General Announcements
Participate in NSF Survey Regarding CI Adoption
You are invited to participate in a survey study being conducted by Kerk Kee at Texas Tech University. The study is funded by the National Science Foundation (Grant #1939067 & #1453864) to identify the organizational capacity necessary to enable cyberinfrastructure (CI) adoption and spread in the scientific community.
 
Link to Qualtrics Survey: 
 
The survey hosted on Qualtrics takes about 25 minutes on average or between 20-30 minutes to complete. At the end of the survey, each survey participant will be able to enter their name in a separate Google Form for a raffle where there is a one in five chance of winning a $50 gift card upon completion. The raffle is ongoing, so one gift card will be awarded with every five entries that come in. Furthermore, the PI will share the findings with all the participants in due time.
 
If you have any question about the survey, you can contact the PI at kerk.kee@ttu.edu.
 
After completing the survey, if you believe the study is valuable and you are willing to help spread this survey further, you can adapt this email script and forward it to your other contacts.

Early Papers and Findings to Share:
Last Chance to Apply for Spring 2022 XSEDE EMPOWER
Seeking projects, mentors, and undergraduate students!

This is planned to be the final iteration of this program, as we are currently in the final year of funding from the XSEDE project.

An XSEDE-wide effort is underway to expand the community by recruiting and enabling a diverse group of students who have the skills — or are interested in acquiring the skills — to participate in the work of XSEDE. The name of this effort is XSEDE EMPOWER (Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education, and Research). We invite the whole community to recruit and mentor undergraduate students to engage in a variety of activities, such as computational and/or data analytics research and education in all fields of study, networking, system maintenance and support, visualization, and more. The program provides a stipend for students who work on projects for one semester or one quarter.

To participate, undergraduate students from any U.S. degree-granting institutions are matched with mentors who have projects that contribute to the work of XSEDE. Participation is strongly encouraged for mentors and students belonging to groups historically underrepresented in HPC. There are three levels of participation for students depending on existing experience and skill level: Learner, Apprentice, and Intern. Appropriate stipends will support each student.

Application deadline for spring 2022 participation: October 29, 2021

For more information please see: http://computationalscience.org/xsede-empower

Please direct questions to: xsede-empower@shodor.org
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