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The Department of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative emphasizes questions of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy. It seeks to increase the Department’s intellectual capital in the social sciences and improve its ability to address future challenges and build bridges between the Department and the social science community.
The National Science Foundation and Amazon are partnering to jointly support Computational Research Focused on Fairness in AI, with the goal of contributing to trustworthy AI systems that are readily accepted and deployed to tackle grand challenges facing society. Considerations of practice, often derived from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, can inform new directions for computational science to better realize the benefits of algorithmic and data fairness. As such, NSF and Amazon expect these varied perspectives to be critical for the study of fairness in AI.
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Government Partnership, Global Perspectives |
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11 a.m.-noon
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Around the globe, universities and companies are working together to find better ways to collaborate. Recognizing the value of cross-sector partnerships, governments also seek avenues to support research collaboration efforts that advance their goals. UIDP’s Government Partnership, Global Perspectives (gp2) webinar series brings you perspectives from government policymakers around the world, offering key insights on specific strategies and approaches to enhance research collaboration. Learn more about the series.
Gearoid Mooney, division manager, research and innovation at Enterprise Ireland will lead a discussion on the experiences of fostering industry-university collaboration in Ireland over the past decade. Enterprise Ireland is a hybrid government agency covering innovation, company development/investment, and facilitation of trade internationally for Irish-owned companies.
- All of the above ramped up since 2008 from a very low benchmark. Enterprise Ireland tracks client development on an annual basis and does program reviews every three years, so we have data to back our experiences of collaboration impacts both from the university side and the industry side.
- The speaker will share from the experiences of individual projects, the national impacts perspective, the funders’ perspective and the knowledge transfer perspective from an Irish point of view. He will also share how Ireland compares with other countries.
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Research Innovative Seedlings Proposers Day |
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9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Friday, May 21, 2021
The National Geospatial-Intelligence, or NGA, Research Directorate will conduct a Proposers Day webcast to provide information to potential proposers about the objectives of the Boosting Innovative Geospatial intelligence Research Broad Agency, or BIG-R BAA, Announcement Topic Three: NGA Research Innovative Seedlings.
Topic Three Proposers Day will introduce the research community to the NGA Research Directorate vision and goals, explain the mechanics and milestones of the BIG-R BAA and provide insight into the technical areas of interest.
Proposers Day will be held via WebEx Events on May 21, 2021, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Advanced registration is required.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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New data highlight minorities and women in science, along with one particularly understudied group: scientists with disabilities. insidehighered.com
The group studies processes and practices to improve research, including defining predatory publishing, issuing guidelines for clinical trials, and implementing open science practices. cen.acs.org
This work, published recently in the journal PLoS Computational Biology [1], was performed by a German research team that included Mateusz Sikora, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt. The researchers used a computer application called molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to power up and model the conformational changes in the spike protein on a time scale of a few microseconds. directorsblog.nih.gov
A commentary from leaders at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the NIH, discusses a new study showing that an extended-release injection of buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder, was preferred by patients compared to immediate-release buprenorphine, which must be taken orally every day. Extended-release formulations of medications used to treat opioid use disorder may be a valuable tool to address the current opioid addiction crisis and reduce its associated mortality. The study and the accompanying commentary were published May 10, 2021 in JAMA Network Open. nih.gov
A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new ultrasound technique to monitor the placenta for impaired fetal blood flow early in pregnancy. The technique, which uses conventional ultrasound equipment, relies on subtle differences in the pulsation of fetal blood through the arteries at the fetal and placental ends of the umbilical cord, potentially enabling physicians to identify placental abnormalities that impair fetal blood flow and, if necessary, deliver the fetus early. Like current ultrasound techniques, the new technique can also detect impaired flow of maternal blood through the placenta. nih.gov
Being unable to walk quickly can be frustrating and problematic, but it is a common issue, especially as people age. Noting the pervasiveness of slower-than-desired walking, engineers at Stanford University have tested how well a prototype exoskeleton system they developed -- which attaches around the shin and into a running shoe -- increased the walking speed of people in an experimental setting. nsf.gov
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