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Momentum: Mason's Quarterly Research Newsletter
Momentum is Mason's quarterly research newsletter that comprehensively showcases the university's rapidly expanding research and scholarship portfolio. Mason is a top-tier research university with its faculty conducting cutting-edge research recognized across the nation and around the world. To stay up to date with Mason's research portfolio, subscribe to Momentum.
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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 this brief survey.
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Neighborhood Resilience and the Four Loops Model of Community Resilience
The Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) is hosting a web seminar by Dr. Karina Korostelina on Neighborhood Resilience and the Four Loops Model of Community Resilience. Dr. Korostelina will discuss the neighborhood resilience approach as a robust and inclusive form of building urban resilience that prioritizes agency of local communities in the production of knowledge and developing successful practices. Following Dr. Korostelina's presentation, there will be a moderated Q&A with webinar participants and presenters.
- Date: Thursday, July 2, 2020
- Time: 11am - 12pm EST
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Mason Online Pandemic Modeling Forum: Global Macroeconomic Scenarios of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Professor Robert Axtell, Computational Social Science Ph.D. Program, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, College of Science, will be hosting the Mason Online Pandemic Modeling Forum to be held weekly on Fridays throughout the summer, focusing on the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 disease. This session will feature Warwick McKibbin, Professor and Director, ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU).- Date: Thursday, July 9, 2020
- Time: 5:00pm EST
- Location: Virtual
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Webinar on Domestic Violence During the Pandemic
The Gender and Policy (GAP) Center will be hosting a virtual panel discussion on domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic. Policy scholars from the University of Houston, University of Delaware, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the University of Denver Colorado with join our Schar School host, Professor Bonnie Stabile, GAP Center Director, for this timely dialogue.
- Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2020
- Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm EST
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Congratulations!
Funding Announcements, Awards, and Accomplishments
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Collaborative Research: RAPID: Building a Spatiotemporal Platform for Rapid Response to COVID-19
Primary Investigator (PI): Chaowei Yang, College of Science
Funding source: National Science Foundation
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Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH)
PI: Odstrcil, Dusan, College of Science
Funding source: Southwest Research Institute and NASA
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Ground Magnetic Field Perturbations under Extreme Space Weather Conditions
PI: Robert Weigel, College of Science
Funding source: Catholic University of America and NASA
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Collaborative Research (RAPID): Modeling, Analysis and Control of COVID-19 Spread in an Aircraft Cabin using Physics Informed Deep Learning
PI: Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, College of Science
Funding source: National Science Foundation
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Better Evidence Project
PI: Susan Allen, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Funding source: George Mason University Foundation
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GMUF/COVID-19 & Partner Violence
PI: Jhumka Gupta, College of Health and Human Services
Funding source: George Mason University Foundation
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GO Virginia Statewide Return On Investment (ROI) Calculation
PI: Terry Clower, Schar School of Policy and Government
Funding source: Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
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Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust (PRSTRT) Resiliency & Business Innovation (RBI) Project
PI: Linton Wells, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Jean-Pierre Auffret, Volgenau School of Engineering
Funding source: Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and Department of Commerce
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Affordable Housing Master Plan Needs Analysis Updated
PI: Jeannette Chapman, Schar School of Policy and Government
Funding source: Arlington County and HUD
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GMUF/MAP Clinic Operating Funds
PI: Rebecca Sutter, College of Health and Human Services
Funding source: George Mason University Foundation
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COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
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The Research Development Services office has organized a detailed database of funding opportunities pertaining to COVID-19. The database is updated as new opportunities become available. If you would like to add opportunities to the database please contact Heather Arold.
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Additional Funding Opportunities
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Dear Colleague Letter: Engineering Research to Advance Solutions for Environmental PFAS (ERASE-PFAS)
The Environmental Engineering program announces a special funding focus on new science and technologies for the treatment and remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to improve and protect public and environmental health. The objective of the Environmental Engineering program at NSF is to support research on the prevention, minimization, mitigation, and/or remediation of environmental pollution to protect human and ecological health.
Priority topics for this special funding focus include:
- Research that enables the development of technologies for mitigation, remediation, and/or treatment of PFAS in the environment
- Research that elucidates the underlying limitations of PFAS transformation reactions that could lead to potentially transformative, feasible technologies for PFAS remediation; and
- Research that identifies biological, chemical, and/or physical reaction mechanisms for the treatment of fluorotelomer-based fluorosurfactants in AFFFs and other products.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Contact: Karl J. Rockne
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Dear Colleague Letter: Pilot Projects to Integrate Existing Data and Data-Focused Cyberinfrastructure to Enable Community-level Discovery Pathways
Through this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), NSF encourages proposals to the Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research (CESER) program within the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for pilot projects that bring together researchers and CI experts to develop the means of combining existing community data resources and shared data-focused CI into new integrative and highly performing data-intensive discovery workflows that empower new scientific pathways.
Aims of such pilot projects can include, but are not limited to:
- Improving the end-to-end process of accessing, integrating and transforming research and education data to knowledge and discovery for one or more communities
- Creating new workflows and new usage modes to address multi-disciplinary and cross-domain scientific objectives;
- Addressing emerging community-scale scientific data challenges such as real-time, streaming and on-demand data access; data discovery through knowledge networks and intelligent data delivery; enabling access to data with privacy concerns; and data fusion, integration and interoperability;
- Enhancing the performance and robustness of community-scale data integration and discovery workflows such as through automated curation, end-to-end performance monitoring, provenance tracking, and means of assuring data trustworthiness; an
- Federating learner data to empower innovative assessment tools for large-scale modeling of learning gains.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated number of awards: $1,500,000
- Deadline: July 1, 2020
- Contact: NSF
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Civic Innovation Challenge
The Civic Innovation Challenge is a research and action competition in the Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) domain designed to build a more cohesive research-to-innovation pipeline and foster a collaborative spirit. CIVIC will fund projects that can produce significant community impact within 12 months (following a four-month planning phase) — in contrast to many community-university partnerships that take years to provide tangible benefits to communities — and have the potential for lasting impact beyond the period of the CIVIC award.In the first stage (Stage 1), up to 12 awards per track will be made for Planning Grants – each with a budget of up to $50,000 for four months to undertake pre-development activities, including solidifying the team, maturing the project plans, and preparing to submit a well-developed full proposal for Stage 2. Only awardees of Stage 1 will be eligible to submit proposals for Stage 2.
In the second stage (Stage 2), up to four teams per track will be selected from Stage 1 award recipients to receive a full award— each with a budget of up to $1,000,000 for up to 12 months to execute and evaluate their research-centered pilot projects.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated number of awards: 24 to 32
- Estimated funding amount: $9,000,000
- Deadline: Stage 1: July 1, 2020; Stage 2: March 31, 2021
- Contact: David Corman, Program Director
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AI for Earth Innovation
- Funding source: National Geographic Society and Microsoft’s AI for Earth Program
- Amount: Applicants may request $5,000 to $100,000
- Deadline: July 22, 2020
- Contact: AI for Earth Innovation
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Coastlines and People
The Coastlines and People program supports diverse, innovative, multi-institution awards that are focused on critically important coastlines and people research that is integrated with broadening participation goals. The objective of this solicitation is to support Coastal Research Hubs, structured using a convergent science approach, at the nexus between coastal sustainability, human dimensions, and coastal processes to transform understanding of interactions among natural, human-built, and social systems in coastal, populated environments.- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Estimated number of awards: 8 to 10
- Anticipated funding amount: $29,500,000
- Deadline: September 9, 2020
- Contact: CoPe Working Group
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FY 2020 Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
The Office of Science of the US Department of Energy is providing funding for research in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, and Nuclear Physics.- Funding source: Office of Science, Department of Energy
- Amount: Up to $5,000,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2020
- Contact: Kimberlie Laing, 301-903-3026
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Early Career Grant
The National Geographic Society offers Early Career Grants which are designed to offer less experienced individuals an opportunity to lead a project. Projects must align with one of three focus areas: wildlife; human journey; or, changing planet. Grants will be awarded for projects up to one year in length and will not exceed US $10,000. - Funding Source: The National Geographic Society
- Amount: Up to $10,000
- Deadline: October 21, 2020
- Contact: NGS grants
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Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program
The Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program funds projects that address the needs of fishing communities, optimize economic benefits by building and maintaining sustainable fisheries, and increase other opportunities to keep working waterfronts viable.NOAA Fisheries seeks applications that demonstrate direct benefits to the U.S. fishing industries and applications which involve:
- Fishing community participation aimed at helping fishing communities to resolve issues that affect their ability to fish.
- Making full use of those species that are currently under federal or state fishery management plans
- Addressing the socioeconomic impacts of overfishing and overcapacity.
- Funding source: NOAA Fisheries
- Amount: Up to $300,000
- Deadline: November 20, 2020
- Contact: Clifford Cosgrove
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Global Innovation Fund
The Globa Innovation Fund seeks to invest in social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of millions of people in the developing world. Open to funding innovations in any sector as long as they can demonstrate their innovation improves the lives of those living on less than USD 5 PPP per day.
- Funding source: Global Innovation Fund
- Amount: $50,000 - $15,000,000
- Deadline: Proposals accepted at anytime
- Additional information
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Launch of the 2020 Sustainable Development Report
Join SDSN and Bertelsmann Stiftung as they virtually launch the 2020 Sustainable Development Report which includes the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index and Dashboards. Published by Cambridge University Press, the report outlines the likely short-term impacts of Covid-19 on the SDGs and describes how the SDGs can frame the recovery. The report also tracks progress by countries towards the SDGs.
- Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2020
- Time: 8:00am - 9:30am EST
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Migration and Climate Change Scoping Meeting
Human migration is projected as one of the greatest adverse impacts of climate change with future flows of climate migrants, also referred to as climate refugees, predicted at 200 million by 2050 (IPCC 2006). To address this intense and complex climate change impact, the Belmont Forum is excited to announce the scoping of a new international funding opportunity focused on Migration and Climate Change.
We invite you to participate in a special online meeting to share your expert perspective of the state of the science as it relates to research and societal needs in Migration. We will ultimately incorporate your input into the development of research themes for an international call for proposals. Participation in this event does not make you ineligible to submit a proposal once the call is finalized and released.
- Date: Friday, July 10, 2020
- Time: 7am EST
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Webinar: Achieving Inclusive, Equitable, Sustainable and Quality Education for All Post COVID-19
Millennium Promise Alliance invites you to a webinar on the new age of Education. Join Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Prof. Klaus Leisinger and experts from Center for Sustainable Development Columbia University (CSD), University of Education Winneba, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), OCP, Ministry of Education Ghana and Ministry of Local Government Uganda as we discuss how to achieve inclusive, equitable, sustainable and quality education for all post COVID-19- Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2020
- Time: 9:00am - 11:00am EST
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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The 8th World Sustainability Forum
The 8th World Sustainability Forum (WSF2020) is an international scientific conference coordinated by MDPI under the patronage of the University of Basel, the University of Geneva and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN). In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the theme for the meeting include: 1) health and medicine; 2) mobility and transport; and 3) food security and agriculture.
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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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