The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $6M to Purdue, Indiana, and Mississippi State universities to fund a collaborative program aimed at fortifying the cyberinfrastructure (CI) workforce within research communities.
The project, known as CyberInfrastructure Professionals InnoVating and brOadening the adoption of advanced Technologies (CI PIVOT), is funded under NSF’s Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE) program.
SCIPE’s goal is to advance the Cyberinfrastructure Professional (CIP) workforce throughout the nation. CI Pivot will help accomplish this by recruiting individuals with domain-specific expertise and training them to be CI facilitators, making advanced CI accessible and effective for all.
“This effort aligns well with current research and training activities taking place on (the MSU) campus as we look to maximize the impact of our extensive computational ability,” said Mike Navicky, director of MSU’s High Performance Computing Collaboratory and co-principal investigator on the project.
CI PIVOT aims to provide resources to focus on CIP development in underserved research areas - specifically, it will target social, behavioral, and economic sciences, geosciences, and engineering, domains the team felt were well-positioned to receive the most benefit.
Professionals from each of these research fields will be hired and trained in a variety of CI areas.
Recruiting and hiring CI facilitators for the CI PIVOT project will begin soon. If you or a researcher you know within the research fields of social, behavioral, and economic sciences, geosciences, and engineering are interested, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/RW77zrze9H5uCxEV9.
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