To study the effects of academic hiring, promotion, diversity, and work-life policies on the professional advancement of STEM faculty from underrepresented groups, and overall faculty diversity

To hold a workshop that informs and articulates a roadmap for research on privacy-preserving techniques for processing large sets of data

To support a summer teachers fellowship program at the New York Public Library to define best practices for how NYPL resources and other digital collections could be used and to share that information with the DPLA for the benefit of broader audiences

To support a two-day workshop on the changing face of public science engagement and potential research in this area

To support a planning meeting on potential uses of ARTstor in image-based natural sciences

To support the development of an open source web interface that links historical performance data with digitized programs and other archival material

To explore new methods for funding scientific research

To cover expected obligations to be incurred by NACME to provide phase 1 transitional support for the Sloan MPHD program as campus programs compete for new multi-year grants for University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring or Programs of Exemplary Mentoring

To examine how building moisture influences fungal and bacterial ecology in house dust

To provide partial support for a scoping meeting to examine fundamental shifts in life science