To support the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center to provide stipends to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers to attend the 2015 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Conference in Sacramento, CA

To continue support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series to inform public debate about critical energy issues

To support a workshop on the repair and maintenance of technological systems from a historical and sociological perspective

To determine how commonly emitted fungal Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) influence the growth and metabolism of other microbes in a shared indoor environment

To assess the past and present capabilities of the U.S. nuclear energy innovation system

To hold a workshop to enhance African Americans’ participation in engineering education and the profession using a strengths-based, pathway approach

To examine the microbial profiles of Amerindian homes in isolated settings with and without mestizo influence

To accelerate biophysical research in the Deep Life community of the Deep Carbon Observatory with a workshop and related development of a microscopy chamber capable of withstanding high pressure

To develop a plan for a next-generation CUNY Institutional Repository

To support a national conference to identify, catalog, and disseminate generalizable principles, strategies, interventions, and tools that can be modified and used to assist senior faculty as they begin to transition to retirement