The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed a collaborative agreement to expand activities for broadening participation in engineering. The collaboration will involve NASA’s Minority University Research and Education program, which engages underrepresented populations through numerous types of initiatives, and NSF’s Broadening Participation in Engineering and NSF INCLUDES […]
The University of Florida currently has more than 150 faculty members involved in NASA-funded research projects, but UF has significant untapped potential for NASA research. To address this potential, UF Research and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering are hosting two workshops for faculty. Current NASA-funded researchers will share their experiences and familiarity with space-related research. Together, presenters and […]
This blog is part 1 of Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Director Mark Schneider’s three-year anniversary update looking back at some of the highpoints of the time he has served as director of IES. In part 2, Turning to the Future, Dr. Schneider outlines some of the challenges IES will be overseeing.
In part 1 of his anniversary blog, Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Director Mark Schneider documented the progress of IES, but there is a lot more work to be done. In part 2 of his blog, Dr. Schneider emphasized the following initiatives:
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Director Mark Schneider revisited a theme that appeared in an earlier blog as IES becomes more focused on how best to help students catch up on unfinished learning resulting from the pandemic. IES recognizes that many students were falling behind even before the pandemic, especially the nation’s lowest-performing students. Every […]
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will hold its 2021 NCES STATS-DC Data Conference, August 16–20, 2021. This virtual conference is free and open to the public. NCES is accepting proposals from those who would like to present a session at the STATS-DC Data Conference. The deadline to submit a proposal is Monday, May […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a change to the format of the Biosketch and the content of Other Support. These changes are effective for all applications, Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs), and Just-in-Time (JIT) reports with deadlines on or submitted after May 25, 2021. What does that mean for you?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made additional revisions to its NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS). This version applies to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, 2020.
UF Research has launched a new Research Lifecycle web environment designed to help all users — principal investigators, research administrators, study coordinators, and other staff — easily navigate to the information they need most at any stage of a project. The web environment is designed around a continuous research lifecycle that begins with finding funding […]
Effective immediately, UF Research will adopt the UF Campus COVID-19 Guidelines found at https://coronavirus.ufl.edu/resources/health-guidance/ as the requirements for UF research activities, with the exception of certain human subject research. The previous requirements within the Research Resumption Plan, implemented last spring at the height of the pandemic, regarding limited numbers of persons per square foot, as well […]
The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Florida 4-H program annually engages approximately 200,000 young people ages 5-18 in developmental and educational programs. These youth are guided and mentored by more than 7,000 volunteers and UF/IFAS Extension faculty and staff in every Florida county. Florida 4-H staff are interested in exploratory […]
This summer, UF Research Integrity, in collaboration with Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) on Campus, will once again host a seminar series on Research Integrity and RCR. Each seminar will be 1 to 2 hours and held via Zoom. Classes are open to all UF faculty, staff, and graduate students. Please visit the UF Research […]
NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) online courses are available free to UF faculty, students, and staff. The course examples can easily be ported to the HiPerGator AI cluster and integrated into a researcher’s work or professor’s classes. Students, faculty, and staff can email UFIT’s AI Support team IT-RC-AI@UFL.EDU for a course code to take any of the self-paced classes. […]
Congratulations to Christopher Anthony for his subcontract award IES Flow Through from Pennsylvania State University; and Chris Curran and Mark Pacheco for their award from the National Science Foundation. For more details, see the Awarded Projects table.
Best wishes to Mary Bratsch-Hines for her proposal to Take Stock in Children; Maria Coady and Nidza Marichal for their proposal to the U.S. Department of Education/OELA; Chris Curran for his proposal to the U.S. Department of Justice/NIJ; Christy Gabbard for her proposal to the Florida Department of Education; Lynda Hayes for her proposals to […]
