Shell Center seeks faculty proposals

Shell Center seeks faculty proposals

The Shell Center for Sustainability is seeking faculty proposals for interdisciplinary research in the areas of energy, air quality, water quality, biodiversity-forestry, climate change and urban sustainability.
 
The Shell Center will allocate up to $200,000 in fiscal year 2008-09 to support up to five grants.
 
Priority will be given to projects that involve partnerships and collaboration on a multidisciplinary basis, involving at least two separate departments, to address one or more of the following priorities:

• Expanding or altering knowledge related to threats to sustainability arising in one or more of the six research areas listed above
• Addressing how public policies might influence private sector decisions to make them more compatible with sustainable development
• Demonstrating how new scientific understanding or new technology can reduce threats to sustainability arising in one or more of the six research areas listed above
• Demonstrating how the Shell Center funding will help leverage additional research, resources and opportunities
• Providing appropriate opportunities for involving undergraduate students in the research project

Proposals must be submitted by 5 p.m. Sept. 2 and should be addressed to Lilibeth Andre, associate director of the Shell Center, MS 27. The can also be submitted electronically to lilibeth.andre@rice.edu.
 
For detailed information on this request for proposals, visit http://shellcenter.rice.edu/research.cfm or e-mail lilibeth.andre@rice.edu.