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July
July 22-25 – RETCC: 2024 Science Policy Boot Camp
In-Person, Multiple locations around North Carolina’s Triangle area, including Raleigh, Durham and Research Triangle Park (RTP). Join us for a four-day deep dive into state-level policy making with practitioners, leading experts in science policy, communication, and engagement. The 2024 boot camp will include open participation, hands-on learning activities, and signature events including a science policy hack-a-thon. Click HERE for more information and to register.
August
August 8-9 – NCSU PDU’s NIH Summer Writing Workshop
9:00-12:00 pm EDT, In-person. Poulton Innovation Center, Centennial Campus. New to NIH proposals? Whether this is your first grant, or you’ve had a decade of support from NSF, if you’re new to NIH this workshop is for you. This summer grant writing workshop for faculty will help you find funding opportunities, navigate proposal requirements and engage with relevant program officers. Plus, NC State’s Proposal Development Unit (PDU) will offer tips and tricks for developing more competitive proposals for NIH’s peer review system. Click HERE to learn more and register.
August 8 – Federal Facilities Online Academy: Role of Superfund Performance Measures
1:00-3:00 pm EDT, Live Webinar. Role of Superfund Performance Measures is a two-hour webinar course that will identify the role of performance measures, including environmental indicators, how to justify their status, and how to achieve an under-control status at Superfund sites. Click HERE to learn more and register.
August 28 – PFAS Management Strategies in the United States, European Union, and Australia
10:00-12:00 pm EDT, Live Webinar. The management of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is an issue of global concern. Across the world, countries are developing their own methods and approaches to managing PFAS. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) has partnered with the Common Forum on Contaminated Land for this webinar to highlight PFAS policy, actions and guidance in the United States Superfund Program, select countries within the European Union (EU), and Australia. The purpose of this webinar is to provide information on PFAS management approaches in the US, EU, and Australia to encourage knowledge transfer and information exchange to increase the awareness of how PFAS is being managed in different parts of the world and what research is telling us about the destruction and disposal of PFAS. Click HERE to learn more and register.
August 28 – CHHE Mini Retreat
2:00-6:00 pm EDT, In-person. Talley Student Union, Piedmont Ballroom. The Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE) will host their mini retreat co-lead by David Collier and Fred Wright. CHHE seeks to understand how human health is impacted by environmental factors and how to reduce adverse impacts. Click HERE for more information.
September
September 30 – CCEE Seminar Series – Damian Helbling
As part of the CCEE seminar series, Damian Helbling from Cornell has been invited to give a presentation on novel PFAS sorbents. More information TBD.
October
October 14-18 – 2024 Water & Health Conference
Chapel Hill, NC, In person. The annual UNC Water and Health Conference reflects Water Institute’s commitment to improving public health by achieving universal access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) services that are safe, affordable and sustainable. The conference provides a curated space where policymakers, practitioners and researchers can gather to review the evidence, interrogate the science and improve old and develop new approaches to expanding WaSH access and services. Click HERE to learn more and register.
October 21-25 – NCSU ORI Research Week
TBD, In-person. Join the Office of Research and Innovation for our 5th annual Research Week! There will be a myriad of events both hybrid and fully virtual targeted towards faculty, research administrators, research staff and university leadership. Please contact Research and Innovation at NC State with any inquiries. Explore Anticipated Events Here.
October 22 – ITRC: Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) Identification Framework Training
1:00-3:00 pm EDT, Live Webinar. In 2023, the ITRC Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) Framework was published to help environmental regulatory agencies and other stakeholders identify, evaluate, and manage CEC’s while acknowledging uncertainties in their environmental fate and transport, receptor exposure, and/or toxicity. Such an approach can be conducive to improved allocation of regulatory response resources and provide a foundation for communicating potential risk to stakeholders. Click HERE to learn more and register.