Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2023-06

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National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Chapter at NJIT Forum on

Sustainable Societies: Future Trends in Technology Innovation Partnerships

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NJIT 2022 Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratory Showcase

March 30, 2023; 9.00 AM – 3.00 PM

Ballroom A/B and Gallery, Campus Center, NJIT

Abstract:

Recent changes in the world have been largely driven by technology innovations and partnerships creating new pathways for economic growth addressing grand challenges and impacting the way we live. It is evident that the vast knowledge-base and unprecedented investments in basic and applied research needs to be synergistically augmented by advancements in translational research, market validation and acceptance as well as smart manufacturing, and distribution management strategies where needed. Such synergies to bring global solutions to societal challenges essentially require technology innovation partnerships among research, industry, business, infrastructure, as well as government and non-government stakeholder communities.

The U.S. as the technology innovation leader in the world continues to focus on creating resources and synergies for developing sustainable societies towards healthier and prosperous communities with better quality of life.

The NJIT Research Showcase will feature:

1. Distinguished Keynote Talk by Graciela Narcho, Deputy Assistant Director of the NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships,
2. Distinguished Panel Discussion on Future Trends in Technology Innovation Partnerships, and
3. e-Poster sessions of research institutes, centers and specialized laboratories from leading universities in the region. The showcase will provide an open forum to discuss pathways for developing synergistic technology innovation partnerships among stakeholders to address global grand challenges in the areas of sustainable environment and climate change, preventive, personalized and precision healthcare, and data revolution with trustworthy information systems and secured cyberspace. 

Program Agenda

8.30 AM – 9.00 AM:       Registration, Breakfast and Electronic PPT Poster Set-up

9.00 AM – 10.00 AM:     NJIT-Rutgers-Princeton-Rowan Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Electronic Poster Preview Session

10.00 AM – 11.00 AM:  Keynote Presentation: Technology and Innovation Partnerships Strategic Funding Initiatives at National Science Foundation

                                         Distinguished Speaker: Graciela (Gracie) Narcho, Deputy Assistant Director of the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships

11.00 AM – 12.00 PM:   NJIT-Rutgers-Princeton-Rowan Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Networking and Electronic Poster Session-1

12.00 PM – 12.30 PM:    Lunch and Networking

12.30 PM – 2.00 PM:      Distinguished Panel Discussion: Future Trends in Technology Innovation Partnerships

2.00 PM – 3.00 PM:   NJIT-Rutgers-Princeton-Rowan Research Institutes, Centers and Laboratories Showcase: Networking and Electronic Poster Session-2

NSF Will Invest Up to $28M for STEM Open-Source Ecosystems: The National Science Foundation is looking to foster the development of open-source ecosystems in STEM fields under a new solicitation, according to a Thursday announcement.  The Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems—or POSE—program is designed to utilize “open-source development as a platform of innovation to address challenges of societal and economic importance.” It will take open-source products or research artifacts and translate these to open-source ecosystems. According to the solicitation, “some open-source projects go well beyond their original research teams, catalyzing broad adoption across academia, industry, government and other sectors, and resulting in communities of users and intellectual content developers who coalesce around them into ‘ecosystems.’”

The program will not fund open-source tools or products or existing open-source ecosystems. Rather, the POSE program will focus on supporting new open-source ecosystems. 

According to the announcement, the goal of the POSE program is to expand the group of researchers and innovators developing and contributing to open-source ecosystems and to create safe and secure development and contribution pathways for open-source ecosystems that have large impact.

As noted in the announcement, the POSE program is looking for two types of proposals:

• Phase I proposal for one year and up to $300,000 per project. These proposals should outline specific activities to scope and plan the establishment of an open-source ecosystem.
• Phase II for two years and up to $1.5 million per project. These proposals will be to create a sustainable open-source ecosystem based on a robust open-source product that can meet “an emergent societal or economic need and build a community to help develop it.”

More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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New Health-Focused Advanced Research Agency Seeks $500M in Technical Support: Ahead of its first birthday, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, is building out a $500 million contract for technical expertise its researchers will be able to tap in the future. The agency—a division of the Health and Human Service Administration modeled after other research support agencies like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA—launched last May with the mission to “create breakthroughs in biomedicine,” with a focus on preventing, detecting and treating diseases, according to the scope of work for a draft solicitation posted to SAM.gov. Since being formally established, ARPA-H has spent the last year setting up, and got its first director in September, Dr. Renee Wegrzyn. “ARPA-H will create the transformative and collaborative space that is required to support the next generation of moonshots for health,” Wegrzyn said at the time, “Not only for complex diseases like cancer, but also systemic barriers like supply chain gaps and equitable access to breakthrough technologies and cures for everyone.” More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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IBM, NASA Will Use AI to Improve Climate Change Research: IBM is collaborating with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to use artificial intelligence for climate change research in an effort to make research analysis of these large datasets easier and faster, according to an announcement Wednesday. The research will use IBM’s AI foundation model technology and NASA’s Earth and geospatial science data, specifically NASA’s Earth-observing satellite data. The collaboration will help “provide an easier way for researchers to analyze and draw insights from these large datasets.”  As noted in the announcement, foundation models—types of AI models—“are trained on a broad set of unlabeled data,” utilized for different tasks and can “apply information about one situation to another.” Foundation models have furthered natural language processing technology and IBM is working on foundation model applications besides language, according to the announcement. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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