Broader Impacts
12:50 – 1:20 p.m.
New SBE Funding Opportunities
1:20 – 1:35 p.m.
SBE Contributions to Research, Development and Equity
Dr. Arthur Lupia, AD, SBE
1:35 – 1:50 p.m.
2021
TBD, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES)
1:50 – 2:20 p.m.
Break
Evidence Act and a National Secure Data Service
Implementation
Challenges to Implementation
Dr. Amy O’Hara, Research Professor, Massive Data Institute and Executive Director, Federal Statistical Research Data Center, McCourt School for Public Policy Georgetown University
Role of NCSES
Differential Privacy
3:30 – 4:10 p.m.
Minerva Research Initiative
4:10 – 4:40 p.m.
Prepare for Meeting with NSF Leadership
4:40 p.m.
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When identified late last year, medical professionals were concerned that the variant – known as 501.v2 – would drive up Covid-19 infections. Professor Salim Abdool Karim said the strain had a higher viral load, meaning it could spread between people with ease. The infection rate rapidly increased, with President Cyril Ramaphosa reintroducing level 3 lockdown restrictions. As Gabriele Steinhauser of The Wall Street Journal writes, ‘A new coronavirus strain was surging across the country, thousands of holidaymakers were due to return from Covid-19 hot spots, and one in three coronavirus tests was coming back positive’. Then all of a sudden, cases of Covid-19 started to drop. ‘The cause of this steep decline in cases remains somewhat of a mystery’, says The Wall Street Journal, with Harry Moultrie of the NICD even telling Steinhauser ‘anybody who professes certainty [about why infections started dropping] is lying’. – Jarryd Neves
Canada holding off COVID-19 surge despite lagging vaccinations
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A woman with a mask arrives from the U.S. at the Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, Canada, on March 16, 2020. Canada and the U.S. have had a travel ban for nonessential travel for one year but traveling by air is exempted though negative tests and quarantine are required. Citizens or permanent residents of the country they are entering are also exempted from the ban. Photo by Andre Pichette/EPA-EFE
A man receives an Israeli government-mandated COVID-19 test after arriving on a flight at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday. All incoming passengers are tested for coronavirus in a special testing complex in the airport. The nations has the highest vaccination rate in the world. Photo by Debbie Hill/UPI | License Photo