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Welcome to K-State, new faculty members and other researchers!
The Office of the Vice President for Research is here to support you in your scholarly work. You will soon get to know three units of OVPR.
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) –Fairchild Hall 102. We are here to help you find funding opportunities; or example, we prepare the weekly Funding Connection column that is part of this newsletter. ORSP also conducts and hosts training and information sessions about particular funding opportunities throughout the year and administers the small internal grants programs (University Small Research Grants and Faculty Development Awards). We work with faculty teams preparing large collaborative proposals to facilitate these efforts. Come and talk to us about your interests!
PreAward Services (PAS) – Fairchild Hall 002 and 103 (as of late Fall 2017). PAS staff work with proposal budgets, subawards, and contracts. This office is run by Associate Vice President for Research Paul Lowe, who is the signature authority for K-State on all grant and contract submissions. Most proposals must be submitted through PAS. Contact them when you are starting a proposal.
University Research Compliance Office (URCO) – Fairchild Hall 203 (mezzanine level). URCO, run by Associate Vice President for Research Compliance Cheryl Doerr, is in charge of all required compliance programs maintained by the university. Areas include animal care and use, biohazards, export controls, human subjects, infectious agents, and responsible conduct of research. URCO tracks required training and coordinates proposal review for university compliance committees. Contact URCO with compliance questions.
Watch for announcements and opportunities from OVPR units and check out the resources on our website. Let’s push K-State closer to our 2025 research goals!
— Beth Montelone, senior associate vice president for research
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- NIH is hosting a workshop, "The Human Microbiome: Emerging Themes at the Horizon of the 21st Century," August 16-18. Find more information or join via videocast.
- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, Defense Sciences Office is sponsoring a Proposers Day webcast to provide information on its Young Faculty Award on August 29 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Eastern. Registration closes August 24 at 12:00 p.m. or when capacity is reached. Find more information about the program and register.
- A Biosecurity Research Institute Research Fellows Lecture titled "Mosquito-borne Disease Surveillance: Can Technology Help Us Find the Needle in the Haystack?" will be delivered by Scott A. Ritchie on August 22 at 3:00 p.m. at BRI (Pat Roberts Hall). Ritchie is a professor at the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, and he is a PI in the Eliminate Dengue program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute is hosting One Health Innovation: Preventing the Next Pandemic on August 27 and 28. Postdocs and graduate students receive discounted registration ($50 for one or both days). Find more information and register for the symposium.
- The Kansas Humanities Council is seeking scholars for its 2018 Speakers Bureau. The council seeks a wide range of humanities topics; applications are due September 22. Read the call for proposals (PDF).
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K-State is allowed to nominate two faculty members each year to submit proposals to the
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends program. Because submissions are limited, the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs administers an internal institutional review process to select the proposals K-State will submit.
If you have questions about NEH Summer Stipends or other limited submissions opportunities, please contact the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at 532-6195.
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Agency news and trending topics
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Community development efforts in cities, towns, and rural places across the country have demonstrated that artists, designers, and cultural organizations can play an essential role in realizing community-driven transformation. Community development strategies that integrate arts and culture are better equipped to draw upon and support existing community assets, preserve and enhance the authentic character of place, and ensure equitable outcomes for local stakeholders. ... To learn more about Our Town, the NEA’s creative placemaking grant program, see the
Our Town Guidelines.
A new publically available database will catalog metadata associated with biologic samples, making it easier for researchers to share and reuse genetic data for environmental and ecological analyses. The resource, called the Genomic Observatories Metadatabase (GeOMe), was developed by researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and eight other museums and research institutions.
A body funded by Australia’s federal government plans to stop funding all 12 sites in Australia’s Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN), including the 8000-square-kilometer Simpson Desert site, at the end of this year.
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012, the storm destroyed scientific equipment worth more than US$20 million at the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center. Tropical Storm Allison hit the University of Texas Health Science Center (UT Health) in Houston in 2001, and caused so much damage that some researchers had to restart their careers elsewhere. Despite such catastrophes, a report published on 10 August finds that many research institutions in the United States are still unprepared for disasters.
David Scholnick, a marine biologist at the small, private Pacific University in Oregon, was an unlikely figure to become the face of government waste. Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, made him exactly that.
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