Dear Fellows and Coordinating Officials,

NSF’s Vizzies Challenge, now in its 16th year, invites researchers and members of the general public to submit their best science or engineering visualization. In partnership with PopSci.com, this year’s Vizzies closes on April 15th, and we need your help to get the word out about the Challenge!

Entries may be submitted by individuals or by teams by visiting www.nsf.gov/Vizzies. NSF and PopSci.com will feature the winning entries on their respective websites. In addition, up to 5 Experts’ Choice winning entries will receive $2,000 each, and up to 3 People’s Choice winning entries will receive $500 each. You can learn more about the competition and view previous year’s winners at www.nsf.gov/Vizzies.

In the past, NSF has featured winning visualizations on many NSF products, including brochures, banners, and social media, and coverage of the winners has been extensive, with articles appearing in The Washington Post.

Thank you for considering this Challenge. Please share this opportunity with your colleagues!

GRFP

**The Office of the General Counsel and Dartmouth's minors protection officer
want to make sure everyone is aware of College and New Hampshire requirements
regarding minors. Throughout the year, Dartmouth shares its facilities and
expertise through many programs that serve minors, defined for these purposes
as people who are under 18 and are not Dartmouth students.

More info: http://vox.dartmouth.edu/archive?id=37182

Graduate/Postdoctoral

Tow Center for Digital Journalism — Research grants
Deadline: March 31, 2018
For students, researchers, faculty, and practitioners in the fields of computer science and journalism with research projects in these areas:
Computation, Algorithms, and Automated Journalism
Data, Metrics, and Impact
Audiences and Engagement
Experimental Journalism, Models, and Practice

Hello Kerry,

Happy Pi Day! Programming N' Pizza will be celebrating with Raspberry Pi and perhaps a pie or two.

Programming N' Pizza is a crowd-learning initiative led by the Dartmouth Library and Research Computing. It is an opportunity for the entire Dartmouth community to share, teach and learn programming skills in a casual, fun environment, where beginners and more advanced users can help each other. Each PNP participant can both help and be helped, and learn and teach skills that they want to share or pickup. You may have specific questions you'd like to ask from another participant, or just get started on some new programming and computational skills.

Programming languages (non-exhaustive list)

R, Python, Perl, JavaScript / HTML5, Java, C, C++, C#, LaTeX, SQL / Databases, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica, PHP, HTML, Stata, SAS, SPSS, Bash/Linux, etc...

All are welcome!

March 2018
14 (Wed.)
6pm
Location:

Carson 61
Berry Library's ground level

Ethics Facilitator Training, 2018

The School of Graduate and Advanced Studies in collaboration with the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth developed an institution-wide program of training in the basics of professional ethics for first year graduate students. The Graduate Ethics Program has three main components: an opening session during orientation, four small group discussions on focal topics to be taken fall term of the first year of graduate school, and an online ethics survey. For students involved in animal and/or human research, there is also a winter seminar series in January that covers the ethics of using human and animal subjects in research, intellectual property rights (including patents), and conflict of interest.

The four fall ethics meetings are run in small groups facilitated by a faculty, postdoc, or senior graduate student. To prepare facilitators to lead these classes, Allan Gulledge, Associate professor of Molecular & Systems Biology, offers a four-part ethics training course for future facilitators focusing on content and delivery of the relevant ethics topics. Graduate students, postdocs, administrators, and faculty who attend the sessions will gain skills in case-style teaching methods and develop a framework for thinking about ethical issues that occur in the course of science research. Those who attend the training sessions will then facilitate their own small group workshops for first year students in the fall of 2018. Trainers will receive $50 per facilitated session this fall.

If you are interested in the Training for Trainers course, please sign-up at https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/4044638 and email Kerry Landers a brief statement of interest in teaching ethics and a copy of your cv/resume for consideration to be selected by April 9. Trainers are expected to attend all the workshops listed below.

The facilitator training sessions will occur on the following dates in Vail 513:

Professionalism, Monday, April 23, 2-4 pm

Mentoring, Monday, April 30, 2-4 pm

Authorship/Peer Review, Monday, May 7 , 2-4 pm

Data Collection, Monday, May 14, 2-4 pm

Get Ready for the Graduate Student Poster Session Sign-up
Sign-up to Present a Poster at the Dartmouth Graduate Student Poster Session: Link below, but will not be active until Friday, March 16 @ 8:30 am.

https://dartmouth.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8u0cmty6IByXeYZ

The poster session is scheduled for Wednesday, April 4, 5-7:30 pm in Alumni Hall. Presenters must be able to attend the full session.



(Since there are limited spaces, now is the time to check with your advisor to see if s/he would like you to present. FYI… in the past, advisors have asked me why their students are not presenting.)

The poster session, scheduled for Wednesday, April 4, 5-7:30 pm in Alumni Hall is being organized as part of Graduate Student Appreciation Week and will display posters by Dartmouth graduate students. The poster session is to display to other graduate students/postdocs, undergraduate students, faculty, and administrators the research and scholarly activity currently underway at Dartmouth.

Prizes of $200 will be awarded for the top three posters.

Posters will be judged on clarity of visual presentation, as well as on how well the poster presenter can talk (briefly, 3 minutes!) about his/her work in terms understandable by a non-specialist (though the poster itself may be highly technical). In addition, only one presenter per poster.

**** Poster Size****
We encourage you to use the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies Logo on your posters.
FYI...
Your poster should be no larger than 3 feet wide by 4 feet long. If for some reason your poster is larger, then you will be responsible for making sure it hangs on the allotted space.

Please note:
Only posters will be allowed for the presentation of your work i.e. that means no use of computers or other technical equipment. Additionally, only one person can present each poster.