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The Documenting Endangered Languages program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Awards support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages.
The National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Studies program supports research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical, or STEM, disciplines. It encompasses a broad spectrum of topics including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance, and policy issues that are closely related to STEM disciplines.
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URCO Updates: Cayuse Conflict of Interest questions and new Foreign Influence and Academic Security Training |
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Federal agencies have recently expressed growing concerns regarding inappropriate influence by foreign entities over federally funded research. This has resulted in new legislation, guidance and policy statements clarifying and adding additional research security measures including:
- Disclosure of relationships and activities with foreign institutions.
- Restrictions on participation in foreign government talent recruitment programs.
- Guidance on conflict of interest and conflict of commitment reporting.
- Information security.
To meet these new and evolving requirements, effective July 1, 2021, all principal investigators and co-principal investigators applying for a federal award will be required to take Foreign Influence and Academic Security Training on CITI Program Online. The training consists of three modules and will only be required once every three years. In addition, PreAward Services has updated the Cayuse conflict of interest questions for the proposal and award Internal Processing Form, or IPF, to provide additional prompts related to these disclosure requirements.
For any questions about the new CITI Online training please contact Cheryl Doerr at cdoerr@k-state.edu. F or questions about the updated Cayuse questions, please email Paul Lowe at plowe@k-state.edu.
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PreAward Perspectives: Fiscal Year 2021 Fringe Benefit Rates for Proposal Budgets |
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Final fringe benefit rates for fiscal year 2022 have been confirmed. These rates are effective immediately and should be used when preparing budget estimates to be included in proposals submitted for extramural support. To facilitate the transition to these new rates, budgets that are in process will be accepted at the old rate until July 23, 2021, at which time PreAward Services will require the adoption of fiscal year 2022 rates.
Fiscal year 2022 rates are as follows:
- Faculty and unclassified staff: 32%.
- University support staff: 45%.
- Student hourly employees and enrolled graduate research assistants and graduate teaching assistants with appointments less than 0.5 time: 1%.
- Student hourly employees and non-enrolled graduate research assistants and graduate teaching assistants with appointments less than o.5 time: 9.1%*.
- Graduate research assistants and graduate teaching assistants enrolled in six hours or more and who have appointments of 0.5 time or greater: 12.5% — this includes the percentage allocable to the employer’s share of health insurance.
*Add 11.18% to this rate to include health insurance for benefit-eligible graduate students not enrolled during the summer.
The above rates are to be used for estimating purposes. An individual’s actual fringe benefits will be charged to the sponsored project account.
Details regarding the different rates are available on the OVPR website.
Please circulate this notification to all who need to know these new rates.
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The Many Paths of Pathogens
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Advancing Quantum Education and Workforce Development Webinar |
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Noon-1:30 p.m.
June 29, 2021
Seven programs to be discussed in this webinar are:
- Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
- Discovery Research PreK-12
- EHR Core Research
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program
- National Science Foundation Research Traineeship
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates
- Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
Opening up the EHR programs to a broader quantum research community is an excellent opportunity to consider pursuing aspects of broadening participation, inclusion and diversity, as well as workforce generation and education while including new researchers in these efforts.
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NSF Convergence Accelerator Expo 2021 |
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9 a.m.-3 p.m.
July 28-29, 2021
ABOUT EXPO 2021
This “must-attend” virtual event is an attendee’s opportunity to see unique use-inspired research solutions funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator. Last year’s inaugural event drew over 1,500 attendees from academia, industry, non-profit, government across 25 countries, and this year’s event is expected to be even larger.
During the event, you will have the opportunity to connect with our funded research teams and see live solution demos every 15 minutes across five research tracks, as well as network with other researchers, innovators, and business and technical practitioners from academia, industry, government, non-profit, and other communities of practice.
Featured Research Track Topics
- AI-Driven Data Sharing & Modeling
- Future of Work
- Open Knowledge Networks
- Quantum Technology
- Special Topic: EcoManufacturing
Who Should Attend
Expo 2021 is open to the public and media, but we are encouraging researchers, innovators, and tech and business practitioners from academia, industry, government, non-profits, and other communities to attend.
Registration
Registration is complimentary.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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More than 170 million Americans already have received COVID-19 vaccines. As this number continues to grow and expand to younger age groups, I’m filled with overwhelming gratitude for all of the researchers who worked so diligently, over the course of decades, to build the scientific foundation for these life-saving vaccines. One of them is Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, who played a central role in the fact that, in the span of less than a year, we were able to develop safe and effective mRNA-based vaccines to protect against this devastating infectious disease. nih.gov
Testing products on animals is slowly ending, but there are still some obstacles to completely ending the practice, explains Gary E. Marchant, a professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. He discusses three impediments, including legal barriers from federal regulatory agencies. bloomberglaw.com
Nature spoke to researchers about formative collaborations that descended into author disputes. We also heard from laboratory leaders, publishers and funders who are trying to devise a fairer system of recognizing individual contributions to academic papers. Here, they outline their efforts and describe steps that researchers can take to mitigate author disputes and other tensions that can arise in collaborations. nature.com
Flowering plants, or angiosperms, dominate most terrestrial ecosystems and are a major food source for humans. However, their origin has been a mystery since the earliest days of evolutionary thought. Angiosperm flowers are diverse and contain unique structures not found in other land plants. The key to the discovery of the origin of flowers and how angiosperms might be related to other kinds of plants is to understand the evolution of the distinctive parts of the flower, especially the angiosperm seeds and the fruit in which the seeds develop. nsf.gov
The surface of the sun churns with energy and frequently ejects masses of highly magnetized plasma toward Earth. Sometimes these ejections are strong enough to crash through the magnetosphere -- the natural magnetic shield that protects the Earth -- damaging satellites or electrical grids. Such space weather events can be catastrophic. nsf.gov
Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have determined how certain short protein fragments, called peptides, can protect neuronal cells found in the light-sensing retina layer at the back of the eye. The peptides might someday be used to treat degenerative retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The study published today in the Journal of Neurochemistry. NEI is part of the National Institutes of Health. nih.gov
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