The IEC Brief: November 30, 2021

The IEC Celebrates National Native American Heritage Month

The month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people.

12 Black Women in AI paving the way for a better world

By: Caroline Lair at Good AI

Key Insights

At The Good AI, we strongly believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be inclusive and celebrate diversity.
We need to make sure we are not perpetuating and letting racism or any other kind of discrimination take roots in our AI systems.
That is why we have chosen today to celebrate 12 remarkable Black women whose work and contribution to the AI field are instrumental at the technical, political, and societal levels.

Broadening Participation in Engineering Solicitation - Register for Webinar on 12/1/21

The National Science Foundation is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity in the Broadening Participation in Engineering realm. The details of the solicitation are found here:

https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/broadening-participation-engineering-bpe-1

Synopsis of Program: With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Directorate (ENG) is continuing its support of broadening participation in engineering. The BPE program seeks to strengthen the future U.S. Engineering workforce and catalyze research innovation by enabling the participation of all citizens in STEM, thus reflecting the diversity and true intellectual capacity of the Nation's population. At its core, the BPE program aims to support innovative and convergent research, curriculum, collaborations, and strategies in broadening participation and equity as they relate to engineering and the engineering profession. Communities served by the BPE program (K-12, Higher Education, Non-Profit, and Industry) are intentionally broad. The BPE Program is not overly prescriptive by design – and supports projects at various levels of readiness and complexity through the following four pathways or tracks:

Track 1: Planning and Conference Grants,

Track 2: Research in Broadening Participation in Engineering,

Track 3: Inclusive Mentoring Hubs (IM Hubs), and

Track 4: Centers for Equity in Engineering (CEE).

Additional information on this solicitation can be found here: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22514/nsf22514.htm

We highly recommend that you consider attending a virtual informational webinar on this solicitation on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, from 12-1 p.m.

The link to register is found on this website :

https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=303929&org=NSF

Due to the anticipated level of interest in the program – we are directing questions/inquires to the webinar.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Regina Pope-Ford, PhD, PMP

Expert

National Science Foundation

2415 Eisenhower Ave

Alexandria, VA 22314

703.292.5043

rpopefor@nsf.gov

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