Reminder about final I2D Lab Meeting on Thursday, April 20^th!.

In addition to that, we are pleased to announce that we are now university partners with UN Habitat.

Here is some outreach you may send to your students as well:

Share the below information with your students.

We ask you to please send out a message to your students, feel free to use the below draft as basis for this message:

[Name of your institution] partners with UNI - UN-Habitat's partnership with universities worldwide.

UNI - a partnership by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme - is a collaboration of over 200 universities worldwide working towards sustainable urban development. The partnership is a platform to stay updated on new research, contribute your own materials and connect with a community of global academia under the United Nations umbrella.

Here is how you can engage as a student, to share your materials and see opportunities within the partnership:

Sign up as an individual member here http://uni.unhabitat.org/ in order to receive the latest updates from UNI.
Watch the free video lecture series with urban experts associated with UN-Habitat - the Global Urban Lectures consists of a 15 min video, a synopsis of the topic, a biography of the speaker and links to in depth study. It is the most viewed outreach initiative of UN-Habitat, and is about to release its 4th season.
Want to know what universities worldwide are doing in regards to sustainable urban development? See a constantly updated feed of what universities are up to across the world on the front page of uni.unhabitat.org
Looking for new opportunities? Find competitions, internships, calls etc within this worldwide university partnership in the opportunities section.
Have a brilliant thesis, found some interesting materials or an opportunity to share? You can now can reach hundreds of universities globally by simply adding these tags to your tweets:

#UNIsharedlibrary - for books, articles, courses or any other interesting materials that you wish to share with the partnership. Tweets tagged with this will be pulled to the shared library.

#UNIpartneropportunities - for opportunities you wish to share with the partnership. Tweets tagged with this will be pulled to the opportunities section.

Are you motivated to work together with others on a particular theme? Check out the UNI Thematic Hub pages - collaborations between universities working on the same theme. You can directly contribute your own material to the Hubs by simply tweeting it and adding the hashtag of the Hub it relates to (find the appropriate hashtag under each Hub page from the above link).

These are some of the ways you can play an active part in the partnership, visit uni.unhabitat.org for more ways to engage.

Andrea Burniske

Program Manager, I²D Lab

Global Engineering Programs, 4^th Floor, Wang Hall

Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN

Ph: 765.496.3533

Skype: AndreaLaBurniske

https://engineering.purdue.edu/GEP/I2DLab

Punctuated Equilibrium - the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change

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Subject: I2D-list Final I2D Lab Faculty Meeting and Presentations for the 2016 - 2017 Academic Year

I2D Lab Meeting Academic Year 2016 - 2017 : Thursday, April 20^th 11:30 (lunch) 12:00-1:00pm (meeting) in WANG 2501 – Please RSVP

Please invite your colleagues.

BI-MONTHLY MEETINGS REMINDER

Colleagues,

The Innovation for International Development Lab (I2D Lab) under the Office of Global Engineering Programs (GEP) aims to foster a vibrant community of faculty, staff, and students working with international partners to address grand challenges in international development based on engineering innovations and market-driven approaches. This includes research, design, adaptation, and field-testing of appropriate technologies and services that have strong potential to become scalable solutions for energy access, healthcare, water and sanitation, labor-saving innovations, and disaster/humanitarian response.

The next I2D Lab meeting of this semester is scheduled for Thursday, April 20th^th, 11:30 (lunch) 12:00-1:30pm (meeting) in WANG 2501 with the following agenda:

12:00pm Seed Grantee Jennifer DeBoer (ENE): Engineering Skills Curriculum and Digital Materials for Out-of-school Youth;

12:30pm Logical Frameworks and Theories of Change Models, presented by Andrea Burniske

This semester, we will also be offering the opportunity to join I2D Lab meetings remotely via WebEx. If you would like to join via this option, please let me know and I will send a connection link.

The goal of these meetings is to learn more about engineering faculty interests and ongoing projects in global sustainable development, look for potential research collaborations, and to network with partners on campus to target new funding/partnership opportunities. Please feel free to share this announcement with interested colleagues or graduate students.

We ask that you RSVP at gep@purdue.edu to this, and subsequent meetings so that we can obtain a count for lunch. If you do not RSVP, you will not receive lunch. Lunch starts at 11:30. Please RSVP by noon, Tuesday April 3rd so we can to place the lunch order.

The meeting schedule for remainder of the semester follows. If you are interested in sharing your own project in an upcoming meeting, please let us know.

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ALL MEETINGS ARE 12:00-1:30PM IN WANG 2501

I2D Meeting Schedule: 2016- 2017

Wednesday, January 11:

Seed Grantee Jackie Linnes (BME): Point-of-Care Detection of Neonatal Sepsis; and Vilas Pol (ChE): Upcycling plastic waste to create valuable carbon nanotubes and spheres for use in batteries and lubricants.

Thursday, January 26:

Seed Grantee Chip Blatchley (CE): Solar UV Disinfection for Water Production in Developing Countries; and special session: Positioning Ourselves to Respond to Donor RFPs

Wednesday, February 8:

Seed Grantee Klein Ileleji (ABE): Grain Moisture Sensor; and special session: Monitoring and Evaluation for Development Projects

Thursday, February 23:

John Lumkes (ABE): PUP Innovation Stages; and Seed Grantee Julie Liu (ChE): Cell-phone Based Detection of HIV Drug Resistance

Wednesday, March 8:

Seed Grantees Yuehwern Yih (IE): CRS Emergency Response E-Supply Chain Management System

; and Chad Jafvert (CE): Rural Potable Water Systems

Thursday, March 23:

I2D Lab Expo Poster Session at ARMS Atrium 5pm, and March 24, actual Expo at PMU

Wednesday, April 5:

Brandon Boor (CE and EEE): Nandi Indoor Air Pollution Study; and Feedback and Discussion on I2D Lab Expo

Thursday, April 20:

Jennifer DeBoer (ENE): Engineering Skills Curriculum and Digital Materials for Out-of-school Youth; and 10 minute presentations from new grantees