Paduano Seminar (Julia Ott, The New School) Friday, March 6, 3:00-4:20 pm, KMC 5-140
China Initiative Research Luncheon (Alexander Ljungqvist, NYU Stern) Monday, March 9, 12:00-1:20 pm, KMC 2-90
Dean's Faculty Lunch and Faculty Seminar - Tax Inversions (David Rosenbloom, NYU Law) Thursday, March 12, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Dean's Faculty Lunch Tuesday, March 17, 12:00-2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Dean's Faculty LunchandFaculty Forum - NYU Undergraduate Student Life: The Current Picture and Forthcoming Initiatives (Thomas Ellet, NYU Senior Associate Vice President for Student Affairs /Associate Vice Provost for University Programs) Wednesday, March 25, 12:00-2:00 pm, Cantor Boardroom
Paduano Seminar - Secrecy at Work: The Hidden Architecture of Organizations (Jana Costas, European University Viadrina Frankfurt) Friday, March 27, 3:00-4:20 pm, KMC 5-140
Please remember to indicate whether you will attend NYU's All-University Commencement, Stern's Graduate Convocation and/or Stern's Undergraduate Baccalaureate, and if you require academic attire by completing the form at www.stern.nyu.edu/graduation/faculty/rsvp by Friday, April 3.
Just a reminder about the Sabbatical Leave Policy:
A sabbatical’s purpose is to encourage faculty members to engage in scholarly research or other activities that will increase their scholarly achievement or their capacity for service to the school or university. Sabbaticals are a privilege, not a right. Approval of a sabbatical request is based on two considerations. One is the merit of the proposed project and whether it conforms to the defined purpose of a sabbatical leave. The second consideration is the faculty member’s level of engagement within the school. Because sabbaticals provide relief from a faculty member’s normal teaching and service obligations, they will only be granted for faculty members whose level of presence and engagement is consistent with the obligations of a tenured member of the university. They will not be granted to faculty members who fail to maintain a significant physical presence throughout each semester for which they are compensated. Upon return from sabbatical, the professor must provide a report on the activities and research conducted during the period of leave.
Beth Bechky, Professor of Management and Organizations
Beth Bechky joined Stern as a professor just last year, coming home to New York after many years in the SF Bay Area. As a professor at UC Davis, she lived in Berkeley, just down the street from Chez Panisse. In fact, Alice Waters wrote a solicitous letter to Beth, helping to convince her to sell her house to Chez Panisse’s sous chef. The sale came with a free meal at the restaurant.
Beth grew up in Monroe, in New York’s Orange County, and her family now lives in the Albany area, close enough to NYC that her young son can spend plenty of time with his grandparents. Although Beth misses, among other things, the wonderful seasonal produce of California, she had been wanting to return to the Big Apple, and loves living here. Her son is such a frequent visitor at the American Museum of Natural History and many of the city’s other museums that Beth has had to take a break from rock climbing and belly dancing.
At Stern, Beth really values having both a doctoral program and undergraduates, in addition to MBA students. She studies organizational boundaries, and how people cross those boundaries. For example, she’s recently spent a lot of time in a crime lab looking at what happens when scientific truth meets the legal system. With a PhD in industrial engineering and a background in labor relations, she has also researched how engineers and assemblers communicate.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is sponsoring Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure with an anticipated funding amount of up to $500,000 for 3 years. The deadline for proposals is June 2, 2015.
Advancements in data-driven scientific research depend on trustworthy and reliable cyberinfrastructure. Researchers rely on a variety of networked technologies and software tools to achieve their scientific goals. These may include local or remote instruments, wireless sensors, software programs, operating systems, database servers, high-performance computing, large-scale storage arrays, and other critical infrastructure connected by high-speed networking. This complex, distributed, interconnected global cyberinfrastructure ecosystem presents unique cybersecurity challenges. NSF-funded scientific instruments are specialized, highly visible assets that present attractive targets for both unintentional errors and malicious activity; untrustworthy software or a loss of integrity of the data collected by a scientific instrument may mean corrupt, skewed or incomplete results. Furthermore, often data-driven research, e.g., in the medical field or in the social sciences, requires access to private information, and exposure of such data may cause financial, reputational and/or other damage.
Therefore, an increasing area of focus for NSF is the development and deployment of hardware and software technologies and techniques to protect research cyberinfrastructure across every stage of the scientific workflow.
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