National Science Foundation (NSF) grant writing opportunity for World Univ & Sch - Yes!

Meeting WorldUniversity meeting@worlduniversityandschool.org

Jan 13, 2022, 11:35 AM (1 day ago)

to Yassi, Stephanie, Scott, Alexandra, bcc: Jim, bcc: Larry, bcc: Claudia

Dear Stephanie, and Alex,

Thanks very much for your 2 emails just now, Stephanie, and your focusing help in so many ways.

I think a realistic virtual earth for STEM - but beginning with a specific focus on developing a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics for longevity (with machine learning predictions

reason for great hope: with #MachineLearning learn how to #PREDICT #longevity at the cellular level beyond 122 years of age for humans genetically - and for #AgingReversal engineering IN A #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics per @geochurch& adding genes https://t.co/TTMJ2nWw3l ~
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) January 9, 2022

- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1480214252501700612, and see item 5b in the 1/15/22 WUaS Agenda - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2022/01/11522-sat-wuas-agenda-news-for-open.html) - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click for example - will promote the progress of science, advance national health, prosperity and welfare, and even secure national defense. I think too an Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital approach to this single realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with Time Slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI, Translate and realistic Avatar Bots with electronic medical records for all 331 million Americans, brainstorming-wise) with #FilmTo3D Apps (at street view, cellular and molecular levels) will further this greatly too. In addition, the all-languages' focus (7139) at World University and School will be fascinating to include regarding who on US soil speaks these languages - and for wiki STEM education communities (e.g. in the Tamil language in the US - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tamil_language (planned in Tamil) - regarding learning programming and computer science, for example).

While WUaS seeks to reach out to prospective students in all ~50 US states (through their high school college counselors and similar) for free-to-students' CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU-centric online degrees (Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school), circumscribing how WUaS does this in a potential NSF grant application, when our WUaS Mission includes all countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Foundation - will be a helpful further focusing endeavor.

Thanks so much, Stephanie and Alex, I haven't heard of any other Universities' projects to collaborate with, from ISSIP for example, and while I continue to keep my ears' open for volunteer reviewer NSF possibilities, I may seek to write this NSF grant opportunity, if I can find a program that fits to submit this to. Seeking further to follow up on learning NSF process and procedures in these regards - for which I thank you both!

Best Regards,

Scott

See the Tweets to Dr. Elinor Karlsson of the Broad institute (at Harvard and MIT) at bottom here, regarding such a realistic virtual earth for Genetics further -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/salt-marsh-harvest-mouse.html

The mission of the National Science Foundation is:

To promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to secure the national defense; and for other purposes. NSF envisions a nation that capitalizes on new concepts in science and engineering and provides global leadership in advancing research and education.

You will find more information about NSF here: https://beta.nsf.gov/
For information regarding funding opportunities, see: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities

If you are interested in funding, first be aware that NSF funds projects that are focused on advancing science in the United States of America, rather than non-US endeavors; work must be performed in the US. If you are interested in any of the funding opportunities, begin by reviewing each program page which will provide links to the related solicitations and recorded seminars that provide overviews of the programs. You will want to partner with US institutions of higher education and/or research to pursue funding for projects related to improving STEM education in the U.S. Additional information on preparing proposals and related resources is available from NSF Policy Office Outreach and can be found here: https://nsfpolicyoutreach.com/

I wish you success in your endeavor.

Best regards,

Stephanie August

Alex, Stephanie,

Greetings, and thanks for your communications, Alex. Here again is the ideas''one-pager' I shared with you last week - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/northern-double-collared-sunbird_0643275698.html.

I didn't add 1 of 2 WUaS financial reports to this email by accident, and so am including both of them for your consideration now.

For your interest, I've added an Agenda item (#5) regarding the NSF to the CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki World University and School Agenda and News for open Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, 1/15/22 at 9am PT, here -

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2022/01/11522-sat-wuas-agenda-news-for-open.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/sequoia-sempervirens-coast-redwood.html

Thank you,
Scott
CV: https://goo.gl/JZheSb
http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm

Scott GK MacLeod
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

item 5

Research question for WUaS at the NSF (National Science Foundation)?

Begin with building out a realistic virtual earth for genetics, and for aging reversal, and longevity machine learning developments at the cellular and molecular levels, as part of building out a single realistic virtual earth for everything, for STEM and as classroom?

In communication with NSF's Alexandra Medina-Borja, and former NSFer Stephanie August (both recent ISSIP panelists)

See:
Northern double-collared sunbird: Research question for WUaS at the NSF? How best to build out a realistic virtual earth for all STEM disciplines and as STEM field sites, and classrooms?

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/northern-double-collared-sunbird_0643275698.html

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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Northern double-collared sunbird: Research question for WUaS at the NSF? How best to build out a realistic virtual earth for all STEM disciplines and as STEM field sites, and classrooms?

Research question for WUaS at the NSF?

How best to build out a realistic virtual earth for all STEM disciplines and as STEM field sites, and classrooms?

I'm particularly interested in the virtual learning environments you mention at the close of your talk, and regarding WUaS planning to facilitate a single realistic virtual earth for Classrooms, and as STEM field sites, and for genetics and everything (eg see some of these #hashtags here -

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1478416299713699841?s=20 - and it's possible to find other related #RealisticVirtualEarth #Hashtags, eg here https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click - on Twitter, and think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow, Translate, and at the cellular and molecular levels too, and even for avatar bot electronic medical records for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Pin #, and in the online WUaS Medical School(s) and online Teaching Hospital (s)) -

Begin in part with a realistic virtual earth for genetics and aging reversal? Code with Scratch programming language even, and study how students do this?

"Priority 3a: Enhance the use of technological innovations in both in-person and virtual learning spaces.

Priority 3b: Prepare educators to provide rich learning experiences for all students.

Challenge:

Understand how virtual distance learning environments affect cognition and learning

Actions:

Research is needed to build a deeper understanding of the possibilities of virtual and hybrid distance learning environments, from how they affect the development of skills and abilities, to the pedagogies and curriculum that work best."

"ISSIP NSF Workshop Nov 10, 2021, Long Term Impact of COVID 19 on Work, Learning, and Skills"

https://youtu.be/_rK9IANvjQg - Nov 10, 2021 -

Alexandra Medina-Borja at 23:00 - 24:01 -

student-centered, personalized, and equitable

when we teach, what is it we teach

other things for the worker learners ...

Thank you for your consideration of our request. I will follow up with you in the next week to answer any questions you might have, as well as to learn whether we might answer any questions about the merits of our proposal.

Sincerely,

Scott MacLeod

Founder and President

World University and School

Please consider this one page idea with regards to this NSF thinking too -

GERMINATION: Germination of Research Questions for Addressing Critical Societal Challenges
https://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?org=NSF&ods_key=nsf21594

Build out into each of these in a realistic virtual earth for STEM everything:

research areas

NSF is divided into the following seven directorates that support science and engineering research and education: Biological Sciences, Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Engineering, Geosciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, and Education and Human Resources

https://www.nsf.gov/about/research_areas.jsp

Biological Sciences (BIO)

Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)

Education and Human Resources (EHR)

Engineering (ENG)

Environmental Research and Education (ERE)

Geosciences (GEO)

Integrative Activities (OIA)

International Science and Engineering (OISE)

Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)

Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)

And further:

Research Topic Description

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) proposals

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf9764/topics.htm

in these STEM disciplines and regarding the WUaS Corp

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National Science Foundation (NSF) Scott GK MacLeod @ World University and School’s One-page Idea for Alexandra Medina-Borja program 2022

Dear Alexandra,

My broad research question at CC-4 ocw.mit.edu -centric wiki World Univ & Sch: How best to build out a realistic virtual earth for all STEM disciplines and as STEM field sites, and classrooms?

I'm particularly interested in the virtual learning environments you mention at the close of your ISSIP talk, and regarding WUaS planning to facilitate a single realistic virtual earth for Classrooms, and as STEM field sites, and for genetics and everything (eg see some of these #hashtags here -https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1478416299713699841?s=20 - and it's possible to find other related #RealisticVirtualEarth #Hashtags, e.g. here https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click - on Twitter, and think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI, Translate, and at the cellular and molecular levels too, and even with 'artificial people' as avatar bot electronic medical records and their genomes for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Pin #, and in the online WUaS Medical School(s) and online Teaching Hospital (s)).

So, idea-wise, begin in part with the NSF developing a realistic virtual earth for genetics and aging reversal, and longevity (more than 122 years of age for humans, with machine learning), and drugs for this too? (Explore, too, students in courses coding this with the Scratch programming language even, and study how students do this, comparatively and across languages, and from state to state in the US?)

In response to your slide at the 23 minute mark:

"Priority 3a: Enhance the use of technological innovations in both in-person and virtual learning spaces.

Priority 3b: Prepare educators to provide rich learning experiences for all students.

Challenge:

Understand how virtual distance learning environments affect cognition and learning

Actions:

(from "ISSIP NSF Workshop Nov 10, 2021, Long Term Impact of COVID 19 on Work, Learning, and Skills" - https://youtu.be/_rK9IANvjQg - Nov 10, 2021 - Alexandra Medina-Borja at 23:00 - 24:01)

a) prioritize developing this single realistic virtual earth to be "student-centered, personalized, and equitable," b) making "when we teach," clear concerning "what is it we teach," and c) developing other coding focuses "for the worker learners."

Please consider too this one email page idea in regards to this NSF thinking too -

GERMINATION: Germination of Research Questions for Addressing Critical Societal Challenges

https://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?org=NSF&ods_key=nsf21594

Thank you for your consideration of this one-page idea.

Sincerely,

Scott

- Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

And also please consider this one-page idea above regarding World University & School building out in a realistic virtual earth for STEM everything into each of these NSF research areas -

https://www.nsf.gov/about/research_areas.jsp

Biological Sciences (BIO)

Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)

Education and Human Resources (EHR)

Engineering (ENG)

Environmental Research and Education (ERE)

Geosciences (GEO)

Integrative Activities (OIA)

International Science and Engineering (OISE)

Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)

Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)

- and the following too, on the WUaS Corporation wing (in contrast to the World Univ & Sch wing) - https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf9764/topics.htm -

- so especially in these STEM disciplines, but also with a STEAM focus, that is Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics' foci.

Thank you, Alex!

Best regards, Scott

- Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/northern-double-collared-sunbird_0643275698.html

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Further ISSIP networking -

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

Thu, Jan 13, 7:01 PM (1 day ago)

to Kelly, Kelly, Isabella

Kelly, (Isabella),

Thanks so much for talking yesterday - great to share ideas with you and network (ISSIP-wise) further.

With your startups' entrepreneurial focus, and regarding the 2 WUaS wings,

I omitted mentioning on the WUaS Corporation side, our Academic Press at WUaS, planned in all 7,139 known living languages, and with machine learning and translation, and onto 1) paper and 2) #wuAsVR format in perhaps a new computer hardware device / digital glasses for research too (and regarding my Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic book project ... And see Agenda and News item 6) ... all from GDocs and GTranslate and WUaS Wikidata in 300 languages into our WUaS Physical-Digital, Actual-Virtual Educational Services' Bookstores and Robot Store cafes ... http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html.

More about this and Work wiki World University and School in last month's 12/18/21 WUaS Minutes ...

12/18/21 WUaS Minutes for open Monthly Business Meeting, both wings - A) Np World Univ & Sch, and B) Fp WUaS Corp

- https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2022/01/121821-wuas-minutes-for-open-monthly.html

Arctostaphylos glauca (bigberry manzanita): 12/18/21 WUaS Minutes for open Monthly Business Meeting, both wings - A) Np World Univ & Sch, and B) Fp WUaS Corp

- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/12/arctostaphylos-glauca-bigberry.html ...

- and this month's 1/15/22 WUaS Agenda and News too + http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/sequoia-sempervirens-coast-redwood.html.

Appreciate your understanding, smarts and communication skills, Kelly! And Good luck with Skills' Baby! :)

All the Best,

Scott MacLeod

For your interest, I've added an Agenda item (#5) regarding the NSF to the CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki World University and School Agenda and News for open Monthly Business Meeting on Saturday, 1/15/22 at 9am PT, here -

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2022/01/11522-sat-wuas-agenda-news-for-open.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2022/01/sequoia-sempervirens-coast-redwood.html

- and item 5 touches on George Church's heralding of aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerging too.

Scott GK MacLeod

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - scottmacleod.com