News & Events
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the latest awardees of the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“The NSF CIVIC Program Team is excited to announce its newest set of awards for the CIVIC program, which will transition new and emerging scientific and engineering ideas towards solving the most pressing challenges communities across the US are facing”
– Dr. Vishal Sharma, Program Director at NSF.
Recent CIVIC Events
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CIVIC 2.0 (2022 – 2024)
Pilot Project Summary Report
Learn more about each of the 22 CIVIC 2.0 pilot projects, explore the challenges, questions and outcomes from the past two years.
CIVIC Press Release
CIVIC Stage 2 Awardees Announced
— metrolabnetwork.medium.com
MetroLab Network is pleased to share that the National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), has announced the stage 2 awardees for the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a national research and action competition focused on rapidly transitioning emerging technologies and concepts into local community to address their long-standing challenges.
CIVIC Press Release
CIVIC 2021 — Community Impact and Next Steps for the Inaugural CIVIC Projects
— metrolabnetwork.medium.com
Seventeen teams of community and academic partners presented at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC to present the culmination of their work over the last twelve months of bringing fast-paced civic research concepts to local communities. In addition to the teams, seven federal…
Local public right of way for surface and subsurface resource integration
— www.tandfonline.com
A utilidor is a ‘system of systems’ infrastructural solution to the ‘subsurface spaghetti’ problem resulting from direct burial of utility transmission infrastructure beneath the public right of way (PROW). The transition from direct burial to utilidors in older, dense American cities has generally not occurred…
Ohkay Owingeh, High Water Mark and UNM Create Sensors that Measure Rain and Flooding
— newmexicoconsortium.org
This August, the Ohkay Owingeh board of Governors, and law enforcement and emergency officers from the Ohkay Owingeh pueblo, a team of UNM researchers, and engineers and scientists from High Water Mark LLC met to discuss effective ways to measure and communicate the flooding that occurs during emergencies…
For 2-Wheel Commuters in LA, ‘Bikepooling’ Brings Safety in Numbers
— www.bloomberg.com
On paper, Los Angeles looks like bike commuter country: The sprawling LA basin boasts glorious year-round riding weather and generous expanses of largely flat streetscape. But only about 1% of LA commuters get to work by bicycle, according to the US Census Bureau, a figure that reflects the challenges…
Small sensors are warning one northern NM pueblo of post-wildfire flooding
— www.kunm.org
Over the past year, the University of New Mexico was awarded $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to explore community resilience to natural disasters. So, scientists, PhD candidates, professors, and high school students decided to take this money and develop low-cost sensors to monitor post-wildfire flooding on pueblo land…