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The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH, Directors Pioneer Award Program supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the mission of NIH.
The National Science Foundation’s Racial Equity in STEM Education program seeks proposals which advance racial equity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce development through research (both fundamental and applied) and practice. Core to this funding opportunity is that proposals are led by, or developed and led in authentic partnership with, individuals and communities most impacted by the inequities caused by systemic racism.
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VPR Brown Bag: Research security, integrity and academia |
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Noon
Thursday, April 29
Join Beth Montelone, interim vice president for research, at noon on Thursday, April 29 for a Brown Bag virtual lunch on research security, integrity and academia.
The Brown Bag will focus on new federal government policies on research security, including:
- New requirements related to conflict of interest and conflict of commitment disclosures.
- Foreign government talent recruitment programs.
- International travel outlined in the January 2020 National Security Presidential Memorandum 33.
We will also discuss the role of the newly formed K-State Research Security and Integrity Working Group and how this group is addressing these new federal requirements.
Register in advance for this meeting. Please use your K-State email address to register for this event.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Applications open for fall 2021 NBAF Scientist Training Program |
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or USDA APHIS, is now accepting applications for the fall 2021 cohort of the NBAF Scientist Training Program, or NSTP.
NSTP fellows will receive full tuition and supplementary support to complete a master's, doctorate, or DVM/Ph.D. program in target laboratory-based fields of study such as microbiology, virology, molecular biology, diagnostics, and bioinformatics for up to five years. Fellows will also receive a stipend of $50,000 annually for doctoral or DVM/Ph.D. students; $35,000 annually for master’s students; and health benefits.
Successful candidates must be U.S. citizens, meet all requirements of the university graduate program and have been accepted into an approved graduate training program — master's, doctoral, DVM/Ph.D. at time of application to NSTP. Candidates should also identify a faculty mentor supportive of enrollment in NSTP, exhibit a strong interest in emerging, zoonotic and/or foreign animal diseases and be willing to commit to working at NBAF after degree completion for the specified time for the degree completed.
The purpose of the NSTP is to build the necessary technical and subject matter expertise to support the Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, or FADDL, at the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, known as NBAF, in Manhattan, Kansas. In addition to serving as an international reference laboratory for foot and mouth disease virus and a national reference laboratory for other foreign animal diseases such as classical swine fever and African swine fever viruses, FADDL’s mission will expand to include emerging and zoonotic diseases, including biosafety level-4 pathogens.
Please direct questions to Frank Blecha, associate dean, College of Veterinary Medicine or Beth Montelone, interim vice president for research.
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How do we plan to feed 9.8 billion people by 2050? Increasing the availability of sustainable, arable land through the use of modern robotics could help to expand food production, and reduce the need for destruction of forested land.
In this episode of our podcast, we talk with Dan Flippo, Patrick Wilburn Keystone Research Scholar in biological and agricultural engineering at Kansas State University, about the work he is doing to mesh state-of-the-art robotic technology with food production to move toward sustainably feeding the world past 2050.
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Information Session |
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2:30-3:30 p.m.
Friday, April 16
The Office of Research Development at K-State is offering a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency information session from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, April 16.
The session will provide an overview of the agency, its mission and strategic imperatives. Representatives from the agency's strategic partnerships and communication division will discuss opportunities for academic engagement via Broad Agency Announcements and the NGA Academic Research Program.
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2021 Nexus Informatics Conference |
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April 15 and 16, 2021
The Nexus Informatics Conference is a unique blend of informatics perspectives and expertise – industry, academia, medicine, agriculture, technology and biology – a true “nexus.” Attendees will have opportunities to discover capabilities, share tactical approaches to problem solving, explore synergies, and launch potential collaborations.
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Registration Now Open for Inaugural NIAMRRE Annual Conference |
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April 20-21, 2021
Come together as we connect people, resources, and ideas to accelerate and synergize efforts to combat antibiotic resistance at the inaugural annual conference for the National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education.
This virtual two-day event—taking place April 20-21, 2021—will bring together scientists, educators, industry professionals, government and NGO representatives from current and prospective NIAMRRE member institutions to build the foundational relationships with NIAMRRE and each other necessary to move the needle on antimicrobial resistance, stewardship, and use concerns.
Four sessions will cover NIAMRRE's four priority areas: advocacy, collaboration, research, and education. In each session, participants will hear from experts in the human, animal and environmental health before engaging with each other to discuss viable paths forward in each of these areas.
It's been tough to build community during a public health crisis, but we know that building meaningful, action-oriented relationships to enable a shared One Health vision for AMR can't wait. We hope you'll join us virtually on April 20-21.
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NIH Grants 101 & Early Career Reviewer Program Webinar |
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1 p.m.
April 14, 2021
Attend this webinar to learn about navigating the National Institutes of Health, the peer review process, and how to gain experience as an Early Career Reviewer that you can use in preparing your own applications.
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SMD Community Town Hall Meeting |
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10 a.m.
April 20, 2021
Thomas H. Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, or SMD, and his leadership team will hold a community town hall meeting to discuss updates to NASA's science program and share current status of SMD activities.
Please participate by joining at:
If prompted, please use event number 199 156 1546, followed by event password yGkK8nGWP97.
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Information Session on NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate |
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3 p.m.
Wednesday, April 21
This directorate focuses on human behavior and social organizations, in particular how economic, political, environmental, social, and cultural forces affect the lives of people from birth to old age — and how people in turn shape those forces. SBE consists of four divisions: Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Social and Economic Sciences, Office of Multidisciplinary Activities and National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. The funding opportunities offered by this directorate reflect the diversity of its research interests.
Please to register to sign up for this session and receive a zoom link.
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ARIS Office Hours Special Edition
The New SBE Broader Impacts Framework
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1 p.m.
Tuesday, April 20
Arthur “Skip” Lupia, assistant director of the National Science Foundation and head of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, or SBE, and Antoinette WinklerPrins, deputy division director of the Division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, will talk about the new SBE Broader Impacts Framework.
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NASEM to Host Workshop on Strategies for Effective Data Management and Sharing |
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On April 28-29, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, or NASEM, is hosting Changing the Culture of Data Management and Sharing, a virtual public workshop to examine strategies for effective data management and sharing.
The workshop will discuss challenges to and potential solutions for data management and sharing across scientific disciplines and ways researchers can integrate data management and sharing practices into their routine research conduct. The workshop aims to inform implementation strategies for the new NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing.
Additional information, including the workshop agenda and registration portal, is available on the workshop website.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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According to a Kansas Health Institute (KHI) study, more than 40% of people in east central Kansas lack adequate access to broadband internet. It’s the third highest percentage of the population without adequate access in the state. www.flatlandkc.org
A highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that was first identified in Britain has become the most common source of new infections in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. The worrisome development comes as officials and scientists warn of a possible fourth surge of infections. nytimes.com
Next week marks the one-year anniversary of NIH shifting to maximum telework in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like employers and employees across the country, overnight we needed to adapt our entire enterprise and reinvent our jobs in the virtual workplace. Coincidentally, next week is also when with a deep breath and a big hug, I send my six year old back to school in person, masked up and excited to meet his 1st grade teacher in person for the first time. So it seems like a good time to reflect on what the past year has been like, juggling the demands of serving in the leadership of a government agency square in the middle of COVID response with the needs of two young children during this nationwide experiment in virtual schooling. nexus.od.nih.gov
A clinical trial is underway to determine whether people who are highly allergic or have a mast cell disorder are at increased risk for an immediate, systemic allergic reaction to the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines. A systemic allergic reaction to a vaccine occurs in one or more parts of the body beyond the injection site. If such an allergic reaction occurs in study participants, investigators will assess whether the reactions are more frequent in participants who are highly allergic or have a mast cell disorder than in participants with no allergic history. In addition, investigators will examine the biological mechanism behind the reactions and whether a genetic pattern or other factors can predict who is at most risk. nih.gov
Astronomers have found stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. To make the discovery, the scientists used NSF's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Previous studies had suggested that the environment at the galaxy's center was too harsh to form stars. These findings, however, indicate that star formation is more resilient than researchers thought. nsf.gov
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