the accelerating digital transformation of the global manufacturing industry, major global competitiveness drivers for both advanced manufacturing and AI/ML, and the sustained impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on manufacturing supply chains. When taken together, there emerges a need to: accelerate a U.S. manufacturing consensus on resilient manufacturing as a priority, address how the digital transformation of manufacturing shapes and is shaped by that transformation, and focus national attention on AI/ML technologies in the context of the nation’s manufacturing priorities. The workshop will be a professionally-managed, virtual teleconference that will emphasize the following manufacturing priorities related to digitalization: manufacturing ecosystem and supply chain restructuring, connectedness, visibility, interoperability, and agility in preparing for and responding to global and national disruptions; greater performance and precision in advanced process and machine operations as key assets in resilient manufacturing ecosystems; a safe and healthy, broadly-skilled, and data-savvy workforce that can be more flexibly deployed; and industry data flow and exchange, cyber opportunity, and national cyber and data security. The workshop will generate a cross-stakeholder consensus on what roles AI has and can have in improving U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and promoting collaboration by the advanced manufacturing and AI/ML research communities in formulating a national strategy that encompasses the workforce, technology and implementation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 5, "pages": 1442, "count": 14420 } } }