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Freedom and Learning Forum
The LEAD Office and the Office of the President are cosponsoring the Freedom and Learning Forum. The Freedom and Learning Forum at George Mason University allows for the campus community to engage in an interactive dialogue series with the University President and extraordinary thought leaders from around the world. The program emphasizes that freedom and learning are mutually interdependent and that one cannot happen without the other. Participants will have an opportunity to hear personal leadership stories and life experiences from our guest leaders. The forum also allows for community dialogue across difficult topics and increasing understanding across difference.
The first Freedom and Learning Forum at Mason hosted by President Washington will take place on Monday, November 16, from 4-5pm. The theme of this forum is “Racial Justice, Anti-Racism, and Inclusion". The forum will provide the opportunity for the campus community to participate in dialogue with President Washington and key leaders on issues of campus climate, racial justice, equity and inclusion. Please RSVP and/or submit a question!
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Autonomous Electric Vehicle Survey Project
The School of Business has a research collaboration with Fairfax County on the Relay project in Merrifield. Relay is an autonomous (self-driving) electric public transportation shuttle that will circulate between the Mosaic District and the Dunn Loring Metrorail Station.This is the first public-private partnership for an autonomous public transportation demonstration project in Virginia. The Relay pilot project will educate the community on new mobility options and more eco-friendly low-emission travel.
Professor Gautham Vadakkepatt is leading the project to gather data through surveys and social media analysis on public perception of autonomous vehicle technology over the test period. We need your input! What do you think about this technology? Please take this brief 10 minute survey!
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2021 Ashoka U Exchange
The Ashoka U Exchange is the world’s premier gathering of higher education leaders who are focused on social innovation and impact. The theme of this year's virtual conference is: "Rising to the Challenge: Ordinary People Together Making Extraordinary Change". Facutly, staff, and students are strongly encouraged to apply to participate as presenters or facilitators. Applications are due Novermber 9, 2020.
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U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) 5th National Climate Assessment (NCA5)
The call for author nominations for the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) is now open. Prospective authors nominated through this call may be invited to serve as Chapter Lead Authors, Authors, or Technical Contributors to NCA5. All nominations must be submitted by 11:59 PM ET on November 14, 2020.
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ISE Faculty Profiles
The ISE faculty directory is a tool for you to find others with complementing expertise and for external and internal audiences to find you! If you haven’t yet submitted your research profile information for the directory, please complete this brief survey.
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Ambassador David Scheffer and the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court was created in 2002 to investigate, prosecute, and try individuals for crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The United States signed but did not ratify the treaty. Recently, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Court's senior officials in response to the Court's decision to consider charges against American soldiers for conduct in Afghanistan.
- Date: Thursday, November 5, 2020
- Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Power Lunch Event Series: National Unity
The Schar School's Power Lunch Event series gathers some of the world's top political leaders, journalists, and experts to discuss the prospects for the next four years of US public policy.Black Memorabilia asks the provocative questions: When are objects immoral, and when is it right or wrong to possess them? Does historic value supersede offensiveness?
Each week, influential thinkers address some of the most pressing issues facing the United States and the world. This week's discussion will focus on "National Unity" featuring Tom Davis, former Congressman (R-VA); Wendy Feliz, American Immigration Counci; and Tim Shriver, Special Olympics. The event will be moderated by Justin Gest.
- Date: Friday, November 6, 2020
- Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Post-election Analysis Panel Discussion
- Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
- Time: 12:00pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Robert Putnam on The Upswing
The Business for a Better World Center presents Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett. In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on an inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett analyze a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an “I” society to a “We” society and then back again. They draw inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society once again based on community. Engaging, revelatory, and timely, this is Putnam’s most ambitious work yet.
- Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
- Time: 3pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies
The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to research and develop next‐generation building technologies that have the potential for significant energy savings and improved demand flexibility, affordability, and occupant comfort. An additional goal is to advance building construction, remodeling, and retrofit practices, and associated workforces.
- Funding source: U.S. Department of Energy
- Anticipated funding amount: Up to 80 million
- Deadlines: Concept note: November 5, 2020; Full application: January 20, 2021
- Contact
- Additional information
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The Nature Conservancy’s Cities Strategic Relief Fund
The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) Cities Network invites proposals from community-based nonprofit organizations across our 20+ Network cities for TNC’s Cities Strategic Relief Fund. This fund is specifically aimed at providing rapid response, emergency relief and support to frontline organizations that are led by and serve the interests of Black, Latinx/o/a, Indigenous and/or Asian American/Pacific Islander communities as well as low-wage earners and migrant laborers. TNC’s Cities Strategic Relief Fund is designed to respond to the disparate health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on these groups that stem from historic and present-day structural inequities and systemic racism.- Funding source: The Nature Conservancy
- Anticipated funding amount: $1,000 - $30,000
- Deadline: November 13, 2020
- Contact: relieffund@tnc.org
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Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation: Distributed Chemical Manufacturing and Engineering the Elimination of End-of-Life Plastics
This program provides a funding opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. For this solicitation, we will consider proposals that aim to investigate emerging frontiers in one of the following two research areas:
- Distributed Chemical Manufacturing (DCheM)
- Engineering the Elimination of End-of-Life Plastics (E3P)
EFRI seeks proposals with potentially transformative ideas that represent an opportunity for a significant shift in fundamental engineering knowledge with a strong potential for long term impact on national needs or a grand challenge.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: $30,000,000
- Anticipated number of awards: 15
- Deadline: Letter of intent: December 9, 2020; Preliminary deadline: January 5, 2021; Full proposal: April 19, 2021
- Contact: Sohi Rastegar
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Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks
The goal of this program is to fund convergent research and education that will advance sustainable regional systems science, engineering, and education to facilitate the transformation of current regional systems to enhance sustainability. To further the advancement of sustainable regional Systems science, engineering, and education, NSF will support full scale proposals and planning grant proposals for Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs).
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: SRS RNs Full Scale Awards (Track 1): $15,000,000; SRS RNs Planning Grants (Track 2): $150,000.
- Deadline: January 11, 2021
- Contact: Bruce Hamilton
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Biology Integration Institutes
The aim of the Biology Integration Institutes program solicitation is to bring researchers together around the common goal of understanding how the processes that sustain life and enable biological innovation operate and interact within and across different scales of organization, from molecules to cells, tissues to organisms, species, ecosystems, biomes and the entire Earth. The Biology Integration Institutes program supports collaborative teams of researchers investigating questions that span multiple disciplines within and beyond biology.- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: $15,000,000
- Deadline: January 13, 2021
- Contact: Reed Beaman, Program Director
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Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning
The purpose of the program is to fund exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (to include, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning in the future. The program accepts proposals that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. The scope of the program is broad, with special interest in diverse learner/educator populations, contexts, and content, including teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in foundational areas that enable STEM (e.g., self-regulation, literacy, communication, collaboration, creativity, and socio-emotional skills).
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: $19,000,000
- Anticipated number of awards: 20
- Deadline: January 25, 2021
- Contact: Amy Baylor
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NEW: Connected Communities
Connected Community (CC) is a group of grid-interactive efficient buildings GEB with diverse, flexible end use equipment and other distributed energy resources (DERs) that collectively work to maximize building, community, and grid efficiency. Under this FOA, DOE will select a portfolio of “Connected Community” projects totaling up to $65 million in varying climates, geographies, building types, building vintages, DERs utility/grid/regulatory structures and resource bases. Through funding these projects, DOE hopes to find and share technical and market solutions that will increase demand flexibility and energy efficiency.
- Funding source: Department of Energy
- Anticipated funding amount: $19,000,000
- Deadline: Full application is due March 3, 2021
- Contact
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Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Research Announcement (NRA), Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – 2020, solicits basic and applied research in support of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD). ROSES is an omnibus NRA, with many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. All together these cover the wide range of basic and applied research and technology in space and Earth sciences supported by SMD.
- Funding source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Anticipated funding amount: Program will fund ~1250 proposals totalling ~$600 million over the lifetime of the awards
- Deadline: April 14, 2021
- Contact: Max Bernstein
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Acquisition of a Remotely Operated Vehicle with Underwater GPS for Application of Microelectronic Sensors in Aquatic Environmental Monitoring
PI: Feitian Zhang, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Pei Dong, Volgenau School of Engineering
Funding source: QinetiQ Inc & U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Direct
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Improved understanding and prediction of extreme precipitation in multiple urban systems
PI: Liping Di, College of Science
Co-PI: Liying Guo, College of Science
Funding source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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A novel Virtual Reality Recovery System to treat Substance Use Disorders by Examining the Power of Recovery Cues to Reorganize the Addicted Brain
PI: Holly Matto, College of Health & Human Services
Co-PI: Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, College of Science
Funding source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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TEYL Global Course Online
PI: Joan Kang Shin, College of Education and Human Development
Co-PI: Jered Borup, College of Education and Human Development
Funding source: U.S. Department of State
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Engendering Democracy through Growth in Equality
PI: Marc Gopin, Carter School
Funding source: U.S. Department of State
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RNR for MBI
PI: Amy Murphy, Schar School of Policy and Government
Funding source: Department of Justice
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Northern Virginia Regional Consortium for Evidence-Based Trauma Treatment
PI: Keith Renshaw, College Humanities and Social Sciences
Co-PI: Sarah Nowaczyk, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funding source: County of Fairfax
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Resilient Rural America Project Webinar
The Resilient Rural America Project (RRAP) empowers rural leaders and resilience professionals with practical resilience action strategies and increased capacity for rural communities and experts to work together. The Project provides self-guided online modules that take rural leaders and consultants through a streamlined process of risk assessment, identification of resilience strategies, and taking action.The focus of the first RRAP module is to accelerate rural resilience to extreme weather by integrating resilient land use strategies into existing plan updates, such as comprehensive or hazard mitigation plans. The second module, under development now, guides the next steps to taking specific local action with practical land use policies and practices.
- Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
- Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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The Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) aims to connect members of the Mason community with others across the Mason community–and with other communities, policy-makers, businesses and organizations–so that, together, we can more effectively address the world’s pressing sustainability and resilience challenges.
The ISE Newsletter provides up-to-date information on conferences, funding opportunities, and research pertaining to environmental science and sustainability. The biweekly newsletter aims to facilitate information sharing among researchers, practitioners, and relevant local, national, and international organization.
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