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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action & Awareness Week – March 1-5
Join us March 1-5 in celebrating the first Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action and Awareness Week coordinated by the University Global Coalition (UGC).
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. And we are leading UGC efforts around SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions and SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities; with the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution leading on SDG 16 and the Business for a Better World (B4BW) Center leading on SDG 10. Please email the Institute for a Sustainable Earth if you’re interested in participating in either effort.
The SDG Action and Awareness Week will provide resources for students, faculty, and staff to learn about the SDGs and to assist in incorporating SDG-related concepts into your current course structure and projects in a flexible, online format. ISE will be kicking off this week with an informational webinar session on March 1st at 2pm to invite participation in Mason’s 17 Rooms event. All are welcome, please register here. Join us along with B4BW for the second of our Research to Action webinars focused on Enhancing Equality, Equity, and Access to Basic Goods and Services on March 2nd. Look for more details in next week’s newsletter.
If you are also hosting an SDG-related event the first week of March and would like to invite a global audience, we encourage you to submit your event details by February 22nd.
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ISE Seeks Assistant Director for Strategic Engagement
Help us spread the word! The Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) is looking to hire an Assistant Director for Strategic Engagement to work collaboratively with the ISE Team, Mason leadership, and faculty to develop and manage programs that connect the university, faculty, and students with key stakeholders (including local, state, and federal government, non-governmental and community organizations, and the private sector) to enable opportunities for Mason faculty and students to collaborate externally – enhancing the research and scholarship portfolio and the reputation of the university.
The full position description and application portal is available here.
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2021 Ashoka U Exchange
George Mason University is hosting the 2021 Ashoka U Exchange in March. Ashoka U is the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs and social impact educators. The 2021 Exchange “Rising to the Challenge: Ordinary People Together Making Extraordinary Change” will be the last time Ashoka U hosts this conference. Mason faculty, students, and staff are encouraged to attend and join the conversation about how the Changemaker Universities can create a new path forward.
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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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Beyond the Spectacle
Monday, February 15, 2021, 6pm ET
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Join the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution for an evening with Dawn Harrington, executive director of Free Hearts (a not-for-profit organization that was created to reunite families by providing education, support, and advocacy to families affected by incarceration) and director of special projects for the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls.
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Health Insurance in The US: A Facilitator and Barrier to Health Care Access
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PEACE LAB: Reconciling Societal Divisions and Memories
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Climate Seminar Miralles-Wilhelm Water Scarcity
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Spring 2021 Kritikos Anti-Racist Reading Group: Race & Medicine
Friday, February 19, 2021, 1pm - 2:30pm ET
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Inspired by mass actions and worldwide protests demanding racial justice, the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) Arts in Context is continuing the Kritikos Anti-Racist Reading Group this Spring, moderated by Mason faculty members Jessica Kallista and Kristin Johnsen-Neshati, with help from co-organizers, Aishah-Nyeta Brown, Natalie Ledesma, Jordan McRae, and Sang Nam. The talks will take place Fridays, 1pm - 2:30pm, February 19 - April 9, 1-2:30 pm.
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Save-the-Date: Anti-Racism Inclusive Excellence Town Hall
Tuesday, February 23, 2pm-3:30pm ET
Members of The Anti-Racism Inclusive Excellence Taskforce, along with President Gregory Washington, invite your participation in the first of two virtual town hall meetings. The committees will share their initial recommendations for the Mason community's feedback and consideration. The draft recommendations and a registration link for the town hall will be available on the task force website.
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Housing Inequalities: A Discussion With Mason's Eric Maribojoc and Kat Grimsley
Join Mason's Business for a Better World Center for this discussion on housing affordability. Eric Maribojoc, Executive Director of the Center for Real Estate Entrepreneurship, is a real estate professional, educator. Kat Grimsley, PhD., Director of the Masters of Real Estate Development program, uses her research to address affordable housing issues and global tenure and title insecurity by uniting policy with existing international best practices. Learn more and register.
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Digital Healthcare Interventions to Address the Secondary Health Effects Related to Social, Behavioral, and Economic Impact of COVID-19
This funding opportunity aims to support research to strengthen the healthcare response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and future public health emergencies, including pandemics. The purpose of this funding opportunity is to focus on the role and impact of digital health interventions [e.g., mobile health (mhealth), telemedicine and telehealth, health information technology (IT), and wearable devices] to address access, reach, delivery, effectiveness, scalability and sustainability of health assessments and interventions for secondary effects (e.g., behavioral health or self-management of chronic conditions) that are utilized during and following the pandemic, particularly in populations who experience health disparities and vulnerable populations.
- Funding source: National Institutes of Health
- Anticipated funding amount: $2,250,000
- Deadline: March 2, 2021
- Contact: Adam Haim
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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: March 3, 2021
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Build and Broaden 2.0
Build and Broaden 2.0 (B2 2.0) encourages research collaborations between scholars at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and scholars in other institutions or organizations. Growing the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is a national priority. National forecasts of the impending shortage of science and engineering skills and essential research workforce underscore a need to expand opportunities to participate in STEM research. NSF has taken steps to expand participation by focusing on research communities that are not well-represented in the federal research system. Through these steps, NSF is working to expand the volume and increasing the diversity, interconnectedness, and effectiveness of STEM workforce.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated Number of Awards: 25 to 30
- Anticipated funding amount: $5,000,000
- Deadline: March 5, 2021
- Contact: Lee Walker
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Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRCs) are public-private partnerships that catalyze breakthrough, cutting-edge, pre-competitive research by enabling close and sustained engagement between industry, academic teams, and government agencies. These Centers have three primary goals: (1) conducting high-impact research to meet the critical and shared needs of commercial and governmental entities that require better fundamental understandings of processes, mechanisms, and problems that they are unable to carry out internally; (2) moving fundamental research results to society and/or the marketplace via innovation and technology development; and (3) mentoring and developing a diverse, highly skilled, science and engineering workforce that understands how to work with industry and translate research results into understandings, products, and technologies that benefit society and the economy. - Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated Number of Awards: 10
- Anticipated funding amount: $20,500,000
- Deadline: Preliminary Proposal: March 10, 2021; Full proposal: June 09, 2021
- Contact: Prakash Balan
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Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems: Health Integration Prenatal-to-Three Program
The purpose of this program is to build integrated maternal and early childhood systems of care that are equitable, sustainable, comprehensive, and inclusive of the health system, and that promote early developmental health and family well-being and increase family-centered access to care and engagement of the prenatal-to-3 year old (P–3) population. A maternal and early childhood system of care brings together health, early care and education, child welfare, and other human services and family support program partners—as well as community leaders, families, and other stakeholders—to achieve agreed-upon goals for thriving children and families. - Funding source: Department of Health and Human Services
- Estimated Number of Awards: 20
- Anticipated funding amount: $5,112,000
- Deadline: March 15, 2021
- Contact: Ekaterina Zoubak
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Integrative Research in Biology
This solicitation invites submission of collaborative proposals that tackle bold questions in biology and require an integrated approach to make substantive progress. The research should be synergistic and produce novel, holistic understanding of how biological systems function and interact across different scales of organization, e.g., from molecules to cells, tissues to organisms, species to ecosystems and the entire Earth. Such knowledge is critical to inform solutions to societal challenges, including natural resource management, resilience to environmental change, and global food security. Outcomes from integrative research will also inform and guide the development of new technologies that drive the nation’s bioeconomy. - Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated Number of Awards: 10 to 20
- Anticipated funding amount: $15,000,000 to $20,000,000
- Deadline: March 16, 2021
- Contact: Karen Cone
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Dimensions of Biodiversity
The goal of the Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign is to transform how we describe and understand the scope and role of life on Earth. This campaign promotes novel integrative approaches to fill the most substantial gaps in our understanding of the diversity of life on Earth. It takes a broad view of biodiversity, and focuses on the intersection of genetic, phylogenetic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity. Successful proposals must integrate these three dimensions to understand interactions among them. - Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated Number of Awards: 6
- Anticipated funding amount: $12,000,000
- Deadline: March 26, 2021
- Contact: Katharina Dittmar
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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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Science Policy Fellowship
The Gulf Research Program’s Science Policy Fellowship program helps scientists hone their skills by putting them to practice for the benefit of Gulf Coast communities and ecosystems. Fellows gain first-hand experience as they spend one year on the staff of federal, state, local, or non-governmental environmental, natural resource, oil and gas, and public health agencies in the Gulf of Mexico region.
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Commonwealth Coastal & Marine Policy Fellowship
Get on-the-job training and policy experience with a state agency or NGO. Hone your professional skills while improving the stewardship of the Commonwealth’s coastal and marine resources. This program aims to increase the capacity of state agency or non-governmental organization host offices by supporting fellows who are working on mission-related programs. Applicants should be graduate students close to completing their degree (Master's, Ph.D., or J.D.) at a Virginia university or college in a field relevant to coastal and marine policy issues field.
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SRI Talk ‘Sustainability for Whom?
February 17, 2021, 6pm ET
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Don’t miss the SRICongress’ upcoming SRI Talk ‘Sustainability for Whom?’ This will be a free high-level talk that will address vital questions on equity, inclusivity and solidarity.
M. Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation International
Tolullah Oni, Joint lead of the Global Diet and Activity Research Group, University of Cambridge
Yolanda Kakabadse, Former Minister of Environment, Ecuador
Winona LaDuke, Environmentalist and political activist
Moderated by Eliane Ubalijoro
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SDSN USA Meeting
Join SDSN USA network members, partners, and friends on February 18 and 19 for a two-day virtual meeting to discuss challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. in 2021, and how the nationwide network of universities and research institutions can best mobilize research, education, and action towards achieving sustainable development across the country.
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Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021
June 12 - June 15, 2021
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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. Early-bird registration for SRI2021 is now open.
SRI2021 is now accepting applications for volunteers to support the virtual congress. Please find additional information on the volunteering opportunity here.
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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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