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Docugami’s new model for understanding documents cuts its teeth on NASA archives

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“We did core science, self-funded, in stealth mode, and we sent a bunch of patents to the patent office,” he said. How to access ‘America’s Seed Fund,’ the $3 billion SBIR program. (One One of the best applications may be to the SBIR and other small business funding programs themselves.).

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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

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Her talk was inspiring and often humorous, sharing her stories to illustrate her life's work as an artist, activist, author, teacher, and parent. According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls.

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors. I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. It’s all about who has the authority to identify things. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Why would they want to do that?

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. In places that succeeded, at that point, a local coalition was in place to fund the Workshop. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model.

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Navigating the Shifting Political Landscape as a Federal Grant Recipient

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Federal grant recipients, subrecipients, and contractors face shifting priorities, new executive orders, and evolving funding practices. As the current administration rolls out new policies and executive orders, nonprofit organizations, social enterprises, and other grant recipients must adapt or risk losing essential funding opportunities.

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Cruz Foam’s shell-based Styrofoam alternative brings in $3.4M seed with DiCaprio and Kutcher

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” The company kept the lights on for the period after I met them with an SBIR award from the NSF, with the Phase I and II awards yielding more than $2 million in non-dilutive money to work with. We don’t want to introduce materials that are just gonna be another problem.” ” In the Accelerator over the Sea.