To continue building the Deep Carbon Observatory as a model program in its internal community networking and external engagement

To support an October 2014 workshop "Fungi in the Built Environment: Next Steps"

To demonstrate the effectiveness of supporting collaborative teams of data-driven researchers within a university

To amplify and accelerate data-driven research across Johns Hopkins University

To update the existing content and plan for an extensive renovation of the website, www.reducingstereotypethreat.org, to increase its effectiveness in reducing the experience and consequences of stereotype threat

To provide partial support for a workshop on enabling undergraduate research at the interface between high performance computing and genomics, genetics, and other areas of "big data" biology

To provide partial support for a training course in microbial ecology for early-career scientists

To Support a workshop on data remediation and taxonomy strategies for cross-platform, citizen science inventory interoperability and geospatial and badging integrations

To build institutional capacity in support of data science at the University of Michigan, and to increase understanding of the barriers to success of interdisciplinary data-centric research projects

To write a review paper that identifies the reasons for women's underrepresentation in computing and provides recommendations for the most promising ways to remedy this underrepresentation