To undertake planning activities in preparation for a major new initiative on PhD education in collaboration with AAU member universities

To partially support a meeting on the capacity of organizations at the local, state, national and international levels to utilize data to advance science and solve social problems

To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

To support academic and nonprofit participation in a workshop that will also bring together industry and policy leaders to discuss computational social science

To disseminate key results from the Chemistry of Indoor Environments program and Microbiology of the Built Environment program at Indoor Air 2018

To provide partial support for the inaugural Microbiology of the Built Environment Gordon Research Conference

To continue support in accelerating and advancing the profession of energy evaluation by enabling graduate students to attend the 2018 IEPPEC Conference

To support the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership committed to the open sharing of research outputs

To modify models of the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates over the past billion years to incorporate visual knowledge of deep carbon cycle

To provide partial support for the 4-D workshop on deep-time, data-driven discovery and the evolution of earth