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- The American Musicological Society Harold Powers World Travel Fund for Research on Music program assists Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, and junior faculty in all fields of musical scholarship to travel anywhere in the world to carry out the necessary work for their dissertation or other research.
- The National Science Foundation Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes program will fund Institutes comprised of multidisciplinary groups of scientists and engineers united by a common challenge theme for advancing the research frontiers in quantum communication, quantum computation, quantum simulation, and/or quantum sensing.
- Read more of this week's featured opportunities
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From the desk of the VPR: F&A update
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In March, a new study will be released from the Council on Government Relations
, an association of more than 200 leading research universities in the U.S. with a focus on governmental policy issues facing higher education. This report emphasizes the value of Federal research funding and how critical a reliable Facilities & Administrative (F&A) cost reimbursement policy is to the continued success of the research enterprise in this country.
F&A costs defined by the government are real costs of conducting research and include:
- constructing and maintaining technologically advanced research laboratories,
- protecting human and animal subjects in research,
- safeguarding the community from hazardous chemicals and biohazard waste,
- ensuring reliable financial stewardship,
- providing high-speed data processing and technology, and
- supporting numerous other compliance, training, and administrative activities that help researchers conduct their research in the least-burdensome environment possible.
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- BioNexus KC’s Collaborate2Cure series will address food insecurity on March 4 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Zoom attendance is available. Topics will include the intersection of hunger and health, nutrition literacy, the growing challenge of food insecurity and access, and more. Find more information and register.
- Join the next KSCI Works session, "'Letting it all out' in videos for teaching and outreach" presented by Brian McCornack and Jeremy Marshall on March 5, 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. in Waters 137. Please register.
- The Office of Research Development will offer an info session and panel on the National Science Foundation faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, Program March 27 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in Union 207. Find more information and register.
- K-State Libraries offers various “The Library and Your Research” events on topics including the data lifecycle, starting literature reviews, and managing citations and references. Find details.
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SciComm 2019: Register now!
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SciComm 2019 is March 22-24 here at K-State!
- Prices go up on March 1
- Abstracts for contributed talks are due March 4
Cost:
- $50 for students
- $150 for faculty/professionals
Registration includes:
- Pre-conference workshop on Friday afternoon
- Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, plus lunch on Saturday
- All conference sessions plus two keynote talks, Science Showcase film festival and lightning talks, family activities at Sunset Zoo, and more events! Find descriptions.
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Agency news and trending topics
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"It’s expected that you go out and talk about your work," said Richard M. Reis, longtime publisher of the e-newsletter
Tomorrow’s Professor
and author of a book on how to prepare for an academic career in science and engineering. "That’s just part of the job." But invited talks aren’t just about getting in front of graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and at times the general public. The talks are more than potential opportunities to collect the occasional honorarium.
Human creative achievement, because of the way it is socially embedded, will not succumb to advances in artificial intelligence. To say otherwise is to misunderstand both what human beings are and what our creativity amounts to.
Though initiatives to make published research more freely available have for years poked at the publishing industry’s armor, these efforts — known as the open-access movement — have not toppled the norms of how academic work is distributed and read. Titans like Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley own troves of journals that enjoy immense respect in academe. In the dominant system, a person can read newly published research in one of two ways: pay a one-time fee to obtain an article locked behind a paywall, or get it through a campus library, which may pay millions of dollars for subscriptions. That may soon change.
More of us who struggle mightily with engaging in scholarly writing [should] appreciate the solidarity we share with some of the most prolific and celebrated writers of our time, who also profess to be challenged by
blocks
and other hindrances to
productivity
. At one time or another, famous authors such as Maya Angelou, Neil Gaiman, Toni Morrison, and Ernest Hemingway
all faced writing barriers
and employed their own antidotes to creative paralysis and the psychological inability to write. When our demanding schedules play roles in blocking us from all the writing we’re told that we “should be doing,” I hope we realize that even the most productive writers – if they’ll admit it – face obstructions that too often yield in their own sweet, interminable time.
By engineering mutations into human embryos, which were then used to produce babies, He leapt capriciously into an era in which science could rewrite the gene pool of future generations by altering the human germ line. He also flouted established norms for safety and human protections along the way. ... Chinese authorities are still investigating He, and US universities are asking questions of some of the scientists he consulted. Meanwhile, calls for an international moratorium on related experiments, which could affect basic research, have motivated some scientists to bolster arguments in favour of genome editing.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has expanded the genetic alphabet by creating synthetic DNA that uses eight letters rather than four, according to a new study published in the journal
Science
. The new manufactured structure is called "hachimoji DNA," from the Japanese words for "eight" and letter." Creating hachimoji DNA was, as Carl Zimmer writes
in The New York Times
, “a chemical tour-de-force” for the group led by Steven Benner, a synthetic biologist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution. The advance offers new possibilities in many fields, including medical research and data storage.
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