Tag: National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Accelerating Science With Big Data

    Accelerating Science With Big Data

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    Andy Burnett
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    Many scientific fields have yet to realize the potential of Big Data. That’s where NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) comes in — from improving our chances of detecting dark matter to resolving the tree of life. The HDR All-hands meeting brought together principal investigators to share best practices and discuss how to grow the community.

  • CAREER Workshop Goes Virtual

    CAREER Workshop Goes Virtual

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    Andy Burnett
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    The decision to go virtual was for organizers of the 2020 NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Workshop. Sure they’re a group of tech-savvy engineers, but they had never offered a multi-day event online before. Eventually, they decided they needed help with the tech side of things so that could focus on the event and with making…

  • Biology’s Jupitershots

    Biology’s Jupitershots

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    Andy Burnett
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    The Reintegrating Biology workshop series uses KI’s methods of deliberate creativity to identify new research questions that could be addressed by combining approaches and perspectives from different subdisciplines of biology, the key challenges and scientific gaps that must be addressed to answer these questions, and the physical infrastructure and workforce training needed.

  • The Trilemma Challenge: Food, Health & Ecosystem

    The Trilemma Challenge: Food, Health & Ecosystem

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    Andy Burnett
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    Feeding the planet in the 21st century means doubling production of food, feed, fuel and energy while at the same time making food systems sustainable, inclusive and more efficient. It’s a food-health-ecosystem trilemma. CSU researchers are forming interdisciplinary teams in order to come up with innovative ways of meeting the challenge.