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The National Endowment for the Humanities' Public Scholars Program supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public. It does so by offering grants to individual authors for research, writing, travel, and other activities leading to publication.
The National Science Foundation’s Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research Program supports multi-disciplinary research to sustain economic competitiveness, to promote worker well-being, lifelong and pervasive learning, and quality of life, and to illuminate the emerging social and economic context and drivers of innovations that are shaping the future of jobs and work.
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Beginning January 11, the University Research Compliance Office, or URCO, will begin utilizing IRBManager for the application and submission process for research involving human subjects.
IRBManager is a software system that allows K-State’s forms and workflow to be incorporated with virtually no change. This means researchers will be familiar with the applications, approval letter, continuing review forms and basic workflow of the approval process.
There will be a 30-day grace period for submitting applications on the old PDF file via email to comply@k-state.edu. This grace period will end on February 5, 2021.
IRBManager can be accessed on the URCO website. Basic instructions, as well as a detailed user guide are also included on the website. This guide will walk investigators through all of the features of the application.
Open forums/training sessions will be offered in January via Zoom. Please register to attend. Zoom details will be sent to registrants the day prior to the session.
- 9 a.m., Tuesday, Jan. 12
- 2 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 14
- 10 a.m., Monday, Jan 18
- 2 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19
- 3 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 20
- 9 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 21
In the coming months, URCO also will be transitioning the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, or IACUC, and Institutional Biosafety Committee, IBC, to this new online system. Please watch the URCO website and Research Weekly for updates.
-Cheryl Doerr
Associate Vice President for Research Compliance
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Reminder: Notification Due Date for Interest in an EPSCoR Track 4 Submission Is January 13. |
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EPSCoR Track 4 provides awards to build research capacity in institutions and transform the career trajectories of non-tenured investigators and to further develop their individual research potential through extended collaborative visits to the nation’s premier private, governmental, or academic research centers.
Through collaborative research visits at the host site, fellowship awardees will be able to learn new techniques, develop new collaborations or advance existing partnerships, benefit from access to unique equipment and facilities, and/or shift their research toward potentially transformative new directions.
This is a limited submission with K-State allowed only three submission to this program each year. Thus, the Office of Research Development is asking interested faculty to submit a notification — working title, name of host site and host mentor — by 5 p.m. on January 13 to ordlimitedsubs@k-state.edu. If more than four notifications are received, an internal competition will be held with preproposals due February 3, 2021.
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Limited submission slots available for interested faculty |
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Limited submissions are funding opportunities where the funder has limited the number of proposals an institution can send to that program. K-State currently has several such opportunities that do not have a designated submitter. Because the notification deadline has passed for faculty to notify the Office of Research Development, or ORD, of their interest in these limited submissions, these submission slots are now available to interested faculty on a first come, first served basis.
If you are interested in submitting to any of these programs, please let ORD know as soon as possible via ordlimitedsubs@k-state.edu. Please provide the name of the program you are interested in, the title for submission and a team list.
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EONS 2021-OCEAN: Call for Peer Review Panelists |
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NASA Minority University Research and Education Project is seeking subject matter experts to serve as virtual panel reviewers of proposals to EONS-2021, Appendix I: OCEAN. The virtual panel review is expected to be held from May 24-28, 2021. Information about the opportunity, proposal requirements and evaluation criteria can be found on the OCEAN web page in the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES).
Non-civil servant panelists will receive a $200/per day honorarium. Interested parties should reply to this email identifying their area of expertise, along with a CV or resume to NASAOCEAN@nasaprs.com by February 26, 2021 for consideration.
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Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 pilot initiative - Information Workshop |
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Main agenda items for the online Information Workshop:
- An overview of the Grand Challenges ICODA COVID-19 Data Science pilot initiative, and what we are looking for in applications.
- An outline of the longer-term vision for the Global Grand Challenges data science initiatives and how this pilot will contribute.
- How the ICODA Workbench and tools, as well as other resources that we will make available to grantees, will enable and support the selected research studies.
- Further information on the terms of the grant awards and what will be supported.
- Significant time to address your questions raised during the workshop.
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Thursday, January 14, 3 p.m.
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Friday, January 15, 2021
Registration and Abstract Submission Deadline: December 1, 2020
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UIDP Webinar: Avery Dennison Open Innovation
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11 a.m.-noon
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021
Avery Dennison is a global materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company is seeking collaborative partnerships with university or industry researchers on the cutting edge of packaging design, with specific interest in three areas:
- Sustainable materials and processes for labels;
- Intelligent Label, where labels can store and capture information and wirelessly transmit data; and
- Digital ID: Provide a unique identification to each label.
With operations in more than 50 countries and 30,000 employees worldwide, Avery Dennison products are used in nearly every major industry. Join UIPD for this webinar about how to partner with Avery Dennison for future materials and products that serve an ever-changing marketplace. Learn more and register.
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Save The Date — CERES Symposium |
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1-4 p.m.
January 28, 2021
Speakers from industry, government, and higher education will explore parallels between the current COVID-19 pandemic and pathogen outbreaks in the agricultural industry and discuss strategies and innovations to improve preparedness, response, recovery, and resiliency for future pathogen outbreaks in agricultural and human disease.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Two randomized, controlled Phase 3 clinical trials have begun evaluating investigational monoclonal antibodies for their safety and efficacy in treating people hospitalized with moderate COVID-19. nih.gov
Psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, has long been known to increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, which includes heart attack and stroke. Now, researchers have identified a key culprit: the presence of metabolic syndrome (MetSyn), a condition that includes obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension, and is highly prevalent among psoriasis patients. nih.gov
. In an article in Cell, National Institutes of Health-funded researchers described how they used advanced genetic engineering techniques to transform a bacterial protein into a new research tool that may help monitor serotonin transmission with greater fidelity than current methods. Preclinical experiments, primarily in mice, showed that the sensor could detect subtle, real-time changes in brain serotonin levels during sleep, fear, and social interactions, as well as test the effectiveness of new psychoactive drugs nih.gov
Some icebergs that break off Antarctica are massive -- the size of New York City -- but these floating cities of freshwater have been largely ignored in climate models. A new study by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of North Carolina Wilmington has provided the first-of-its-kind model for how these icebergs decay as they drift around the frozen continent. nsf.gov
Many people think of composting organic matter as a way of keeping solid waste out of landfills, but a new U.S. National Science Foundation-funded study by North Carolina State University scientists finds there can be significant environmental benefits associated with using compost at landfills. The study appears in Environmental Science & Technology. nsf.gov
An observational study has launched to evaluate the short- and long-term health outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), and to characterize the immunologic pathways associated with different disease presentations and outcomes. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. nih.gov
Dogs can’t tell the difference between words that differ by only one sound, according to new research published on December 9 in the journal Royal Society Open Science. smithsonianmag.com
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