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Patriot Green Fund
The Patriot Green Fund (PGF) is a $100,000 annual sustainability fund provided by Mason Facilities and managed by the Office of Sustainability that is dedicated to making Mason’s campuses more sustainable through infrastructure improvements and student research projects.
Encourage your students to apply and even apply yourself! Interested? Email: pgf@gmu.edu.
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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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Visiting Filmmakers Series Online: Black Lives Matter: Chico Colvard and Black Memorabilia
Black Memorabilia explores the world of racist material, both antique and newly produced, that propagate demeaning representations of African Americans. From industrial China to the rural South to Brooklyn, the film shines a light on those who reproduce, consume and reclaim racially-charged items, from banks to Mammy kitchenware, confederate flags, Nazi insignia and other ephemera.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?
- Date: Monday, October 19, 2020
- Time: 11:30am - 1:00pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Converging Approaches to Sustainable Resilience
STAR-TIDES 14th Annual Capability Demonstration will take place virtually. The virtual platform enables an integrated, cross-cutting event focused on building sustainable resilience with many more opportunities for learning, information sharing and networking among thought leaders and keynote speakers, attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors.There will be over 100 speaking/panel opportunities.
The demonstration will be valuable to U.S. and foreign members of the national security, emergency management, and sustainable development communities. The Mason community is encourage to register.
- Date: Tuesday, October 20 - Wednesday, October 21, 2020
- Time: 11am - 5pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Business for a Better World Center Fall Speaker Series
The Clean Cooking Alliance works with a global network of partners to build an inclusive industry that makes clean cooking accessible to the three billion people who live each day without it, with a particular eye toward women and girls, who often spend hours cooking and collecting fuel, and are disproportionately affected.
- Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
- Time: 4pm - 5:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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NSF/VMware Partnership on the Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure
The goal of this joint solicitation between NSF and VMware is to foster novel, transformative research in fundamental and systematic approaches that bring dramatic increases in the environmental sustainability of the Digital Infrastructure leading to practical methodologies and tools. The Digital Infrastructure is broadly defined as the totality of software, hardware, and the methods for managing them for the purpose of efficient computation. This research includes, but is not limited to, computer software and systems; management of distributed software, the Digital Infrastructure, and data center power sourcing; and resource allocation and scheduling.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: $6,000,000
- Anticipated number of awards: 2
- Deadline: November 4, 2020
- Contact: Erik Brunvand
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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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Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications to support a Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors. EPA is interested in supporting a transdisciplinary research center to better understand potential causal relationships among cumulative exposures to chemicals and non-chemical environmental stressors during early lifestages and modifying factors that result in adverse developmental health effects.- Funding source: Environmental Protection Agency
- Anticipated funding amount: $1,900,000
- Deadline: November 12, 2020
- Contact: Ron Josephson
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NEW: 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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NEW: 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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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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Congratulations!Funding Announcements, Awards & Accomplishments
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Collaborative Research: Determining the role of ER stress in the evolution of large bodies and long lifespans
PI: Scott Glaberman, College of Science
Co-PI: Ylenia Chiari, College of Science
Funding source: National Science Foundation
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AASHTO Guidelines for Implementation of MASH Sign Supports, Breakaway Poles, and Work Zone Traffic Control Devices
PI: Cing-Dao Kan, College of Science
Co-PI: Dhafer Marzougui, College of Science
Funding source: Board of Regents of the University
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Membership in the Spatiotemporal Innovation Center in services in support of COVID Mitigation Mapping Events and Research
PI: Chaowei Yang, College of Science
Funding source: U.S. Depatment of State
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Recovering native plant diversity in the Piedmont: Gilbert's Corner habitat restoration and native plant demonstration site
PI: Andrea Weeks, College of Science
Funding source: Virginia Native Plant Society Inc.
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International survey of health professionals on climate change and health
PI: John Kotcher, College Humanities and Social Sciences
Funding source: World Health Organization
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Calculating Bully – Explaining Chinese Coercion
PI: Ketian Zhang, Schar School of Policy and Government
Funding source: Oak Ridge Associated Universities
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Origami Antibodies for Threat Sensing SBIR Sequential Phase II - AA3
PI: Dmitri Klimov, College of Science
Funding source: Parabon NanoLabs, Inc. and U.S. Army
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Task-based Learning: Technology Connecting Tools
PI: Marjorie Haley, College of Education and Human Development
Funding source: Department of Defense
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Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program COVID
PI: Emily Ihara, College of Health and Human Services
Co-PI: Catherine Tompkins, College of Health and Human Services
Funding source: Virginia Commonwealth University and Department of Health and Human Services
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University of Karachi Partnership
PI: James Witte, College Humanities and Social Sciences
Funding source: U.S. Depatment of State
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THOR-05F Finite Element Model Development
PI: Cing-Dao Kan, College of Science
Co-PI: Rudolf Reichert, College of Science
Co-PI: Dhafer Marzougui, College of Science
Funding source: U.S. Depatment of Transportation
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CAR Technology Entrepreneurship and ICT Leadership Accelerator
PI: Jean-Pierre Auffret, Volgenau School of Engineering
Funding source: U.S. Depatment of State
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AY20-21 TEYL Global Online Course Delivery
PI: Joan Kang Shin, College of Education and Human Development
Co-PI: Anna Evmenova, College of Education and Human Development
Co-PI: Jered Borup, College of Education and Human Development
Funding source: Family Health International and U.S. Depatment of State
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“Lynch Law Must Go!” – John Mitchell, Jr., Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, and the Role of the Black Press in Fighting and Documenting Racial Terror Lynching in the United States
PI: Charles Chavis, Carter School
Funding source: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
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Pivoting Technology Business for the Post COVID-19 Economy
PI: Terry Clower, Schar School of Policy and Government
Funding source: Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
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Crocodilian: Space University Small Research Project
PI: Duminda Wijesekera, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Duminda Wijesekera, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Peggy Brouse, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Paulo Cesar Costa, Volgenau School of Engineering
Funding source: Lockhead Martin Integrated Systems
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Virtual Symposium on Confronting Urgent Threats to Human Health and Society: COVID-19 and Climate Change
- Date: Monday, October 19, 2020
- Time: 10:00am - 5:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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National Institute of Standards and Technology Community Resilience Planning Guide Webinar
Chris Clavin, Research Environmental Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Community Resilience Group, will present their Community Resilience Planning Guide. This guide provides direction on how to plan for and implement measures to improve community resilience and introduces science-based tools to measure resilience and evaluate alternative strategies to achieve it.- Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
- Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Reinventing Power: Virtual Screening & Expert Panel Discussion
- Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
- Time: 7:00pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Global Solutions Forum
SDSN’s Global Solutions Forum (GSF) brings together sustainable development experts from around the world to showcase how they are implementing local initiatives that are advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).- Date: Tuesday, October 27 - Wednesday, October 28, 2020
- Location: Virual
- 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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