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Biden-Harris Administration Awards Over $558 Million to Improve Maternal Health, including $440 Million to Support Pregnant and New Moms, Infants, and Children through Voluntary Home Visiting Programs Proven to Improve Maternal and Child Health, Child Development, and School Readiness
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NSF 24-116
August 13, 2024
Dear Colleagues:
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) invites two-year colleges to submit a request for support to enable full participation in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Alliance Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (HHMI SEA-PHAGES) program1. As part of this effort, this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announces a cooperative initiative between NSF EDU and the Center for the Advancement of Science Leadership and Culture (CASLC) at HHMI2. By joining forces, HHMI and NSF aim to leverage their respective expertise, resources, and networks to catalyze and expand support of the next generation of scientists. This initiative aligns with the National Science Foundation’s 2022-2026 Strategic plan3 by accelerating relevant STEM education enhancement efforts, cultivating a more
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Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the checkout line at a Family Mart in Shanghai, the automatic doors chiming a song each time they open. Though the mechanics look a little different from typing in English or French—people usually type the pronunciation of a character and then pick it out of a selection that pops up, autocomplete-style—it’s hard to think of anything more quotidian. The software that allows this exists beneath the awareness of pretty much everyone who uses it. It’s just there.
The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
Thomas S. MullaneyMIT PRESS, 2024
What’s largely been forgotten—and what most people outside Asia never even knew in the first place—is that a large cast of eccentrics and linguists, engineers and polymaths, spent
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The other day I idly opened TikTok to find a video of a young woman refinishing an old hollow-bodied electric guitar.
It was a montage of close-up shots—looking over her shoulder as she sanded and scraped the wood, peeled away the frets, expertly patched the cracks with filler, and then spray-painted it a radiant purple. She compressed days of work into a tight 30-second clip. It was mesmerizing.
Of course, that wasn’t the only video I saw that day. In barely another five minutes of swiping around, I saw a historian discussing the songs Tolkien wrote in The Lord of the Rings; a sailor puzzling over a capsized boat he’d found deep at sea; a tearful mother talking about parenting a child with ADHD; a Latino man laconically describing a dustup with his racist neighbor; and a linguist discussing how Gen Z uses video-game
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