Subject: GEI Call for Proposals: Funds for Scholarship Related to the Environment
From: Campus Broadcast <[email-masked]>
To: Campus Broadcast <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 00:28:47 +0000

Dear Colleagues:

The Georgetown Environment Initiative (GEI) is pleased to announce the competition for funds to support scholarship related to the environment.

To bolster academic work related to the environment, the University is providing funds to support faculty scholarship made possible through a generous gift to the GEI.  Managed by the GEI steering committee using a competitive award process, aims are to build the capacity to define and engage compelling questions related to environment and help shape the conditions society requires to use such knowledge well.

Three categories of grants will be funded:

*    Planning Grants (of up to $20,000 each) will fund the development and writing of innovative, ambitious or collaborative major external grant proposals. Such external proposals may be for the support of research or for research training, or curriculum or educational program development that produces scholarly products or lasting programmatic impacts.

*    Collaborative Grants (of up to $30,000 each) will fund the efforts of two or more scholars from different departments or schools at Georgetown who come together to spark innovative directions in their research.

*    Partnership Grants (of up to $30,000 each) will fund projects undertaken jointly by Georgetown scholars and external partners with the promise of contributing to knowledge, building lasting collaborations, and forming partnerships that lead to independent funding for shared work.

An additional category of grant is available in 2015 in cooperation with the McCourt School Massive Data Institute seed grant program (http://mccourt.georgetown.edu/massive-data-institute<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=26&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>).

*    GEI-MDI Research Pilot Grants (of up to $30,000 each) will fund projects undertaken by Georgetown faculty that employ large data sets and associated quantitative and computational approaches to address questions centrally related to environment. Proposals must involve collaboration between faculty in different departments and must show promise of contributing knowledge to a question with clear relevance to the environment, building lasting collaborations, and forming partnerships and preliminary results that lead to external funding.

Please visit The Georgetown Environment Initiative<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=20&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0> web page (environment.georgetown.edu<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=9&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>).  Click on the Research & Collaboration link<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=15&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0> at the top of the page and then select 2015 Call for Proposals<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=13&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0> which explains the criteria and application process, and includes a link to a cover sheet that must accompany all submissions.  Information on past awards is also available at environment.georgetown.edu<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=9&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>.

 Proposals are due no later than Wednesday, March 4th 2015 at 5 PM EST.

Please direct any questions to Prof. Matthew Hamilton ([email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>).

Best wishes,

Matthew B. Hamilton

Associate Professor of Biology and Steering Committee Chair

Members of the GEI Steering Committee:
Matthew Hamilton <http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=11&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0> (chair), Department of Biology
Laura Anderko<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=4&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, School of Nursing and Health Studies
Vicki Arroyo<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=1&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Georgetown Climate Center & Georgetown Law Center
Peter Byrne<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=2&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Georgetown Law Center
Robin Dillon-Merrill<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=3&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, McDonough School of Business
David Konisky<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=6&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, McCourt School of Public Policy
Arik Levinson<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=17&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Department of Economics
Joanna Lewis<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=5&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, School of Foreign Service
Maggie Little<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=19&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Janet Mann<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=8&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Office of the Provost and Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, ex officio
Mary Beth Martin<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=7&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center
John McNeill<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=12&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Department of History
Edward Soule<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=10&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>,  McDonough School of Business
Francis Slakey<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=16&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Science in the Public Interest Program, ex officio
Sarah Stoll<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=14&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Department of Chemistry
Audrey Stewart<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=24&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Office of Sustainability, ex officio
Timothy Warren<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=22&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Department of Chemistry
Ali Whitmer<http://links.georgetown.mkt6170.com/ctt?kn=21&ms=MjIxMjMyODAS1&r=NzE1OTM1MDI5NzQS1&b=0&j=NTAxMjM1MzE2S0&mt=1&rt=0>, Office of the Provost, ex officio

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