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January and February CIC Community Webinars: Lightning Talks and Q&A
Join us for our next rounds of lightning talks and Q&A on Wednesday, January 13, 12-1pm ET and Wednesday, February 10, 3-4pm ET. Learn more about researchers' ongoing efforts in the fight against COVID-19, including opportunities for collaboration.
Click here to learn more and register.
January 2021 Featured Speakers:
David Mendonça, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: EAGER: Joint Hazard Mitigation in the Era of COVID-19: Implications for Engineered Structures and Services. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation.
Mauricio Terrones, Penn State: EAGER: Portable device for rapid and label-free identification of COVID-19 using an ultra-miniature handheld Raman spectrometer. Funded by NSF Office of the Director / Office of Integrative Activities.
Tracy Van Holt, New York University: RAPID Collaborative: Networks and Spatial Dynamics of the US Food Supply Chain amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Funded by NSF Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences / Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences.
Michel Boufadel, New Jersey Institute of Technology: RAPID: Scaling, causality, and modulation of the spread of COVID-19. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental & Transport Systems.
Jamie Hestekin, University of Arkansas: RAPID: Sprayable Cellulosic Nanoparticle Coatings for Covid 19. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental & Transport Systems.
Wai-Yim Ching, University of Missouri-Kansas City: RAPID: Structural Refinement and Intramolecular Binding in SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein. Funded by NSF Mathematical & Physical Sciences / Division of Materials Research.
Rabindra Tirouvanziam, Emory University: EAGER: Coronavirus infection of human lung epithelium and leukocytes: mechanisms and treatment. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental & Transport Systems.
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February 2021 Featured Speakers:
Naomi Senehi, Rice University: RAPID: Molecular Imprinting of Coronavirus Attachment Factors to Enhance Disinfection by a Selective Photocatalytic "Trap-and-Zap" Approach. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental & Transport Systems.
Kartik Kaushik, University of Maryland, College Park: RAPID: Combining Big Data in Transportation with Hospital Health Data to Build Realistic "Flattening the Curves" Models during the COVID-19 Outbreak. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation.
Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia: RAPID: Using SenseMaker to Investigate Complex Dynamics in Social Systems to Inform Agile, Real-Time Policy-Responses in Times of Crisis. Funded by NSF Engineering / Engineering Education and Centers.
Timothy Oladunni, University of the District of Columbia: RAPID: Collaborative Research: VAPOC: Visualization, Analysis and Prediction of COVID-19. Funded by NSF Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering / Division of Computer and Network Systems.
Nian Sun, Northeastern University: RAPID: New Handheld Gas Sensors for Airborne SARS-CoV-2 Virus: Instant COVID-19 Diagnosis from Exhaled Breath. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems.
Mike Kinzel and Kareem Ahmed, University of Central Florida: RAPID: Fluid Dynamic Driving Mechanisms of Airborne Pathogen Transmission and Control. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental & Transport Systems.
Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University: RAPID: Disinfection and Reuse of Health-Care Worker Facial Masks to Prevent Infection coronavirus disease. Funded by NSF Engineering / Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental & Transport Systems.
If you would like to present your research at a future CIC community event, please contact the project team.
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Thank you to all of the participants and speakers who attended the December CIC Community webinar! Six NSF PIs presented their research on the deployment of Internet access to low-income communities; algorithms for optimizing public transportation; e-mentoring programs for graduate students; a novel antimicrobial/antiviral biofilter for masks; the transmissibility of COVID-19 from mothers to children through breastfeeding; and ecological dynamics of virus growth and best conditions for drug testing.
Read a full recap of the event here, and watch recordings of the webinar and individual lightning talks on the CIC website.
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Announcing the CIC Student Paper Challenge
We invite you to participate in and spread the word about the newly announced COVID Information Commons Student Paper Challenge. The CIC Student Paper Challenge is an opportunity for undergraduate students to leverage the CIC NSF award search tools and the global COVID-19 resources the CIC offers to learn about how the scientific research community is working to address the widespread impacts of the pandemic and offer their own insights on the next steps for COVID-19 research.
Undergraduate students of all backgrounds and interests are encouraged to participate in this Challenge. Winning papers will be published on the CIC website and shared widely through our network. Authors will also have the opportunity to present their insights at a future CIC community event.
In addition to sharing this Challenge with undergraduate students who might be interested, we invite you and your colleagues to share your COVID-19 research expertise as a mentor and/or judge. Mentors will hold virtual sessions in January, February, and March to help students develop their paper ideas. Judges will review submissions in April.
For full details about how to participate as a student, mentor, or judge, please visit the CIC Student Paper Challenge webpage. We hope you will join us in this exciting effort to inspire the next generation of researchers. If you have any questions, please contact info@covidinfocommons.net. |
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CIC Global Impact
In 2020, the pandemic ushered in a “new normal,” an era of self-isolation and mandated quarantines for our collective well-being. At the COVID Information Commons, it has been truly inspiring to see another new normal emerge at the same time: one of collaboration across disciplines and institutional boundaries. Members of the CIC community have reached out to each other through the NSF-funded research database and through our community events, finding ways to work together with strangers who became colleagues, to further their research on COVID-19. The benefits of this collaborative approach are growing and spreading across the country and the world.
Below are just a few stories CIC community members have shared with us on how their research has benefited from the collaborative spirit of the community.
Michael Pazzani at University of California San Diego is investigating machine learning techniques for diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. Dominique Duncan at University of Southern California has been developing COVID-ARC, a COVID-19 data archive containing multimodal and longitudinal data and statistical and analytic tools for researchers. Both spoke on a CIC webinar in September 2020 and are now collaborating on their research.
Sarah Bowman is a structural biologist at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute of University at Buffalo, with a RAPID award for Enhanced SARS-CoV-2 High-Throughput Crystallization for Structural Studies. She uses the CIC COVID Research Explorer Tool Tree Maps to identify collaboration opportunities in her domain. Colleagues from as far as South Korea have been in touch to connect with her about her research.
Erick Jones at the University of Texas at Arlington mentioned in his remarks during the International FAIR Convergence Symposium on November 30 that over 30 people have reached out to him since his September lightning talk with CIC on his project AI-Enabled Optimization of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Supply Chain to Support Community Public Health, sparking conversation and collaboration that would not have occurred otherwise.
Click here to read more about these researchers' roads to collaboration, and stay tuned as we share more stories from the community as our work continues next year. |
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Reminder: Build your PI Page
As part of the new NSF COVID Awards and PI Database on the COVID Information Commons website, we've already added websites, research findings, and collaboration opportunities provided by over 100 NSF PIs. If you would like to help others further engage with your work by adding or updating any information on your PI page, please fill out this survey.
To learn more about the database, watch this overview from our November webinar.
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CIC Session at the Coalition for Networked Information Virtual Membership Meeting
Watch the recording of the CIC overview and COVID research lightning talks from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Virtual Membership Meeting in November. Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub Florence Hudson and Head of Research Data Services at Columbia University Libraries Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen spoke about the newest developments for the CIC website and community, while Nora Garza at Laredo College and Sarah Bowman at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute at University of Buffalo presented their COVID-related research. Visit the CIC Events page to keep up-to-date with future CIC community research events.
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CIC Overview and PI Panel at the International FAIR Convergence Symposium
Executive Director Florence Hudson demonstrated the CIC resources for research collaboration, and a panel of PIs presented their COVID-related research at the 2020 International FAIR Convergence Symposium organized by CODATA and GOFAIR. Watch the CIC overview from the event to learn about how the global CIC community is growing, and stay tuned for news about future research collaboration events and opportunities.
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Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub Data Science Student Groups Webinars
Keep up with the Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub's webinars for student-led data science organizations to share and discuss their experiences, activities, structures, and goals. Check back to the webpage for information about the upcoming January webinar, which will include an overview of the CIC Student Paper Challenge. |
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The COVID Information Commons (CIC) serves as a resource for researchers, students and decision-makers from academia, government, nonprofit, and industry to identify collaboration opportunities, to leverage each other's research findings, and to accelerate the most promising research to mitigate the broad societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To suggest COVID research-related news, events, and opportunities for an upcoming newsletter, please email info@covidinfocommons.net.
Help build our community by forwarding CIC news widely, and encourage your colleagues to sign up for updates via this web form.
Thanks! —The CIC Project Team |
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