or select your discipline:
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- The Department of Energy, ARPA-E DIFFERENTIATE Program seeks to enhance the pace of energy innovation by incorporating machine learning into energy technology development processes.
- The National Science Foundation Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences.
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- All interested faculty are invited to join a monthly Global Food Systems gathering on Thursday, April 18 at noon to share K-State water research across disciplines. This month's topic, "A Kansas forest's role in water quality," will be presented by Andy Klein. This presentation will be held in 137 Waters Hall.
- Dr. Elizabeth Shirtcliff, Iowa State University, will present as part of the Spring 2019 A&P Seminar Series in the College of Veterinary Medicine at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 in 407 Trotter Hall.
- The EPA Water Quality Modeling Workgroup is hosting a series of webinars to help water quality professionals better understand surface water quality modeling. The next webinar, titled “Data Needs for Modeling,” is scheduled for Wednesday, May 1 at noon CST. The purpose of the webinar is to discuss data needs for hydrodynamic, watershed, and water quality models. Read more and register.
- 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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Kirmser Undergraduate Research Award
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Know an undergraduate student who completed library-based research for a class this year? Nominate them for the Kirmser Undergraduate Research Award.
The Kirmser Undergraduate Research Award was established in 2014 to recognize and promote outstanding scholarship among K-State’s undergraduates. The award is funded by a gift provided to K-State Libraries by Philip and Jeune Kirmser.
Research projects must have been completed as a requirement for a K-State course and may encompass any academic topic.
Applications are evaluated based on the use of library resources.
A grand prize is offered
in the individual freshman ($1,000), individual non-freshman ($1,000), and group categories (minimum of $2,000). Additional honorable mentions may also be awarded in each category.
Entries should be submitted by April 26.
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Agency news and trending topics
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The
Rockefeller Foundation
has announced grants totaling $42 million to the
Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience
at the
Atlantic Council
and
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
in support of efforts to boost climate resilience around the globe. The grants represent a new phase of the foundation's efforts to address the effects of climate change and will help establish a new platform for that work to evolve and continue. To that end, a $30 million grant to the Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience will fund initiatives designed to help individuals, cities, and communities around the globe build resilience to global shocks and stressors such as flood, drought, conflict, and food insecurity.
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n February 2019, I started a two-month visiting fellowship at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Now back at home, I’ve realized that being far from my group made some existing challenges even harder, and led me to make some simple changes to my management approach. My independent career as a principal investigator kicked off in October 2016, with a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Since then, my informal support of 2 or 3 colleagues has morphed into a research group of 14 students and fellows in the department of materials science and metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, UK. I’ve found it challenging to reconcile the huge privilege and responsibility of being a good leader with my desire to gain international experience.
The latest federal budget news coming out of Brasília has Brazilian scientists fearing the worst. On 29 March, faced with a stagnant economy and falling tax revenues, the government announced it was “freezing” nearly 30 billion reais ($7.5 billion) of the country’s public funds for the year, including a 2.2 billion real slice of the science ministry’s budget. If the freeze isn’t lifted, funds for scholarships and research will be cut by 42%—a blow that would come on top of a series of other cuts in recent years.
Nature
asked researchers what the breakthrough means for them and for science.
NASA’s identical-twin astronauts, Scott and Mark Kelly, are back to being nearly identical. That’s the verdict of a study that tracked how Scott’s body changed during a nearly year-long spaceflight in 2015-16, while Mark stayed on Earth. Many of the
genetic, biochemical and other changes that had affected Scott
mostly disappeared once he returned from space, researchers reported on 11 April in
Science.
For the past 37 years, a small research lab in Beltsville, Maryland, has been the world’s leading hub for scientists working on
Toxoplasma gondii
, a parasite that infects more than 1 billion people globally, causing death, blindness, and birth defects. Operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the facility is a source of expertise and rare, sought-after materials for researchers working to stop the parasite, which can be transmitted by food and has no human vaccine and no cure. But last week, the lab fell victim to pressure from animal welfare activists and members of Congress concerned about its use of cats, the only animal in which
T. gondii
completes the sexual stages of its life cycle.
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