OSU lab to benefit from $1.2M grant

"Oregon State University's ties with CrisisCommons will deepen now that the global aid organization has landed a $1.2 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

"CrisisCommons was founded after the Haiti earthquake in January 2010 to enable collaboration between volunteers worldwide using the Internet, open source technology, data collection tools and other means. It has since responded to the earthquake in Chile, the Gulf Coast oil spill, and floods in Tennessee and Pakistan."

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