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Weekly Newsletter |
September 8, 2020
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Dear colleagues-
We will keep this short and sweet in line with our short attention spans as of late.
First, we are so happy to share with you our first undergraduate newsletter, more info below. Please share the link with all of your students.
Second, we hope many of you can attend the first Environmental Justice lunch and learn tomorrow, students can attend so please feel free to share the registration link.
Third, registration for participation in our hybrid research expo, set for the 12th-23rd of October, is now open. Click here for more info and the link to sign up.
And lastly, we hope you have enjoyed our 2020 Meet the Challenge social media campaign for Day of Giving. In case you missed it or don’t use Twitter, you can see all of our posts here. We’d love for you to support our campaign - we are particularly hoping to raise funds for additional opportunities to fund student researchers and support our on campus programming.
Many thanks for all you do. More details on all of this and other items below. |
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| Upcoming Events |
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Virtual Lunch & Learn - Environmental Justice: Local and Global Struggles
Tomorrow, September 9 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Please join us as we welcome Mangala Subramaniam to present our first virtual Lunch & Learn event of the Fall 2020 semester. Dr. Subramaniam will focus on the complicated links between local and global struggles for environmental justice as communities confront state and global institutions. She will draw on her own, and collaborative, work to engage with the topic in terms of gender and its intersections with class, caste, race, as well as the need for integrating the technical and the social to adopt an interdisciplinary lens in studying environmental justice.
This will be the first in the Center for the Environment’s year-long program of conversations about intersections between environmental and social justice. All lunch and learns will feature a guest presenter who will speak on topics of Environmental Justice. Events will take place via Webex.
Registration for the event is available here. |
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Butler Center Lecture Featuring Julie Sze
Tuesday September 16 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence is hosting a talk on "Intersectionality, Institutions and Environmental Justice" on September 16.
The live virtual talk will feature Julie Sze, professor of American studies, University of California, Davis. All faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend.
Registration is available online. For more information, contact butlercenter@purdue.edu. |
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C4E Environmental Research Expo
October 12 - 23 | In-person and virtual
This year, the Center for the Environment's annual fall environmental research expo will look a little different. However, we're still looking forward to showcasing some of the great environmental research by Purdue students and faculty! Here's a bit of what to expect, with more content to come in the coming days.
- Participants will have the choice of presenting in person during a scheduled block of time in the Mann Hall Atrium, with limited attendance and social distancing/mask requirements strictly enforced.
- The second option for those interested is our ‘online research presentation gallery”. All researchers are invited to submit a ~3 minute video of themselves/their team presenting their research, which will then be posted on this page along with their research poster and abstract. Make sure to note the registration requirements and deadlines. There is no limit on online posters.
- All posters and abstracts will be posted online for anyone to view.
If you would like to participate either virtually or in person, please register here by Friday September 18. Posters, abstracts, and videos should be submitted here by Friday September 25. |
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Exciting news: the first issue of our new monthly undergraduate environmental newsletter went out yesterday! The newsletter brings together environmentally-focused resources and news, and each issue, we will feature: an academic program and a course that each emphasize environmental programs at Purdue; an active, environmentally-driven student club; and an array of events and programs on and off-campus. Other topics will vary each issue, depending on the opportunities available, and information in the sphere of the environment.
Please share with your students if you think they would be interested. Here is the link to Issue 1. |
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| Featured Publication |
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The practice of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the Tropical Andes: Evidence from program administrators
Ecosystem Services
Congratulations to C4E affiliates Zhao Ma, Jonathan Bauchet, and Laura Zanotti for their recent publication in Ecosystem Services. The article explores how payments for ecosystem services have been adapted and reinvented to fit different philosophies, institutions, and cultures across the Tropical Andes. Read the article here. |
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EVPRP Workshop: Successful Grant Writing Strategies and Resources
September 15 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Sally Bond, Research Development Services, will present on key strategies to help you produce your most compelling grant proposals regardless of funding agency or size of potential award. The workshop will also point you to important grant writing resources at Purdue. Learn best practices to: build a compelling storyline; respond to a funding agency mission and requirements; identify win differentiators; write for reviewers; and conduct internal reviews.
This workshop is targeted to faculty but postdocs may also register. For more details or to register, click here. Registration deadline is September 9. |
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Funding Opportunities
COVID-19 Funding Opportunities – This list is
updated frequently.
Fellowship Opportunity with the UN Environment Program—Short DeadlineDo you have strong upper class students or graduate students who are strong writers and may benefit from an unpaid fellowship in the environmental space? We have been asked to submit names of such individuals to work on the Global Environment Outlook GEO 7. Contact Lynne Dahmen for more information.
EPA Center for Early Lifestage Vulnerabilities to Environmental Stressors ($1.9M over 4 years)EPA is interested in supporting a transdisciplinary research center to better understand potential causal relationships among cumulative exposures to chemicals and non-chemical environmental stressors during early lifestages and modifying factors that result in adverse developmental health effects. Developmental health outcomes may include attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), reduced IQ, obesity, lessened self-regulatory capacities, anxiety, depression, attention problems, lower memory function, or structural changes to the brain. The application should include the development and demonstration of novel and revolutionary quantitative methods and approaches to integrate multidisciplinary data (epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, risk assessment, public health, social science, and environmental science).
Informational Webinar for Applicants: September 15; Deadline: November 12 Purdue Research Foundation Trask Innovation Fund (TIF) ($50K over 6 months)The TIF is a development mechanism to assist faculty with work to further commercial potential of technologies disclosed to the OTC. The Fund objective is to support short-term projects (6 months) that will enhance commercial value of Purdue University intellectual property assets for licensing. There are three applications tracks for this round of Trask proposals.- Innovation Sparks (Life Science and Medical Devices): The technology must not be encumbered under any Option/ License to be eligible for this application track.
- Innovation Sparks (Physical Sciences): The technology must not be encumbered under any Option/ License to be eligible for this application track.
- Commercialization Partner Sparks: Technologies in any technology domain for which, (a) OTC has either signed an option agreement with a potential licensee or (b) the applicant is engaged with Purdue Research Foundation to establish a commercialization partnership and will sign an option for technology before receiving Trask funding.
**In addition, some additional funds can be allotted to support production agricultural technologies through Trask. Deadline: September 25
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