Register for Feb. 20 Webinar: Navigating the New Arctic https://bit.ly/37njDc5 PostedFebruary 13, 2020 This GUIRR webinar on NSF's forward-looking response and search for fundamental convergence research across the social, natural, environmental, and computing and information sciences, and engineering to address profound challenges and opportunities presented by warming Arctic temperatures and wide-scale changes to natural, social, economic, and political systems of the Arctic and across the globe.
Register for Jan. 30 Webinar - DARPA's Oceans of Things https://bit.ly/38bM9y3 PostedJanuary 16, 2020 The webinar will discuss DARPA's Oceans of Things program, which seeks to enable cost-effective, real-time monitoring of maritime activity by deploying thousands of small, low-cost floats to form a distributed sensor network over large ocean areas.
National Academy of Medicine Seeks Reviewers and Applicants for Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards https://www.naefrontiers.org/File.aspx?id=196363 PostedJanuary 2, 2020 The Catalyst Awards will give 450 awards of $50k each for bold, innovative ideas that could extend the human health span through disease prevention, mobility, functionality, social connectedness, longevity, and more. Click here for the Call for Reviewers.
Apply for the L'Oreal For Women in Science Fellowship https://bit.ly/33PNJTX PostedDecember 3, 2019 Applications are due January 31, 2020 for the L'Oreal For Women in Science fellowship program, which awards five women postdoctoral scientists annually with grants for their contributions in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields and commitment to serving as role models for younger generations.
Register for Oct. 10 Webinar: Research and Mentoring Program https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299293&WT.mc_id=USNSF_13&WT.mc... PostedOctober 8, 2019 NSF's REM program seeks to advance scientific progress in research and innovation while broadening participation of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Register for Sept. 25 Webinar - Partnerships for Innovation https://bit.ly/2moz7uB PostedSeptember 18, 2019 GUIRR will host a webinar discussing the challenges faced by academic institutions trying to commercialize the output of federally-funded research and how NSF supports partnerships between academia and industry through the PFI program and other initiatives.
Register for Aug. 29 Webinar: Economic Benefits of GPS https://bit.ly/2TOXw9b PostedAugust 20, 2019 GUIRR will host a webinar on the economic benefits of the Global Positioning System (GPS), which has generated roughly $1.4 trillion in economic benefits since it was made available for civilian and commercial use in the 1980s. The loss of GPS service would have a $1 billion per day impact.
Bacteria That Grows Into Bricks https://www.technology.org/2019/05/17/frankenstein-materials-could-revolutionize... PostedJuly 26, 2019 organic, inorganic, Programmable Resurrection of Materials Engineered to Heal Exponentially Using Switches, prometheus, DARPA, cyanobacteria, photosynthetic Wil Srubar (USFOE 2017) at the University of Colorado Boulder is engineering living hybrid building material that exhibits both structural and biological functions.
Project Confluence Focus on Engineers and Scientists https://www.reengineered.org/projectconfluencewebinar PostedJuly 25, 2019 Darshan Karwat (USFOE 2018) at Arizona State University provided a link to a recent webinar (Webinar 2) related to his work with re-Engineered.
Register for July 25 Webinar: Fostering the Culture of Convergence in Research https://bit.ly/2XTRFok PostedJuly 19, 2019 This GUIRR webinar will discuss how to deliberately foster a research culture of convergence as a multidisciplinary approach that melds divergent areas of expertise to form conclusions that are inaccessible otherwise.
Old Robot Has New Tricks https://youtu.be/qFmeHPVtK0o PostedJuly 11, 2019 At the University of California, Berkeley, Ronald Fearing (USFOE 2001) has engineered a jumping robot with control systems that allow the agile machine to master increasingly complex tasks.
Register for Mathematical Frontiers Webinars https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mathematical-frontiers-webinar-series-registration-... PostedJuly 8, 2019 Mathematical foundations and opportunities in cryptography and cybersecurity will be discussed in this week's webinar, part of a monthly series on exciting and upcoming mathematics research across an array of topics.
NAE Elects New Members https://www.nae.edu/204037.aspx PostedFebruary 8, 2019 The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the election of 86 new members and 18 international members.
Digital Holographic Microscopy for 3D Imaging of Complex Fluids and Biological Systems https://youtu.be/bkm26rNozqA PostedJanuary 23, 2019
Spiderwebs That Sing https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=xvT-HcWMAaQ PostedJanuary 14, 2019 acoustical, spider silk, materials science, sine wave, FOE alum Markus Buehler at MIT engineered "Spider’s Canvas," an exploration that sonifies the threads of a spider web by applying different frequencies of sound to different lengths of spider webs. Spider webs feature hierarchical structures similar to the complex harmonies and rhythms music.
Register for NSF's Partnerships for Innovation Webinar https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297442&WT.mc_id=USNSF_13&WT.mc... PostedDecember 17, 2018 Register for the January 10 webinar about developing your NSF-funded research into a prototype or proof-of-concept through the Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program, one of the National Science Foundation’s technology translation programs.