Items of Interest

MIT faculty makes scholarly articles freely and openly available to the entire world.
Google Summer of Code returns, and suggested Python projects. (A nice way for students to spend the summer, especially during an “economic downturn”).
And for those of you that are looking for NSF grants to apply to: Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics.

Grad Students: NSF Funding for Research Abroad

NSF recently began accepting applications for their annual EAPSI program (due date: Dec. 9). The “East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes” are an opportunity for science and tech grad students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents to do some research in an Asian or Pacific country of their choice.

Science Funding 2009 (not good news)

There is this paradox: federal budgets, and, particularly, what is allocated for science, is something so important day-to-day for researchers, yet reading about budgets is so boring that I can hardly bring myself to do it.
It is important, though, so we should try. The folks at ScienceNOW have done a nice summary of the [...]

A dime’s worth of difference? For scientists, try 8 billion

As the presidential election season heats up, we occasionally get to hear something of substance about the candidates.  Today, some news from ScienceNOW is just this.
Next year’s federal budget may not contain a penny more for research and education if Republican Senator John McCain (AZ) is elected U.S. president and has his way with Congress.
How [...]