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Faculty Affairs- Research Development Faculty Matters WorkshopWednesday, September 7, 2022, 1:30pm ET
Registration
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Development and Research Development are co-sponsoring the Faculty Matters Workshop Series for Fall 2022, which is a workshop series designed to address key issues central to faculty development and success. The first session in the series, How to Align Your Time and Priorities, focuses on how to make the best use of your time by intentionally aligning your time with your goals. Participants will have the chance to win a free book, Atomic Habits, by James Clear. The workshop is on Wednesday, September 7th, 1:30-3:00pm on Zoom. Registration is required.
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Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence ConferenceMonday, October 24, 2022, 8am - 6:30pm ET
Mason Square, Arlington, Virginia
George Mason University’s Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Initiative is proud to host this first-ever conference featuring panels, workshops, and conversation groups with researchers and changemakers from across the country.
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Seeking Maryland Clean Energy Center Fellow
The Maryland Clean Energy Center (MCEC) and Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) are hiring a Fellow to support the design and launch of the Climate Change Catalytic (C3) Fund to achieve climate change, clean energy, and environmental justice goals of Maryland's Climate Solutions Now Act and to leverage the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, Inflation Reduction Act, and private investments. For more information, see the announcement below or feel free to contact MCEC Chief Investment Officer Steve Cowan. This is an exciting ground floor opportunity to implement progressive climate policy and historic new investments in Maryland.
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Pitch and Pilot: Fairfax County Innovation Challenge
Registration is now open for an innovation competition to develop smart city solutions centered on carbon neutrality & climate action.
The goal of the challenge is to find innovative solutions that improve energy efficiency, increase the use of renewable electricity, and accelerate the use of electric vehicles to shift from a carbon-based economy to a carbon-neutral community. The deadline for accepting applications is October 3, 2022, at 5pm ET.
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MITRE Capstones Project Portal
As part of its University Innovation Exchange (UIX) initiative, MITRE is partnering with universities to offer technical advisors and capstone project ideas that reflect real problems facing the United States government. The MITRE Capstones Project Portal is a web-based platform for university faculty and students to browse, select, and execute capstone projects with a MITRE technical advisor. There are several exciting opportunities currently on the Project Portal. You can review the full list here.
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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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Society, Culture, and Environment Series
Friday, September 16, 2022, 12pm ET
Registration
Hybrid: Horizon Hall 6325 or Zoom
Levi Van Sant—Assistant Professor, School of Integrative Studies—will kick us off on Sept. 16th at noon with a talk titled “Land Claims: Conservation Easements and the Politics of Property in the Shenandoah Valley.”
On Oct. 21st, Ted Chen—Assistant Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy—will address how “Climate Disasters Mobilize the Rich and Suppress the Poor: Voter Turnout Post-Harvey.”
And, on Nov. 18th, Dale Rothman—Associate Professor, Computational & Data Sciences Department—will speak about “Eliciting Mental Models for Understanding the Reasoning for and against Solar Geoengineering (SG) Research.”
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Bring Down Counterfeiting 2022: Policy Hackathon
George Mason University’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) is pleased to partner with Amazon to co-host the 2022 Bring Down Counterfeiting Public Policy Hackathon, which is now accepting registrants. Tickets are finite so register now!
Annually, counterfeiting and piracy are a $464 billion problem, or 2.5% of global trade, according to the OECD. Counterfeiters deprive brand owners of the value of their intellectual property, compete unfairly with honest entrepreneurs, and may place the health and safety of consumers at risk. Additionally, counterfeiting may intersect with other nefarious activity such as illicit trafficking in narcotics, arms, persons, and wildlife. The methods counterfeiters use and the channels they aim to exploit continue to evolve, and there is wide variability in the investments and impact that different industry stakeholders are having to prevent counterfeiters.
Organized by Blue Clarity, Bring Down Counterfeiting invites teams to register between August 5th and October 7th. This event will challenge teams from U.S. academic institutions, companies, and other affiliations to develop innovative ideas to improve public-private collaborations in the United States against the industry-wide, global challenge of counterfeiting. The final round of the public policy hackathon will be held in-person on November 5th, when teams will compete for more than $20,000 in prizes.
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Trans-Atlantic Economy at the Local Level: The Case of Northern Virginia & Hamburg, Germany
The United States and Europe remain each other’s most important markets: the transatlantic economy is the largest and wealthiest market in the world with strong ties in foreign direct investment. While there are well documented metrics at the national and state-levels concerning global trade and investment, jobs and tourism, there is practically nothing at the local level. This void make strategic planning and regional marketing difficult for regional and local governments. This discussion will help shed light on experiences in Northern Virginia and Hamburg with foreign direct investment and subnational cooperation.
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2022 Geo-Resolution Conference
Registration for the 2022 Geo-Resolution Conference is now available. Please visit our registration page for further info and to register for the conference. This year’s conference theme is “Geospatial Perspectives on Climate Change: Predicting and Mitigating Effects”
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Saint Louis University (SLU) co-sponsor Geo-Resolution 2022 to provide a venue for collaboration among geospatial experts and students in government, academia and industry and to lay the foundation for innovative solutions to combat the effects of climate change.
Geo-Resolution is structured to provide students access to experts in geospatial science and technology. In addition to the four panels and two keynote speakers, the conference features remarks from the NGA director and president of Saint Louis University, a “Young Mentors” panel for high-school students, a student poster session, career fair and networking activities.
Climate change is global; everyone has a role to play. Students, academics, government and industry are all invited to join the conversation during this one-day event at Saint Louis University Sept. 28, 2022.
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- Mason professor finds that headgear reduces concussions in high school girls’ lacrosse, College of Education and Human Development News, September 2, 2022.
- NSF, Schar School Study Takes on Illicit Trafficking—of Human Kidneys, Research News, September 1, 2022.
- Team of Mason researchers win NSF ADVANCE Catalyst grant for STEM programs, The George News, August 29, 2022.
- The Inclusive Teaching and Curriculum Initiative seeks to foster a more welcoming atmosphere for all students to increase learning, Campus News, August 26, 2022.
- Study: To Reduce Jail Populations, Increase Mental Health Services in Communities, Schar School News, August 25, 2022.
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Future Earth's Postdoctoral Grants
To address the multifaceted challenges involved in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Future Earth’s Science-Based Pathways for Sustainability Initiative seeks to support the production of knowledge and enhance the understanding of systemic interactions, competing development agendas, and transformations in concrete contexts across diverse temporal and spatial scales. The Pathways Initiative aims to promote pathways research and develop and support agenda-setting, synthesis, and capacity building activities around pathways for sustainability. Governing these actions is the overall objective of fostering an active international research community making a strong contribution to pathways for sustainability in practice.
Applicants who have any questions regarding the EOI should submit their questions by email to: natalie.chong@futureearth.org
Expressions of Interest must be submitted by the Principal Scientific Co-lead. The deadline to submit the EOI is 11 September 2022, 23:59 CEST
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Dear Colleague Letter: Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS): Innovative Solutions to Sustainable Chemistry (CAS-SC)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces the establishment of the Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS): Innovative Solutions to Sustainable Chemistry Program (CAS-SC), under the CAS metaprogram umbrella. The CAS-SC Program recognizes the importance of sustainable chemistry in addressing many societal challenges and aims to encourage the expansion of the Nation’s research capacity in this topic area through submissions of research proposals. Proposals that emphasize a detailed and quantitative understanding of sustainable chemistry and include industrial partnerships are of particular interest.
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OJP FY2022 Solicitations: Strengthen public safety, prevent gun violence, and increase community trust
This year, the Office of Justice Programs is making significant resources available to reduce violence, including $50 million in new grant funding to support street outreach initiatives, group call-in programs, hospital-based trauma interventions, and other Community Violence Intervention (CVI) strategies designed to reach those most at risk of committing or experiencing violence. A companion solicitation from OJP’s National Institute of Justice is also available to support research and evaluation of CVI programs. We are also inviting communities to take advantage of funding opportunities designed to strengthen the bonds of trust within communities while ensuring public safety.
Please click here for more information, and click on the links below to check out OJP’s other solicitations focused on:
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Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences National Science Foundation
The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plan to support fundamental research in mathematics and statistics necessary to answer questions in the biological and biomedical sciences. Both agencies recognize the need to promote research at the interface between mathematical and life sciences. This program is designed to encourage new collaborations, as well as to support innovative activities by existing teams. The joint DMS/NIGMS initiative offers two submission tracks: Track 1 - for projects with a total budget of up to $600,000 for an award duration of 3 years, and Track 2 - for projects with a total budget of up to $1,200,000 for an award duration of 3-4 years.
- Closing Date for Applications: September 19, 2022
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $1,200,000
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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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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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Bird Strikes Prevention Volunteers
The Office of Sustainability’s Patriot Green Fund, led by Sarah D’Alexander, is engaged with Dr. Daniel Hanley, Dr. David Luther, and Shawn Smith, among others, in the development of strategies to reduce bird strikes and bird fatalities.
Dr. Hanley, Dr. Luther, and Shawn Smith have a unique opportunity for students to participate in community engagement at Mason’s campuses from mid-September to mid-October,
Students can support bird strike prevention by volunteering as citizen scientists! Students will travel pre-selected routes and report any observed bird fatalities in the mornings and/or evenings. Reports will be made using an application designed by Dr. Hanley, Dr. Luther, and Shawn Smith. Data from the reports will be used to help develop solutions to reduce bird strikes and bird fatalities.
Students can email Shawn Smith at ssmit28@gmu.edu and include “bird strike volunteer” in the subject line to get started.
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Mason's Active Leaders Program
Brought to you by Mason’s Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Office is the LEAD's Active Leaders program, which is a 10-week seminar (2 hours each week) taught by Dr. Nick Lennon (LEAD Director). The program is designed to provide a more advanced leadership opportunity for Mason students (undergraduate as well as graduate). There is no reading and no homework. The primary focus is to provide a high-quality leadership program for active student leaders at Mason. This year, the program will be in-person again (on the Fairfax campus). We will have many interactive activities and discussions to help you learn about leadership (this is NOT a lecture-based program).
To be a part of the Mason Active Leaders Program, visit our website at: https://lead.gmu.edu/activeleaders/ and complete the very brief registration form. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Nick Lennon, Director of the Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) office at nlennon@gmu.edu.
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The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Internship Opportunities
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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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