Abstract: Urbanization is one of the great challenges and opportunities of this century, inextricably tied to global challenges ranging from climate change to sustainable use of energy and natural resources, and from personal health and safety to accelerating innovation and education. There is a growing science community—spanning nearly every discipline—pursuing research related to these challenges. […]
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Seven Women in IT Chosen to get Hands-on Experience Building, Managing Super-fast Network at SC16
Seven women who work in IT departments at research institutions around the country have been chosen to help build and operate SCinet, the very high capacity SC conference network, under the “Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS)” program. Now in its second year, WINS is a collaboration between the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research […]
Happy Birthday to the National Science Foundation
Funding is critical to research and discovery. In this light for more than six decades the National Science Foundation has supported research and education in the fields of science and engineering that then led to some phenomenal discoveries and innovations. Take a moment to read about just some of these great accomplishments over the past […]
SC15 Announces New NSF-Funded Diversity Program for SCinet
SCinet, SC’s dedicated high-performance research network and backbone of information and communication, is running a new “pilot” program that will fund up to five US women candidates in their early to mid-career to join the SCinet volunteer workforce for SC15. Marla Meehl “I am very excited to be enabling career women to expand their experience […]
