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- The National Science Foundation STEM + Computing K-12 Education program focuses on research and development of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to the integration of computing within STEM teaching and learning for preK-12 students in both formal and informal settings.
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Proposal Opportunity: Pork Information Gateway
Graduate or Post-Doctoral Student Stipend
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The
Pork Information Gateway
is a free, web-based library, featuring fact sheets, “how-to” guides, videos and other resources related to pigs and pork production. The Pork Information Gateway is managed by the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence, a non-profit organization. The U.S. Pork Center of Excellence is a partnership of the National Pork Board, National Pork Producers Council, State Pork Associations, Land Grant Universities, and allied industry.
The U.S. Pork Center of Excellence is
seeking proposals that will identify up to three graduate/post-doctoral students to serve as year-long editors and content creators
for specific categories on the Pork Information Gateway, with the expectation that the faculty mentor/supervisor will oversee student work before final submission to the Pork Information Gateway. Each $20,000 stipend is to be used by a faculty mentor/supervisor to help support a graduate student or post-doctoral student. The funds are renewable for an additional year upon satisfactory progress.
Submitted proposals must bring fundamental knowledge and application to maintain and improve the Pork Information Gateway through serving as a temporary editor to several categories as well as authoring new fact sheets and “how-to” guides.
Student and faculty must identify up to 5 categories compatible with faculty/student knowledge and interest.
The Pork Information Gateway Proposal Selection Committee will make final determination on which category(s) will be selected for the student.
Submission deadline: May 15.
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- Dr. Pavel Chernyavskiy, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Wyoming, will present the next Statistics Seminar on "Covariate-driven non-stationary spatial models with applications to water quality in North American lakes" on April 25 at 4 p.m. in 407 Dickens Hall. Read more.
- Kansas State will host an advance screening of the premiere of THE HOT ZONE followed by a panel discussion with the real-life subjects of the series, Nancy and Jerry Jaax, along with the showrunners, writers and executive producers Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders. The event, also sponsored by K-State Student Union Program Council, will be at 7 p.m. May 7 in Forum Hall in the K-State Student Union. Find more information.
- Join the next EPA Office for Water Watershed Academy Webcast seminar on May 9 from 2-4 p.m. CDT on "The Water Data Collborative: Citizen Science Monitoring Data and Data Sharing." Participants can receive a certificate for their involvement. Register here.
- 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.
- Save the date for the BEYA STEM Conference Feb. 13-15, 2020 in Washington, D.C., hosted by The Council of HBCU Engineering Deans and US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine. Students can attend the career fair and meet top employers, take advantage of onsite resources designed to enhance job search, to enhance their academic career, as well as to get tools for a successful STEM career. Professionals will find training, networking, role models, mentors, and inspiring awards events. Find more information.
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Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research
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Summer Training for Underrepresented Junior Faculty
The Summer Institute Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (
PRIDE
) are now accepting applications. Space is limited for the 2019 mentored summer training programs so
apply
early!
Who:
Eligible applicants are junior-level faculty or transitioning postdoctoral scientists with background deemed under-represented in the biomedical or health sciences, and are United States Citizens or Permanent Residents. Postdocs must have a faculty appointment letter at the time of matriculation into the selected summer institute program. Research interests should be compatible with those of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, blood, and sleep (HLBS) disorders.
What:
Nine unique Summer Institute programs with intensive mentored training opportunities to enhance the research skills and to promote the scientific and career development of trainees. Trainees will learn effective strategies for preparing, submitting and obtaining external funding for research purposes, including extensive tips on best practices. Trainees will also be able to apply for small grants to support mentored-pilot research projects. Research emphasis varies by program.
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Agency news and trending topics
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Physicists are drawing closer to answering a long-standing mystery of the Universe: how long a neutron lives. Neutrons are electrically neutral particles that usually combine with protons to make up atomic nuclei. Some neutrons are not bound up in atoms; these free-floating neutrons decay radioactively into other particles in a matter of minutes. But physicists
can’t agree on precisely how long it takes a neutron to die
. Using one laboratory approach, they measure the average neutron lifetime as 14 minutes 39 seconds. Using a different approach, they get 8 seconds longer. The discrepancy has bedevilled researchers for nearly 15 years.
Some U.S. universities will announce in the next week or two actions they have taken to prevent foreign governments from taking unfair advantage of research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, NIH Director Francis Collins said today. Some researchers could be fired, Collins suggested. “There are multiple instances of faculty members who will not be faculty members anymore,” he told reporters after testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee panel that oversees NIH’s budget.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded more than US$350 million to four research teams that will test ways of reducing accidental deaths from opioid use. The scientists will conduct their work in four states: Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio. A fifth group, at RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, will coordinate the overall effort. The goal is to reduce opioid-overdose deaths by 40% in 3 years, and to create a blueprint that communities across the United States could use, NIH director Francis Collins said at a press conference on 18 April.
Our system for protecting health data in the United States is fundamentally broken and we need a national effort to rethink how we safeguard this information, say three experts in data privacy. In a perspective article in the April 18, 2019, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the experts call for an effort similar to what led to the Belmont Report in 1979, which laid the foundation for bioethics standards in the United States to protect human participants in research. "Data scandals are occurring on a regular basis, with no end in sight," said Efthimios Parasidis, a co-author of the NEJM article and a professor at the Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and College of Public Health.
Tension between national security and science
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by its nature open and international
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is nothing new. But over the past year and a half, national security agencies, federal granting agencies, the White House and members of Congress have all signaled their increasing concern about international students or scholars who might seek to exploit the openness of the U.S. academic environment for their own
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or their nations'
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gain. And they’re signaling that when it comes to the balance between scientific openness and national security
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and, to add a third dimension, economic competitiveness
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they’re not happy with where that balance is being struck, especially when it comes to China.
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