Dear engineering faculty interested in international development, Based on interest for I2D Lab seed grant competition and faculty feedback we would like to start a series of meetings to pass out information on, discuss, and plan for funding and collaboration opportunities in R and D related to international development. We are planning to have 4 meetings this semester as follows: Thursday, March 5, 12:00-1:00pm, WANG 2501 – To discuss Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Grant program of the USAID Global Development Lab (GDL) (no deadlines, applications accepted any time) http://www.usaid.gov/div ; we have discussed this opportunity with the USAID program manager and can share some recommendations. Thursday, March 12, 12:00-1:00pm, MRGN 206 – Opportunities with the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Wednesday, April 1, 12:00-1:00pm, WANG 2501 – Follow-up from the I2D Lab Exposition (please see attached the latest draft agenda) Monday, April 13, 12:00-1:00pm, MRGN 206 – USAID-GDL Grand Challenge Grant competition http://www.usaid.gov/grandchallenges If you are unable to attend any of these sessions and are interested in learning more about the specific opportunity, please let us know and we will set up a meeting to meet with you. We expect to continue this meeting series in the fall in a biweekly format with regularly scheduled talks by faculty active in the area and discussions on funding opportunities. This email listserv has been prepared based on feedback from school heads and includes engineering faculty with demonstrated interest in global development. Regards, Arvind -- *Arvind Raman * Robert V. Adams Professor of Mechanical Engineering Associate Dean for Global Engineering Programs 585 Purdue Mall Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2088 Tel: (765) 494 5733 Fax: (765) 494 0539