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The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH’s Microbial-based Cancer Imaging and Therapy—Bugs as Drugs solicits grant applications proposing to utilize bacteria, archaebacteria, bacteriophages, or other non-oncolytic viruses and their natural products to study the underlying mechanisms of the complex interactions between microorganisms, tumors, and the immune system, and to explore their clinical potential for cancer imaging, therapeutics or diagnostics.
The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, psychological, political, and economic outcomes, including educational access, job opportunities, social mobility, civic participation and representation, and the transmission of advantage and disadvantage within and across generations.
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This is the first in a series of columns about the services provided by the Office of the Vice President for Research units. The Office of Research Development, or ORD, located in 102 Fairchild Hall, has three major functions:
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Research development: We work with faculty members to help develop their research ideas, identify appropriate funding opportunities, find collaborators and craft their proposals. To this end, we publish the weekly Funding Connection as well as the featured opportunities column of Research Weekly. Additionally, we work with individual faculty members and groups, conduct training and familiarization sessions about specific funding sources and opportunities for graduate students, postdocs and faculty; and facilitate the early career faculty professional development sessions focusing on interacting effectively with funding agencies. Each summer we conduct intensive writing clinics for the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program, or NSF CAREER, and National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend opportunities. We also identify researchers to participate in teams for larger, multi-disciplinary opportunities.
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Internal funding programs: We conduct the internal small grants programs — Faculty Development Awards and University Small Research Grants. The Global Food System Seed Grants program is also managed by ORD.
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Limited submissions opportunities: We manage responses to funding opportunities that restrict the number of proposals that an individual institution can put in. More information can be found on the OVPR website.
ORD team members and their particular areas of responsibility are:
- Joel Anderson, development director — Department of Defense opportunities and other agencies.
- Mary Lou Marino, development director — National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation opportunities; Funding Connection; limited submissions.
- Maureen Olewnik, Global Food Systems coordinator — Global Food Systems training and seed grants leadership.
- Kelly Burns, communications and office support assistant — Communications; Global Food Systems podcasts and website.
- Beth Montelone, ORD director — National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation opportunities; Broader Impacts; coordination with other units; leadership of Associate Deans for Research Council; matching funds requests.
ORD staff members coordinate with other OVPR units including PreAward Services on proposal submission and contract negotiation; University Research Compliance Office on the coordination of compliance training and approvals; and K-State Innovation Partners on intellectual property, patenting, licensing and corporate relations.
-Beth A. Montelone
Senior Associate Vice President for Research
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The Microbiome: A discussion of life as we know it
In this podcast, we talk with Sonny Lee, assistant professor in the Division of Biology at K-State. Lee’s work touches on many areas of microbiome research and casts a wide net in laboratory studies, mining data from peers to aid in complex evaluations, and working with students and colleagues capable of critical thinking and problem solving. Lee discusses how we are in the infancy of understanding how organisms impact our health, a plant's ability to grow and everything dealing with life as we know it.
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Global Food Systems Seed Grant training
Industry Perspectives: Steps toward achieving successful industry collaborations
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1-2 p.m.
Tuesday, March 8
2-3 p.m.
Wednesday, March 9
This mandatory training for this year’s GFS Seed Grant applications will help researchers better understand the challenges in intellectual property protection, the legal ins and outs of industry interaction and how to build relationships with industry colleagues.
Graduate students are welcome to attend, but the PI of the project must attend.
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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 Friday, April 9, 2022.
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Critical and emerging technologies update |
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The Fast Track Action Subcommittee on Critical and Emerging Technologies and The National Science and Technology Council, or NSTC, has updated its list of critical and emerging technologies earlier this month that are considered relevant to national security.
The council was established in 2020 to identify critical and emerging technologies to inform national security-related activities. In support of this work, the Subcommittee coordinated across the NSTC and the National Security Council to identify priority critical and emerging technology subfields.
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Fostering collaboration through connectivity to solve complex challenges |
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Kansas State University is now a member of an academic consortium in support of a U.S. Special Operations Command, or USSOCOM, awarded to Institute of Applied Engineering, or IAE, at the University of South Florida. This is a potential $85M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for access to applied research and advanced technology development. Under the agreement, USSOCOM will collaborate with IAE to conduct research, hardware and software development, test and evaluation, demonstration, prototyping, and limited system production.
General topics of interest include:
- 5G and advanced networking.
- Artificial intelligence/machine learning.
- Autonomous systems.
- Battery technologies.
- Biotechnology.
- Cyber and the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Data analytics and operations research.
- Electronic warfare.
- Human-machine interfaces.
- Human performance enhancement.
- Hypersonics.
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Spring 2022 FDA and USRG Request for Proposals |
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Deadline: 5 p.m., Monday, March 7
The Office of Research Development announces the Spring 2022 Faculty Development Award, or FDA, and University Small Research Grant, or USRG, call for proposals for Kansas State University tenured or tenure-track faculty who are interested in receiving assistance in their scholarly activities and professional development. Note: faculty must have at least some percentage of their appointment devoted to research.
The Faculty Development Awards program provides support for travel to international meetings — primarily at international locations — or to meet with program officers from potential external sponsors. Due to travel constraints caused by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA program will, for the current funding round cover either:
- Registration expenses to present at a virtual professional meeting.
- Travel and registration costs to present at an in-person professional meeting. These awards will be contingent on the in-person meetings occurring as planned with funds not being released until this can be confirmed.
The University Small Research Grants program is a seed grant program to support early research, scholarly activity, and other creative efforts.
If you seek support for travel/projects occurring between July 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 apply in this competition. For travel/ projects occurring between January 1, 2023 and June 30, 2023, apply in the fall competition, due October 3, 2022
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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program's 2023-24 competition is open, featuring over 400 awards offered in more than 130 countries in all world regions. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards allow academics as well as professionals and artists to teach, research, and carry out professional projects abroad. Applications are due September 15, 2022, but it's not too early to see what's possible! Visit the Fulbright site for program details, valuable application guidance and resources to support you along the way.
Now that the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program 2023-24 competition is open, are you interested to learn what has helped scholars successfully apply for awards? Please visit our most recent Fulbright Blog post featuring five tips to jumpstart your U.S. Scholar Program application.
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Curious to see where Fulbright can take you? Join a webinar to learn more!
Our first webinars of the year will share details about the U.S. Scholar Program, awards and the application process. Register for these events here:
Visit the webinar schedule for details about events throughout the competition, featuring specific countries, regions and disciplines.
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The National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program |
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Noon-1 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 24
The IUCRC program catalyzes breakthrough pre-competitive research by enabling close and sustained engagement between industry innovators, world-class academic teams, and government agencies. IUCRCs help industry partners and government agencies connect directly and efficiently with university researchers to achieve three primary objectives: 1) Conduct high-impact research to meet shared and critical industrial needs in companies of all sizes; 2) Enhance U.S. global leadership in driving innovative technology development, and 3) Identify, mentor and develop a diverse, highly skilled science and engineering workforce. The program currently supports 84 Centers with over 110 participating universities and over 750 research intensive member organizations involved.
Agenda Highlights
- Goals of the IUCRC program.
- IUCRC program guidelines, organizational structure, requirements, and process.
- How industry, government, and academic institutions can build powerful partnerships through IUCRCs
- Leveraging the IUCRC program and NSF’s workforce development opportunities to build a diverse STEM pipeline.
This is a free webinar for UIDP members and non-members, but registration is required. On Feb. 24 registration closes at 12:10 p.m.
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NSF: Future Manufacturing Webinar |
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Noon-1 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 25
Program directors will discuss the research thrusts, types of proposals, proposal requirements and evaluation criteria specific to this solicitation.
If you have questions after reading the solicitation, please submit them to FutureManufacturing@nsf.gov. Common questions will be answered in the webinar, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions during the webinar as well.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing event details. If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to attend, please email rarequest@nsf.gov in advance.
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Noon-2 p.m.
Thursday, March 10
The presenters will discuss program scope, eligibility, application elements, and frequently asked questions. A Q&A session will conclude the webinar. A recording will be available after the event on the NIJ website.
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Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges |
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In 2016, the National Science Foundation, or NSF, unveiled a set of 'Big Ideas,' 10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identified unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering by bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to support convergence research. One of those, Understanding the Rules of Life, is based on developing a predictive understanding of how key properties of living systems emerge from interactions among factors such as genomes, phenotypes, and dynamic environments. Funded projects over the past five years have investigated these interactions at multiple levels, in various organisms, and at different scales to produce generalizable 'rules' capable of predicting change in living systems.
Now, NSF is ready to take a next step and consider how to use those 'rules' to advance solutions to society’s toughest challenges. And we need your participation and help.
You are invited to participate in a series of free virtual events centered on Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges. The goal is to bring together researchers with diverse perspectives — including those from all scientific disciplines, with various levels of experience, from different types of institutions or organizations and from groups historically underrepresented in STEM — to share ideas about how rules of life approaches and data might be harnessed by multidisciplinary teams to tackle pressing societal challenges.
How you can get engaged:
Virtual Town Hall (open to all)
Tuesday, March 15
To discuss Rules of Life concepts and to identify challenges that are best addressed by applying Rules of Life approaches
Workshops 1-4 (by invitation)
April 14, 19, 21, and 26
Each focused on a specific challenge identified in the Town Hall
To explore ideas on how multidisciplinary research inspired by using Rules of Life can help provide solutions to societal challenges
Postdoc 'incubators' (by invitation, specifically for postdoctoral researchers)
April 12, April 22, May 2, May 17
To help maximize the workshop experience through professional networking and writing
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NSF: Smart and Connected Communities Program Webinar |
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1-2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 16
The National Science Foundation’s Smart and Connected Communities program recently released an updated solicitation. The program is now “No-deadline” and is accepting proposals at any time. Teams are encouraged to submit their proposals as soon as they are ready and are welcome to set up a time to speak with a program director to discuss questions.
For teams new to the S&CC program, this 90-minute informational webinar will provide:
- An overview of the S&CC program
- Details of the updated solicitation and important submission information for potential proposers across academia, community organizations, and state and local government
- Q&A with S&CC Program Directors
S&CC supports fundamental research that integrates technological and social science dimensions of smart and connected communities. Researchers are required to work with community stakeholders to identify local challenges and to co-develop and pilot solutions addressing these challenges. The program accelerates the creation of the scientific and engineering foundations that synergistically integrate intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments, including infrastructure, to improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of communities.
The program supports projects in the following categories:
- S&CC Integrative Research Grants (SCC-IRG) Tracks 1 and 2. Awards in this category support fundamental integrative research that addresses technological and social science dimensions of smart and connected communities and pilots solutions together with communities. Track 1 proposals may request budgets ranging between $1,500,001 and $2,500,000, with durations of up to four years. Track 2 proposals may request budgets up to $1,500,000, with durations of up to three years.
- S&CC Planning Grants (SCC-PG). Awards in this category are for capacity building to prepare project teams to propose future well-developed SCC-IRG proposals. Each of these awards will provide support for a period of one year and up to $150,000.
To learn more about the program and its supported projects, visit the S&CC website.
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NSF: Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering Webinar |
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11 a.m.-noon
Thursday, March 17
The goal of the BRITE solicitation is to enable and create opportunities to advance scientific discoveries and new research using a variety of approaches that harness the national talent ecosystem of experienced faculty.
Program directors will describe and answer questions about BRITE program eligibility, submission instructions, and the four funding tracks -- Synergy, Pivot, Relaunch, and Fellow.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing event details. If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to attend, please email rarequest@nsf.gov in advance.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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After studying blood samples from 244 patients hospitalized for COVID-19, a group of researchers, including those who work at the National Institutes of Health, identified “rogue antibodies” that correlate with severe illness and may help explain mechanisms associated with severe blood clotting. nih.gov
NSF’s Build and Broaden program seeks to expand minority participation in the social, behavioral and economic sciences and increase the ability of minority-serving institutions to acquire NSF support for research. nsf.gov
As Ukraine braces for the possibility of an imminent invasion by Russia, several Ukrainian scientists have told Nature that they and their colleagues are taking measures to protect themselves and their work, including gathering items for self-defense and preparing to flee. nature.com
Wen Li, a Shanghai marketer in the hospitality industry, first suspected that an algorithm was messing with her when she and a friend used the same ride-hailing app one evening.
Wen’s friend, who less frequently ordered rides in luxury cars, saw a lower price for the same ride. Wen blamed the company’s algorithms, saying they wanted to squeeze more money from her. wired.com
The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity is scheduled to virtually convene on Feb. 28, 2022, from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. EST. The meeting will include a review of the charge to the committee and discussion of next steps for the committee. nih.gov
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