{"611295":{"#nid":"611295","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Partners with Atlanta Colleges on Data Science Education ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EData, data, and more data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe rapid growth of data seems wild and limitless. But various \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505347\u0022\u003ETransdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS)\u003C\/a\u003E institutes have been making theoretical sense of it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETRIPODS institutes receive funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Among them is Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1740776\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022\u003ETRIAD \u0026ndash; the Transdisciplinary Research Institute for Advancing Data Science\u003C\/a\u003E. TRIAD researchers are poised to share data science insights with the Atlanta higher education community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, NSF aims to expand the scope of TRIPODS institutes. Today the agency awarded 19 collaborative projects at 23 universities. The awards are called TRIPODS+X grants. X is the scope-expanding activity; it could be research, visioning, or education.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the award recipients is Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s project: TRIPODS+X:EDU Collaborative Education: Data-driven Discovery and Alliance, led by Prasad Tetali, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award to Georgia Tech and its alliance partners \u0026ndash; Agnes Scott, Morehouse, and Spelman Colleges \u0026ndash; aims to train a diverse workforce for the inevitable data-driven future. The project will also engage faculty at the minority-serving institutions to help them teach data science and develop related curricula.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;TRIPODS+X is exciting not only for its near-term impact addressing some of society\u0026#39;s most important scientific challenges, but [also] because of its potential for developing tools for future applications,\u0026quot; says Anne Kinney, NSF assistant director Mathematical and Physical Sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the $200,000 TRIPODS+X:EDU grant, the alliance partners will develop undergraduate data-science-focused courses. Through boot camps, workshops, and other joint activities, they will prepare data science modules to integrate into science curricula at the partner institutions. The goal is to prepare students who can address the emerging challenges in data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The NSF-supported educational alliance is exciting in many ways,\u0026rdquo; says Prasad Tetali.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It gives an opportunity to infuse the foundational data science curriculum with real-world applications from the physical and life sciences,\u0026rdquo; Tetali says. \u0026ldquo;It will also likely catalyze collaborative research in data science and related fields between Georgia Tech and Atlanta area colleges.\u0026rdquo; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing are the individuals involved in the TRIPODS+X: EDU project:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPrincipal Investigators\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EChris DePree, Agnes Scott College\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAlan Koch, Agnes Scott College\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EWenjing Liao, Georgia Tech School of Mathematics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBrandeis Marshall, Spelman College\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EChuang Peng, Morehouse College\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDavid Sherrill, Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPrasad Tetali, Georgia Tech School of Mathematics and School of Computer Science\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJoshua Weitz, Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESenior Personnel\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EThinh Doan, Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFlavio Fenton, Georgia Tech School of Physics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EXiaoming Huo, Georgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERenata Rawlings-Goss, Georgia Tech Institute for Data Engineering and Science\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJustin Romberg, Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhoto Caption\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom left to right, top row:\u0026nbsp;Joshua Weitz, Justin Romberg, and David Sherrill; middle row:\u0026nbsp;Alan Koch, Brandeis Marshall, Chris DePree, and Wenjing Liao; bottom row:\u0026nbsp;Thinh Doan, Prasad Tetali, and Chuang Peng\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"NSF-supported project will help develop data science courses at Agnes Scott, Morehouse, and Spelman Colleges"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EData science researchers at Georgia Tech are partnering with minority-serving Atlanta colleges to train a diverse workforce for the data-driven future\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NSF-supported project will help develop data science courses at Agnes Scott, Morehouse, and Spelman Colleges."}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-09-11 14:31:23","changed_gmt":"2018-09-17 14:08:50","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-09-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"611293":{"id":"611293","type":"image","title":"Atlanta Alliance for Data Science Education","body":null,"created":"1536675522","gmt_created":"2018-09-11 14:18:42","changed":"1536675522","gmt_changed":"2018-09-11 14:18:42","alt":"","file":{"fid":"232725","name":"Tripod-X-005.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Tripod-X-005.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Tripod-X-005.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":650513,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Tripod-X-005.jpg?itok=e3LEzCfN"}}},"media_ids":["611293"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"92811","name":"data science"},{"id":"175351","name":"TRIPODS"},{"id":"175350","name":"TRIAD"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"12708","name":"prasad tetali"},{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA. 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