Monday, September 30, 2024

Degrees, research awards presented at PIMS on Graduation Day

 

         Certificates being presented at the convocation ceremony. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), a unit of the Madras Medical Mission, conducted the Graduation Day ceremony for undergraduate (2018 batch) and postgraduate medical students (2020 batch) recently.Vikram Mathews, Director, Christian Medical College, Vellore, the chief guest distributed the certificates to 162 undergraduate and 45 postgraduate students. In his convocation address, Dr. Mathews motivated the students to treat the patients with compassion and empathy citing the example of Dr. Ida S. Scudder, founder of CMC Vellore.
He also advised the budding doctors to spread positivity in the community through selfless care.
Renu G’Boy Varghese, PIMS director-principal presented the students for graduation.
Medical Superintendent Peter Manoharan administered the Hippocratic Oath to the UG students.
Arun Kurian Joseph, chairman, PIMS Management committee, felicitated faculty members who published research articles in high impact journals.
Anil J. Purty, Registrar, presented the college annual report highlighting the achievements in academia, research, patient care and extra-curricular activities.
S. Keerthigaa was awarded gold medal for the best outgoing student. K. Viswesh and A. Dhanashree received gold medals for best all-rounder and best sports person respectively. In all, 13 ICMR STS (short-term studentship) and 23 PIMS STS awards for research were presented to undergraduate students.

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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Research Excellence Awards 2024 Issue Call for Entries

 

The Marketing Society of Ireland has launched a call for entries to the 2024 Research Excellence Awards which will take place at the annual Christmas lunch of the Marketing Society on Friday, December 6 in the Shelbourne Hotel.

The closing date for entries this year has been set for Friday, November 1 at 4pm. Last year’s winner of the coveted Grand Prix award was Ipsos B&A.
The judging panel will include Etain Kidney, Head of The School of Marketing at Technical University Dublin (Chairperson), Aisling O’Sullivan, Head of Customer Planning Research & Insight at AIB, Michelle McLoughlin, Head of Consumer Insights at Aer Lingus and Roger Sherlock, Head of Marketing Studies at TUD. Additional judges will be appointed over the coming weeks.

Speaking at the launch of call for entries, Mark Noble, Chairperson of the Marketing Society of Ireland and Marketing Manager at Heineken said: “We are delighted to be announcing the Marketing Society Research Excellence Awards which are now in their 15th year. These awards were created to recognize the power that high quality and insightful research brings to any campaign or initiative and the impact this has on connecting with audiences to deliver tangible results for any organization.

“Our industry has evolved significantly since the awards were established and that change is only going to come faster. The work that our industry does and the role of research is crucial to ensuring we adapt positively to this evolving environment. As always, we wish those entering the awards the very best of luck. A huge thank you to our sponsors, DMG Media Ireland, Global, Mediahuis, The Business Post, AIB, The Outdoor Media Association, Norstat and FUEL. and we look forward to announcing the winners at our annual awards ceremony on Friday, December 6th.”

The categories for this year’s awards are as follows:

• Advertising Research,
• Strategic Brand Research
• Media Research
• Brand or Product Development Research
• Business to Business Research
• Sustainability
• Public Policy and Social Research
• Analytic Impact

The Awards are sponsored by DMG Media Ireland, Global, Mediahuis, The Business Post, AIB, The Outdoor Media Association, Norstat and FUEL.


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Friday, September 27, 2024

University of Colorado Sets New Systemwide Record With $1.7 Billion in Sponsored Research Funding and Gifts

 

DENVER – Faculty across the University of Colorado system this year attracted $1.7 billion in sponsored research funding and gifts supporting research, a new record total in CU history.

In achieving the collective record, each of the four CU campuses also attained new records for sponsored research funding and gifts supporting research.

The systemwide figure reached in the 2023-24 fiscal year is 7% higher than the previous year’s total. This marks the eighth consecutive year CU has topped the $1 billion mark.

The investment in research endeavors at CU’s four campuses powers life-changing discoveries across Colorado, the nation and the world.

“Our extraordinary faculty are changing life as we know it and creating new possibilities for our future. The importance of their research is reflected in part by the level of funding they continue to attract each year,” said CU President Todd Saliman. “This latest milestone speaks to the real-world impact of the discoveries and innovations the CU community is generating.”

The overall total is fueled by $1.5 billion in research awards, an 8% increase over the previous year. Most is awarded by federal agencies, which accounted for $942.8 million. Top federal sponsors of CU research include Health and Human Services (in particular, the National Institutes of Health), NASA, the Department of Commerce, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense.

Non-federal awards totaled $579.7 million. Gifts toward research via the CU Foundation totaled $180.8 million.

Following are the 2023-24 totals in sponsored research funding and gifts supporting research at each of the four CU campuses, as well as examples of the ways the university advances knowledge, inspires innovation, fosters creativity and improves the quality of life for Coloradans:

  • University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus: $910 million. Last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $62 million over a seven-year period to the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) to help advance groundbreaking discoveries that can directly impact patient care. These grants will fuel biomedical research and scientific training programs across the state, while empowering CU Anschutz to improve outcomes for patients facing long COVID, type 2 diabetes and a wide range of other diseases. Over the coming years, the CCTSI will leverage these funds to advance clinical and translational research, promote collaborative team science, and ensure our state is poised to respond to the public health emergencies of the future. In addition, the awards will support CCTSI’s ongoing work to address health inequities and disparities statewide.
  • University of Colorado Boulder: $742.2 million. As a key university partner in the Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine (CO-WY Engine), CU Boulder is enabling data analysis, monitoring technologies and predictive analytics to develop trustworthy decision support systems; mitigating environmental and economic degradation; and advancing climate solutions that result in regional community resiliency and economic vitality. The university is also contributing to the creation of new startup companies and playing a role in leadership and governance of the CO-WY Engine. The prestigious National Science Foundation award totals up to $160 million over 10 years and positions the CO-WY Engine at the forefront of the nation’s environmental and climate technology initiatives. The inclusion of the CO-WY Engine in this national effort highlights the region’s capacity to transform into a thriving hub of innovation, technology and economic growth.
  • University of Colorado Denver: $31.7 million. Colorado has a tragic history of gun violence, particularly mass violence, which prompted the passage of several laws to address the problem. Among the laws passed was a 2020 “red flag law,” which authorized the use of civil protection orders called extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs). The National Institute of Justice awarded a $1.5 million dollar grant to Sheila Huss, Ph.D., assistant teaching professor of Criminal Justice, and her team to study the effectiveness of ERPOs at the macro and micro levels. The grant funds a five-year project that assesses whether ERPOs effectively prevent suicides, homicides and incidents of mass violence. Additionally, the project examines various aspects of the ERPO process for petitioners and respondents to determine what parts of the implementation are effective and where the barriers are.
  • University of Colorado Colorado Springs: $19.3 million. Michele Okun, Ph.D., BioFrontiers research professor and director of the Sleep and Biobehavioral Health Research Laboratory, recently landed the Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Lifestyle and Behavioral Health Interventions Research Award. The award comes with a $3.8 million grant for the study “Improving Maternal Mental Health in Military-Affiliated Pregnant Women: Effectiveness of a Smart Bassinet,” a multi-institutional collaborative effort. Okun and the research team plan to investigate the effectiveness of smart bassinets in improving sleep patterns in infants, and, subsequently, the sleep and mental health of the birthing parent. Perinatal sleep health has been a focus of Okun’s for some time, and it’s been a longstanding goal of hers to secure funding for in-depth research into her specializations.

Sponsored research funding from federal, state, international and foundation entities targets specific projects to advance research in laboratories and in the field. Research funding also helps pay for research-related capital improvements, scientific equipment, travel and salaries for research and support staff and student assistantships. CU cannot divert this funding to non-research-related expenses.


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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Steven Skiena and Team Win 2024 KDD Test of Time Award for Research

 

Department of Computer Science Professor Steven Skiena, along with his former students Rami al-Rfou and Bryan Perozzi, received the 2024 KDD Test of Time Award for their work on graph representation learning.

The KDD Test of Time Award highlights the long-term value of pioneering research, acknowledging that some papers gain prominence and influence over time. Presented by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD), it recognizes a paper that has made a lasting and influential impact on data mining and knowledge discovery.

The team received the award at the KDD Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Skiena and his team were recognized for their 2014 paper, “Deepwalk: online learning of social representations.” Deepwalk is a way to turn large graphs, like social networks or product-consumer purchase data, into a representation that machine learning models can easily understand. The team’s paper was the first in a long line of research developments leading to graph neural networks, now used widely in applications like YouTube video recommendations or friend suggestions on Facebook and Instagram.

“Data mining and knowledge discovery are essential for turning vast amounts of data into meaningful insights that can drive real-world progress,” said Samir Das, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science. “This award is a testament to Skiena, al-Rfou, and Perozzi’s groundbreaking work and its lasting impact on the field. It’s exciting to see their contributions recognized in such a significant way.”

“It was very gratifying to have the importance of our work be recognized by the community,” said Skiena, a distinguished teaching professor who is also director of the Institute for AI-driven Discovery and Innovation. “It was great to get together again with my two PhD students, Rami and Bryan, as we all received the award. Rami and Bryan have gone on to become very prominent industrial researchers in their own rights — at OpenAI and Google respectively — and I am very proud of all they have done.”

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

NIST Awards $6 Million to Carnegie Mellon University to Establish an AI Cooperative Research Center

 

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $6 million to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to establish a joint center to support cooperative research and experimentation for the test and evaluation of modern AI capabilities and tools. The center will be housed on the Carnegie Mellon campus, in Pittsburgh.

“Artificial intelligence is the defining technology of our generation, and at the Commerce Department we are committed to working with America’s world-class higher education institutions, like Carnegie Mellon University, to advance safe, secure and trustworthy development of AI,” Raimondo said. “I am excited to announce this NIST award of $6 million for Carnegie Mellon to boost research of AI systems and support a new generation of scientists and engineers that will help advance American innovation globally.”

The CMU/NIST AI Measurement Science & Engineering Cooperative Research Center will seek to advance AI risk management practices and evaluation approaches through stakeholder partnerships and translate assessment capabilities and methodologies into practice. 

“This new cooperative research center will expand NIST’s knowledge base and fundamental research capacity in AI,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Laurie E. Locascio. “Through this partnership, we will strengthen our understanding of foundation models and support new research — and new researchers — in this rapidly evolving field.”

The center will focus on foundational research and developing AI system-level tooling, metrics, evaluation procedures, development processes, and best practices to help AI builders consistently engineer safe AI systems. Its efforts will align with NIST AI priorities including better methods for measuring validity, reliability, safety, privacy and security; accountability, transparency, fairness and explainability; and generative AI evaluation at any stage of development or deployment.

The grant to CMU was awarded through NIST’s Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grant Program, which supports collaborative research aligned with NIST’s research objectives. The program seeks to develop a diverse, world-class pool of scientists and engineers to engage in NIST’s measurement science and standards research and to promote understanding of measurement science and standards. 

The new center’s work will support the NIST AI Innovation Lab (NAIIL), which is a component of NIST’s larger efforts on fundamental AI measurement research and guideline development.


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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Cultivating the next generation of research leaders

Queen’s hosted its second annual celebration to honour the accomplishments of participants in summer research programs.

Research plays an important role in Queen’s mission and over the past year several opportunities have been created to further integrate research into the undergraduate student experience. These initiatives, coupled with hands-on learning and mentorship, are shaping Queen’s University into a hub offering research opportunities for students. 
Queen’s is working to not only introduce research earlier into undergraduate education but to provide students with accelerated opportunities through these first-hand experiences to gain the translatable skills and training needed to pursue high-impact research.
Recently, Queen’s hosted its second annual celebration to honour the accomplishments of participants in summer research programs and to acknowledge the role of supervision from faculty. The event brought together recipients of the Queen’s Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowships (USSRF) and the Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), with a total of 167 students participating. The gathering highlighted the significance of these programs in supporting undergraduate research and fostering collaboration between students and faculty.
“This has been a remarkable year for undergraduate research at Queen’s. It is very rewarding to see the scale and diversity of research that is being done by our undergraduate students and the calibre of mentorship provided by our faculty,” says Nancy Ross, Vice-Principal (Research).
Many summer research projects have been compiled into a special edition of Queen’s Inquiry Journal, in partnership with Queen’s University Library, showcasing their research spanning topics from the impact of wildfires on structures to the isolation of novel antibiotics, and to barriers to healthcare access for Black communities.
“By integrating research in the undergraduate experience, students are applying their curiosity and passion, are developing transferable skills, and are considering the greater good,” says Klodiana Kolomitro, Special Advisor, Undergraduate Research. “We continue to expand on the different ways our students can gain valuable hands-on research experience, participate in professional development programming, and be recognized and celebrated for their research achievements.”
Learn more about Queen’s undergraduate research programming:
Expanding student exposure to research
With more than 1,400 undergraduate courses incorporating research processes and more than 400 research-intensive courses involving capstone projects, Queen’s is ensuring that students have ample opportunities within their programs of study to contribute to meaningful research with faculty or industry partners. For students looking to gain additional research opportunities or continue projects throughout the summer, the USSRF and USRA are two longstanding programs that provide funding and faculty mentorship.
USSRF offers 16 weeks of full-time research experience under the supervision of a faculty member, providing a stipend of $9,800, while students pursue a project of interest to them. Similarly, the USRA, supported by Canada’s federal research granting agencies, provides funding and hands-on research programming for students interested in nurturing research skills under the supervision of a faculty member. Both programs are designed to ignite students’ passion for research early in their education to hone critical skills and explore potential future research careers.
In recognizing the exceptional contributions of undergraduate researchers, Queen’s launched the Vice-Principal Research Undergraduate Prize with an award of $1,000 each. The inaugural recipients were Arianne Ettehadieh and Dominic Everitt for their research presentations at the annual Inquiry@Queen’s conference held in March.

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