or select your discipline:
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The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH, High-End Instrumentation Grant Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. Award range: $600,001 to $2,000,000.
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NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Office Hour |
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Join the Cultural Anthropology Program to discuss questions about the program.
Office hours take place over Zoom generally from 1-2 p.m. on Tuesdays. Please see dates listed below.
- January 18
- January 25
- February 1
- February 8
- February 15
- All meetings during office hours are 1-on-1. Guests are seen in the order they join. You may have to wait if others join before you.
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If you need captions or other accommodations, please contact the program officers in advance.
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NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences virtual office hours |
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1-2 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 18
The Division of Mathematical Sciences, or DMS, is hosting virtual office hours to share information about NSF’s current operations and provide guidance to the mathematical sciences community. All members of the mathematics research community interested in the work of DMS are welcome to attend.
Events are planned at roughly monthly intervals and the topics vary for each event. The event will be in the form of a webinar, starting with a brief presentation of a few selected topics of current interest, followed by questions. DMS program directors will be available to answer questions from the community.
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Too Many Papers? Slowed Canonical Progress in Large Fields of Science |
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11 a.m.-noon
Tuesday, Jan. 18
The size of scientific fields may impede the rise of new ideas. Examining 1.8 billion citations among 90 million papers across 241 subjects, a study by Northwestern University researchers finds that a deluge of papers does not lead to turnover of central ideas in a field but rather to ossification of canon. Scholars in fields where many papers are published annually face difficulty getting published, read, and cited unless their work references are already widely cited articles. New papers containing potentially important contributions cannot garner field-wide attention through gradual processes of diffusion. These findings suggest fundamental progress may be stymied if quantitative growth of scientific endeavors—in the number of scientists, institutes, and papers—is not balanced by structures fostering disruptive scholarship and focusing attention on novel ideas.
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1-2 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 19
Join this meeting for information about the full-proposal submission for the 2022 Partnerships for International Research Education, or PIRE, Competition.
The submission deadline is March 25, 2002.
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EnergyTech University Prize: Submit a Business Plan by January 31 |
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Want a shot at $250,000 of cash prizes? You’re in luck! The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions just launched the EnergyTech University Prize, a business plan competition for post-secondary students.
Here’s how to get involved:
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You and at least one other teammate develop a business plan for an energy technology either developed by a national lab or that is otherwise promising. Not sure where to start? Check out possible technologies.
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Sign up on the HeroX competition platform to receive updates and check out the official competition rules.
- From now through January, work on your entry. Make sure to submit by January 31!
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What's the Next Big Question in A.I.?
Leaders in A.I. Discuss the Science of the Future
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1 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 2
Basic research is a long game. It is a high-risk pursuit of an idea, challenge or unanswered scientific question that can often take decades to solve. In the year 2040 and beyond, there are outstanding questions to consider to explore significant advances in learning/reasoning. And during the next two decades, there are fascinating questions that will guide us to 2040...
Join the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at 1 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 2, for the next installment of our ongoing series of two-hour sessions with leaders in AI, including Rauf Izmaliov, Peraton Labs, Vladimir Vapnik, Columbia, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Carnegie Mellon, Carla Gomez, Cornell, Bart Selmen, Cornell, Benji Maruyama, AFRL and Doug Riecken, AFRL/AFOSR, as they discuss the science of the future, the pursuit of ideas, and unanswered questions.
Just like in any other area, it is basic science that underpins the A.I. capabilities needed to maintain a competitive military and technological advantage in the digital era.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Women receiving one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a single menstrual cycle had an increase in cycle length of nearly one day, compared to unvaccinated women, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The increase in cycle length—a longer time between bleeding—was not associated with any change in the number of days of menses (days of bleeding). nih.gov
Citizen astronomers have detected an object orbiting a sunlike star that had been previously overlooked. The object is thought to be a small brown dwarf star 10 to 20 times the size of Jupiter and very distant from its host star -- more than 1,600 times the distance between Earth and the sun. Researchers investigated the discovery and detailed their findings in The Astrophysical Journal. nsf.gov
Good timing is a key to success — even for riding out the Omicron wave. Research from Japan suggests that COVID-19 vaccination followed months later by a breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection offers greater protection against the Omicron variant than do closely spaced vaccination and infection. nsf.gov
Fearing a case of potentially debilitating Lyme disease, countless hikers postpone their trips to the woods until winter, when the ticks that carry the disease have disappeared for the season. Or so many people had thought. science.org
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of California San Diego are taking advantage of the coronavirus' sweet tooth in the design of a sugar-coated COVID-19 test strip effective at detecting known variants. nsf.gov
In the winter chill of January 2021, Joe Davis found something astonishing at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve in England. He had gone out to drain a lagoon on the property, part of his work as conservation team leader at the reserve, when he noticed some large, fossilized bones sticking out of the ground. nationalgeographic.com
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