In 2022, the ACS launched the ACS Campaign for a Sustainable Future to advance chemistry innovations in addressing the challenges articulated in the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (U.N. SDGs). This multifaceted initiative will have lasting impacts on how we conduct research, how we teach chemistry, and how we collaborate globally. One of the key initiatives of the Campaign is the Sustainable Futures Initiative Grant Program (SFIGP) which provides catalytic funding for early and mid-career faculty interested in developing a research and teaching portfolio that contributes directly to developing transformative chemistries that address the U.N. SDGs.

In our inaugural 2023 competition, $1 million in funding was awarded in two grant competitions administered through the SFIGP: 

1. Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant – $125,000 in funding for an early career researcher to hire a postdoctoral fellow (PDF), who, together, can launch a new research lab in green chemistry and engineering. The competition is open to current PDFs with aspirations for a career in academia, and to professors within the first nine months of a faculty position. Applicants of both types must come from U.S. Ph.D.-granting universities.
2. Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability Grant – $50,000 in funding to a professor at a U.S. Ph.D.-granting university to conduct their sabbatical leave at a private company, a national laboratory, or an academic laboratory in a different institution, with the goal of establishing robust collaborations across industry-academia or across disciplines.

The SFIGP aims for high-impact research, with a commitment to enhancing green chemistry and engineering education. Over $1 million in funding will be available for the 2024 competition. Submission for applications opened on July 15, 2024 and will close on September 20, 2024. 

Note: You can apply for both the PRF grants and the grants within the SFIGP. For more information, please contact sustainabilitygrants@acs.org .  Please do not hesitate to forward this email to colleagues.

Edmond Lam, PhD
Assistant Director, Green Chemistry Institute
American Chemical Society
1155 16^th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202-872-6869
Cell: 771-215-0598
Email: E_Lam@acs.org

The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society is pleased to invite nominations of worthy candidates for the Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest.  This award recognizes a chemist for outstanding achievement in scientific and technical work that contributes to the public well-being.  The award consists of a $5000 prize and a medal of recognition.  The presentation takes place at an award ceremony in April at Harvard University, followed by a formal address by the awardee.  The tentative date for this ceremony is April 10, 2025.

The award was established in 1987 to honor the memory of Gustavus John Esselen, a distinguished scientist, entrepreneur and member of the Northeastern Section.  The first awardees were F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario J. Molina, who subsequently received the Nobel Prize.  Since then, several Esselen Award recipients have also been Nobel laureates and many have been recipients of the most prestigious awards in their various fields.

Please note: any field of chemistry or affiliation is appropriate for nomination. The primary consideration of the committee is that the scientific work has been an important contribution to the public well-being and that the work’s significant value to society has become apparent within the last five years or so.

This letter is to seek nominations of colleagues whose work meets the criteria and purpose of the award. The enclosed brochure provides more detail on the nature of the award, a list of previous awardees as well as the criteria and procedure for nominations.  Additional information is available at http://www.nesacs.org/awards_esselen.html. 

The deadline for nominations is October 11, 2024.

We would appreciate you posting the award notice and circulating the information as appropriate.  Thank you in advance for your interest.

OSU Search Advocates comprise a community of trained content-neutral external process advisors who work with search committees to advance equity, validity and diversity through the search and selection process. Registration is open and there are still spaces for the Sept. 4 and Sept. 9 cohorts. View the series schedule here: Search Advocate Workshops. Contact Anne Gillies at anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu with questions.

Dear COS Grad Students

(Faculty, please forward to your Graduate Students, as appropriate)

Hope you’ve all had wonderful summers.  Only 3 more weeks before fall term!

See below and attached.

NASA sponsors graduate student research in space technologies via the NSTGRO25 program.

If your research extends into the space technologies areas, we encourage you to apply.  November 1^st is the deadline for proposals.

If you plan to apply, send an email to the COS Proposal Development Team (cc’d here), and we will fully support the effort.

All the best,

jh

Jeff Hare, PhD

Research Program Coordinator

College of Science

Oregon State University

OSU in Corvallis is located within the traditional homelands of the Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya, who were forced onto reservations in Western Oregon after 1855.  Living descendants are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xHicnMxY34IWtCDbcIeDRVL06ej4ycV8/view?usp=sharing

The AI Graduate Program at OSU (run by EECS) offers a three-quarter M.S. level AI capstone course sequence. The sequence is for M.S. graduate students who are either in the AI-program or have significant graduate-level AI-course experience. 

Students will select and develop AI-based solutions to real-world problems from industry, academia, government, and any other interested partners. Faculty mentors submit a potential project that could benefit from an AI-based solution. The general scope of the project would be something you would give a graduate student for 3 months. If you are unsure if your project idea is appropriate, they suggest you submit it anyway and the facilitators will work with you to refine it. If your project is selected the time commitment for you or your project lead is 30-60 minutes / week to interact with the students. You/ your team lead work and student will work with the capstone instructor and graduate assistants on technical issues as needed.  Deadline to submit your idea is September 13^th. 

We are requesting Applied AI projects to be pursued by OSU AI graduate students as part of the AI M.S. Capstone course sequence. 

Submission of proposals and more information is at: http://beav.es/ai-capstone

This is an opportunity to have one or more AI graduate students to work on an AI-related project ranging from very concrete to more exploratory. 

We are collecting projects starting now and expect to close the proposal window by September 13.

The 2024 Pauling Medal has been awarded to Professor Younan Xia, Brock Family Chair, and GRA Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine, Georgia Institute of Technology (nanocages.com). The award will be presented to Professor Xia at The Pauling Medal Symposium on October 12, 2024, held in the Linus Pauling Science Center on the campus of Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.

Sponsored jointly by the American Chemical Society Portland, Puget Sound, and Oregon Local Sections, the award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievement in chemistry in the spirit of and in honor of Linus Pauling, who grew up in the Pacific Northwest.  The symposium will include a student poster session, talks, reception, and banquet (ticketed).  Information at https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/pauling2024

The Office for Research Advancement announced  the continuation of the Research Advancement Academy (RAA) for Academic Year 2024-25. Applications are due 9/18/24 on InfoReady(https://oregonstate.infoready4.com ).

“Focused on early and mid-career faculty, the RAA seeks Fellows who are successful researchers and ready to start developing their big ideas into a large and solutions-oriented research enterprise. RAA Fellowships last two-three years. Year one includes a series of (in-person) workshops to help Fellows hone their big ideas and develop the skills, relationships, and mindsets of a research leader. The workshops are followed by an opportunity for Fellows to apply for seed funds (up to 50K) to advance and develop their solutions research partnerships and funding. Fellows who receive seed funds will be provided with ongoing coaching and support from ORA during year two as they pursue their research advancement plans. Fellows may be invited to compete for additional seed funds in year three (up to 100k) to maintain momentum or scale-up their research advancement plans.”

You can read more here: https://research.oregonstate.edu/ora/advancement-academy/apply-2024-2025

Please share with your researchers and let me know if you have anyone interested in participating. 

$75,000 fellowships awarded to exceptional junior faculty in the sciences, mathematics, and economics

Eligibility

Candidates must be tenure-track (not yet tenured) faculty whose position carries a regular teaching obligation at a college, university, or other degree-granting institution in the U.S. or Canada.  No more than three candidates may be nominated from any one department.

Candidates must be nominated by a department head or other senior researcher. Please inform your faculty about this opportunity and consider nominating one of your outstanding junior colleagues for a fellowship.

Nomination

Nomination Period

Opens: July 15, 2024Closes: September 15, 2024

In keeping with the Foundation’s long-standing tradition of supporting underrepresented groups in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics, we strongly encourage the nomination of women, Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o/e candidates.

For more information, including eligibility details,see https://sloan.org/fellowships or email researchfellows@sloan.org.

Apply Now!

The Office for Research Advancement announced  the continuation of the Research Advancement Academy (RAA) for Academic Year 2024-25. Applications are due 9/18/24 on InfoReady(https://oregonstate.infoready4.com ).

“Focused on early and mid-career faculty, the RAA seeks Fellows who are successful researchers and ready to start developing their big ideas into a large and solutions-oriented research enterprise. RAA Fellowships last two-three years. Year one includes a series of (in-person) workshops to help Fellows hone their big ideas and develop the skills, relationships, and mindsets of a research leader. The workshops are followed by an opportunity for Fellows to apply for seed funds (up to 50K) to advance and develop their solutions research partnerships and funding. Fellows who receive seed funds will be provided with ongoing coaching and support from ORA during year two as they pursue their research advancement plans. Fellows may be invited to compete for additional seed funds in year three (up to 100k) to maintain momentum or scale-up their research advancement plans.”

You can read more here: https://research.oregonstate.edu/ora/advancement-academy/apply-2024-2025

Please share with your researchers and let me know if you have anyone interested in participating.

Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office

Funding Notice: $33 Million Available for Smart Manufacturing Technologies to Accelerate a Clean Energy Economy

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) released a $33 million funding opportunity to accelerate the advancement of smart manufacturing technologies and processes necessary to develop and deploy the innovative technologies and materials needed for the nation’s clean energy transition. FOA NUMBER: DE-FOA-0003329FUNDING AMOUNT: $33 MillionCONCEPT PAPERS DUE DATE: 8/21/2024 at 5 p.m. ET

Smart manufacturing is the use of advanced technologies and processes – including digitalization and artificial intelligence – to improve the technical performance, productivity, quality assurance, and security of the manufacturing sector.Topic 1: Smart Manufacturing for a Circular EconomyTopic 2: Smart Manufacturing of Tooling and Equipment for Sustainable TransportationTopic 3: Smart Manufacturing for High-Performance MaterialsTopic 4: Smart Technologies for Sustainable and Competitive U.S. Mining Applicants must submit a concept paper by 5 p.m. ET on August 21, 2024, to be eligible to submit a full application.

LEARN MORELearn more about other open funding opportunities within DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

What Types of EERE Funding Exist?How Do I Apply for EERE Funding?