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ISE-COMPASS Science-Policy Communication Workshop for Mason Faculty
Make your science research matter! Mason’s Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) is collaborating with COMPASS to host a virtual science-policy communication workshop for Mason faculty. For over 20 years, COMPASS has been training, coaching, and supporting scientists to effectively communicate their work and engage beyond the lab and field. This workshop will introduce tools and strategies to help you understand and communicate with diverse policy audiences.
Following the workshop, ISE will facilitate writing groups for workshop participants interested in producing a publishable op-ed, targeted policy-brief for distribution, or other actionable documents.Registration is limited to Mason Faculty and only 25 seats are available! Participants must be able to attend both days.
- Dates: November 10, 2020 and November 12, 2020
- Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm both days
- Location: Virtual
- Registration by October 9, 2020
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ISE Faculty Fellows Program
The Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) is now accepting applications from Mason faculty for ISE’s Faculty Fellows program. ISE’s Faculty Fellows will serve as community-building catalysts who support the development of transdisciplinary communities of research and practice around ISE's 6 research themes. With the support of the ISE team, each Fellow will lead efforts to develop one of the research themes. Fellows will also participate in and contribute to the strategic development of ISE. Applications are due October 16, 2020.
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2021 Ashoka U Exchange
The Ashoka U Exchange is the world’s premier gathering of higher education leaders who are focused on social innovation and impact. The theme of this year's virtual conference is: "Rising to the Challenge: Ordinary People Together Making Extraordinary Change". Facutly, staff, and students are strongly encouraged to apply to participate as presenters or facilitators. Applications are due Novermber 9, 2020.
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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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Master Plan Engagement Session
Mason's 3rd Virtual Master Plan Engagement Session will be held on Thursday, October 8. The master plan will serve as a decision-making framework for how Mason will use its campuses and physical space to advance Mason's mission.During this 3rd session, consultants will discuss Virginia's demographic and workforce trends, including Mason's commitment to Tech Talent development, and early assessments of the implications for Mason's enrollments.
- Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020
- Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Race, the Origin Story of the Criminal Legal System, and the Future of Reform
The Human Rights and Global Justice Initiative invites the Mason community to an important, live, virtual discussion featuring Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, Commonwealth’s Attorney for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church, followed by topical break-out discussion groups focusing on Racial Justice, Legal Reform and Restorative Justice, Activism: Domestic and International, and Change-Making and Well-Being.- Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020
- Time: 4:00pm - 6:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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NIH Opportunities for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) invites the Mason community to attend a virtual session on NIH Opportunities for the Behavioral and Social Science. This session will provide attendees the opportunity to learn about funding opportunities for behavioral and social sciences research at the NIH.
Two senior NIH program officers, Elizabeth Ginexi (NIH, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research) and Aria Crump (National Institute on Drug Abuse), will help demystify the NIH grant application and review process, highlight specific research opportunities for research involving the behavioral and social sciences aspects of health, and answer your questions.
- Date: Friday, October 9, 2020
- Time: 10:00am - 11:00am ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Business for a Better World Center Fall Speaker Series
The Clean Cooking Alliance works with a global network of partners to build an inclusive industry that makes clean cooking accessible to the three billion people who live each day without it, with a particular eye toward women and girls, who often spend hours cooking and collecting fuel, and are disproportionately affected.
- Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
- Time: 4pm - 5:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Converging Approaches to Sustainable Resilience
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NSF/VMware Partnership on the Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure
The goal of this joint solicitation between NSF and VMware is to foster novel, transformative research in fundamental and systematic approaches that bring dramatic increases in the environmental sustainability of the Digital Infrastructure leading to practical methodologies and tools. The Digital Infrastructure is broadly defined as the totality of software, hardware, and the methods for managing them for the purpose of efficient computation. This research includes, but is not limited to, computer software and systems; management of distributed software, the Digital Infrastructure, and data center power sourcing; and resource allocation and scheduling.
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: $6,000,000
- Anticipated number of awards: 2
- Deadline: November 4, 2020
- Contact: Erik Brunvand
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NEW: Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies
The objective of this Funding Opportunity Announcement is to research and develop next‐generation building technologies that have the potential for significant energy savings and improved demand flexibility, affordability, and occupant comfort. An additional goal is to advance building construction, remodeling, and retrofit practices, and associated workforces.
- Funding source: U.S. Department of Energy
- Anticipated funding amount: Up to 80 million
- Deadlines: Concept note: November 5, 2020; Full application: January 20, 2021
- Contact
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Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications to support a Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors. EPA is interested in supporting a transdisciplinary research center to better understand potential causal relationships among cumulative exposures to chemicals and non-chemical environmental stressors during early lifestages and modifying factors that result in adverse developmental health effects.
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Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks
The goal of this program is to fund convergent research and education that will advance sustainable regional systems science, engineering, and education to facilitate the transformation of current regional systems to enhance sustainability. To further the advancement of sustainable regional Systems science, engineering, and education, NSF will support full scale proposals and planning grant proposals for Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs).
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: SRS RNs Full Scale Awards (Track 1): $15,000,000; SRS RNs Planning Grants (Track 2): $150,000.
- Deadline: January 11, 2021
- Contact: Bruce Hamilton
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Biology Integration Institutes
The aim of the Biology Integration Institutes program solicitation is to bring researchers together around the common goal of understanding how the processes that sustain life and enable biological innovation operate and interact within and across different scales of organization, from molecules to cells, tissues to organisms, species, ecosystems, biomes and the entire Earth. The Biology Integration Institutes program supports collaborative teams of researchers investigating questions that span multiple disciplines within and beyond biology.- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: $15,000,000
- Deadline: January 13, 2021
- Contact: Reed Beaman, Program Director
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NEW: Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning
The purpose of the program is to fund exploratory and synergistic research in emerging technologies (to include, but not limited to, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and immersive or augmenting technologies) for teaching and learning in the future. The program accepts proposals that focus on learning, teaching, or a combination of both. The scope of the program is broad, with special interest in diverse learner/educator populations, contexts, and content, including teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and in foundational areas that enable STEM (e.g., self-regulation, literacy, communication, collaboration, creativity, and socio-emotional skills).
- Funding source: National Science Foundation
- Anticipated funding amount: $19,000,000
- Anticipated number of awards: 20
- Deadline: January 25, 2021
- Contact: Amy Baylor
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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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Congratulations!Funding Announcements, Awards & Accomplishments
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A Community Approach to Reducing Single-Use Plastic Beverage Bottles
PI: Cynthia Smith, College of Science
Co-PI: Kim De Mutsert, College of Science
Co-PI: Scott Glaberman, College of Science
Funding source: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
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Developing a Data Platform for Analysis of Nonprofit Organizations
PI: Alan Abramson, Schar School of Policy & Government
Funding source: National Science Foundation
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Combined Land and Ocean Drivers of U.S. Drought Determined from Information Theoretic Evaluation of Observations and Coupled Models
PI: Paul Dirmeyer, College of Science
Co-PI: Bohua Huang, College of Science
Co-PI: Chul-Su Shin, College of Science
Funding source: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding, Modeling, and Disrupting Drug and Counterfeit Illicit Supply Chains
PI: Louise Shelley, Schar School of Policy & Government
Co-PI: Chien Huang, Volgenau School of Engineering
Funding source: National Science Foundation
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George Mason University Cybersecurity Scholarship Program
PI: Albanese, Massimiliano, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Khondkar Islam, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Sushil Jajodia, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Ioulia Rytikova, Volgenau School of Engineering
Funding source: Department of Defense
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Advancing Decadal Predictions by Optimally Detecting Differences in Causal Relations
PI: Timothy Delsole, College of Science
Funding source: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
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Decentralized Cryptographic Security for Everyone
PI: Massimiliano Albanese, Volgenau School of Engineering
Co-PI: Foteini Baldimtsi, Volgenau School of Engineering
Funding source: Hushmesh Inc.
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Nurse Education Practice Quality Retention - Registered Nurse in Primary Care COVID
PI: Rebecca Sutter, College of Health & Human Services
Funding source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Aspiring Special Education Leaders Academy (ASELA)
PI: Baker, Pamela Hudson, College of Education & Human Development
Funding source: U.S. Department of Education
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Accessible Instructional Materials of Virginia (AIM-VA) FY-21
PI: Marci Jerome, College of Education & Human Development
Funding source: Virginia Department of Education & US Department of Education
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What Sets the Predictability Timescales of SST and Upper-Ocean Heat Content in the Atlantic and Pacific Basins?
PI: Martha Buckley, College of Science
Co-PI: Laurie Trenary, College of Science
Co-PI: Timothy Delsole, College of Science
Funding source: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
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Safety Considerations for Speed Limited ADS Shuttles
PI: Cing-Dao Kan, College of Science
Co-PI: Rudolf Reichert, College of Science
Funding source: U.S. Department of Transportation
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Crash Compatibility for Unoccupied Automated Driving Systems
PI: Cing-Dao Kan, College of Science
Co-PI: Rudolf Reichert, College of Science
Funding source: U.S. Department of Transportation
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Soil Moisture as Regulator of Water and Energy Cycle Feedbacks between Land and Atmosphere
PI: Paul Dirmeyer, College of Science
Funding source: NASA: Goddard Space Flight Center
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TTAC EC FY21
PI: Linda Mason, College of Education & Human Development
Funding source: Virginia Department of Education & U.S. Department of Education
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TTAC Main FY21
PI: Margaret Weiss, College of Education & Human Development
Funding source: Virginia Department of Education & U.S. Department of Education
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Climate Ready Communities
Tonya Graham, the Executive Director of the Geos Institute will guide you through their Climate Ready Communities program. The program is a “Do-It-Yourself” approach for local governments that features a Practical Guide to Building Climate Resilience, a support package for using the guide, and other supplemental services.- Date: Wednesday, October 7
- Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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Virtual Symposium on Confronting Urgent Threats to Human Health and Society: COVID-19 and Climate Change
- Date: October 19, 2020
- Time: 10:00am - 5:30pm ET
- Location: Virtual
- Registration
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1st International Symposium on Human Health & the Ocean
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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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