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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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Congratulations to the 2020-2021 Curriculum Impact Grantees!
Congratulations to the 2020-2021 Provost Curriculum Impact Grant winners! The Faculty and Curricular Activities committee and a team of peer reviewers evaluated 20 highly competitive submissions and selected 8 curricular projects to fund. These projects represent an impressive array of collaborations across colleges and schools aiming to create high-impact learning experiences for students, by deepening their engagement and preparing them for substantive impact on the world. The 7 winning projects engage with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
- Lifestyle Behavior Change Certificate Program - Debra Stroiney, Suzanne Carmack, Joel Martin (College of Education and Human Development).
- Engaging Locally with Food, Energy, Water and Climate Global Goals: Adding Experiential Learning to the Energy and Sustainability Policy and Science MS Concentration - Jennifer Sklarew, Dann Sklarew, Linda Hinnov, Maction Komwa, Viviana Maggioni, Constance Gewa (College of Engineering and Computing, College of Health and Human Services, College of Science).
- Bridging the Divide: Preparing Graduate STEM Students to Navigate the Science Policy Interface - Lee Solomon, Karen Akerlof, James Olds, Jessica Rosenberg, Jennifer Salerno (College of Science, Schar School of Policy and Goverment).
- Creating New Pathways to Success for Early Career Biology Students Through Computational Data Science - Ron Mahabir, Matthew Valko, Jason Kinser, Geraldine Grant, Andrea Weeks (College of Science).
- Race and Ethnicity in Cultural Studies: New Courses, New Connections - Tim Gibson, Pavithra Suresh, Jessica Scarlata, Eric Ross, Alex Monea (College of Humanities and Social Sciences).
- Ethics and AI Minor - Jesse Kirkpatrick, Peng Warweg, Amarda Shedu, Rachel Jones, Alexander Monea (College of Engineering and Computing, College of Humanities and Social Sciences).
- Minor in Business for a Better World - Leila Austin, Elaine Viccora, Anne Lauer, Yvonne Demory, Shora Moteabbed, Karen King, Christine Landoll, Sidhartha Das, Ioannis Bellos, Niki Maria Vlastara, Anne Magro, Lisa Gring-Pemble, Robert Pierce (School of Business).
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Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021Saturday, June 12 - Tuesday, 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.
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Spring 2021 NSF Virtual Grants Conference
Monday, June 7, 2021 - Friday, June 11, 2021
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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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Master Plan Engagement Session
Thursday, June 10, 2021, 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Event Link
Mason will be hosting the sixth virtual Master Plan Engagement Session. During this session, consultants will begin conversations around the physical systems needed to support our emerging campus identities. This will include ideas about transportation, campus ecology, sustainability, and public/private development opportunities.
The master plan will serve as a framework for decision making for how the university will use its campuses and physical space to advance Mason's mission. More information about the master plan and the work to date can be found on the master plan site.
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Sand mafias: Environmental harm, corruption, and economic impacts
Monday, June 14, 2021, 9 - 10:30am ET
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Join the Schar School's Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC), in its role in the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption project (TNRC), for an upcoming event on sand mafias — an understudied, yet environmentally devastating trend for which corruption appears to be a major facilitating factor. The illicit extraction and trade in sand is detrimental to ecosystems and plays a role in destroying local economies, propping up autocrats and fueling conflict.
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2022 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends Workshop
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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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New: Wetland Program Development Grants
Wetland Program Development Grants (WPDGs) assist state, territorial, tribal, local government agencies and interstate/intertribal entities in developing or refining state/ territorial/tribal/local programs which protect, manage, and restore wetlands. The primary focus of these grants is to develop/refine state, territorial, and tribal wetland programs. A secondary focus is to develop/refine local (e.g. county or municipal) programs.
- Funding source: Environmental Protection Agency
- Anticipated funding amount: $250,000
- Deadline: July 16, 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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New: Preventing School Violence: BJA’s STOP School Violence Program
This fuding opportunity is seeking applications for funding under the Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) Grant Program. This program furthers the Department’s mission by supporting and assisting county, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions in improving efforts to reduce violent crime in and around schools.
- Funding source: Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Justice
- Anticipated funding amount: $74,000,000
- Deadline: August 16, 2021
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New: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Behavioral Economics for Implementation Research (BEIR) to Improve Use of Evidence-Based Practices for HLBS Conditions
This Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is intended to stimulate the use of behavioral economics strategies for implementation research (BEIR) in order to develop more effective strategies for implementaion of evidence-based practices (EBP) to address heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) conditions. NHLBI encourages applications that recognize the importance of cultural context, patterns of behavior change, and motivators for change across decision-making levels, including individuals (e.g., patients, parents, clinicians, others), groups, healthcare systems and/or communities. Applications that focus on the use of behavioral economics to develop implementation strategies for user-driven, sustainable interventions that may be simplified and minimally disruptive when possible are encouraged. Applications may propose either a clinical trial or non-clinical trial design, as appropriate to the research objectives.
- Funding source: National Institutes of Health, DHHS
- Anticipated funding amount: Not available
- Deadline: October 5, 2021
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New: Dear Colleague Letter: Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding Opportunity
Deadline: Application accepted on rolling basis
Application
An NSF supplemental funding opportunity is available in fiscal years FY 2021 and beyond to provide graduate students with experiential learning opportunities through research internships to acquire core professional competencies and skills to support careers in any sector of the U.S. economy. NSF currently invests in a number of graduate student preparedness activities and has historically encouraged principal investigators (PIs) to include such activities in research proposals to NSF. This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) describes funding opportunities at NSF to ensure graduate students are well prepared for the 21st-century STEM workforce.
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New: SciTech and Human Rights FutureGen Scholars
Deadline: Wednesday, June 16, 2021
Application
The AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition invites applications from undergraduate and graduate students to become SciTech and Human Rights FutureGen Scholars. This new initiative aims to support students who present a well-defined goal and innovative plan of action for addressing the intersection of SciTech and Human Rights on their campus or in their community during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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New: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Graduate Student Paper Prize 2021
Deadline: Saturday, July 10, 2021
Application
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering on the analysis of political and/or legal institutions and processes. These papers should be original and not submitted previously or simultaneously for review or publication elsewhere.
APLA awards a cash prize of $350.00. The prize winner will be announced in Anthropology News. The winning paper will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Papers must be submitted by July 10, 2021.
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Strategic International Ties at the Local Level: The Case of Northern Virginia and Region Stuttgart
Thursday, June 24, 2021, 11am
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Local governments around the world face similar challenges like climate change, public safety, economic development and infrastructure revitalization. By looking beyond country borders for strategies and solutions through global engagement with other local governments, communities and regions may find a way to prosper and strive.
In a policy paper for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA, authors Dr. Dale Medearis (NVRC) and Ambassador Richard Kauzlarich (George Mason University, Schar School for Public Policy) point out the current challenges local governments in the U.S. confront when trying to work internationally and ways in which NVRC’s model might inform potential application by other local governments in the U.S. and Europe.
The panel of experts will discuss the observations of the paper, their own work with the issue of global engagement by local governments, and thoughts about how future transatlantic ties may look like.
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3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences
Monday, September 13 - Friday, September 17, 2021
Additional Information
This hybrid workshop is a continuation of the NOAA series of workshops on “Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences.” The third event continues the successes of previous workshops and encourages participation by scientists, program managers, and leaders from the public, academic and private sectors who work in AI and environmental sciences.
The theme for this year’s workshop is “Transforming Weather, Climate Services, and Blue Economy with Artificial Intelligence.” As a hybrid event, in-person capacity at Boulder will be limited in accordance with the most recent public health guideline while the virtual event will be open broadly to the public.
The workshop is currently accepting abstracts relevant to the theme of this year’s workshop until June 18, 2021.
Key Dates:
- Abstract submission: June 18, 2021
- Notification to authors: July 16, 2021
- Registration open: July 16, 2021
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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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