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The National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.
The New York Public Library’s Dance Research Fellowship supports scholars and practitioners engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent research. . The Library’s Jerome Robbins Dance Division invites applications from scholars and practitioners interested in investigating the theme of dance and immigration.
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Safe and Secure
with Dr. Stephen Higgs, university distinguished professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology
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We welcome Dr. Stephen Higgs, university distinguished professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at Kansas State University. On this episode, Dr. Higgs discusses interdisciplinary biosecurity research programs, agrosecurity and collaborative research. Higgs, who is director of the Biosecurity Research Institute, or BRI, also highlights the role the BRI will play in transitioning work to the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, adjacent to the K-State campus. Dr. Higgs’ research is focused on mosquito-related viral spread, but through his oversight of the BRI, he has expanded to the areas of food safety and security, plant and animal disease and zoonotic disease.
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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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EPA Environmental Justice and Systemic Racism Speaker Series: Redlining and the Climate Crisis |
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11 a.m.-noon
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
This session of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice and Systemic Racism Speaker Series will focus on redlining and the climate crisis. Understanding structural racism and the climate crisis is key to shaping urban governance and the future of America’s cities. The co-authors of a recent study on the correlation of redlined areas and the location of urban heat islands will discuss their participatory research on the spatial distribution of climate impacts, involving communities in measuring heat in cities. Their interdisciplinary approach offers a compelling perspective on how scientists and residents seek to address disproportionate vulnerability emerging from climate change.
Speakers:
- Dr. Jeremy Hoffman, Science Museum of Virginia
- Dr. Vivek Shandas, Portland State University
- Moderated by Charles Lee, Senior Policy Advisor for Environmental Justice, EPA
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2021 Nexus Informatics Conference |
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April 15 and 16, 2021
The Nexus Informatics Conference is a unique blend of informatics perspectives and expertise – industry, academia, medicine, agriculture, technology and biology – a true “nexus.” Attendees will have opportunities to discover capabilities, share tactical approaches to problem solving, explore synergies, and launch potential collaborations.
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Registration Now Open for Inaugural NIAMRRE Annual Conference |
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April 20-21, 2021
Come together as we connect people, resources, and ideas to accelerate and synergize efforts to combat antibiotic resistance at the inaugural annual conference for the National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education.
This virtual two-day event—taking place April 20-21, 2021—will bring together scientists, educators, industry professionals, government and NGO representatives from current and prospective NIAMRRE member institutions to build the foundational relationships with NIAMRRE and each other necessary to move the needle on antimicrobial resistance, stewardship, and use concerns.
Four sessions will cover NIAMRRE's four priority areas: advocacy, collaboration, research, and education. In each session, participants will hear from experts in the human, animal and environmental health before engaging with each other to discuss viable paths forward in each of these areas.
It's been tough to build community during a public health crisis, but we know that building meaningful, action-oriented relationships to enable a shared One Health vision for AMR can't wait. We hope you'll join us virtually on April 20-21.
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Now Available in Research.gov: Three New Proposal Types and Proposal Withdrawal Functionality |
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Effective March 22, the National Science Foundation, or NSF, enabled three new proposal types in the Research.gov Proposal Submission System and in the recently launched Research.gov Proposal Preparation Demo Site. These are the Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities, or FASED; Equipment and Travel proposal types. New automated compliance checks and associated error and warning messages for these proposal types were also implemented. In addition, proposal withdrawal functionality was added for both single submission — with or without subawards — and separately submitted collaborative proposals from multiple organizations. New training resources have also been added to the Research.gov About Proposal Preparation and Submission page.
FASED, Equipment, and Travel Proposals
- Proposers can now select a FASED, Equipment, or Travel proposal type in the Research.gov Proposal Submission System proposal setup wizard, in addition to the existing Research.gov proposal type options:
- Research.
- Rapid Response Research.
- EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research.
- Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering.
- All supported proposal types are available in the Research.gov Proposal Preparation Demo Site.
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New automated compliance checks for FASED, Equipment, and Travel proposal types have been added to Research.gov and are listed on the Research.gov Automated Proposal Compliance Checks for Proposals dated March 22, 2021 on the Automated Compliance Checking of NSF Proposals page.
- A reminder: Error messages prohibit proposal submission to NSF, whereas warning messages still permit proposal submission.
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Refer to the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1) for FASED, Equipment, and Travel proposal requirements.
Proposal Withdrawal Functionality
- Proposing organizations can now withdraw both single submission — with or without subawards — and separately submitted collaborative proposals from multiple organizations in Research.gov.
- Organizations no longer need to contact the NSF Help Desk to initiate Research.gov proposal withdrawal actions.
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A new Proposal Withdrawal section has been added to the Frequently Asked Questions on the Research.gov About Proposal Preparation and Submission page left navigation menu.
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Refer to PAPPG Chapter IV.A. for proposal withdrawal requirements.
Training Resources
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New and updated system-related FAQs by topic are available on the Research.gov About Proposal Preparation and Submission page left navigation menu.
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A new 16-minute Research.gov proposal demo video has been added to the Research.gov About Proposal Preparation and Submission page Video Tutorials section.
- The video highlights key proposal preparation steps including:
- Setting up a proposal
- Uploading a document and compliance messaging
- Preparing Proposal File Update/Budget Revisions
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A new How-to Guides section has been added to the Research.gov About Proposal Preparation and Submission page left navigation menu. The initial topic-specific guide is posted, and new guides will be added to this section going forward.
What's Ahead?
Questions? If you have IT system-related questions, please contact the NSF Help Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or via rgov@nsf.gov. Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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COVID-19 puts renewed focus on the urgent need to put diverse health data to work to support new discoveries and bring more precise prevention and treatment strategies to communities. A new commentary in Cell, co-authored by Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., and Joshua C. Denny, M.D., M.S., chief executive officer of the All of Us Research Program, highlights seven opportunities to accelerate tailored medicine efforts and create a more equitable health landscape in the future. nih.gov
A detailed global ocean model simulation by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and other institutions has given scientists insights into where baby sea turtles may go in their "lost years" -- the time after they scramble off sandy beaches where they are born and swim into the open ocean. The look at an important period in the life cycle of endangered loggerhead turtles could help inform more comprehensive conservation efforts that encompass regions of the open ocean where young turtles grow, not just their nesting beaches. It also pinpoints regions of the ocean that are important to better know how to protect sea turtles.
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Corn -- or maize -- has changed over thousands of years from a weedy plant that made ears with less than a dozen kernels to the cobs packed with the hundreds of juicy kernels we have today. Powerful DNA-editing techniques such as CRISPR may speed up that growth process. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory plant biologist David Jackson and colleagues collaborated with University of Massachusetts Amherst biologist Madelaine Bartlett on a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project to use this highly specific technique to work with corn kernel numbers. Jackson's lab is one of the first to apply CRISPR to corn's very complex genome. The results were published in Nature Plants.
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Water is constantly on the move: through the air, through waterways, and underground. Life depends on a consistent supply of water, and details about its journey are necessary for understanding and managing this important resource. However, those details are often difficult to measure. Now, University of Connecticut scientists Danielle Hare and Ashley Helton have expanded on a novel method to easily access vital details about groundwater. In doing so, they have discovered that many streams are more vulnerable to stressors such as climate change than previously thought. The U.S. National Science Foundation-funded research team published the findings in Nature Communications.
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Green sea turtles, Antarctic fur seals, tiger sharks, humpback whales and various other marine animals occasionally swim in perplexing circles. While the event can be dizzying and mesmerizing, researchers did not fully understand why circling behavior occurred—until now. smithsonianmag.com
Along the mid-Atlantic and southern New England coast, an eerie sight dots the changing landscape. Rising sea levels turn thriving green vistas of hardwood and evergreen trees into "ghost forests," dried-up terrains filled with gnarled, dead, and dying timber. Under climate change, these could become an even more common sight, according to a new report published by Rutgers University. directorsblog.nih.gov
A recent survey by academic publisher Springer Nature suggests academics strongly prefer to read and cite final versions of journal articles over earlier drafts. Working with academic networking site ResearchGate, Springer Nature set out to explore how much article versions matter to researchers and whether the final published version of an article, known as the version of record, is perceived to be significantly more valuable than a preprint or an accepted manuscript.
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