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Building Tall with Mass Timber
Manufactured mass timber allows buildings to be built faster, more sustainably with a smaller carbon footprint than steel and concrete, and with a natural look which is healthier for space users. In Charlottesville, Virginia, the tallest mass timber building in the state is rising with the eight-story 187,000 sq. ft. Apex Clean Energy Headquarters building. In Washington D.C., a two-story 105,000 sq. ft. vertical expansion of 80 M Street, a Class-A office property, is the District’s first mass timber commercial office project.
Join the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship and the Institute for a Sustainable Earth for a discussion with architectural firms William McDonough + Partners and Hickok Cole on these two pioneering real estate developments. Our featured speakers are: Eric Ross – Partner, William McDonough + Partners
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Virtual Transatlantic Symposium: Academic Research Institutions Advancing Sustainability
This free symposium offers an opportunity for students, faculty, and decision-makers to hear from institutional leaders from France and the United States on best practices in sustainability. Institutional leaders will exchange best practices, lessons learned before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and will explore potential opportunities to leverage the value of sharing knowledge. This event will facilitate an ongoing collaboration between institutions worldwide on rethinking sustainability in higher education post-pandemic.
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Final Opportunity to Sign up for Mason’s 17 Rooms-U Initiative
Become part of the action at Mason to create a just, prosperous, and sustainable future! The United Nations established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a call to action to tackle the most pressing social and environmental challenges, including ending poverty, eradicating hunger, eliminating inequalities, addressing climate change, preserving ecosystems, and creating resilient and sustainable communities. The 17 Rooms protocol was developed by the Brookings Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation to spur community action on all of the SDGs.
Mason’s 17 Rooms-U will convene 17 dialogues -- inclusive of faculty, staff, students, and partners – this year. Each of the 17 groups will meet a few times over the next few months to discuss and identify near-term actions that we can and will take together to make progress on all of the 17 SDGs. A Summit event on October 1st, 2021 will bring participants from all of the rooms together to finalize an action plan and launch initiatives. For more information, check out our website that includes a recording of our informational webinar or contact Judit Ungvari. Or if you are already interested please sign up to participate by completing this form by May 31.
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Research Fellow in Data Sciences
Are you interested in using data science to advance sustainability and climate resilience education? This Research Fellow position, joint between the Global Council for Science and the Environment and Mason, offers an opportunity to create a framework and replicable methodology to collect and analyze educational offerings down to the course level across the higher education landscape, focused initially on the study of environmental and energy resilience education. Applications will be considered beginning immediately on a rolling basis, until June 5, 2021 at 11:59pm ET. Learn more and apply today.
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Spring 2021 NSF Virtual Grants Conference
June 7, 2021 to June 11, 2021
Registration
The Spring 2021 NSF Virtual Grants Conference is designed to give new faculty, researchers, and administrators key insights into a wide range of current issues at NSF. NSF program officers will be providing up-to-date information about specific funding opportunities and answering attendee questions. Registration is now open, and the webinar is free of charge.
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C-RASC 2021-22 Transdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship Program
The Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) is accepting applications for the 2021/22 Transdisciplinary Research Fellowship program. Graduate students will be selected by C-RASC for one-year awards using a competitive process. The awards are merit-based and may be eligible for competitive renewal. The Office of Graduate Education will cover tuition (up to 9 credits) and health insurance (when eligibility criteria have been met) for up to two students per transdisciplinary center. Stipends may be partially or fully covered by C-RASC, however, priority will be given to Graduate Fellows whose stipend can be covered partially or fully by the applicant’s school/unit, department, extramural funding, or other funds. Applications must support new or ongoing research with the potential to lead to future research funding related to sustainability/resilience. The student must be mentored by an interdisciplinary team of at least three faculty, with at least one member formally affiliated with C-RASC. Applications are due June 18, 2021. Please reach out to Hannah Torres with any questions.
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Call for Proposal: University Global Coalition 2021 Annual Gathering
The University Global Coalition (UGC) was launched in 2019 with the purpose of encouraging collaboration and collective action in higher education to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mason is one of the original signatories of the UGC – a global platform of universities and other higher education organizations working together to address SDGs locally and globally. The UGC is now accepting proposals to lead 45-minute virtual sessions on teaching, research, operational practices, and partnerships (within and beyond) higher education. Suggested session formats include (but are not limited to): a mini-workshop, a structured conversation, or panel presentations. All submissions must: cover topic/s or project/s that are applicable to a broad variety of stakeholders and/or are scalable, pertain to at least one SDG, actively engage the audience.
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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 your profile here.
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ISE Newsletter Summer Schedule
During the summer, ISE will continue to produce and disseminate its biweekly Newsletter. However, we will be discontinuing the "Events and Opportunities" mailer until August 2021.
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2022 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends Workshop
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New: Request for Proposals: The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII)
CyManII is proud to announce the release of its latest $1.5 Million Request For Proposals (RFP) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Focused on mitigating cybersecurity risks in U.S. manufacturing, CyManII will award projects that will both defend against cybersecurity attacks and reduce energy consumption overall.Within the RFP, CyManII intends to make up-to six awards, each between $50,000 – $250,000, subject to Department of Energy approval and availability of funds, in the general technical objective areas of our Institute. Through a rigorous selection process, CyManII will solicit entities dedicated to the development of technologies that address the cybersecurity threats posed by connected devices, networking, and real-time data. This will allow manufacturers to safely and securely deploy the advanced technologies that contribute to the decarbonization of American industry.
- Funding source: Department of Energy
- Anticipated funding amount: up-to six awards, each between $50,000 – $250,000
- Deadline: May 27, 2021
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Notice of Special Interest: Developing and Testing Multilevel Physical Activity Interventions to Improve Health and Well-Being
The Office of Disease Prevention and participating ICOs are issuing this notice to highlight our interest in encouraging highly innovative and promising translational research to improve our understanding of how to increase and maintain health-enhancing physical activity using multi-level interventions in a wide range of population groups across the lifespan.- Funding source: Department of Health and Human Services
- Deadline: June 5, 2021
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Building Resilience Against Climate Effects: Implementing and Evaluating Adaptation Strategies that Protect and Promote Human Health
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to build and enhance the resilience of U.S. cities and states to the health impacts of climate change. Resilience, the ability to prepare for, absorb, recover from, and adapt to the health impacts of climate change, will be enhanced through three overarching strategies implemented by funded recipients. These strategies include 1) collaboration with stakeholders to create a Climate Impact Compendium that includes data on local climate projections, health effects, social determinants of health, and current adaptive capacity; 2) implementation and evaluation of adaptation actions that address the threats identified in the Compendium; and 3) use and dissemination of evaluation results to improve adaptation actions and enhance understanding of effective climate resilience adaptations in public health and related fields.- Funding source: Department of Health and Human Services
- Anticipated funding amount: $400,000
- Deadline: June 18, 2021
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Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Structural Racism and Discrimination on Minority Health and Health Disparities
This initiative will support (1) observational research to understand the role of structural racism and discrimination (SRD) in causing and sustaining health disparities, and (2) intervention research that addresses SRD in order to improve minority health or reduce health disparities.- Funding source: National Institutes of Health
- Anticipated funding amount: $500,000
- Deadline: July 20, 2021
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources
The fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) hold much promise as sectors of the economy where we can expect to see continuous vigorous growth in the coming decades. STEM job creation is expected to outpace non-STEM job creation significantly, according to the Commerce Department, reflecting the importance of STEM knowledge to the US economy.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) plays a leadership role in developing and implementing efforts to enhance and improve STEM education in the United States. Through the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative, the agency continues to make a substantial commitment to the highest caliber undergraduate STEM education through a Foundation-wide framework of investments.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: $3,000,000
- Deadline: July 21, 2021
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Building a Global Network for Community Science
The goal of this workshop is to build a vibrant, collaborative, international network of partners who are committed to the idea of civic science through communities: conducting scientific research that is deeply embedded in local communities and that respects local expertise. The workshop itself will bring together individuals from around the world to discuss how the tools of science can be brought to bear on problems of local interest, particularly ones at the intersection of the human and natural world.
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Transforming Your Research into News
At the time of registration, participants will upload their own research paper or idea to transform during the workshop. This workshop is open to all SRI registrants, and applications will be processed in the order received - register for the SRI Congress and apply for the workshop by May 23rd to secure your spot!
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SRI Virtual Idea Market
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Submission form
The Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) Congress provides an exciting opportunity for students, young professionals, and innovators to share their sustainability advances, concepts, designs, prototypes, and products in a global Virtual Idea Market. Participants in the Idea Market are invited to create a short, 3-minute video/digital presentation of their idea to the SRI Congress Virtual Market. Please visit our website to view an example Idea Market submission. Submissions can be at the idea stage and do not need to be developed concepts or results.
Virtual Idea Market participants need to register for SRI2021. Click this link to apply for Early Career Scholarships for young professionals to help cover the cost of registration. Hurry and apply! The application deadline for Early Career Scholarships is May 15! Additional information available at SRI2021.
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Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021
Saturday, June 12 - Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Registration
The Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021 (SRI2021) is the world’s first transdisciplinary gathering in sustainability – it will be a space of fierce advocacy for sustainability scholarship, innovation, collaboration and action. The annual event unites global sustainability leaders, experts, industry and innovators to inspire action and promote a sustainability transformation.
SRI2021 will be a hybrid event, with a diverse and innovative online program alongside onsite participation in Brisbane, Australia. SRI2021 will take place June 12-15, 2021 with activities, networking, training and more both prior and following the event. SRI is a joint initiative of Future Earth and the Belmont Forum.
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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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