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The National Science Foundation’s Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering program seeks proposals that enable experienced researchers to forge new directions or to enter new fields by capitalizing or branching out their established knowledge domains. This can be accomplished by synthesizing an accumulation of disaggregated prior work, by venturing into a new research area, revitalizing an existing research area because of a hiatus, through immersion in a new field, or by curiosity-driven explorations.
The Russell Sage Foundation’s program on Social, Political, and Economic Inequality supports innovative research on the factors that contribute to social, political and economic inequalities in the U.S., and the extent to which those inequalities affect social, psychological, political, and economic outcomes, including educational access, job opportunities, social mobility, civic participation and representation, and the transmission of advantage and disadvantage within and across generations.
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National Labs in the Fight: Marshalling DOE’s Scientific Prowess to Combat COVID-19 |
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12:45 p.m.
Thursday, March 4
Join a roundtable conversation with Secretary of Energy, Jennifer M. Granholm, and scientists from the Department of Energy National Laboratories as they discuss the DOE’s ongoing collaborative response to combat COVID-19, as well as President Biden’s American Rescue Plan.
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Global Food Systems Seed Grant training
Industry Perspectives: Steps toward achieving successful industry collaborations
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2-3 p.m.
Tuesday, March 9
1-2 p.m.
Wednesday, March 10
The mandatory training for this year’s GFS Seed Grant applications, Industry Perspectives: Steps Toward Achieving Successful Industry Collaborations, will be offered from 2-3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 9 and from 1-2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10.
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Fulbright Scholar Information Session |
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3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 17
Via Zoom
Countries from across the world have begun to place requests in the Fulbright opportunities database for American scholars to participate in extended stays at the countries’ research and educational institutions. Each year, this program offers nearly 500 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in more than 125 countries.
To help K-State faculty learn more about the Fulbright Scholars program, the Office of Research Development will host a Fulbright Scholar Information Session at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17 via zoom.
The session will open with an overview of the program, the submission requirements and how to navigate the very informative, but complicated Fulbright Scholars website, including how to find scholar opportunities in specific countries or a region.
Jonathan Mahoney, professor of philosophy, will give a presentation about his three Fulbright fellowships in the Kyrgyz Republic. He will discuss his experience, the logistics of setting up an extended stay in another country and provide tips for the Fulbright Scholars submission. There will be plenty of opportunities for questions.
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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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People who have had evidence of a prior infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, appear to be well protected against being reinfected with the virus, at least for a few months, according to a newly published study from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This finding may explain why reinfection appears to be relatively rare, and it could have important public health implications, including decisions about returning to physical workplaces, school attendance, the prioritization of vaccine distribution, and other activities. nih.gov
Extensive sea ice covered the world's oceans during the last ice age, preventing oxygen from penetrating into deep ocean waters and complicating the relationship between oxygen and carbon, a new study has found. nsf.gov
An international research team has sequenced DNA recovered from mammoth remains that are up to 1.2 million years old. The results are published in the journal Nature.
The analyses, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, show that the Columbian mammoth that inhabited North America during the last ice age was a hybrid between the woolly mammoth and a previously unknown genetic lineage of mammoth. The study also provides new insights into when and how fast mammoths became adapted to cold climate. nsf.gov
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to spare. "Making new drugs takes forever," says Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Really, the only expedient option is to repurpose existing drugs."
Uhler's team has now developed an approach based on machine learning to identify drugs already on the market that could potentially be repurposed to fight COVID-19, particularly in the elderly. The system accounts for changes in gene expression in lung cells caused by both the disease and aging. nsf.gov
Although addressing the COVID-19 pandemic has been front and center for NIH over the past year, we have not forgotten another significant challenge confronting the health of our nation — systemic and structural racism. nih.gov
A study of spatial learning in mice shows that exposure to new experiences dampens established representations in the brain’s hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, allowing the mice to learn new navigation strategies. The study, published in Nature, was supported by the National Institutes of Health. nih.gov
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