ARKANSAS: Three UAMS Researchers Receive DART Seed Grants for Data Science Projects
Three researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences recently received seed grants from Arkansas EPSCoR. Drs. Kevin Phelan and Tiffany Huitt received a two-year $97,608 grant for their project, “Piloting Big Data Science in Arkansas Middle Schools.”
Dr. Sean Young received $55,696 for his project, “Geospatial Data Science in Public Health: Inter-institutional educational collaboration to enhance data science curriculum in Arkansas.”
Phelan said the overall goal of his and Huitt’s grant “is to encourage the use of big datasets in classrooms across the state to prepare students early for data science fields.”
Young’s DART seed grant project uses curriculum and expertise in the College of Public Health to develop a new undergraduate-level data science course at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville focusing on geospatial data science in public health. As part of the Data Science for Arkansas Initiative, the coursework will be shared with postsecondary institutions across the state, to help extend data science training resources to as many students in Arkansas as possible.