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January 30, 2001
Volume 2, No. 4
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1. News from Rick
2. Funding: The Community of Science
3. NSF Day on the Access Grid 2001
4. April Meeting: Minority Student Rap Session
5. Hot Links & NetWord of the Week
News from Rick
Rick is in Hawaii. But while he is away, check out the GPN Featured Web Site of February! Hint: It's in the Midwest.
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Funding: The Community of Science
by Greg Monaco
The Community of Science (COS) funding database is "updated daily and contains detailed information for more than 20,500 available research grants worldwide."
Here's what I learned after using COS for several months.
- You can go to the COS home page and join for free. Some services, however, are only available if your institution is also a member (pays a fee); these features are marked SUBSCRIPTION ONLY;
- You can do some great searches for funding opportunities and projects already funded by Sponsor, Keyword(s), Date Range. I am not absolutely certain how complete the data is, but I found opportunities to suit the chemist, psycholinguist, advanced networker, and archaeologist;
- When doing a search for funding opportunities, some results are "rollovers." If a sponsor had a program last year, COS automatically adds or rolls the program over to the current fiscal year and updates the deadlines, irrespective of the sponsor's actual deadlines and irrespective of whether or not the sponsor will actually continue the program (This method was verified directly by COS);
- (SUBSCRIPTION ONLY) You can customize and receive weekly Funding Alerts by email;
- Information is presented to you on your "workbench." You can not only search for funding and funded projects, but also search the Federal Register, search for meetings (aren't invited to enough already?), create an online VITA, search for jobs (mainly biomedical), buy equipment (mainly biomedical), and more.
- The COS Help Desk is excellent! On two occasions, I received technical support by email and phone within an hour. What's more, a person will guide you through constructing searches and using other COS features;
- (SUBSCRIPTION ONLY) From your workbench you can look for colleagues/potential collaborators--keep in mind that you are searching only among people whose universities are members and who care enough to enter personal info;
- There are some usability problems: Logging in can be a mess at times. If you are not a member, but go to the site, it appears that you can do a funding search. But after you construct a complicated funding query and press "Search" you get a message that you have to be a member. I was told that it is designed this way by intent.
Even though I was kicked out of this Community of Science the day after I entered it (the KU officer in charge didn't recognize my name or email address so he pulled the plug) I was promptly reinstated after a couple of emails to correct the situation.
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NSF Day on the Access Grid 2001
On February 22, 2001, the University of Kansas and Ted Kuwana will host the second National Science Foundation (NSF) Day on the Access Grid. Included are speakers from several NSF divisions, representing a broader spectrum of funded programs. The current list of speakers includes
- Dr. Caroline Wardle, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Deputy Division Director– Information Technology Workforce (ITW)
- Dr. Norm Fortenberry, Undergrad Education Division Director and National SMETE Digital Library (NSDL)
- Dr. Patricia White, Social and Economic Sciences Cluster Director
- Dr. Alice Hogan, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Senior Program Manager – ADVANCE (new program: women in science)
- Dr. Tom Quarles, Biological Sciences, Sr. Staff Assoc, BioSci Infrastructure/Biocomplexity in the Environment
- Dr. Steven Breckler, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences-Program Director
If you can't be in Lawrence, Kansas, you may still participate from from an Access Grid point. The second half of the day will be devoted to project directors from Kansas EPSCoR offices.
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April Meeting: Minority Student Rap Session
As you know the number of minority graduate students in computing at any given school is very low, generally in the single digits and more than likely less than 5. Northwestern University has initiated a project using Access Grid technology to try to create a virtual
community of minority graduate students in the field of computing. Rap sessions are scheduled via the Access Grid between students at different schools. At the April 19-20 GPN Member Meeting, minority students are invited to rap with Northwestern students on a focused topic via the portable Access Grid at UMKC.
Although the conference hotel has not yet been designated, you may register for the meeting at The GPN Meeting Registration Cafe and you will be notified by email when hotel information is available.
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Hot Links
All four versions of the Clinton White House Web Pages
Find out who's using the Internet
The GPN Meeting Registration Cafe
National Science Foundation
Internet2
Glossary of Networking Terms
NetWord of the Week
QoS (quality of service) is the ability of an application (or a class or group of applications, a user group, traffic flow, or other parameter) to receive a predetermined level of performance from a network. For example, if you are performing a medical consultation over the Internet from an office at UCLA Medical Center to a team of cardiac surgeons at Rush Hospital in Chicago, you need a fixed amount of network bandwith for a guaranteed period of time (length of the surgery) with minimal chance of loss of connectivity or interference. The ability of the network to provide that guarantee is quality of service.
To include your research/network/community news, contact the Editor.
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