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The Spencer Foundation’s Conference Grant Program provides support to scholars to organize small research conferences, focused symposia, or other forms of convenings around important issues in education research.
The National Science Foundation’s Energy, Power, Control, and Networks program supports innovative research in modeling, optimization, learning, adaptation, and control of networked multi-agent systems, higher-level decision making, and dynamic resource allocation, as well as risk management in the presence of uncertainty, sub-system failures, and stochastic disturbances.
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K-State events and announcements |
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Campus invited to tour nano and microelectronics lab |
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3 p.m.
Thursday, April 7
0035 Rathbone Hall
The Carl R. Ice College of Engineering will host a series of laboratory tours to exhibit the capabilities of each facility as well as foster collaboration within the Kansas State University research community.
Jungkwun Kim, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, will kick off the series by opening his nano and microelectronics lab for a tour at 3 p.m. on April 7 in 0035 Rathbone Hall.
The university community is invited to tour the lab as well as hear about Kim’s research program.
Kim’s laboratory is equipped with a variety of microfabrication and characterization tools, including a scanning electron microscope, laser-driven 3D printers, digital and analog microscopes, plasma-driven metal deposition and etching equipment, a network analyzer with a bandwidth of up to 40 GHz, a potentiostat, mask aligner, mask writer and laser machining tools, among other tools.
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Share your work with the public during the Kansas Science Festival |
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The Kansas Science Festival, supported by several Kansas State University units, is a new initiative on a mission to co-create STEAM — science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics — experiences that spark excitement and curiosity in learners of all ages. The inaugural Kansas Science Festival will take place April 20-30 with a series of activities, including our signature event: Kansas Science Festival @Downtown MHK, from 1-5 p.m. April 30. This event provides researchers and community STEAM practitioners from all backgrounds and career stages an opportunity to share their work with the broader public.
Members of the K-State community are invited to participate and present their work in the form of a hands-on, family-friendly activity. The goal is to provide the broader community with a glimpse of all the exciting ways STEAM intersects with our daily lives, to spark curiosity and excitement in learners of all ages and, frankly, to have fun!
K-State community participation is welcome regardless of specialization or career stage. Whether you are a faculty member with developed outreach activities for broader impacts, a graduate student with an exciting research project, or an undergraduate student organization with a passion for STEAM, please sign up to participate and register for a booth by April 8 using the Kansas Science Festival website.
If you are excited about this initiative but do not have an activity in mind, you can also help the Kansas Science Festival as a volunteer prior to, during or after the event. Volunteers can sign-up through the following website: scienceks.org/support-us/.
If you have any questions, please contact the steering committee via email.
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Global Food Systems Seed Grant Program
Submissions for the Global Food Systems seed grant program are now open.
The fiscal year 2023 GFS Seed Grants will be made for a two-year period for funding levels up to $100,000 per year or $200,000 total award. The second year of funding will be contingent upon continued state funding and sufficient progress in the first year. Two requirements for all projects are:
- The potential for the project to impact job growth and job creation, as well as retain and attract talent in the state of Kansas.
- Specific plans to attract new externally sponsored funding to solve GFS grand challenges.
Proposals are due by 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
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J. Spencer Clark to speak at Research Administrators Council quarterly meeting |
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10:30 a.m.-noon
Tuesday, April 12
Via Zoom
The Research Administrators Council will have its quarterly meeting from 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday, April 12, via Zoom.
The meeting program will feature J. Spencer Clark, director of the Rural Education Center, who will speak about “Rural as a Lens for Innovation in Education”. He currently is the lead principal investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Agriculture, all of which provide equipment and professional development opportunities for in-service teachers throughout the state.
Updates from the offices of PreAward Services and Sponsored Programs Accounting will also be provided. Check your calendar for the Zoom link and password provided in calendar invitations sent out to the RAC listserv in December for all 2022 meetings. Zoom information is also provided below.
Mark your calendars for the remaining 2022 RAC quarterly meeting dates: July 12 and Oct. 11. All meetings will be 10:30-noon and include a Zoom option.
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Global Food System initiative presents Writing for Industry Workshop |
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3-5 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12
This Global Food System workshop aims to help train graduate students and faculty members on industry-focused relationships, proposal writing, intellectual property protection and the legal ins and outs of industry interaction.
All disciplines and research interests are welcome. The workshop will be held via Zoom.
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Attend inaugural K-State Libraries Lecture Series |
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3:30 p.m
Thursday, April 14
David Rosowsky, vice president for research at Kansas State University, will present "Telling Our Story: Value, impact and the importance of land-grant universities" at the inaugural K-State Libraries Lecture Series at 3:30 p.m April 14. In this talk, we will explore the challenges and opportunities of affirming our land-grant mission in the context of an uncertain post-pandemic world.
The lecture will be in the Hemisphere Room on the fifth floor of Hale Library. Rosowsky will be joined by panelists Michael Dowd, student body past president; Laurel Littrell, director of assessment at K-State Libraries and Faculty Senate president; Ernie Minton, dean of the College of Agriculture and director of K-State Research and Extension; and Be Stoney, interim chief diversity and inclusion officer.
A reception will immediately follow the lecture. Space is limited and registration is required. Please register online.
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Kansas Water Resources Institute research grants |
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The Kansas Water Resources Institute, or KWRI, is accepting proposals for research grants. This year KWRI expects to fund up to four grants up to $50,000 each. Projects are funded for up to 24 months. Graduate and undergraduate training is encouraged and refereed scientific research publications are an expected output of this program.
Successful proposals will focus on research that explores new ideas to address water problems in Kansas and expands understanding of water and related phenomena within the Kansas context.
Faculty and research staff at state universities — including K-State, KU, WSU, ESU, PSU and FHSU — may submit proposals. Researchers in the social, biological, physical and engineering sciences, as well as fields such as water management, water law and economics, are encouraged to apply. Funded projects start in the fall of 2022, contingent on federal budget approval.
The deadline for applications is 5 p.m., April 15, 2022. The full RFP, along with additional details about how to submit and proposal review criteria can be found on the KCARE website.
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The Kansas Water Resources Institute, or KWRI, is pleased to announce the release of the FY2022 RFPs for three National Competitive Grants from the United States Geological Survey.
These grants focus on regional or interstate water issues and are open to any investigator from an accredited college or university. Proposals may be for projects of 1-3 years in duration, and investigators can request up to $250,000 of federal funds (match required).
The three grants are:
- General.
- Aquatic Invastive Species.
- Per- and Polyfluroalkyl Substances.
KWRI is responsible for submitting all Kansas proposals to USGS. The deadline for submissions to KWRI is April 26, 2022.
More information about program objectives, research priorities, or grant submissions can be found on the KCARE website. Contact KWRI director Dan Devlin with questions.
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External events and announcements |
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Faculty Teaching Practices due to the Pandemic: IRB Approved Research |
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A team of researchers from Colorado State University is conducting a study on changes in instructional practices due to COVID-19 and which practices instructors might retain over the long term. We hope you will consider participating in this research project. The survey will take approximately 10-20 minutes to complete and you will be entered in a drawing.
This survey will close on April 8.
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NSF: CyberTraining webinar
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1-2 p.m.
April 7
This program seeks to prepare, nurture, and grow the national scientific research workforce for creating, utilizing, and supporting advanced cyberinfrastructure, or CI, to enable and potentially transform fundamental science and engineering, or S&E, research and education and contribute to the Nation's overall economic competitiveness and security. The goals of this solicitation are to:
- Ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers’ abilities to lead the development of new CI.
- Integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven methods for advancing fundamental research, into the Nation’s undergraduate and graduate educational curriculum/instructional materials.
- Build communities of research CI professional staff to deploy, manage, and collaboratively support the effective use of research CI, as well as establish career paths for those staff within and across institutions and science and engineering disciplines.
This solicitation calls for innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum/instructional materials, along with deeper incorporation of CI professionals into the research enterprise — targeting one or more of the solicitation goals — to address emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in S&E research workforce development, from the postsecondary level to active researchers to CI professionals.
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Department of Defense Basic Energy Sciences presents: Grant Writing for Early Career Scientists |
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1-2 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12
The grant writing and review process can feel daunting and difficult to navigate for young investigators. Learn tips and best practices from experts on how to successfully craft a scientific proposal for federal grants, industry partnerships, and non-profit support. After short presentations from each panelist, there will be a live question and answer session with the audience. This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public.
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NSF: CISE-RV Program Webinar |
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2-3 p.m.
Wednesday, April 13
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, or CISE, seeks to fund a community-driven organization to lead the community in identifying ambitious new fundamental and translational research directions that align with national and societal priorities and thereby catalyze the computing research community's pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. Specifically, CISE calls on the research community to establish a CISE Research Visioning activity, or CISE-RV, to facilitate the articulation of compelling long-term research visions and establish multi-directional communication pathways for stakeholders with interest in the information, communication, computing, and cyberinfrastructure research. These stakeholders would include those in academia, industry, government, professional societies, virtual organizations, international entities, and the general public.
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NSF Division of Mathematical Science Virtual Office Hour |
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1-2 p.m.
Friday, April 15
The Office Hour will include brief discussions of current and upcoming Division of Mathematical Science activities followed by an open question and answer period.
Topics for April 15:
Participants may submit questions in advance through the registration form or by sending email to DMS-VOH@nsf.gov. There will also be an opportunity to submit questions anonymously through the Zoom webinar Q&A feature. We will prioritize questions deemed to be of interest to the widest audience. Questions on individual projects will not be addressed in the VOH.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Achieving classical herd immunity against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may not be attainable, according to a new perspective published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. However, widespread use of currently available public health interventions to prevent and control COVID-19 will enable resumption of most activities of daily life with minimal disruption, the authors note. NIH
Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome sequence. According to researchers, having a complete, gap-free sequence of the roughly 3 billion bases (or “letters”) in our DNA is critical for understanding the full spectrum of human genomic variation and for understanding the genetic contributions to certain diseases. NIH
The two COVID-19 vaccines based on messenger RNA (mRNA) have been the breakout stars of the pandemic. Both trigger impressive immune responses with minimal side effects, and both did exceptionally well in efficacy trials. But the vaccines, produced by the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership and Moderna, have also split the world. Because of their high prices and their need to be stored at extremely low temperatures, few people in lower and middle-income countries have had access to them. Science
Humanity probably isn’t going to prevent Earth from at least temporarily warming 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels — but aggressive action to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and extract carbon from the atmosphere could limit the increase and bring temperatures back down, according to the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report makes it clear, however, that the window is rapidly closing, and with it the opportunity to prevent the worst impacts of global warming. Above the 1.5 °C limit — set by the Paris climate agreement in 2015 — the chances of extreme weather and collapsing ecosystems grow. Nature
Billions of years ago, some unknown location on the sterile, primordial Earth became a cauldron of complex organic molecules from which the first cells emerged. Origin-of-life researchers have proposed countless imaginative ideas about how that occurred and where the necessary raw ingredients came from. Some of the most difficult to account for are proteins, the critical backbones of cellular chemistry, because in nature today they are made exclusively by living cells. How did the first protein form without life to make it? Wired
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