Malika Jeffries-EL<\/strong> of the College of Arts & Sciences<\/strong> participated in a media briefing on cutting-edge semiconductor research hosted by the National Science Foundation on March 19th.<\/p>\n Mayank Varia<\/strong> of the College of Arts & Sciences<\/strong> spoke on a New America Foundation panel<\/a><\/strong> on innovations in privacy-preserving technologies on March 24th.<\/p>\n Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Dean David Chard <\/strong>discussed the Institute for Education Sciences with Congressional committee staff as part of the LEARN Deans spring advocacy day on March 24th.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released the 2021 Convergence Accelerator solicitation for projects that seek \u201cto transition basic research and discovery into practice\u2014to solve high-impact societal challenges aligned with specific research themes (tracks).\u201d\u00a0 NSF is inviting proposals for two new tracks: Networked Blue Economy and Trust and Authenticity in Communications Systems.\u00a0Letters of Intent for Phase I proposals are required and due by\u00a0May 5th,\u00a0and full proposals due by\u00a0June 14th.\u00a0Only Phase I awardees are eligible to submit to Phase II, with those proposals due by May 25, 2022.<\/p>\n Find out more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Office of Research and Foundation Relations are cohosting a workshop on April 7th to acquaint social scientists at BU with the Russell Sage Foundation’s (RSF) mission, funding priorities, and grant application protocols. RSF dedicates itself to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences to better understand societal problems and develop informed responses. Program Officer Stephen Glauser will give a presentation and take questions from the audience.<\/p>\n RSVP today<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n BU IN DC Malika Jeffries-EL of the College of Arts & Sciences participated in a media briefing on cutting-edge semiconductor research hosted by the National Science Foundation on March 19th. Mayank Varia of the College of Arts & Sciences spoke on a New America Foundation panel on innovations in privacy-preserving technologies on March 24th. Wheelock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12651,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions\/12651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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