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EIF Executive Director Jessica Molesworth attended the Presidential Budget Release Event at the White House yesterday morning, March 13. The event highlighted science, technology and innovation investments in President Biden’s recently released FY2024 Budget Request. Speakers included:

NSF, in partnership with Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has announced grants totaling $1.8 million on the US side and $2.3 million on the Australian side to accelerate groundbreaking research in responsible and ethical artificial intelligence solutions to societal challenges, including pandemic preparedness, drought resilience and harmful environmental emissions.

In 2015, the EPSCoR/IDeA Coalition and Foundation Boards approved “the Danek Award,” given in the name of the “father of EPSCoR,” Dr. Joe Danek, to recognize individuals who develop the best ideas to resolve research disparity. In the words of Dr. Bill Gern, then Chair of the EIC Board of Directors, the Danek award would be presented before the EPSCoR/IDeA community to an awardee who “has established a long-term commitment to the ideals and goals which EPSCoR represents befitting for awarding of the prize.”

This annual award is given by the EPSCoR/IDeA Coalition and Foundation Boards and is intended to recognize an individual who has contributed significantly to enhancing the impact of the NIH IDeA Program either regionally or nationally. The award is intended to honor the commitment of Dr. W. Fred Taylor during his 20 years of service at NIH to expand opportunities for students, faculty and institutions in states and territories that have had historically low levels of NIH funding for biomedical research.

As a member of the ERVA community, you are encouraged to consider the qualifications for service and, as appropriate, nominate yourself or share this call for self-nominations with highly qualified colleagues who have the leadership skills needed to advance ERVA's mission. Service on these bodies is an exceptional opportunity to catalyze the engineering community's pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that benefits society.

AAAS proudly congratulates the newly elected 2022 Fellows. In October 2022, the AAAS Council elected 505 members as Fellows of AAAS. Election as a Fellow honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications in service to society have distinguished them among their peers and colleagues. More

NSF’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences has awarded postdoctoral fellowships to 25 early-career researchers. The fellowships will support research on a range of subjects including the development of adolescent risk-taking behavior, factors that contribute to successful forest restoration, the archaeology of the antebellum south and language processing in people who speak multiple dialects.

The award representing the EPSCoR jurisdictions was presented to:

Funded by the NSF Directorate for Engineering, the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) is a neutral convener that helps to identify bold and transformative new engineering research directions. We do this by engaging experts in a visioning workshop.

The DOE has announced a $52 million funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that will accelerate research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) in domestic manufacturing to strengthen America’s economic competitiveness and move the US towards a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. The FOA will drive innovation to develop the next-generation materials and manufacturing technologies required to help tackle the climate crisis, secure our domestic supply chains, and position the US as a leader in the global clean energy economy.

The NSF is accelerating convergence research across materials discovery and development as well as production and manufacturing to address challenges aligned to the manufacturing, reuse and recycling of critical materials and products.