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NSF appoints new special assistant to the director for artificial intelligence The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the appointment of Tess deBlanc-Knowles to the position of special assistant to the director for artificial intelligence. In this position, she will serve as the lead in the Office of the Director… Read more at nsf.gov

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NSF invests over $16M in six academic institutions for cybersecurity scholarships Today the U.S. National Science Foundation announced six new academic institutions are being awarded CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) grants, an investment of over $16 million toward training the next generation of cybersecurity… Read more at nsf.gov

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450 million-year-old organism finds new life in Softbotics Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with paleontologists from Spain and Poland, used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of a pleurocystitid, a marine organism that existed nearly 450 million years ago and is… Read more at nsf.gov

NSF announces first-ever Accelerating Research Translation awards to empower academic institutions to speed and scale translational research The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the first-ever Accelerating Research Translation (ART) investment — more than $100 million to 18 teams at academic institutions across the nation. NSF's investment will enable academic institutions… Read more at nsf.gov

Self-correcting quantum computers within reach? Quantum computers promise to reach speeds and efficiencies impossible for even the fastest supercomputers of today. But quantum computers, unlike classical ones, cannot correct errors by copying encoded data over and over. Because of this inability… Read more at nsf.gov

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The U.S. National Science Foundation mourns the passing of John Brooks Slaughter John Brooks Slaughter, Ph.D., director of the U.S. National Science Foundation from 1980-1982, died in Pasadena, Calif., on Dec. 6 at age 89. Slaughter, the first African American director of NSF, spent his distinguished career championing diversity… Read more at nsf.gov

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Wireless, handheld, non-invasive device detects Alzheimer's and Parkinson's biomarkers An international team of researchers has developed a handheld, non-invasive device that can detect biomarkers for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The device relies on electrical rather than chemical detection, which researchers say is more… Read more at nsf.gov

Inexpensive monitoring process powered by machine learning could aid in water treatment Small, rural drinking water treatment plants typically use only chlorine to implement the disinfection process. A key performance measure for disinfection is free chlorine residual, the concentration of free chlorine remaining in the water after the… Read more at nsf.gov

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NSF Director delivers keynote at Virginia Commonwealth University commencement ceremony, joins Virginia representative for roundtable On Dec. 9, U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan delivered the keynote address at the Virginia Commonwealth University's winter Commencement Ceremony, where he was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree… Read more at nsf.gov

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan underscored the agency's commitment to creating pathways and on-ramps for anyone to be able to join the STEM enterprise. On Friday, the director attended a roundtable hosted by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA)… Read more at nsf.gov

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Scientists isolate early-warning tremor pattern in lab-made earthquakes Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have successfully isolated a pattern of lab-made 'foreshock' tremors. The finding offers hope that future earthquakes could be forecast by a swarm of smaller previous tremors.The U.S. National Science… Read more at nsf.gov

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NSF launches EducateAI initiative The U.S. National Science Foundation is excited to announce the EducateAI initiative. The goal of the initiative is to enable educators to make high-quality, audience-appropriate artificial intelligence educational experiences available nationwide to… Read more at nsf.gov

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan This week, U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan underscored the importance of investing in innovative science and engineering research that will shape international collaboration, next-generation technology and the STEM… Read more at nsf.gov