Professional development opportunities can equip educators with the skills and approaches needed to teach global sustainability issues. However, most professional development assessment programs have not been designed with a sustainability education focus.
Education’s role in global sustainability has typically focused on the science behind the solutions. Trained engineers, scientists, biologists and tech entrepreneurs, for example, are pursuing research and developing product-based solutions aimed at addressing social, economic and environmental challenges.
The Department of Education is issuing a notice inviting applications for new awards for fiscal year (FY) 2024 for the Education Research and Development Center Program
Generative AI such as ChatGPT has prompted conversations about the ethics of knowledge generation and the use of AI in research and evaluation. This discourse provides another opportunity to center equity in our work by asking, how can researchers and evaluators contribute to the public good in an AI world? This presentation from Dr. Aileen M. Reid highlights contextual concerns with AI from an ecosystem perspective, placing emphasis on structural and racial/ethnic inequities, bias, and prejudice. Dr.
The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) and participating National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) are soliciting intervention projects to promote mental well-being and/or prevent mental health problems by fostering social, cultural, or environmental connectedness in one or more populations that experience health disparities. Mental health or mental wellness may be the primary outcome of the intervention and/or an intermediate factor to improve other health outcomes.
The Soros Justice Fellowships support outstanding individuals—including lawyers, advocates, grassroots organizers, writers, print and broadcast journalists, artists, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices—to undertake full-time projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, change policy or practice, and catalyze change around the U.S. criminal legal system at the local, state, and national levels. Fellowships can be either 12 or 18 months in duration, may be undertaken with the support of a host organization, and should begin in the fall of 2024.
Limited Submission: pending faculty interest
The PDS grants program supports projects proposed by U.S. and Cameroonian academic, cultural, educational, and other non-profit organizations and/or individuals that promote U.S. values, increase understanding between U.S. and Cameroonian people and institutions, and/or support U.S. Embassy goals of promoting government transparency and accountability, economic prosperity, peace and security, environmental sustainability, and climate adaptation.