We are excited to continue quarterly NC Advancing Collaborative Research Excellence (NC ACRE) researcher meet-ups. Please Save-the-date for our next program on Tuesday, September 19 from 12-1:30PM focusing on the topic(s) of Social Justice & Environmental Justice.
Register here: https://appstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkcemvrDssH936mMhshJmFo_z07a8KHz4r
Continuing a more intentional presentation and cross-networking format, we welcome faculty and researchers in your networks broadly interested or active in social justice and/or environmental justice to join us for this meet-up. This meet-up will be a mix of quick format researcher introductions moving into break-out rooms for researchers to explore de-novo collaborations and organize for future grant applications.
How we're formatting the program:
- Please circulate this invitation to any interested faculty or researchers in your networks, and kindly ask them to consider sending us one-slide using the slide template attached at this link so that we may add them to the presenter roster. They will have five-minutes to present this slide at the meet-up. Please return slides back to Karen Fletcher (fletcherkl@appstate.edu) no later than Friday, September 8th to be considered for a speaking slot in the first portion of the meet-up.
- The NC ACRE steering committee will prepare and circulate forecasted NSF Dear Colleague Letters (DCL) and/or NIH-concept clearances (CC) targeting basic and translational funding opportunities and broadly pertaining to social justice and/or environmental justice; we will also circulate slide titles ahead of the meeting.
- On September 19:
- A steering committee member will re-present the concept clearance, share the names of cognizant federal officials, identify incumbents (if any), and include other details as available
- Interested attendees will present their slides and related research
- Attendees will self-organize into the cross-cutting sub-theme rooms
- Post meeting, attendees should expect to continue any self-organizing efforts.
We've been so honored by everyone's participation in these events over the past, almost 2-years now, and look forward to continuing these great conversations about research in these strategically important funding areas.
Best,
NC Acre Steering Committee
Karen Fletcher, Appalachian State University
Nathan Blouin, UNC Chapel Hill
Kelley Cardone, UNC Chapel Hill
Pradip Pramanik, NC State University
Mary Farwell, East Carolina University