Ken
Ball,
Dean, Volgenau School of Engineering (far right) and S. David Wu,
Provost, George Mason University thank Kevin Reynolds (middle),
President,
Cardinal Bank; at the 23rd annual Cardinal Bank and George Mason
University
Greater Washington Economic Conference.
Shams Bahabib selected as Mason
Employee of the Month
Mason’s
Employee
of the Month Selection Committee has selected of Shams Bahabib,
Undergraduate Student Services, Office of the Associate Dean,
Volgenau School
of Engineering as Employee of the Month for February 2015.
Shams
will
be formally presented with this award by President Cabrera in his
office,
5th Floor of Merten Hall, 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 3. Co-workers and friends are all
encouraged to
attend the ceremony.
Graduate Research Fellowship
Program in STEM Fields
The
National
Institute of Justice (NIJ) has a Graduate Research Fellowship
(GRF)
program that supports doctoral students engaged in research in the
forensic sciences
and other topics of relevance to criminal justice, per NIJ's
mission.
The
Graduate
Research Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics (GRF-STEM) track is open to doctoral students in any
of the
following disciplines: Life Sciences. Chemistry. Physics. Geosciences. Materials Research. Engineering. Computer and Information Sciences and
Engineering. Mathematical Sciences. Successful
GRF-STEM applicants must demonstrate how their proposed
dissertation research
advances basic criminal justice knowledge, practice or policy in
the United
States.
Each
fellowship
potentially provides up to three years of support over a five-year
period, pending the demonstration of satisfactory progress toward
the doctoral
degree and the availability of funds. For each year of support,
NIJ provides an
allowance of $35,000 to cover salary/stipend and related costs,
and up to
$15,000 to cover the student’s tuition and fees, research expenses
and related
costs.
Students
are
NOT required to hold U.S. Citizenship or residency to be awarded
this
fellowship.International
students and
non-U.S. Citizens are eligible provided they meet other
eligibility
requirements and qualifications.
This
article
appeared in the Washington
Post
on January 18. Excerpts:
“In
a
video presentation on David Eagleman’s Kickstarter fundraising Web
page, the
43-year-old neuroscience professor removes his shirt. There’s a
legitimate
reason: He’s showing off a prototype of a high-tech vest that he
thinks will
help us expand human perception beyond the limits of our five
senses.
“Eagleman,
who
runs the perception lab at the Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, is
part of an emerging generation of scientists who are leveraging
the world of
crowdfunding, social media and TED talks to promote and raise
money for
research that might otherwise never see the light of day.
“This
kind
of public engagement traditionally has been frowned upon in
academia. … As
scientists have faced growing competition for a shrinking pot of
government
research funds in recent years, however, that attitude is
changing.
“Science
historian
David Kaiser says the trend is being driven by a flip-flop in how
science research is funded in the United States. In the 1960s, the
government
supported two-thirds of the country’s research and development.
These days its
share is closer to one-third — with companies, philanthropic
organizations and
other private sources paying for the rest. …”
Sponsor:Directorate for Education and
Human
Resources/NSF
The
STEM+C
Partnerships program seeks to significantly enhance the learning
and
teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM),
and computing
by K-12 students and teachers, through research on, and
development of, courses,
curriculum, course materials, pedagogies, instructional
strategies, or models
that innovatively integrate computing into one or more STEM
disciplines, or
integrate STEM content into the teaching and learning of
computing. In
addition, STEM+C seeks to build capacity in K-12 computing
education with
foundational research and focused teacher preparation. Projects in
the STEM+C
Partnerships program should build on research in STEM education
and prior
research and development efforts that provide theoretical and
empirical justification
for proposed projects.
Max
Albanese
of the Applied Information Technology Department received $18K
from the National
Collegiate Inventors and
Innovators Alliance for his project, “E-Mow:
Biomass-Powered Robot Harvester.”
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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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