Research Activities and Events Distinguished Lectures Lecture series of senior speakers, recommended by faculty and students, to give presentations suitable for broad audiences on hot IS&T topics. Contact Sudipto Ghosh Workshops and Retreats Internal workshops, each with an external guest speaker, on focused topic areas faculty propose, for the purpose of growing CSU IS&T research groups. Interdisciplinary meetings for faculty and students to explore common interests, based on general topic areas they suggest (e.g., people-animals-robots lab, bioinformatics). Contact Steve Leisz Coffee with CSU Seminars Opportunities for faculty to give research seminars at Colorado IS&T companies to establish interactions, such as consulting, grants, and company supported staff pursuing graduate degrees. Contact Anura Jayasumana High Performance Computing High Performance Computing resources at CSU NSF Data Management Plan Data Management Plan templates for NSF proposals. Contact Steve Leisz Doctoral Student Scholarship An initiative to help recruit top IS&T PhD students, in any department, with the benefits of a small monetary award, and involvement with the ISTeC Research Advisory Committee, Distinguished Lecture speakers, and Industrial Advisory Council. Contact Steven Fassnacht Related CSU Departments Departments at CSU engaged in IS&T research Research Communities Analysis of how CSU faculty currently work together on IS&T grants and contracts, and the use of such studies to help build future interdisciplinary IS&T research teams. Contact James Folkestad and Stephen Hayne