List of Announcements (details below):

  * VSE in the News
  * Monson Hayes to be new Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.
  * Tool for Creating Data Management Plans for NSF Proposals
  * Tod Levitt & Kathy Laskey Receive Funding from ExoAnalytic Solutions
    & Missile Defense Agency
  * Angelos Stavrou & J.P. Auffret Receive Funding from Agency for
    Defense Development
  * Qilian Li & Dimitris Ioannou Receives Funding from Center for
    Innovative Technology
  * Qi Wei & Siddhartha Sikdar Receives Funding from Jeffress Trust
  * Kamaljeet Sanghera Receives Funding from National Center for Women
    and Information Technology


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*VSE in the News*

Here is a list of news stories about VSE that have been posted at 
http://volgenau.gmu.edu/, or that have appeared in other venues in the 
last week.

At the Volgenau website (http://volgenau.gmu.edu/):

  * Colin Reagle Named 2014-15 Fenwick Fellow
    <http://volgenau.gmu.edu/home/-/asset_publisher/HNSOWRmBcc5U/content/colin-reagle-named-2014-15-fenwick-fellow?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fvolgenau.gmu.edu%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_HNSOWRmBcc5U%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-3%26p_p_col_count%3D1>


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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*Monson Hayes to be new Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept.*

**Starting in August, Monson Hayes will be the new Chair of the 
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.Dr. Hayes was formerly a 
Professor Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and is currently 
Distinguished Foreign Professor of Advanced Imaging Science at Chung-Ang 
University in Seoul.He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Hayes' research interests are in image and video processing, image 
and video compression, multimedia signal processing, face recognition 
for device personalization, equation recognition, gesture recognition 
for immersive environments, single and multiple camera systems for 
driver assistance, computational cameras, and image & video processing 
for consumer electronic devices.

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*Tool for Creating Data Management Plans for NSF Proposals*

Aditya Johri of the AIT Department has let me know about the following tool
https://dmptool.org/
that can assist in creating Data Management Plans for NSF and other 
grant proposals.I haven't tried it, so this shouldn't be interpreted as 
an endorsement.

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*Tod Levitt & Kathy Laskey Receive Funding from ExoAnalytic Solutions & 
Missile Defense Agency*

Tod Levitt and Kathy Laskey of the C4I Center received $225K from 
ExoAnalytic Solutions and the Missile Defense Agency for their project, 
"Uncertainty Characterization in RF/EO Track Correlation."

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*Angelos Stavrou & J.P. Auffret Receive Funding from Agency for Defense 
Development*

Angelos Stavrou of the Center for Assured Research & Engineering and 
J.P. Auffret of the School of Business received $268K from Agency for 
Defense Development for their project, "Technical consulting on the test 
and evaluation methodology for cyber-security technologies."

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*Qilian Li & Dimitris Ioannou Receives Funding from Center for 
Innovative Technology*

Qilian Li and Dimitris Ioannou of the Electrical & Computer Engineering 
Department received $100K from the Center for Innovative Technology for 
their project, "Manufacture Large-Area Two-Dimensional Semiconductor 
Materials for Portable, Flexible and Transparent Electronics."

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*Qi Wei & Siddhartha Sikdar Receives Funding from Jeffress Trust*

Qi Wei & Siddhartha Sikdar of the Bioengineering Department received 
$100K from the Jeffress Trust for their project, "A Novel Computational 
Model to Study Human Eye Movement Disorders."

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*Kamaljeet Sanghera Receives Funding from National Center for Women and 
Information Technology*

Kamaljeet Sanghera of the Applied Information Technology Department 
received $3K from National Center for Women and Information Technology 
for her project, "APP Development with Social Entrepreneurship."

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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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