EasyFBO founder a finalist in
'Entrepreneur' contest [at the website for the
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association] (another article about John Hill, a Mason
undergraduate advised through Volgenau’s Laboratory for IT
Entrepreneurship (http://lite.gmu.edu/); he is also the subject of
the Mason News
article below, as well as articles I mentioned on August 11
and September 2)
Aditya
Johri, chair of the Applied Information Technology Department,
will be
facilitating a workshop on “Proposal Strategies” for the NSF IUSE
Solicitation
on Tuesday, Sept. 16 (tomorrow) 12:30-2:30 PM Room 4801, Nguyen Engineering Building
Funding
Opportunity: Gates Foundation (global
health & development)
The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now inviting applications
to Grand
Challenges Explorations, which has awarded over 1070 grants in
over 58
countries to date.
Grand
Challenges Explorations seeks innovative global health and
development
solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any
discipline; and
from any organization, including universities, government
laboratories,
research institutions, non-profit organizations as well as
for-profit
companies.
Two-page
proposals are being accepted online from September 4, 2014 until
November 12,
2014 on the following topics:
Surveillance
Tools, Diagnostics and an Artificial Diet to Support New
Approaches to Vector
Control.
New
Approaches for Addressing Outdoor/Residual Malaria
Transmission
New
Ways to Reduce Pneumonia Fatalities through Timely, Effective
Treatment of
Children
Enable
Universal Acceptance of Mobile Money Payments to Create an
Economic Ecosystem
that Will Help Lift the Poorest Out of Poverty
Explore
New Ways to Measure Brain Development and Gestational Age
New
Ways of Working Together: Integrating Community-Based
Interventions
Initial
grants will be US $100,000 each, and projects showing promise will
have the
opportunity to receive additional funding of up to US $1 million.
Full
descriptions of the new topics and application instructions are
available at: www.grandchallenges.org/explorations.
Funding
Opportunity: Pathways to Innovation Program (entrepreneurship in
undergraduate
education)
Give
engineering students the technical skills, tools and attitudes
they need to
turn ideas into practical solutions that solve real problems.
The
submission deadline for our Pathways to Innovation Program is
October 10, 2014.
This
program is designed to help institutional teams of faculty and
leaders fully
incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship into undergraduate
engineering
education. Read more and download the call for proposals at: http://epicenter.stanford.edu/page/pathways-to-innovation
Graduate
Student Travel Fund:
International Travel Grant
In
addition to providing up to $450 in travel support for students
presenting at
professional conferences, the Associate Provost for Graduate
Education is
pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of
International
Travel Grants (ITG). Awarded on a competitive basis, the ITG
offers up to $3000
in travel support for students presenting the results of original
research at
international conferences.
Requirements
for consideration include submission of a complete presentation
abstract as
well as the names and institutional affiliations of all co-authors
(student
must be primary author). In addition, requests for the ITG must be
accompanied
by a letter (no more than 250 words) from the student’s
faculty/research
advisor describing how conference participation will advance the
student’s
pursuit of his/her educational and professional goals. We also ask
for
endorsement by the department chair. Students who are not selected
for an ITG
may still apply for funding through our general GSTF fund.
General
GSTF deadlines still apply. Please visit website for more
information regarding
our policies and procedures http://gstf.gmu.edu/.
For
more information and submission details regarding the ITG, please
contact
Akitta Robertson, [log in to unmask].
The
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is
pleased to
announce that applications are now being accepted for the AAAS
Science &
Technology Policy fellowships. Policy fellowships provide
mathematicians the
unique opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to national
and
international issues in the federal policy realm. Fellows share an
interest and
commitment to public service, a desire to learn about science and
technology
policy, and a willingness to apply their scientific and
engineering backgrounds
in new arenas.
Fellows
serve in yearlong assignments in the executive, judicial, and
legislative
branches of the federal government in Washington. Candidates who
demonstrate
strong scientific and technical credentials, a commitment to
public service,
strong communication skills, problem-solving ability, good
judgment,
flexibility, and leadership qualities, are encouraged to apply.
For
more than 40 years, scientists, social scientists, engineers, and
health
professionals have applied their knowledge and technical expertise
to
policymaking while developing valuable career-enhancing skills in
the process.
Join a network of more than 2,800 current and alumni fellows
impacting policy,
contributing to public service, and forging new careers.
Yotam
Gingold of the Computer Science Department received $70K from the
National
Science Foundation for his project, “Improving the Quality and
Editability of
2D and 3D Shapes via Crowdsourcing and Self-Crowdsourcing.”
Nathalia
Peixoto of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
received $100K
from the National Science Foundation for her project,
“Bioimpedance of
stimulating electrodes for the safe placement of retinal
implants.”
Brian
Mark of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
received $472K
from the National Science Foundation for his project, “NeTS:
Small: Spectrum
Sensing and Resource Allocation for Cognitive Radio Networks.”
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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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Phone: (703) 993-1505
Fax: (703) 993-1633
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