BME professor participates in data rescue
BME professor Kurt Thoroughman joined other WashU faculty and students in a data rescue event in March. An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Thoroughman "used the Wayback Machine internet archive to locate and save a missing 2023 report from a National Science Foundation agency website about the representation of women, minorities and persons with disabilities in science and engineering jobs and education. 'These reports are going away,' Thoroughman said. 'That’s what motivated me to come in.'"
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This was also reported on by STLPR: The Data Rescue Project at WashU is part of a national call to action to archive federal datasets before they potentially get removed by the Trump administration.
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