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The student population is down and so is the traffic. We’re back from the Memorial Day weekend, but the pace on campus is a bit more relaxed. At the Krasnow Institute, the work on the card-swipe system for the front doors, continues….

This week I’ll be at the NSF in Arlington for a panel review. It’s hard work, but always very interesting.

I saw a terrific thesis defense yesterday by one of our neuroscience doctoral students. What a capstone to the PhD! Today I have the honor of attending the rehearsal of yet another of our impending graduates.

My ideas have been all over the place. What better idea than to blog a bleg to Advanced Studies’ readers. I’ll post a summary of suggestions that come in.

NSF Picks Lockheed for Huge Antarctic Support Contract

As we head into Winter Break here at George Mason, there is a bit of time to sit back and reflect on the past semester: we saw the selection of a new President, the opening of some spectacular new campus facilities and an incredibly productive time for our science, both in terms of new research findings and teaching. I’m grateful to the entire faculty, staff and students at the Mason’s Institute for Advanced Study for what they’ve accomplished this Fall and look forward to the Spring semester.

In the meantime, I’m pleased to report that the traffic seems to be getting a bit lighter here as folks leave town. The weather in DC has been relatively balmy lately–as a native Californian, I’d love to see that trend continue through January and February.

For the NIH I mean. The ScienceInsider blog entry is here. The key point? NIH is considering the way it does business on its main investigator-initiated RO1 grants to deal with anticipated cuts.

I’m submerged at the moment in a virtual pile of grant proposals that are stored in my iPad. They are collectively very interesting, but also have a unique ability to suck up all of one’s available time. How far away are we from Strong AI to review grants?