To convene researchers funded by the Sloan Foundation to work on aspects of U.S. shale gas development

To strengthen the National Academy of Sciences as it celebrates its 150th anniversary

To maintain the 16 % minority enrollment rate in the department of chemistry and to determine whether providing small amounts of funds to doctoral students when they initially arrive at the university can maintain the small dropout rate

To support the Second International Sloan Symposium on Microbiology of the Built Environment at Indoor Air 2014 in Hong Kong

As support for the scientific component of a month-long multimedia library program on the contemporary relevance of Moby Dick

To identify key fiscal issues faced by local governments experiencing new or increased oil and gas development and describe policy approaches for managing these issues

To plan and execute a culminating event for the National Challenge for Higher Education to ensure a diverse and excellent 21st century work force by providing workplace flexibility for faculty at all stages of their careers

To plan for a new collaborative direction for the four campus groups that now constitute the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership (SIGP)

To support a workshop on modeling of the deep carbon cycle for the Deep Carbon Observatory

To produce a series of video segments to serve as a catalyst for engineering deans, chairs, and faculty to discuss issues related to specific impediments to increasing diversity, and strategies to overcome such impediments