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WOWTALK XXI

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 4:00pm
Location: Zoom

WOWTALK Speakers:

 

Zhenyu Li

Engineering

Microfluidics and Biosensors for Personalized Medicine

 

 

 

Dale Lupu

Nursing

The End of the Story Matters: Implementing supportive (palliative) care for people with kidney disease

 

 

 

Mark Reeves

Physics

Aerosols moving, where we work

 

 

 

 

WoW Flyer March2021

Video of Presentations

 

WOWTALK XX

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

WoW Flyer Feb 2021

Video of Presentations

Democracy Under Siege: Explaining the MAGA Uprising

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"

Democracy Under Siege Flyer


Self-Reckoning in the Year II: A Chapter in the Cultural Anthropology of Criminal Justice in the French Revolution

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.

Hesse Talk Flyer 

More info found on our Upcoming Events page.

 

WOWTALK XX

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

WoW Flyer Feb 2021


WOWTALK XXI

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

WoW Flyer March 2021


WOWTALK XXII

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

WoW Flyer April 2021

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 

WOWTALK XIV

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:

  • participate in the first-year incubation of the much-anticipated GW humanities center
  • present (virtually) a pre-circulated work-in-progress on “culture in crisis” to the center community sometime during your fellowship year
  • participate in the bi-weekly virtual center gatherings (the first and third Fridays of each month at noon)
  • develop a short public-facing presentation on your research
  • invite an outside speaker for a virtual presentation on the “culture in crisis” theme (outside speakers will be offered a $200 honorarium)
  • receive $1000 in FY21 research funds
  • receive 60 hours per semester of an undergraduate work-study RA

Center will:

  • foster interdisciplinary collaboration
  • incubate fellows’ works-in-progress
  • allow cross-fertilization between fellows’ projects
  • provide a public platform to promote fellows’ work in the humanities and its relevance in this moment of crisis
  • create a structured mechanism for student mentorship and student involvement in research
  • develop a launching pad to develop competitive funding proposals for nationally competitive grants

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:

  • a 500-word description of your "culture in crisis" research (on which you will present a work-in-progress this year), including a brief consideration of how you would use the research funds and RA support
  • a 100-word bio of the outside speaker you would propose inviting
  • your CV

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.

(internal deadline extended to July 6, 2020)

Once again, we are pleased to inform you an opportunity to compete for a submission to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends program for support in Summer 2021. This NEH program supports individual researchers for scholarly work that is of value to humanities scholars and general audiences. Funded products include articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly resources. You could receive support for continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months.
NEH Summer Stipends are awarded only to individual scholars who are nominated by the institution at which they are teaching full-time. We are limited to two nominees. We will select these two nominations based on your "pre-proposal" submitted internally to ccasres@gwu.edu by Monday, July 6, 2020.  Each internal pre-proposal should consist of a project narrative (1 page) and a CV (no more than 2 pages). 

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 program can be found  at https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/summer-stipends. You are also welcome to contact us at ccasres@gwu.edu with any questions you may have about the process at GW for making our nominations.

NEH slide presentation on Summer Stipends

CCAS Intramural Funding

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.

Update: Humanities Facilitating Fund

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

No-Cost Extensions for CCAS Funding

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.