Brown Bag Series: A Day in the
Life of a Cyber-warrier (Feb. 5, 1:30 pm)
Location:Research Hall 163
Presented
by
Cyber Warrior Academy
This
technical
session will showcase the ample career opportunities available for
computer science and engineering undergraduates in the US law
enforcement,
defense and intelligence community. In this session you will learn
about the
insatiable need for cyber-security talent within the US government
and defense
contractors and how you can develop the skills to participate in
this high
growth area that virtually guarantees internships and employment.
You will get
visibility into the high impact and mission critical work
performed by these
institutions in the an area of applied computer science called
"offensive
cyber-security" that involves skills like Binary Analysis, Reverse
Engineering, Vulnerability Discovery and Exploit Development.
Pragmatics
Pitch
IT 2015 is the second edition of LITE’s business idea competition.
The
2015 edition is named after our generous corporate sponsor,
Pragmatics, a
Northern Virginia-based company delivering innovative technology
solutions to a
large number of government clients.
The
Pragmatics
Pitch IT 2015 is open to all teams with at least one Mason
student.
The presenter must be a Mason student. Participants will
compete for
grants totaling $2,000. Students will present their business idea
to a panel of
judges including faculty, entrepreneurs, and other business
experts.
Participants will have the opportunity to get funding, receive
valuable
feedback, and enhance their ability to present and market their
ideas to early
stage investors (i.e., angel investors, family and friends).
The
second
Pitch IT competition will take place on Friday, April 10, 2015,
from
1:30pm to 4:30pm in Research Hall 163, on the Fairfax Campus of
George Mason
University.
Registration
is
required to participate. Please complete a return the registration
form no
later than 11:59 pm EDT on March 22, 2015.
CIT's
Federal
Funding Assistance Program supports Virginia based small
technology firms,
university researchers, post-docs and graduate students in their
efforts to
learn about, understand, and apply for federal SBIR and STTR
funding.A suite of
workshops and webinars (live and
recorded) are available to assist with the important steps of
learning how to
plan for and write proposals.A
mentoring support program and other assistance is also available
to potential
applicants.
Graduate Student Research
Program: Dept. of Energy
The
Department
of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that
the
Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now
accepting
applications for the 2015 solicitation.Applications are due 5:00pm ET on Tuesday April 14, 2015.
The
SCGSR
program supports supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate
students to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a
DOE national
laboratory in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist for a
period of 3
to 12 consecutive months—with the goal of preparing graduate
students for
scientific and technical careers critically important to the DOE
Office of
Science mission.
The
SCGSR
program is open to current Ph.D. students in qualified graduate
programs
at accredited U.S. academic institutions, who are conducting their
graduate
thesis research in targeted areas of importance to the DOE Office
of Science.
The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate
students’ overall
doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise,
resources, and
capabilities available at the DOE laboratories. The supplemental
award provides
for additional, incremental costs for living and travel expenses
directly
associated with conducting the SCGSR research project at the DOE
host
laboratory during the award period.
Detailed
information
about the program, including eligibility requirements and access
to
the online application system, can be found at: http://science.energy.gov/wdts/scgsr/.
The
objectives
of this research are to develop guidance and resources for using
GIS
for land use compatibility planning in the vicinity of airports,
including, but
not be limited to:
A
guidebook of evidence-based best practices featuring, at a
minimum: …
Training
materials (e.g., webcast, brochures) summarizing the best
practices provided in
the guidebook.
Sample
outreach materials to foster ongoing stakeholder collaboration
through the use
of GIS to enhance land use compatibility around airports.
Funding Opportunity:Preparation for Extreme
Weather Events (TRB)
Title:
Guidelines
to Incorporate the Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Measures in
Preparation
for Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change
Sponsor:Transportation Research Board
The
Transportation
Research Board's National Cooperative Highway Research Program
(NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) to provide
guidance that
enables transportation decision-makers to integrate analysis of
the costs and
benefits of adaptation measures in preparation for extreme weather
events and climate
change.
Funding Opportunity:Increasing College
Opportunity Through
Improved Mathematics Success (NSF)
Title:Dear Colleague Letter:
Increasing College
Opportunity Through Improved Mathematics Success in the First Two
Years of
College Sponsor:Directorate for Education and
Human
Resources/NSF
Students
who
are interested in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM)
and STEM-related careers have challenges moving ahead unless they
have
successful experiences in mathematics in their first one or two
years of
college. The Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
at the
National Science Foundation (NSF) is pursuing a multi-faceted
approach to funding
efforts to help us understand and improve learning in mathematics
to support
college success. This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) highlights
funding
opportunities for innovative, early-stage work to improve success
in
mathematics in the first two years of college. This includes
studies on ways to
improve the learning of the content of developmental mathematics,
independent
of setting, and design and development work on interventions and
tools,
including technology-enhanced learning approaches.
Proposers
may
request supplemental funding to existing awards, Early-concept
Grants for
Exploratory Research (EAGER) funding, or funding for conferences.
Funding Opportunity:Faculty Research Awards
(Google)
Title:Faculty Research
Awards Sponsor:Google Research
Google
Research
Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to
universities to support the work of world-class full-time faculty
members at
top universities around the world.
The
intent
of the Google Research Awards is to support cutting-edge research
in
Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Applicants are
asked to
categorize their proposals into one of the following broad
research areas of
interest to Google: Economics and market algorithms; Education
innovation;
Geo/maps; Human-computer interaction; Information retrieval,
extraction, and organization;
Machine learning and data mining; Machine perception; Machine
translation;
Mobile; Natural language processing; Networking; Policy and
standards; Privacy;
Security; Social networks; Software Engineering; Speech;
Structured data and
database management; and Systems (hardware and software).
Research
Awards
generally support basic expenses for one student for one year, so
budgets are frequently reduced to this level of support. If two
universities
are involved, the awards may support one student at each school.
Most awards
are in the $40,000-$70,000 range. The maximum amount a PI can
request is $150,000.
Title:DARPA-BAA-15-15: Transparent
Computing
(TC)[amendment] Sponsor:Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency
DARPA
is
soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of
understanding complex
distributed computing environments towards exposing and stopping
advanced cyber
adversaries (also referred to as Advanced Persistent Threats, or
APTs).The Transparent
Computing (TC) program aims to make currently opaque computing
systems
transparent by providing high-fidelity visibility into component
interactions
during system operation across all layers of software abstraction,
while
imposing minimal performance overhead.
The
NSF
Engineering (ENG) Directorate has launched a multi-year
initiative, the
Professional Formation of Engineers, to create and support an
innovative and
inclusive engineering profession for the 21st Century.
Professional Formation
of Engineers (PFE) refers to the formal and informal processes and
value
systems by which people become engineers. It also includes the
ethical
responsibility of practicing engineers to sustain and grow the
profession. The
engineering profession must be responsive to national priorities,
grand
challenges, and dynamic workforce needs; it must be equally open
and accessible
to all.
Engineering
faculty
possess both deep technical expertise in their engineering
discipline
and the primary responsibility for the process of professional
formation of
future engineers. As such, engineering faculty are in a unique
position to help
address critical challenges in engineering formation. The
Professional
Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering
Formation (PFE:
RIEF) program enables engineering faculty who are renowned for
teaching,
mentoring, or leading educational reform efforts on their campus
to initiate
collaborations with colleagues in the social and/or learning
sciences to
address difficult, boundary-spanning problems in the professional
formation of
engineers.
Estimated
Number
of Awards: 20 Anticipated
Funding Amount: $150,000
Ken
Hintz
of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department has been
awarded
a patent: Patent No.:US 8,939,367 B2 Date of Patent:January
27, 2015 Title:Cavity Axis Orientation Measurement Device
Sushil Jajodia Receives Funding
from U.S. Dept. of the Navy
Sushil
Jajodia
of the Center for Secure Information Systems received $1.2M from
the
U.S. Department of the Navy for his project, “ASSERT: Automated
Security System
Event Response Techniques.”
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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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