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Home - News: Ph.D. Candidate Wins National Academies Fellowship
Valerie Summet, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, has been awarded
a Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate
Fellowship by the National Academies in Washington, D.C. Run out of the
National Academies' Policy and Global Affairs Division, the program is
designed to engage its fellows in the analytical process that informs
U.S. science and technology policy. Source: Office of Communications
SC&I | All News: Preventing Risky Behavior in Short Order: $450,000 to Improve Anti-Abuse Programs
The federal government spends a great deal of time and money to try to reduce risky...
iSchool News: Syracuse iSchool Social Media Strategist Anthony Rotolo quoted on tweeting during the Super Bowl in the New Orleans Times-Picayune
Anthony Rotolo, an adjunct faculty member and social media strategist at the Syracuse School of Information Studies (iSchool), was quoted in The Times-Picayune, a New Orleans-based newspaper, about football fans who used Twitter to tweet during last night’s Super Bowl game.
The article talks about how Twitter is blurring the line between professional sports announcers and average fans. Thanks to Twitter, fans now have the ability to share their thoughts about each play in real-time...
UNC shares a $2.18 million grant from the National Science Foundation for digital repository
The repository, called Dryad, is designed to archive data that underlie published findings in evolutionary biology, ecology and related fields and allow scientists to access and build on each other’s findings.
For more information, contact
Wanda Monroe, (919) 843-8337
Twitter-Based Personal Graphing Tool Wins Carnegie Mellon’s 2009 Smiley Award
Grafitter, a technology that makes it easy to collect information about yourself over time and depict it in graph form on Twitter, is the 2009 winner of Carnegie Mellon University's second annual Smiley Award. The award, sponsored by Yahoo! Inc., recognizes innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication and is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at the university.
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Sumitha Rao, (412) 268-3097
Pitt’s iSchool to Launch Graduate Research Program in Cyberscholarship
The University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences has received a five-year, $782,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of a graduate research program designed to understand and influence the emergence of digital communication and research in academia, known as cyberscholarship.