List of Announcements (details below):
* VSE in the News
* Photo of the Week
* Funding Opportunity:High-End Instrumentation (NIH)
* Funding Opportunity:Airport Cooperative Research Program … (TRB)
Because of the winter break, the next installment of News of the Week
will be on Monday, January 9, 2017.
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*VSE in the News*
Here is a list of news stories about VSE that have been posted:
Beyond Mason
* Bloomberg: Mason’s F. Brett Berlin says Trump’s Commerce Secretary
pick Wilbur Ross needs to be on the cutting edge of innovation and
technology. <https://www.bna.com/tech-frets-trump-n73014448443/>__
* Fairfax Times: Bioengineering professor Nitin Agrawal recently
received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
<http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/gmu-professor-receives-grant-to-battle-cancer/article_963f5e2e-be4c-11e6-a5e5-e7679e266643.html>
to develop an anti-cancer therapy in which researchers will induce
the body to grow more T-cells. This article originally appeared in
Mason News.
On the News at Mason page (https://www2.gmu.edu/news)
* Mason's Danny Menasce receives Outstanding Faculty Award from the
state <https://www2.gmu.edu/news/314331>:Danny Menasce, a University
Professor of computer science at George Mason University, is a
recipient of a 2017 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council
of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV).
On the Volgenau site (https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/latest-news)
* Elizabeth Johnson joins prestigious group of content creators for
U.S. Census Bureau education program
<https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/313861>. Census Bureau experts and
eight content teams, who are teachers and experts in K-12 education
and curriculum design selected from hundreds of applicants
nationwide collaborated to create the resource.
* Campus gardens provide natural laboratory for collecting
environmental data <https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/314171>. Viviana
Maggioni and a team of faculty and students are developing a
wireless sensor web to monitor changing weather conditions on the
Fairfax campus.
If you have suggestions for other stories, please submit them to Martha
Bushong, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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*Photo of the Week*
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Students Adam Johnson, Kevin Bryant, Case Hassak, and Jason
Schwarzwalder, from Engr 107, show off their completed hydraulics
project. The idea is to fill “vessels” (i.e., cups) on various “planes”
with a set quantity of water in a set sequence. There are also more
complex events - including injecting some food coloring, mixing it with
the water, and dumping the mixture into a third container.
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*Funding Opportunity:High-End Instrumentation (NIH)*
Opportunity Title:High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10)
Sponsor:Office of Research Infrastructure Programs/NIH/DHHS
Deadline Date:31-May-2017
Program URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-076.html
Synopsis:Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) invites
applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or
upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available
instruments or integrated systems that cost at least $600,001. The
maximum award is $2,000,000. Types of instruments supported include, but
are not limited to: X-ray diffraction systems, nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers,
biosensors, electron and confocal microscopes, cell-sorters, and
biomedical imagers. This FOA will use the NIH S10 Biomedical Research
Support Shared Instrumentation Grants award mechanism.
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*Funding Opportunity:Airport Cooperative Research Program … (TRB)*
Opportunity Title:Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) -
Improving AEDT Modeling for Aircraft Noise Reflection and Diffraction
from Terrain and Manmade Structures
Sponsor:Transportation Research Board
Sponsor Number:ACRP 02-79 [RFP]
Deadline Date:03-Feb-2017
Program URL:
http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4237
Synopsis:The Transportation Research Board's Airport Cooperative
Research Program (ACRP) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to
develop, evaluate, and recommend method(s) to account for aircraft noise
reflection and diffraction due to terrain and manmade structures for
incorporation in AEDT.The method(s) should account for ground and
airborne aircraft operations. Recommended method(s) must be
non-proprietary and based on open-source software.
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Stephen G. Nash
Senior Associate Dean
Volgenau School of Engineering
George Mason University
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2500
Mailstop 5C8
Fairfax, VA 22030
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