Faculty Research Lightning Talks
Dis/Mis Information
The Center for Advancing Research and Creative Activity presents virtual faculty research lightning talks around the theme, Dis/Mis Information. Join us on Friday, March 11th at 2:00 p.m. for faculty presentations and brief question/answer discussions. Please complete the google registration form to receive a calendar invite with a zoom link.
List of presenters:
- Anders Tobiason, Ph.D., Albertsons Library – Lateral Reading as an Anti-Racist Practice: Implications for Evaluating Information Resources
- Seth Ashley, Ph.D., Department of Communication – Media Literacy in the Metaverse
- Juliette Tinker, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences – Vaccine Science and How to Talk About it
- Royce Hutson, Ph.D., School of Social Work – The Shared Narratives of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and White Supremacist/Militia Movements
- Isaac Castellano, Ph.D., School of Public Service – The Effectiveness of Dis/Misinformation Interventions Countering Violent Extremism Programming
- Francesca Spezzano, Ph.D., Computer Science Department – Modeling Fake News Spread in Social Networks
Downloadable PDF Lightning Talks Dis/Mis Information Poster
Funding Opportunities:
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Science Diversity Leadership Award
Science Diversity Leadership awards from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) will recognize the leadership and scientific accomplishments of outstanding early- to mid-career researchers at U.S. universities, medical schools, or nonprofit research institutes who — through their outreach, mentoring, teaching, and leadership — have a record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in their scientific fields. They will have made significant research contributions to the biomedical sciences, show promise for continuing scientific achievement, and demonstrate leadership in efforts to diversify the sciences. Principal Investigators and laboratory staff who are leading projects supported by these grants will participate in annual in-person meetings and online webinars organized by CZI and will be connected to national and international scientific leaders through CZI convenings
Award Amount: $1.15 Million
Application Due Date: May 19, 2022
NSF Opportunities
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SATC)
The goals of the SaTC program are aligned with the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan (RDSP) and National Privacy Research Strategy (NPRS) to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy. The RDSP identified six areas critical to successful cybersecurity research and development: (1) scientific foundations; (2) risk management; (3) human aspects; (4) transitioning successful research into practice; (5) workforce development; and (6) enhancing the research infrastructure. The NPRS, which complements the RDSP, identifies a framework for privacy research, anchored in characterizing privacy expectations, understanding privacy violations, engineering privacy-protecting systems, and recovering from privacy violations. In alignment with the objectives in both strategic plans, the SaTC program takes an interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and holistic approach to cybersecurity research, development, and education, and encourages the transition of promising research ideas into practice.
Award Amount: $400,000 – $1.2 Million
Application Due Date: Full Proposals Accepted Anytime
More Information: Link to NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Website
Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)
Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership. Achieving these objectives requires the integration of expertise from across all science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how fundamental knowledge about human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering. Successful projects will represent a convergence of expertise in one or more SBE sciences deeply integrated with other disciplines to support substantial and potentially pathbreaking, fundamental research applied to strengthening a specific and focal infrastructure.
Award Amount: Up to $10 Million
Application Due Date: May 5, 2022
More Information: Link to Strengthening American Infrastructure Website