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Weekly Newsletter |
March 2, 2021
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Dear colleagues-
Last week it was very exciting to see over 400 folks tune in to hear about the role of isolated wetlands in Indiana ecosystems and how potential changes in the laws protecting them could put both the environment and people at risk. Kudos for the Water Challenges SRA for coming together with several state non-profits and IDEM! Looking forward, we have a busy March with two important events—a distinguished lecture on science diplomacy and, for an event we’ve been planning for since last winter, the Environmental Justice Symposium, which will include performances, films, student research posters and an undergraduate session. Many of your colleagues will be presenting, and we’d love to have your students attend and take part in this unique event that will bring together scholars from around the state.
If you’ve been surfing the Web, you may have noticed, we have a new web site! We invite you to look around and see what affiliates have been up to and peruse events you may want to attend.
Below, you’ll see several invitations this week to open organizational meetings for our Water Challenges SRA and two of our newest research clusters, circular economies and cyber-animal systems. These meetings are open to all and if you have an interest, or are just curious about what these areas are doing, please attend. And finally, a shout out to our affiliates in the news and their publications, including Abby Engelberth (ABE/EEE), and David Warsinger (CIVIL).
As a reminder, please send on any news, publications and events you’d like us to promote by Friday of each week.
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| Upcoming Events |
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Science Diplomacy: US and Latin America in a New Era of Cooperation
Tuesday March 16 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM
Save the Date for this upcoming Discovery Park Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr. Frances Colón, science and environmental policy expert and science diplomat during the Obama administration. After her presentation, she will be joined by Anne Slaughter Andrew, Former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica in the Obama Administration, for a follow-up discussion. More information and link to register here. |
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Water Challenges Signature Research Area Meeting
Wednesday, March 3 | Noon
Circular Economies Research Cluster Meeting
Friday, March 5 | 10:00 AM
Cyber-Animal Systems Research Cluster Meeting
Friday, March 5 | 1:30 PM
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Submit a Poster for the 2021 Environmental Justice Symposium
March 25 & 26, 2021
The 2021 Environmental Justice Symposium is taking place in just over 3 weeks!
We invite you to have your undergraduates, grad students, and postdocs submit any relevant research for presentation at the virtual Symposium, which focuses on intersections among racial justice, law, climate change, environmental policy, and the arts.
More information about how to submit a student poster for the conference here.
The deadline for students to submit posters and abstracts is Friday March 12, 2021.
Registration is required to attend the Conference - register by clicking here. |
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Virtual Lecture Series: Urban Transformations & Regional Resilience
Wednesday, February 3 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Center affiliates and Civil Engineering professors Suresh Rao and Satish Ukkusuri have organized a virtual lecture series on the effects of rapid urbanization titled "Urban Transformations and Regional Resilience”.
The next installment in the series features Carsten Butsch, senior researcher at the Global South Studies Center of the University of Cologne, Germany. He will be presenting a lecture titled 'Urbanization, Periurbanization, and Water in India - Tales from Six Villages.' Register here. |
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| Affiliates in the News |
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Abby Engelberth Named to Review Board for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
The American Chemical Society Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering has announced they are welcoming manuscripts on the circular economy of biomass, and has named C4E affiliate and convener of the Circular Economies Research Cluster Abby Engelberth to their review board. The editorial highlights key research challenges associated with closing the loop on the biomass-based biorefinery. More info here. |
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Student’s travels and research clarify cost of Pakistanis’ climate change adaptations
Purdue FNR | January 2021
Post-doctoral scholar Becca Nixon, a member of affiliate and SRA convener Zhao Ma’s (FNR) Human Dimensions Lab, recounts here some experiences she’s had on a on a collaborative USAID project in Pakistan which was led by Linda Lee (AGRO). Nixon had travelled to Pakistan twice to interview and survey farmers, fishers, tourism workers and community leaders to better understand the costs of their adaptation to climate change. Read more here |
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| Featured Publication |
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Efficient electrocatalysis for denitrification by using TiO2 nanotube arrays cathode and adding chloride ions
Ji et al., Chemosphere, 2021
Check out a brand new publication featuring C4E affiliate and assistant professor David Warsinger (CIVIL). The study, in Chemosphere, demonstrates and provides mechanisms for effective electrocatalysis for breaking down Nitrogen compounds via TiO2 nanotube arrays and Cl-ions. Access the article here.
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Undergraduate Research Scholarship application open for 2021-22
The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Scholars program is now accepting applications for the 2021-22 academic year. Researchers who want to use OURConnect have until March 5 to post their available research position for their respective units to approve the projects. Students will apply to those projects within OURConnect on March 11-26.
Researchers and their student mentees who want to submit a research proposal and letter of support must do so by March 26. Students begin the process to upload their research proposals, triggering email notifications for research mentors to submit letters of support.
More information here. |
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Funding Opportunities
COVID-19 Funding Opportunities – This list is
updated frequently.
NASA-ROSES 2021
Through this ROSES NRA, NASA encourages the participation of the space and Earth science communities in SMD's research and technology programs. These programs form the foundation of both the basic and applied research that allows NASA's space and Earth science programs to be properly planned and carried through to the successful interpretation of data and its application to the needs of end users.
NSF Future Manufacturing (FM)
The goal of Future Manufacturing is to support fundamental research and education of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic and social barriers in order to enable new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today. It will require new advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, new cyber infrastructure, new approaches for mathematical and computational modeling, new dynamics and control methodologies, new ways to integrate systems biology, synthetic biology and bioprocessing, and new ways to influence the economy, workforce, human behavior, and society. Deadline: May 14
DOE ARPA-E OPEN 2021
Potential applicants to this FOA are strongly encouraged to examine the OPEN projects in these volumes and all of the projects supported in the previous four OPEN solicitations for examples of the creative and innovative R&D ARPA-E seeks in its OPEN solicitations. The objective of an ARPA-E OPEN FOA is simple, yet comprehensive: to support high-risk R&D leading to the development of potentially disruptive new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications. Areas of research responsive to this FOA include (but are not limited to) electricity generation by both conventional and renewable means; electricity transmission, storage, and distribution; energy efficiency for buildings, manufacturing and commerce, and personal use; and all aspects of transportation, including the production and distribution of both renewable and non-renewable fuels, electrification, and energy efficiency in transportation. Deadline: April 6 – Concept paper
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