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The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a FY24 Aviation Workforce Development (AWD) Maintenance grant of $307,608 to the North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS). This award will go towards NDSCS’ North Dakota Fly High Career Pathway Program.
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2 years ago Read more at Kevin Cramer

The BIOLAB by Educate Maine is headed to Fort Kent next week to begin stops at 12 schools in rural Maine. The idea is to introduce students to jobs in the life sciences beyond being a doctor or nurse. On the outside of the mobile lab, a sign lists the stats about life sciences in Maine, which include 9,000 jobs at 450 companies with an average salary of $100,000.
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2 years ago Read more at Spectrum News

Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) announced March 6 that they were restarting a Planetary Science Caucus in Congress. The goal of the caucus is to educate other members and the public on the benefits of space exploration. A final 2024 spending bill, expected to be approved by the House and Senate by March 8, gives NASA some flexibility in determining funding for MSR between the Senate bill’s $300 million and the House version’s $9
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2 years ago Read more at SpaceNews

OpenVertebrate (oVert) is a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens and make them freely available online. The project was funded with an initial sum of $2.5 million from the National Science Foundation, along with eight additional partnering grants totaling $1.1 million. It will take further developments in machine learning and supercomputing to use the data to their full potential.
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2 years ago Read more at EurekAlert

On Monday, April 8, the United States, as well as other parts of the world, will experience a solar eclipse. The Michigan State University Extension science team’s goal is to increase science literacy across Michigan. Adults can better help youth increase their science literacy.
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2 years ago Read more at Michigan State University

William & Mary data scientist Haipeng Chen is leading a partnership with Generated Health. He and his team will develop synthetic patient data to help train a more autonomous version of the company’s digital nurse, “Florence” The contract will also cover the stipend of a graduate research assistant from Chen’s lab.
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2 years ago Read more at William & Mary

Eclipse Ambassadors represent a broad range of backgrounds from 45 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam. In addition to the formal training they receive, they participate in informal Social Hours to prepare them for engaging diverse audiences.
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2 years ago Read more at Science@NASA

Biotechnology company ArrowRight Colossal Biosciences has produced a line of Asian elephant stem cells that can be coaxed to transform into other types of cells needed to reconstruct the extinct giant. For proponents, bringing back vanished animals is a chance to correct humanity’s role in the ongoing extinction crisis. Breakthroughs in their field, they say, may yield benefits for animals still with us, including endangered elephants.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

AI-run labs have arrived — such as this one in Suzhou, China. Many downsides of AI systems have been discussed. For example, generative AI such as ChatGPT tends to make things up. The workings of machine-learning systems are opaque.
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2 years ago Read more at Nature.com

Extension Agent Mikayla Berryhill serves field crops farmers in Person and Granville counties. The network now has 24 members in four cohorts representing North Carolina’s diverse geography and crop production systems. She was part of one of the network’s first projects: helping beta-test a web-based decision support tool with farmers.
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2 years ago Read more at NC State CALS