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Congrats Mason's Class of 2022!
ISE extends a huge congratulations to all of the Mason Spring and Summer 2022 graduates! The Institute is excited to see all the great things to come for our Mason graduates. As our graduates turn a new chapter, ISE will also be sending out newsletters every other week starting from this newsletter edition.
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WATER at Mason
WATER (Watershed and Aquatic Teams for Education and Research) at Mason, an ISE 2021 Mason 17 Rooms-U Seed Funding Award recipient, will be beginning its 2022 Summer Seminar Series, which will be held both hybrid and in-person. Make sure to save the following dates in your calendars:
Fridays, June 3 through July 29 from 3 pm - 4:30 pm
For more information to come, please check the WATER (Watershed and Aquatic Teams for Education and Research) at Mason webpage here for future updates and announcements.
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ONR Announcement 2023 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in receiving proposals for its Young Investigator Program (YIP). ONR's Young Investigator Program seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their PhD or equivalent degree on or after 01 January 2015, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research. The objectives of this program are to attract outstanding faculty members of U.S. Institutions of Higher Education (hereafter also called "universities") to the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology (S&T) research program, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers. Individuals who are holding U.S. non-profit equivalent positions are also encouraged to apply.
Proposals addressing research areas (as described in the ONR Science and Technology Department section of ONR's website at www.onr.navy.mil) which are of interest to ONR Program Officers will be considered. Contact information for each division (a subgroup of an S&T Department) is also listed within the S&T section of the website.
Application Inquiries and Questions
24 June 2022 (Friday) at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Applications must be received no later than
01 July 2022 (Friday) at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
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25Live Guide – Feature Your Sustainability Events
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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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Women in Business Event
Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 8:45 am ET
Registration
The Business for a Better World Center is co-hosting the Applying Conscious Capitalism: Women in Business event with Conscious Capitalism DC and Leadership Greater Washington on May 24, 9:30-11:00am.
This event will feature a panel of three women business leaders—Nicole Washington, Ann Steele, and Lisa Wise—and moderated by Christina Johnson. Panelists will share how operating with a conscious mindset aided their success as executives and entrepreneurs, and how their consciousness serves as a compass as they navigate business challenges and seize the opportunities before them.
This event will include breakout sessions that allow attendees to seek advice and connect with other business leaders in the DMV region. Networking and refreshments will begin at 8:45am until the start of the event at 9:30am.
Registration is free for GMU staff, students, and alumni. The registration link can be found here.
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Immigrants, Athletes, and Inclusion
Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 3 pm ET
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Please join the Institute for Immigration Research for a webinar to discuss immigration and its relationship to athletics! Immigrants are 14% of the U.S. population, but makeup much larger shares in U.S. sports. In this webinar, experts will discuss the benefits of inclusiveness in sports and how immigrant athletes can promote greater understanding and acceptance of immigrants in the United States.
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The Place-Based Circular Economy: The Story of North Friesland Webinar
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Advancing Climate & Natural Resource Policy Through Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Exchange
Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 9 am - 10:00 am ET
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How can researchers, decision-makers, and stakeholders collaborate to share knowledge and combat extreme climate events?
Climate resilience policies are often implemented locally, and these localized practices may not be shared with decision-makers in other regions. Collaboration is needed. Learn how the Pacific RISA is using its role as a science and policy boundary organization and a peer-to-peer framework with different stakeholder groups to advance and accelerate climate adaptation initiatives and policies that consider climate data and models, regional geopolitics, social equity, and financial risk.
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Advancing Climate & Natural Resource Policy Through Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Exchange
Thursday, May 26, 2022, 12 pm - 1:00 pm ET
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How can the co-development of climate research help us plan for uncertain futures?
Making decisions about the consequences and tradeoffs of land management strategies under a changing climate is complex. Co-developing participatory scenarios with the public and decision-makers can help plan for the future. Join Victoria Keener (Arizona State University) for a discussion of a multi-year stakeholder-intensive co-development process on Groundwater Recharge to simulate impacts of development, conservation, and climate change. The co-development of participatory scenario planning and modeling can accelerate the uptake of complex climate data and projections into local decision-making.
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- Former students, colleagues share remembrances of Thomas Lovejoy, College of Science News, May 20, 2022.
- Mason’s Spring 2022 graduation honors a diverse graduating class, including more than 25 percent first-generation students, The George News, May 18, 2022.
- Mason professor receives Fulbright Award to study sustainable tourism in South Korea, Research News, May 16, 2022.
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NSF-Disaster Resilience Research Grants
- Important Informational Webcast: June 2, 2022 at 2 PM EDT
- Letter of Intent Due Date: June 20, 2022
- Current Closing Date for Applications: August 19, 2022
- Award Floor: $200,000
- Award Ceiling: $400,000
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $3,100,000
- Expected Number of Awards: 12
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Dear Colleague Letter: Design for Sustainability in Computing
This recently issued Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 2022-60) Design for Sustainability in Computing encourages the submission of novel and high impact proposals that advance sustainability in all aspects of computing to the CISE Core programs (NSF 21-616). The DCL invites transformative, cross-disciplinary and potentially clean slate approaches to enable sustainability across all levels of the entire computing stack from hardware to networking to software applications. Proposals should consider diverse notions of sustainability and propose suitable metrics for quantifying impact. Traditional energy efficiency and power savings methods alone are not in scope for this DCL. Computing techniques for sustainability in other fields are not in scope for this DCL. This DCL seeks ambitious and forward-thinking proposals on Design for Sustainability in Computing along multiple dimensions that go beyond energy efficiency.
This DCL neither constitutes a new competition nor a new program. Rather, interested proposers should prepare and submit proposals in accordance with the instructions in the CISE Core program solicitation (NSF 21-616) and the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). Additionally, to call attention to responsiveness to this DCL, the Project Summary should include "SustainabilityDCL" in the keyword list. Proposals submitted to this DCL will count towards the proposal limits imposed in the CISE Core program solicitation.
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ORAU-Directed Research and Development (ODRD) Program Call for Proposals
Directed Research and Development (ODRD) program is a research and development program that supports collaborations between Oak Ridge Associated Universities researchers and faculty at member universities. George Mason University is a member of Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and this funding opportunity is only open to the ORAU members. Led by ORAU subject matter experts and leveraging the talents and expertise of member universities, ODRD projects strengthen and expand the scientific and technical capabilities of both parties.
The FY23 research areas are Climate and Environment, Health Equity, and Future of the STEM Workforce. Proposals are due in June 2022, and must be submitted by ORAU staff. Awards are made in August. Projects run October 1 – September 30.
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Partnerships for Innovation
The Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Program within the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) offers researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering funded by NSF the opportunity to perform translational research and technology development, catalyze partnerships and accelerate the transition of discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace for societal benefit.- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: Up to $550,000
- Deadline: July 13, 2022
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NSF Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS): Innovative Solutions to Climate Change
This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) encourages the science and engineering communities to develop forward-thinking research that will demonstrably aid in the Nation's goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and developing approaches for adapting to the change that is already occurring. CAS: Innovative Solutions to Climate Change is a call to action that encourages the submission of certain types of proposals to appropriate existing NSF core programs to lay the foundation for disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and to answer fundamental questions related to novel approaches and solutions to climate change.- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: Up to $100,000
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Spring Resiliency Academy
The Spring 2022 Resilience Academy is a free opportunity for students to learn about resiliency efforts at the local, state, and federal levels. Students can register as a "Special Guest" with the codes below for no cost. Attendees have the option of registering for all sessions at once or they can select individual sessions from the series.
June 9th - Session 4: Infrastructure & Buildings: Transportation Progress Report
Register for Session 4
Students can use code: RA2022SGS4 to get free registration for Session 4 - Infrastructure & Buildings: Transportation Progress Report
Cost: $25/session; Students and Resilient Virginia Members are free
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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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