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MIDAS announces second round of Data Science Challenge Initiative awards, in health and social science

Five research projects — three in health and two in social science — have been awarded funding in the second round of the Michigan Institute for Data Science Challenge Initiative program. The projects will receive funding from MIDAS as part of the Data Science Initiative announced in fall 2015. The goal of the multiyear MIDAS ...

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MIDAS to host faculty meeting on NSF BIGDATA solicitation

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) will hold a faculty meeting at noon on Thursday, January 19 (Suite 7625, School of Public Health I, 1415 Washington Heights) for the NSF 17-534 “Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering (BIGDATA)” solicitation. The meeting will include an overview of the NSF solicitation, ...

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U-M receives $2.5 million NSF grant for metadata research; George Alter to serve as PI

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.5 million award to focus on the analytic opportunities contained in metadata. George Alter (History, Institute for Social Research) will serve as principal investigator. More information is available in a press release from U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-MI.

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MIDAS awards first round of challenge funding in transportation and learning analytics

Four research projects — two each in transportation and learning analytics — have been awarded funding in the first round of the Michigan Institute for Data Science Challenge Initiatives program. The projects will each receive $1.25 million dollars from MIDAS as part of the Data Science Initiative announced in fall 2015. U-M Dearborn also will ...