/news-archive/tag/nsf/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:43:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2020/07/01/free-virtual-cybersecurity-camp/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:43:11 +0000 /news/?p=77168 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock receives NSF grant to host free virtual cybersecurity camp]]> The camp is held in partnership with Virtual Arkansas and the . They will host four sessions from 9-11:30 a.m. and 1-3:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday on July 6-9 and July 13-16. The afternoon camp from July 6-9 is full, but registration is available for the other three sessions. 鈥淭he camp will cover topics such as ransomware, mobile forensics, firewalls, and how to detect a cyberattack and what to do about it,鈥� said Sandra Leiterman, managing director of the Cyber Gym. 鈥淓ach day, we鈥檒l have a guest speaker who will talk about cybersecurity careers in areas like information technology, government, and the FBI.鈥� Guest speakers will include Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin, a member of the FBI鈥檚 mobile forensics team, a cybersecurity director for an Arkansas government agency, and a chief information security officer. The camp will end with a hackathon where students will show off the skills they learned throughout the week. In order to participate, students will need a computer with reliable internet access, a school-affiliated email address, a headset with a built-in microphone, and a webcam. The grant from the National Science Foundation also provides funding for the Cyber Gym to enhance undergraduate cybersecurity curriculum with security content, improve recruitment and retention of computer science and information technology students in the cybersecurity workforce, enhance faculty expertise in security competitions and skills, and increase students鈥� knowledge and skills in cybersecurity. For more information and to register,聽.]]> /news-archive/2019/08/22/nitin-agarwal-smart-health-nsf/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:38:35 +0000 /news/?p=74918 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to research smart health in Arkansas, West Virginia with NSF grant聽]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is one of five institutions sharing a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a multi-scale integrative approach to digital health. This collaborative, multi-institution grant will be used to promote smart health in Arkansas and West Virginia.聽 Dr. Nitin Agarwal, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy endowed chair and professor of information science, will receive $600,000 for the study, entitled 鈥�Multi-scale Integrative Approach to Digital Health: Collaborative Research and Education in Smart Health in West Virginia and Arkansas,鈥� which runs from August 2019 to July 2023.聽 The other university partners include the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, West Virginia University, and West Virginia State University. 鈥淗ealthcare costs are on the rise nationally and significantly more so in Arkansas and West Virginia. This is due to high poverty rates in these states and a significantly large population that is affected by cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, and a general lack of physical activity,鈥� Agarwal said. 鈥淭o address these issues, we will conduct a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and a multi-scale integrative approach to trigger smart health initiatives with the goal to lower healthcare costs using artificial intelligence and big data analysis approaches. In addition to developing a big data and smart health research infrastructure, we will create education and outreach components to enhance the workforce in both states.鈥� To accomplish these goals, Agarwal will develop novel social media mining algorithms to study health behaviors in Arkansas and West Virginia, including health attitudes, intentions, health conditions, lifestyle choices, overall sentiment, and mood. 鈥淭apping into such an invaluable data trove is often challenging but rewarding,鈥� Agarwal said. 鈥淲e will study the effectiveness of health communities around predominant health issues in Arkansas and West Virginia and study the validity of social media data for examining patient-reported outcomes, assessing trust, influence, and misinformation in social media pertaining to health discourse.” Agarwal heads the at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, which aims to be at the forefront of the ever-evolving field of social computing. COSMOS is leading several collaborative projects with total funding of more than $10 million from various U.S. federal funding agencies to address some of the most challenging problems of knowledge extraction from big social data and develop methodologies to diagnose novel pathologies of online social media. ]]> /news-archive/2019/05/08/wolf-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship/ Wed, 08 May 2019 16:18:55 +0000 /news/?p=74240 ... Graduating student awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship]]> A University of Arkansas at Little Rock senior has been selected as a 2019 recipient of. Scott Wolf, 19, of White Hall, Arkansas, will graduate May 11 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics with minors in history and English. In the fall, Wolf is headed to New Jersey to pursue a Ph.D. in quantitative and computational biology from Princeton University. 鈥淓arning the NSF fellowship was a huge accomplishment,鈥� Wolf said. 鈥淚 had a lot of support from my professors to put together an application of that caliber.鈥� The fellowship provides Scott with three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period through a $34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the student鈥檚 graduate institution. The program recruits high-potential, early-career scientists and engineers and supports their graduate research training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Launched in 1952 shortly after Congress established the National Science Foundation, the fellowship program represents the nation’s oldest continuous investment in the U.S. STEM workforce. Since he was homeschooled with his three brothers, Wolf began taking dual-enrollment classes at Southeast Arkansas College at age 14 and graduated high school at age 15. At 16, Wolf was attending 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock as a recipient of the Chancellor鈥檚 Academic Distinction Scholarship. 鈥溙切腣log传媒 Little Rock is close to home, and a bunch of people in my department have been able to utilize industry ties and take advantage of our connections with technology companies and other businesses in Little Rock,鈥� he said. 鈥淚鈥檝e had the opportunity to take advantage of coursework, research, and industry opportunities.鈥� While at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, Wolf鈥檚 work and research opportunities have included working as an undergraduate researcher in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and a tutor in the Mathematics Assistance Center. He has completed internships at Inuvo Inc. and Entergy. Wolf has also studied abroad three times. He spent the summer of 2016 studying at the Chinese Language Institute at Xiamen Huaxia University and has taken faculty-led trips to South Korea and China. Wolf discovered a love of bioinformatics while completing research in the Systems Genomics Laboratory at the MidSouth Bioinformatics Center with Dr. Mary Yang, the center鈥檚 director. 鈥淚 really appreciated the opportunity to do research in bioinformatics with Dr. Yang,鈥� he said. 鈥淲ithout her, I wouldn鈥檛 have any experience in the area. Learning how to interact in a lab was invaluable when it came to going to Princeton and moving forward with research.鈥� With a new interest in bioinformatics, Wolf sought out summer research opportunities and found the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. Last summer, he conducted research at Princeton in quantitative and computational biology, the field he will now pursue as a doctoral student. 鈥淚 intend to explore how the fundamentals of mathematics, computer science, and statistics intersect with physiology, genomics, and neuroscience to give insight into complex biological systems,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 am particularly interested in how complex behavioral patterns can be quantified and how they emerge at the individual and group level.鈥� Looking back on his time at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, Wolf is thankful to professors who served as mentors in his academic pursuits as well as those who lifted his spirits in times of distress. 鈥淭here have been all kinds of people who have helped me at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. You get research mentors who are critically important and community members, who aren鈥檛 formal mentors, but are there to talk to you and have some equity in you as a person,鈥� Wolf said. 鈥淪omeone like Dr. James Levernier from the English Department who goes out of the way to tell you to pursue your passion and take advantage of all the resources you can. When you are beaten down over a piece of research you can鈥檛 understand, they are there to sympathize with you. In the math department, there is a sense of community I haven鈥檛 seen elsewhere. I know the professors, and I can talk to them. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock has been a good community for me.鈥�]]>