The 81 college teams in the first four Mentor-Connect cohorts increased the geographic diversity of colleges submitting proposals to the National Science Foundation’s ATE program: the selected colleges are in regions within 27 different states where an ATE grant has either never been funded, or has not been funded in the past 10 years. Since NSF started the ATE program in 1993 its competitive review process has awarded ATE grants in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. However, many of these grants have gone to colleges in metropolitan areas, and often these institutions have received multiple ATE grants.
Evidence that Mentor-Connect is adding geographic diversity to NSF-ATE proposals comes from the fact that 55 of the 61 colleges in the first three Mentor-Connect cohorts submitted proposals to NSF.
Madeline edited the content for the publication and the website about the innovative educational activities of the centers of the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program.
While leading a tour of Irvine Valley College’s labs on February 10, Microbiology Professor Emalee Mackenzie tells c3bc Project Director Russ H. Read about her plans to add medical device manufacturing courses to the biotech offerings in Orange County, California.
As Microbiology Professor Emalee Mackenzie took in the scene of 36 medical device industry representatives and bioscience academicians in Irvine Valley College‘s conference space, she could not help smiling. She was happy that the professional connections she made through MentorLinks led to her hosting the Fifth Medical Device Skill Standards Meeting on February 10.
“It’s all those connections, and meeting them at ATE … that have been tremendous. Vivian opened doors and made all this possible,” Mackenzie said, referring to the introductions Vivian Ngan-Winward, her MentorLinks mentor, provided at the 2015 ATE Principal Investigators Conference.
Data breach prevention is a battle, rarely plain and never simple.
For higher education institutions, the Sisyphean aspects of the task are more complex than for industry and business. Two-year colleges have payrolls and vendor contracts like those enterprises. They also have public record and student confidentiality requirements. Colleges must provide open academic environments for learning and accommodate a wide array of mobile phones, laptops, and thumb drives that students, faculty, staff and visitors use on campus and access remotely via college networks.
“Higher education has unique information security challenges because of academic values and the collaborative nature of research and education environments,” Joanna Lyn Grama explains.
has achieved some initial, promising results.
