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Title: Leveraging Northeast Cyberteam Successes to Build the CAREERS Cyberteam Program: Initial Lessons Learned
Award ID(s):
1659377 2018873 2201231
NSF-PAR ID:
10325328
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
The Journal of Computational Science Education
Volume:
13
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2153-4136
Page Range / eLocation ID:
38 to 43
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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