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Webinario de los National Academies sobre necesidades interdisciplinarias y de manejo de data para las ciencias ambientales

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http://nas-sites.org/emergingscience/meetings/data-meeting/

You’re invited to attend a meeting of the National Academies’ Standing Committee on Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions

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$1 million prize from Department of Defense for algorithm that IDs organisms from complex jumbles of DNA

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Identify Organisms from a Stream of DNA Sequences

Challenge Overview

This Challenge seeks innovative algorithms to analyze samples that contain mixed segments of genetic sequence from next-generation sequencing instruments and report the identities of each organism represented in the sample and characterization of all non-host organisms.  Technical details and requirements are available in the full description. 

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NSF and NASA Funded Programs for Students and Postdocs

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We are reaching out to faculty and staff and enlisting your help in getting information on funded programs to your colleagues and/or your students who may be considering undergrad summer research and/or applying to graduate school. Please announce these opportunities in any classes or at presentations you may be making, and forward or print/ post the flyer attached in this email --as you deem appropriate.

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Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2013 (STTR)

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If you are interested in submitting a proposal to the STTR solicitation is Accelerating Sustainability using Enabling Technologies (ASET) (NSF 13-501).
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504857, more information and the latest webinar can be found at the following link:

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Former Science Trust expert calls for overhaul of R&D approach

Submitted on 13 December 2012 - 2:50pm

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JAIME SANTIAGO

If Puerto Rico is going to have any chance of creating a biotechnology sector that creates quality research and independent-minded scientists for the island's biotech apparatus, the approach to research being conducted at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) must be revamped. That is where a former trustee of the Science, Technology & Research Trust, Mariano García-Blanco, is saying we have to eliminate the political ebb and flow that propitiates lack of continuity and affects the quality of research at the university.

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Fortuño Administration steamrolls the Puerto Rico Science Trust

Submitted on 13 December 2012 - 2:16pm

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Ely Acevedo Denis

Recent appointment in the Puerto Rico Science Trust's Board raise questions about the politicization of this entity supposed to promote knowledge-based economic growth in Puerto Rico.

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