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WISER Announces Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grants Program
IIT's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) invites applications for a new Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grants (ISFG) program that will provide seed funding for the development of major research projects seeking external funding in areas of national interest related to energy and sustainability. The program is designed to support and enhance new and innovative multidisciplinary research concepts that are expected to attract major external funding in this area. According to WISER Director Hamid Arastoopour, "The ISFG program will provide IIT faculty with both the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary research initiatives and to obtain proof of their innovative proposal concepts, which will enable them to develop more nationally competitive proposals."
Click here to view ISFG Program guidelines. Proposals must be submitted by
Oct. 15, 2009 to Peg Murphy, PH 127 (ext. 76881). The ISFG Program Review Committee will announce proposals selected for funding in mid-November.
WISER Co-Sponsors Chicago-Kent Sustainability Conference
More than 100 members of the Chicago legal and environmental communities gathered at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law on July 22 for a sustainability conference titled "Moving the Midwest Forward: The Benefits of Building a Low-Carbon Economy."
The program, co-sponsored by IIT's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) and Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center, and the Chicago law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP, brought together entrepreneurs, policymakers, environmentalists and scholars for three panel discussions on timely topics in energy and sustainability.
Henry R. Linden Endowed Chair in Engineering Investiture
Chemical engineeering professor and the Director of Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER), Hamid Arastoopour was invested as the Henry R. Linden Endowed Chair in Engineering at a ceremony on April 30 in the MTCC.
The Henry R. Linden Endowed professorship was established in 2000 by Roger W. Sant, chairman emeritus and co-founder of the AES Corporation, to honor and recognize the accomplishments of Linden, an IIT professor, director of the IIT Energy and Power Center and the co-founder of the Gas Research Institute (GRI). The award preserves and expands Linden's legacy at IIT by supporting the teaching and research of an individual who will assume a leadership role in industrial ecology and design for the environment.
Arastoopour served as chairman of the chemical engineering department from 1989 to 2003 and as dean of Armour College of Engineering from 2003 to 2008.
Source: IIT Today, 5/7/09