Columbian College Office of Research
Funding and Research Resources
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:00pm
Location: Zoom
WOWTALK Speakers:
Engineering
Microfluidics and Biosensors for Personalized Medicine
Nursing
The End of the Story Matters: Implementing supportive (palliative) care for people with kidney disease
Physics
Aerosols moving, where we work
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 4:00pm
Location: Zoom
WOWTALK Speakers:
David Costanza - Almost everything you think you know about generations is wrong
Tianshu Li - Modeling-driven discovery: From ice nucleation to quantum materials
Joe Meisel - Synthesis of Molecular Pockets for Applications in Biology and Medicine
Wednesday, January 13 at 5:30 pm
ZOOM: REGISTER HERE
Panelists:
Amber Musser
"Anti-Blackness and Looting"
Elaine Peña
"The Myths of MAGA and the Border"
Elisabeth Anker
"White Supremacy and Multiracial Democracy"
Jamie Cohen-Cole
"Facts, Alternative Facts, Post-Truth and 'Both Sides' "
Daniel Schwartz
"The Israeli Flag, Camp Auschwitz, and the Capitol Riot"
Thursday, January 14, 5:00pm
ZOOM: REGISTER HERE
The GW Humanities Center and the Department of History welcome Carla Hesse, Peder Sather Professor of History, University of California at Berkley to present this talk.
More info found on our Upcoming Events page.
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 4:00pm
Location: Zoom
WOWTALK Speakers:
David Costanza - Almost everything you think you know about generations is wrong
Tianshu Li - Modeling-driven discovery: From ice nucleation to quantum materials
Joe Meisel - Synthesis of Molecular Pockets for Applications in Biology and Medicine
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:00pm
Location: Zoom
WOWTALK Speakers:
Zhenyu Li - Microfluidics and Biosensors for Personalized Medicine
Dale Lupu - The End of the Story Matters: Implementing supportive (palliative) care for people with kidney disease
Mark Reeves - Aerosols moving, where we work
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 4:00pm
Location: Zoom
WOWTALK Speakers:
Dwight Kravitz - Psychological and Brain Sciences
David Nagel - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Diana Pardo Pedraza - Anthropology
The CCAS Research Advisory Council (RAC) surveyed the faculty about the research impacts of COVID-19. After analyzing the results, the committee felt the best way to address many of the concerns was to hold two Town Halls to discuss general research concerns and those pertaining to research with human subjects:
Human Subjects Research Town Hall, with representatives from GW’s IRB team: Tuesday, December, 15th 12:00 - 1:00pm
General Research Town Hall, with CCAS ADR, for any outstanding comments or concerns: Thursday, December 17th, 11:00am - 12:00 noon
Slides from each event:
Human Subjects Town Hall Slides
Human Subjects Town Hall Summary
General Research Town Hall Slides
General CCAS Research Town Hall Summary
Date/Time: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 4:00pm
Location: Zoom (Click here to join, here for poster)
WOWTALK Speakers:
Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, Autism & Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute
"Testing a Theory of Sensory Hypersensitivities in Young Children with Autism to Facilitate Early Diagnosis and Develop Novel Interventions"
Keryn Gedan , Biological Sciences
"Tracking changes due to sea level rise in coastal landscapes"
The WOWTALK (What’s Our Work) Series brings together colleagues and students from disciplines associated with GW's Science and Engineering Hall—and related fields—to present new research and share ideas. These short talks (15 minutes each) are designed to introduce members of the GW community to current and exciting research projects undertaken in labs in the SEH, to initiate discussion, collaborate, share expertise, and to promote research performed in the SEH and at GW.
The video of October's WoW Talk can be found here.
The video of September's WoW Talk can be found here.
We are soliciting proposals for 2020-2021 fellows at a pilot GW virtual humanities center co-sponsored by OVPR and CCAS. We aim to have a broad representation of disciplines, cultures, and time periods across the humanities as we seek to build a vital interdisciplinary organization to connect humanities researchers within GW and to promote their work to the larger community.
The theme for the year is "culture in crisis." We are looking to create a collaborative group of researchers working on various aspects of this theme; research related to the COVID-19 crisis, either regarding its contemporary dimensions or providing historical perspectives, is especially welcome.
Fellows will:
Center will:
Deadline and application submission information are still pending. Application will be made available in InfoReady in the near future. In the meantime, you can start preparing the following:
For questions please contact Jamie Cohen-Cole (jcohencole@gwu.edu) or Lynn Westwater (llww@gwu.edu), OVPR Humanities Advisory Committee Co-Chairs.
You may have seen the announcement in the Research Update about the Dean's Office's intent to develop summer writing groups.
The writing groups can be designed to help you in any project you desire, for example: writing book chapters; journal papers; or applications for fellowships and grants. These would provide an ideal way to help you power through that chapter, or approach the drafting of your NSF CAREER grant in a more structured way. The idea is to start with a six-week commitment (unless the grant deadline is earlier :-)), and you are free to agree as a group to extend the group beyond that period, if you are finding it helpful. This is our first time trying such a thing so we would welcome your participation and feedback as to how we can make the process better.
In order to register your interest, please fill out the google form by Wednesday, July 15th and we will try to match you with a small group (3-4) of faculty with similar aims and needs. There are three types of groups we came across in researching the model and they are explained at the start of the form. The group will typically meet once per week, but you are free to determine as a group whether you want to meet more or less frequently than that, how long each meeting will last, and which online platform you will use to meet.
An internal evaluation committee will be formed to evaluate those internal submissions. We will inform applicants of our decisions by Friday, July 31, 2020. After that, the two selected applicants will submit their applications to NEH by the deadline of September 23, 2020. We will try to provide some mentoring for our selected applicants as in the past.
Further information about the NEH Summer Stipends
Due to the ongoing uncertainty of the full impact of COVID-19, and the many other facets of the work of the college which are currently affected by it, we have taken the decision to temporarily hold all final decisions and announcements of Intramural funding awards. We will announce Dean's Research Chairs, CCFF awards, and Enhanced Travel awards and as soon as we reasonably can, but this is not likely to occur for quite some time. We apologize for the inconvenience, but are working to do all we can to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the college, and ask for your patience in these rapidly changing times.
If, in the light of the current travel restrictions and the delay to the review and award process, you would like to withdraw your Enhanced Travel proposal, in order to preserve your ability to apply in Fall 2020, you can do so via the electronic form here.
OVPR has updated the Humanities Facilitating Fund call for proposals; all regular-status faculty are eligible to apply.
Deadline: Thursday, April 2, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
Funded projects impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak may be able to receive extensions from OVPR on a case-by-case basis by submitting a request here.
Contact the OVPR Humanities Advisory Committee Co-Chairs with questions:
Lynn Westwater llww@gwu.edu and Jamie Cohen-Cole jcohencole@gwu.edu
Those of you with Fiscal Year 2020 CCAS internal funding who are planning to request no-cost extensions, in particular for CCFF and Nick-of-Time awards please do so by April 1st in our No-Cost-Extension request webform, so we can gain a full overview of the requested funds.
Sponsored Project Policies During COVID-19
In order to assist you in planning your research activities and supporting your research teams throughout the current pandemic response, in accordance with OVPR, we strongly encourage you to:
Other important GW sources of information are OVPR’s COVID-19 page and the Office of Human Research’s guidelines.
Several sponsors have responded to COVID-19 by updating their guidelines:
As new announcements are made, we will add them to the research blog COVID-19 page.
Please feel free to work with your SRA on posting non-recoverable cancellation costs to grants as appropriate. Your SRA will work with OVPR to determine the appropriate way to handle each charge.
