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Compliance Check: Export Controls
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President Meyers and Provost Taber, along with Vice President for Research Peter Dorhout, have signed a
Statement of Commitment
underscoring K-State’s dedication to complying with U.S. export control laws and regulations.
Export control laws and regulations govern how items, technology, and data may be exported from the U.S. or released to foreign persons within the U.S. As noted in the statement,
complying with legal requirements is vital, but
it is equally important for K-State to maintain an open research environment that welcomes the participation of researchers from around the world as part of its mission.
Export control regulations are complex and can affect several research, academic, and business activities.
All K-State faculty, staff, and students must be aware of how export controls relate to their work
, and the University Research Compliance Office is here to help. Our
Export Controls Compliance Program
, or ECCP, and our new
ECCP Manual
are designed to reduce individual and institutional risk and to foster a culture of compliance by providing necessary support, information, and tools to departmental units, employees, and students.
Please contact
Rose Ndegwa, export controls compliance officer,
at
rndegwa@k-state.edu
or 785-532-3546 with questions about the program or to request training for your research group, unit, or department.
—Cheryl Doerr, associate vice president for research compliance
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- The National Science Foundation has continued to update guidance for proposers and awardees and answer post-shutdown questions. Find revised deadlines and other information on the agency's Resumption of Operations web page.
- The National Science Foundation is recruiting for its Innovation Corps program. PIs, co-PIs, postdocs, or senior personnel with active NSF awards or awards that expired less than five years ago are eligible for I-Corps. Join a webinar at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time Thursday, February 7 to learn more. Find more information or register for the webinar.
- Join a K-State Libraries forum at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, February 12 in Leadership Studies Town Hall to discuss subscription costs and their impact on teaching and research. Find more information or join by Zoom.
- Join Grant Writing 101 for postdocs, graduate students, and early career faculty February 14 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Union Wildcat Chamber. Co-sponsors include the Office of Research Development, Graduate Student Council, the K-State Postdoctoral Association, the Writing Center, and grant specialists from the College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine. Please register.
- UIDP will co-host an NSF-supported workshop, “University-Industry Engagement Outside Major Metropolitan Areas & Megacities: Identifying Issues and Finding Solutions” May 21-23 at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR. Kansas State is a sponsor. Request an invitation by February 15 and find more information.
- The National Science Foundation We Are Mathematics Video Competition seeks entries that showcase NSF-supported work in mathematics and statistics, including applied mathematics and mathematics education. PIs, co-PIs, fellows, scholars, and other faculty, postdocs, and student contributors are eligible to enter. Entries are due February 28. Find more information.
- The 70th International Aeronautical Congress invites abstracts by February 28 from full-time graduate students. IAC is October 21-25 in Washington, D.C. Abstracts must be original, unpublished papers that have not been submitted in any other forum; 400 words or less; written in English; and related to NASA’s ongoing vision for space exploration. Find more information.
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Registration and abstract submission are now open!
The conference offers keynote speakers, pre-conference workshops, lightning talk and film festival competitions, community science activities at Sunset Zoo — plus submitted talks on tracks for broader impacts, informal STEM learning, science communication research, and more.
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Agency news and trending topics
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Working with tech companies, and taking their money, can enable scientists to design research relevant to practical applications, and can open up pathways to industry careers. Companies benefit by tapping into the creativity of outside scientists. “Any round [of funding] we do, maybe 10 or 12 of the proposals are things we would never have thought of,” says Maggie Johnson, vice-president of education and university programmes for Google. And visiting scholars can explore potential uses of company data or technology that employees don’t have time to pursue.
They nicknamed it ‘the replicator’ — in homage to the machines in the
Star Trek
saga that can materialize virtually any inanimate object. Researchers have unveiled a
3D printer
that creates an entire object at once, rather than building it layer by layer as typical additive-manufacturing devices do — bringing science-fiction a step closer to reality. “This is an exciting advancement to rapidly prototype fairly small and transparent parts,” says Joseph DeSimone, a chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The United Nations has designated 2019 as the
International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements
and, with it, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The organizing committee declared that “The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements is one of the most significant achievements in science, capturing the essence not only of chemistry, but also of physics and biology.”
Blockchain technology seems to be everywhere, from the financial industry and energy grids to manufacturing. Over the past year or so, a number of blockchain-based tools and services for scientists have popped up, offering simple ways to manage collaborations, establish precedence and publish early results. But all of them are preliminary, and it remains to be seen whether they can become the game changers that their adherents think they are.
There’s no mistaking the image: It’s a banana—a big, ripe, bright-yellow banana. Yet the artificial intelligence (AI) identifies it as a toaster, even though it was trained with the same powerful and oft-publicized deep-learning techniques that have produced a white-hot revolution in driverless cars, speech understanding, and a multitude of other AI applications. That means the AI was shown several thousand photos of bananas, slugs, snails, and similar-looking objects, like so many flash cards, and then drilled on the answers until it had the classification down cold. And yet this advanced system was quite easily confused—all it took was a little day-glow sticker, digitally pasted in one corner of the image.
Founded in 1879, the prestigious Technical University of Berlin boasts an all-star faculty of 355 professors in fields ranging from electrical engineering to computer science to business management. And then there's Stefanie Bürkle—the university's single professor of fine arts, with the responsibility of teaching aesthetics to several hundred of the school's architecture students every year. "I try to teach them that art isn't about making more beautiful products or prettier models to sell your architecture," says Bürkle, a celebrated painter and photographer. "Art is a way of thinking." Over the course of her 10 years at the Technical University Bürkle has gained a new appreciation for the artistry of scientific research, which, she discovered, is far more unruly than most people realize. "Often the scientific labs look really chaotic and spontaneous," she says, "and they reminded me of how artists work in their studio."
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