Wisconsin MRSEC Excellence in Open Science Prize
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The Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is a leader in promoting best practices in open science. The MRSEC Excellence in Open Science Prize promotes data sharing and open science principles.
Description
This prize recognizes a researcher or research team that has demonstrated an exceptional effort and/or success in the development and/or dissemination of impactful data for the scientific community.
With the transformative developments in data access and analytics, development and dissemination of impactful data sets is an increasingly important part of modern materials science. This prize seeks to encourage researchers to develop innovative strategies to develop and disseminate their data. Examples might include dissemination of an advanced source code in a particularly usable form, development of a critical database in a particularly usable form that the broader research community can leverage, development of new data standards, development of innovative data collection and analysis strategies, or dissemination of data in an innovative application.
Eligibility
Personnel: Any researcher or research team that is part of, or affiliated with, the Wisconsin MRSEC. Data directly associated with a currently funded MRSEC project is particularly encouraged.
Data: The data can be of any kind, including numerical values, images, source codes, text, etc.
Criteria
Applications are judged on the creativity and effort shown in the data development and/or dissemination and the realized or expected broader impact of the data. Applications are judged by members of the MRSEC Executive Committee, in consultation with additional experts for guidance, as required.
Award
The winning applicant or applicant team receives a $500 prize. For teams, the prize is divided among the team members.
More Information
Please direct questions about suitability of work product for this competition to Victor Zavala (victor.zavala@wisc.edu) and administrative questions to Kerri Phillips (kphillips22@wisc.edu).
Large Dataset on the Relationship Between Structure and Stability in Glass Wins Open Science Award for Yu
The generation and sharing of a large dataset created as part of his study has won Zheng Yu the 2021 Wisconsin MRSEC Excellence in Open Science Prize. A graduate student in Dr. Bu Wang’s lab at the Grainger Institute for Engineering, Yu generated the data as part of his work investigating the relationship between structure and stability in specialized glasses using computer simulations and machine learning.
(2020) Wisconsin MRSEC Excellence in Open Science Prize
The Wisconsin MRSEC is committed to being a leader in Open Science, which shares data in digital forms following FAIR1 principles. As part of these efforts the Center has developed a new web site, a best practices guide, and held informational events. This year the Center launched the first Wisconsin MRSEC Excellence in Open Science Prize. The winner was graduate student Bradley Dallin2 for his work on molecules interacting with water, with potential applications from understanding human blood to protein folding diseases like Alzheimer’s. Bradley shared his results in papers, but also shared all his simulations and tools in an open accessible format for the community, increasing the impact of his work.
Dallin Awarded the 2020 Wisconsin MRSEC Excellence in Open Science Prize
The MRSEC Open Science prize recognizes a researcher or research team that has demonstrated an exceptional effort or success in the development and dissemination of impactful data for the scientific community. With the transformative developments in data access and analytics, development and dissemination of impactful data sets is an increasingly important part of modern materials science. This prize seeks to encourage researchers to develop innovative strategies to share their data.