DARPA has a new BAA out which includes a significant visualization research component.

This year’s VAST Challenge focuses on visual analytics applications for both large scale situation analysis and cyber security. There will be two mini-challenges to test your visual analytics applications and your analytical skills. Mini-challenge 1 data is available now.

The IEEE Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) is now soliciting both long and short papers.

The National Science Foundation has awarded funding to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Drexel University to create the Center on Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI).

The premier forum for advances in scientific and information visualization, VisWeek 2012, will be co-located with the Symposium on Large-Scale Data Analysis and Visualization and the Symposium on Biological Dava Visualization in beautiful Seattle, Washington.

Two new research articles have been posted to the VA Community site.

Sage Journals is providing free access to Special Issue: State of the Field and New Research Directions of Information Visualization through February 5, 2012.

A recently published paper, Empirical Studies in Information Visualization: Seven Scenarios, describes a novel approach to evaluation.

Visual Insights has a new moderator who says she is "looking forward to taking the blog in a new direction."

Clemson University invites applications and nominations for a new faculty position in Visualization.

http://www.clemson.edu/ces/computing/faculty-openings.html