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Fay Cobb Payton to Deliver Keynote at 2024 Minority Serving - Cyberinfrastructure Consortium Annual MeetingAward-winning researcher and STEM thought leader will deliver the closing keynote at the second MS-CC annual meeting WASHINGTON, April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Fay Cobb Payton — award-winning researcher, international speaker, and entrepreneur — will deliver the closing keynote at the 2024 Annual Meeting for the Minority Serving - Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC), May 29-31, in Washington, D.C. The keynote, "The Importance of Inclusive Cyberinfrastructure," will be held at 11:45 a.m. ET on Friday, May 31, at the Mayflower Hotel. Research Expansion at Minority-Serving Institutions Previously, Payton completed a rotation as program director at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where she initiated the CISE Minority Serving Institution Research Expansion Program, and her tenure was recognized with the NSF Director's Award. Payton worked on several initiatives at NSF, including Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science; AI Fairness, Equity, Accountability, and Transparency; and Research Expansion and Cloud Computing with partnerships with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. A Voice for Change and Inclusion She is a member of two National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine efforts: the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Meicine, and the dissemination team for the Consensus Study on Transforming Trajectories: Women of Color in Tech. Payton has a bachelor's degree in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a bachelor's degree in accounting (minor in mathematics) and a master's in business administration from Clark Atlanta University, and a doctorate in information and decision systems from Case Western Reserve University. Second Annual Meeting It is a once-a-year opportunity to come together and create a space where HBCUs and TCUs lead the conversation around sustainable campus-level IT capabilities for data-intensive education and research programs. The MS-CC Annual Meetings are made possible thanks to support and funding from the National Science Foundation under awards #2137123 and #2234326. About the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) The MS-CC in partnership with Internet2 received funding from the National Science Foundation to support this vision. Nearly $3 million over two years to fund a Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot in 2021 (NSF Award # 2137123), and nearly 15 million over five years to support accelerating cyberinfrastructure-centric research capacity at HBCUs and TCUs through proof-of-concept grants and shared resources in 2022 (NSF Award # 2234326). The MS-CC has also been awarded nearly $2.5 million NSF supplement to develop the MS-CC Collaboratory in Climate Science. The consortium emerged from a pilot project funded by the National Science Foundation through Clemson University (NSF Award #1659297). View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fay-cobb-payton-to-deliver-keynote-at-2024-minority-serving---cyberinfrastructure-consortium-annual-meeting-302127054.html SOURCE Internet2 |