or select your discipline:
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- The National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program welcomes proposals that advance the field of cybersecurity and privacy within a single discipline or interdisciplinary efforts that span multiple disciplines.
- The NSF Perception, Action & Cognition program funds theoretically motivated research on a wide-range of topic areas related to typical human behavior with particular focus on perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions.
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Immediate action needed: Provide feedback on K-State Libraries titles under consideration for cancellation
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As
announced
earlier this semester,
K-State Libraries must undertake our most significant round of subscription cancellations to date
. This action is largely the result of an international crisis in academic publishing and the
skyrocketing costs of subscription materials
.
After an extensive review,
we have identified the latest list of titles under consideration for cancellation
or reduced access. The full list is available
online
.
Please provide your comments via the survey linked from the
potential cancellations webpage
by Thursday, April 11. Our list was compiled based on usage and cost data among other metrics, but we need to factor in qualitative information before we make our final decisions. That’s why feedback from faculty and researchers is critical. As with past rounds of cuts, the responses will be reviewed carefully, and they are weighed in the final decisions.
“We’re moving forward with this dramatic action in order to balance next year’s budget.
It’s the only way we have currently available to mitigate the effects of several publishers’ exorbitant subscription increases
,” Joelle Pitts, head of content development, said. “Then we will be able to shift our focus to getting researchers the materials they need through alternate, more affordable means, and to strengthening K-State’s engagement with open access initiatives.”
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- Today, Harry Klee, Eminent Scholar in the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and Dickman Chair for Tomato Improvement in horticultural sciences at the University of Florida, will present a Hageman Lecture in Agricultural Biochemistry on "The chemistry of tomato flavor: Integrating genetics and biochemistry to elaborate a complex phenotype." The lecture will be held in the Leadership Studies Building Town Hall at 4 p.m. Find more information.
- Join the Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry for the first day-long, K-State undergraduate research conference on Sunday, April 14! The day-long event includes paper sessions from 9 a.m. to noon and a Developing Scholars Poster Symposium from 2-4 p.m. Read more.
- A seminar on “Climate and the Energy-Water Nexus," led by Dr. Kristen Averyt of the American Meteorological Society and president of the Desert Research Institute, will outline the core concepts of the energy-water nexus on Monday, April 15 at 4 p.m. in Mosier Hall. A student poster session will follow from 5-6 p.m. Find more information.
- The Midwest Regional 3D Symposium will explore how 3D the field of direct manufacturing, digital imaging, and 3D processing is changing dramatically. The symposium will take place on June 7 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. Read more and register.
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College of Ag soil research featured in SoAR report
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Four K-State faculty
and their research on soilborne diseases were recently recognized
in Volume 4, March 2019, edition of Retaking the Field, a collaborative report compiled by the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation.
Gretchen Sassenrath, Chris Little, Xiaomao Lin and Kraig Roozeboom have researched charcoal rot
, a fungal disease that blights soybeans. Through their research, the team found that less pathogen colony forming units of charcoal rot were present in soybean plants and the soil when a mustard cover crop was used along with no-till planting methods.
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Agency news and trending topics
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You probably know the NIH
RePORT suite of tools
as a useful hub of information where you can find reports, data, and analyses of NIH-funded research and answers to the most commonly asked questions on the NIH budget and extramural research programs. But do you know RePORT can be a helpful tool as you are developing your grant application?
Yoshua Bengio is one of three computer scientists who last week shared the US$1-million A. M. Turing award — one of the field’s top prizes. The three artificial-intelligence (AI) researchers are regarded as the founders of deep learning, the technique that combines large amounts of data with many-layered artificial neural networks, which are inspired by the brain. They
received the award
for making deep neural networks a “critical component of computing."
The undergraduate education provided by research universities could be greatly improved without much expense. Not only that, but making big public investments in such universities is the wrong approach for improving educational attainment or equity. That's the provocative argument of a paper scheduled to be presented at the American Educational Research Association's
annual meeting
on Saturday.
In 1995, a cosmic question was answered when a ground-based telescope picked up on a faint, wobbly signal coming from hundreds of light-years away. The telescope had detected the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like
star
, a breakthrough discovery proving that, yes, there are planets beyond our solar system—and hinting at the
potential for many more
. Astrophysicists have since confirmed nearly 4,000 exoplanets orbiting stars across the
Milky Way
galaxy. Like our sun, these stars are typically in the so-called main sequence phase of their lives, a period that lasts billions of years and during which the stars burn healthy, hot, and bright.
Researchers worldwide are racing to get ahead of a bug in the US Global Positioning System (GPS) that could cause data loggers, including thousands of scientific instruments, to malfunction starting on 6 April. The glitch, known as the ‘week number rollover’, could trigger GPS receivers — which enable devices used throughout research to keep highly accurate time — to reset their clocks and spit out corrupted data.
I confess: back in the 1970s, I was a tumour immunologist, entranced by the idea that incipient cancers are constantly erupting in our bodies and routinely culled by our own immune systems. But in the 1980s, it became clear that people with suppressed immune systems (such as people with HIV, or those taking immunosuppressive drugs after transplants) remained stubbornly — and happily — free of the commonest cancers. So I lost faith and retreated to the more immediately fruitful research areas of cancer-causing genes and tumour suppressors. Now, decades on, I am enjoying an emotion peculiar to academics. Let’s call it reverse schadenfreude: a combination of excitement, optimism, admiration, delicious irony and humility that comes with the realization that I got it wrong. Big time.
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