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The Third Annual VIVO conference takes place August 22-24 in Miami, Florida:  Official Call for Papers.   

"In the past 3 years, a growing international movement of developers, researchers, administrators,funders, librarians and informaticians has converged around the vision of openly representing research and researchers via Linked Open Data. VIVO is helping to make this vision a reality through its community, through open software and the VIVO ontology, and a growing number of adopters and collaborators worldwide, across multiple knowledge domains. The 2012 VIVO conference will explore how to participate in and best take advantage of the emerging Linked Open Data world encompassing and expanding our understanding of research. How can we contribute? How will newly available data and the applications built around it change the future of research networking? How will the vision evolve into practice?"

This year's VIVO conference creates a unique opportunity for people from across the country and around the world to come together in the spirit of promoting scholarly collaboration and research discovery.

The VIVO conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with VIVO team members from participating institutions, and offers an open and collaborative environment to share ideas and discuss topics related to adoption and implementation of VIVO, VIVO-based tools and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing and team science.

Who should attend?

Scholars, scientists, researchers, developers, publishers, funding agencies, research officers, students, institutional officials and those supporting the development of team science."

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN) is offering a series of free webinars for teachers of grades 6-12, in April and May: 

• April 17 Interactive Webinar - Teaching the Guiding Principle - Humans can take actions to reduce climate change and its impacts.  REGISTER
• May 15 Interactive Webinar - Teaching Energy Awareness - Being aware of the role of energy in the Earth system and human society allows us to take actions to conserve, prepare, and make informed energy choices.   More info

The following webinars have already taken place; a recording of each webinar is available by following the links: 

Teaching Essential Principle #1: The Sun is the primary source of energy for Earth's climate system

Teaching Essential Principle #2: Climate is regulated by complex interactions

Teaching Essential Principle #3: Life on Earth depends on, is shaped by, and affects climate

Teaching Essential Principle #4: Climate varies over space and time through both natural and human-made processes

The University of Notre Dame (www.nd.edu) has an opening for a Library Communications Program Director for the Hesburgh Libraries (http://library.nd.edu/). The position holder will develop strategies for and oversee implementation of a wide variety of initiatives to meet the libraries' communications, outreach, and promotional needs using print publications and materials, websites and online publications, emails, social media, displays, events, and person-to-person contact.

Specific responsibilities include the following:

• Develop and implement, in collaboration with the librarian and leadership team, a communication plan that will heighten awareness, understanding and support of, as well as engagement in, the Hesburgh Libraries' collections, services, and activities


• Craft effective messages, materials, and special events to represent and promote the libraries and to advise the University Librarian and others in presenting the libraries' strategies, achievements, and issues to the targeted audiences such as faculty and students (current and prospective), the broader academic community, alumni, donors, University development, University leadership, the media, the general public, etc.


• Coordinate with library units and help to clarify responsibilities and manage priorities for writing and editing materials


• Work with University Relations to create development and communication materials for donors and the University Libraries Advisory Council


• Participate in and contribute to library management groups to ensure strategic and effective communications about the Libraries' innovations, ambitions, issues, and programs.


• Cultivate relationships across campus and coordinating communication strategies that advance wider campus goals, such as recruiting a first rate faculty.


• Design Libraries' campus communications plan to highlight major new resources and services.


• Guide Associate Directors and Department Heads in creating effective position ads for high level position needs.

Email Erin Putt for more details or apply directly online at the ND jobs site - http://ND.jobs – Job #12142 or visit https://jobs.nd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=58313. 

Have you ever actively participated in a science lab that left a lasting impact on you? Have you ever taught an interactive science lab and watched as students lit up with understanding? Science would like to recognize efforts such as these with the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction, which has been established to encourage innovation and excellence in education by recognizing outstanding, design-based engineering and inquiry-based science education modules. 

The prize is open to any module where students become invested in exploring questions through activities that are at least partially of their own design. Rather than a typical laboratory exercise that begins with an explanation and results in one correct answer, an design-based or inquiry-based lesson might begin with a scenario or question and then require students to propose possible solutions and design some of their own experiments.

Winners will be selected by the editors of Science with the assistance of a judging panel composed of teachers and researchers in the relevant science fields. Individuals responsible for the development of the winning resources will be invited to write a short essay that describes the resource for publication in Science in 2013. We encourage all members of the scientific community to explore their classrooms, departments, colleges, and universities for nominations in order for the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction to truly represent the best in science education.

For more information and to download applications please visit http://scim.ag/inquiryprize

Please contact Dr. Melissa McCartney at mmccartn@aaas.org with any questions.