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The Department of Defense’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program seeks proposals from universities to purchase equipment and instrumentation in support of research in areas of interest to the DoD which include the areas of research supported by the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, & Medicine’s NRC Research Associateship Programs promote excellence in scientific and technological research conducted by the U.S. government through the administration of programs offering graduate, postdoctoral, and senior-level research opportunities at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions.
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ORD Opportunities: Grant Opportunities at the National Endowment for the Humanities and Application Writing Tips
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1-2:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 18
The Office of Research Development will host a web-based learning session with the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, open to all researchers interested in humanities questions or methods are welcome, including from the social sciences and the sciences.
The session will be led by Dr. Claudia Kinkela, senior program officer at the NEH Division of Research. In this session, Dr. Kinkela will discuss funding opportunities through the NEH, funding priorities and strategies for submitting a successful proposal. The session will include time for questions and answers.
To register for this event, please complete the registration by March 15. A zoom link will be sent to all registered participants in advance of the event.
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Chemistry: A dating game
with Dr. Christer Aakeröy, university distinguished professor, Department of Chemistry
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Christer Aakeröy, university distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry at Kansas State University. Dr. Aakeröy’s research lab focuses on supramolecular and crystal engineering. By translating molecular function into predictable intermolecular recognition, he is creating versatile pathways for improving processing, performance and shelf life of pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, dyes, and energetic materials.
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Visit the Fulbright Catalog of Awards for details of more than 400 awards offered across 130 countries. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2021. Please note that U.S. citizenship is required. Join a webinar this month to learn more about Fulbright opportunities around the world.
Join one of the following live webinars in March 2021:
All webinars listed will take place 1-2 p.m. To view more upcoming and archived webinars, visit the Fulbright Webinar Schedule.
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Infectious Disease Intelligence: Predicting the Next Pandemic |
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11 a.m.-noon
March 24, 2021
Can we predict the emergence and spillover of infectious diseases like Ebola or COVID-19? Can we develop an infectious disease warning system that is analogous to weather forecasts, that pinpoints the origin and path of disease spread?
In this webinar, John Drake, Ph.D., will describe the surveillance tools used to understand how interactions between humans and pathogenic reservoir-species may lead to spillover events. He’ll also discuss the dynamical models that researchers use once an outbreak has been reported to understand how an infectious disease spatially spreads.
Drake will also introduce the Global Infectious Disease Intelligence Consortium, which brings together leaders in academia, federal agencies, industry, and NGOs to discuss the challenges that pandemics create and how they can be collectively solved.
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Global Food Systems Food Safety Workshop: Produce |
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9 a.m.–noon
Thursday, March 25
How important are vegetables in your diet? Has the pandemic impacted the availability of fresh produce? Is the safety of the food you eat important to you? Explore how basic research fits in the world of applied sciences in the production of food at the second Global Food Systems Food Safety Workshop.
Global Food Systems will welcome keynote speaker Max Teplitski, chief technical officer for the Produce Marketing Association, to discuss challenges and lessons learned during the COVID-19 era.
Additional presentations will provide an overview of just some of the research on produce that is happening at K-State, including:
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Fundamental research on E-coli.
- Applications in storage.
- Water safety
- Produce handling.
We invite you to join this workshop to learn more about your colleagues’ research and to perhaps discover a possible collaboration opportunity.
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NSF CAREER Nuts and Bolts Session |
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3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 25
Via Zoom
The National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development, or NSF CAREER, Program is NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.
The Office of Research Development will host a Nuts and Bolts Session at 3:30 p.m. on March 25 via zoom. The session will begin with presentations on:
- Requirements for submission.
- Review criteria.
- Submission protocol.
- Evaluation resources.
These will be followed by a panel of recent K-State CAREER awardees who will provide tips on submitting to and receiving an award under this program.
Session attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a CAREER Writing Clinic that will start after the session and end in July when the proposals are due.
Invitations to participate in the clinic will be sent to all Nuts and Bolts Session registrants.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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The National Institutes of Health has launched the next version of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) Alzheimer’s disease program (AMP AD 2.0) to expand the open science, big data approach for identifying biological targets for therapeutic intervention. AMP AD 2.0 is supporting new technologies, including cutting-edge, single-cell profiling and computational modeling, to enable a precision medicine approach to therapy development. Managed through the Foundation for the NIH (FNIH), AMP AD 2.0 brings together NIH, industry, non-profit and other organizations with a shared goal of using open science practices to accelerate the discovery of new drug targets, biomarkers and disease subtypes. nih.gov
In 2019, NLM introduced a multi-year effort to modernize ClinicalTrials.gov, the world’s largest publicly accessible database of privately and publicly funded clinical trials. This effort was launched with a commitment to engage with and serve the millions of users who rely on this essential resource — with a focus on delivering an improved user experience on an updated platform that will accommodate growth and enhance efficiency. nexus.od.nih.gov
The ACTIV-3 clinical trial, which is evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational therapeutics for COVID-19 in hospitalized patients, has closed enrollment in two sub-studies: one examining the investigational monoclonal antibody therapy VIR-7831, and another evaluating the investigational combination monoclonal antibody therapy containing BRII-196 and BRII-198. The sub-studies were halted by the trial sponsor, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, on March 1, 2021, following an interim review and recommendation from the independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB). nih.gov
The clever cephalopods ignored so-so food for up to 130 seconds in order to get their favorite snack, live grass shrimp. smithsonianmag.com
Tiny roundworms called Caenorhabditis elegans don’t have eyes, but that won’t stop them from picking a least-favorite color. New research shows that C. elegans can sense and avoid the color blue even though they lack even the most basic light-sensing systems, Veronique Greenwood reports for the New York Times. smithsonianmag.com
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