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The Department of Energy’s Office of Science program in Advanced Scientific Computing Research, through its Data-Intensive Scientific Machine Learning and Analysis opportunity, is interested in research applications to explore potentially high-impact approaches in the development and use of artificial intelligence and machine learning for scientific insights from massive data generated by simulation, experiments, and observations.
The Russell Sage Foundation’s Visiting Scholars Program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars in the social, economic, political and behavioral sciences to pursue their research and writing while in residence at the foundation in New York City.
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Research Security and Integrity Working Group |
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The RSIWG’s purpose is to evaluate and implement the JCORE recommendations where appropriate, with a focus on identifying existing university structures and successes, while reinforcing those areas within the research enterprise that can help respond to evolving government directives.
The RSIWG has identified several items in the K-State Policies and Procedures Manual, or PPM, and standard operating procedures that can be quickly updated and implemented, such as the recently updated international travel PPM entry.
K-State will be rolling out an information and education effort to help researchers and administrators understand the reasons behind the U.S. government’s directives. This will include an updated website to combine numerous regulations, policies, information and FAQs.
Due to the federal deadline for implementation, the RSIWG will be meeting frequently. Be sure to check Research Weekly for updates.
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Announcing UIDPVirtual 2021 |
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Do you work with industry, or do you want to in the future? If so, this pre-paid conference is for you!
The University-Industry Demonstration Partnership, or UIDP, annual conference — UIDPVirtual 2021 — will occur April 12-16. The conference features an agenda packed with topics relevant to the university-industry interface presented by an outstanding set of national thought leaders and academic and corporate practitioners.
The Office of the Vice President for Research and K-State Innovation Partners have obtained institutional access for this virtual conference. Anyone with a K-State email address may sign up at no additional charge by using the voucher code below. Faculty, staff and administrators who work with industry partners or desire to do so in the future are encouraged to attend relevant sessions or watch recordings at a later date. Certified research administrators can earn recertification contact hours.
UIDPVirtual 2021 will allow you to access content from anywhere in the world. You’ll play an active role as you watch, listen and interact via live Q&A and interactive tools, including a dedicated event app.
After the live presentations, you’ll be able to download materials and watch session recordings.
Please share this with K-State colleagues who may be interested. UIDP asks that all K-State participants register with their @ksu.edu email address to ensure they receive email reminders from UIDP with login credentials to access the event.
Voucher code: ALLACCESS2021
More about UIDP
K-State is a charter member of UIDP and has actively engaged in this organization since 2006. UIDP is a recognized leader in addressing issues impacting academic-corporate collaboration, providing a unique forum for university and industry representatives to find better ways to partner.
UIDP is a solution-focused organization, which means UIDP member representatives identify issues impacting university-industry relations. UIDP works to find practical solutions to shared challenges impeding success.
University and industry decision-makers with varying job functions and titles actively participate in UIDP programs to maximize their investment in existing and future university-industry collaborations.
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Reminder: Global Food Systems Seed Grant Program request for proposals
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The Global Food Systems Seed Grant Program announces a new request for proposals for projects to be carried out in the 2022 fiscal year — July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. This will be the only grant offering for that fiscal year.
Proposals must be submitted to Global Food Systems by email to gfsseedgrant@k-state.edu by 5 p.m. Friday, April 9, 2021. Funding notifications will be provided by mid-May.
The funding available in this call for proposals is approximately $900,000. Proposals may request up to a total of $100,000 in direct costs for a one-year period of performance; however, most awards will be in the $50,000-$75,000 range.
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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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April 13, 2021
The Directorate for Education and Human Resources, or EHR, will host a virtual, one-day CAREER workshop for prospective applicants doing STEM education research — which includes STEM workforce research and diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM research — organized by the Institute for Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for prospective EHR CAREER applicants to gain a better understanding of the program, including eligibility requirements, the application process, and outcomes of past CAREER awards, and for participants to interact with other applicants, former awardees, and NSF program officers.
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NEH Summer Stipends — grant-writing webinar |
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1-2 p.m.
Wednesday, April 14
The NEH will be offering a webinar for administrators and prospective applicants, introducing the NEH Summer Stipends program. The program aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication by supporting the work of individual scholars doing research or writing. Anyone can apply, as long as they are not a degree candidate at the time of application. The award amount is $6,000, and the application deadline is September 22, 2021.
The webinar will describe the application and nomination process, and offer application-writing suggestions. There will be a chance to ask questions, captions will be available, and the webinar will be recorded so others can watch it later.
If applicants have questions, contact a member of the Summer Stipends program staff, at stipends@neh.gov or 202-606-8200.
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2021 CADRE Conference
"The Changing Future of Data and Research: Cross-disciplinary problem solving"
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Oklahoma State University is hosting the entirely free virtual 2021 CADRE Conference on the topic of "The Changing Future of Data and Research: Cross-disciplinary problem-solving."
Programming is scheduled between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. with invited speakers each day. Program details are available on the conference website. Registrants will receive the meeting link 2-3 days before the start of the conference.
The goal of the CADRE conference is to encourage diverse groups to share cutting-edge data-driven research tools and techniques for purposes of discussion and education. Participants from all sectors are welcome including academic, government and corporate research, libraries and information managers and educators and students from all levels.
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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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NASEM to Host Workshop on Strategies for Effective Data Management and Sharing |
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On April 28-29, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, or NASEM, is hosting Changing the Culture of Data Management and Sharing, a virtual public workshop to examine strategies for effective data management and sharing.
The workshop will discuss challenges to and potential solutions for data management and sharing across scientific disciplines and ways researchers can integrate data management and sharing practices into their routine research conduct. The workshop aims to inform implementation strategies for the new NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing.
Additional information, including the workshop agenda and registration portal, is available on the workshop website.
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Call for reviewers — Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research |
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Your expertise and technical knowledge are critical to the mission of the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, or FFAR, to build unique partnerships that advance innovative research to address challenges in agricultural sustainability and food supply.
FFAR is currently seeking external peer reviewers for our 2021 grant programs, including the New Innovator Award in Food and Agriculture Research and Seeding Solutions. Please consider supporting FFAR's efforts by indicating your availability through this 2-minute survey. If agreeable, FFAR requests assistance with reviewing up to four proposals. In appreciation, we offer honoraria to eligible, non-government employees.
With your positive response, we can match submitted proposals with reviewers based on relevant expertise. Selected experts will review proposals against criteria established by FFAR to inform our funding decisions. The following provide links to the program descriptions, along with timeframes for each review period:
FFAR GRANT PROGRAM: EXTERNAL PEER REVIEW PERIOD:
Please contact FFAR program administrator, Cordelia Hiers, with any additional questions.
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NASA SMD Seeks Volunteer Reviewers for Research Proposals |
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NASA's Science Mission Directorate is seeking subject matter experts to serve as external (email) and/or virtual panel reviewers of proposals to the "ROSES" research solicitation. All of the reviewer volunteer forms may be accessed on the main landing page or on the volunteer review forms by clicking the boxes to indicate the topics in which you consider yourself to be a subject matter expert. If your skills match the needs for that review and there are not too many organizational conflicts of interest, SMD will contact you to discuss scheduling.
A wide range of volunteer reviewer forms have been (re)posted recently including some that are new to SMD, like Space Biology.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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An international team of scientists has found evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infects cells in the mouth. While it’s well known that the upper airways and lungs are primary sites of SARS-CoV-2 infection, there are clues the virus can infect cells in other parts of the body, such as the digestive system, blood vessels, kidneys and, as this new study shows, the mouth. nih.gov
A new study shows that in the time after first trying cannabis or first misusing prescription drugs, the percentages of young people who develop the corresponding substance use disorder are higher among adolescents (ages 12-17) than young adults (ages 18-25). In addition, 30% of young adults develop a heroin use disorder and 25% develop a methamphetamine use disorder a year after first using heroin or methamphetamine. These findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics, emphasize the vulnerability of young people to developing substance use disorders.
nih.gov
Scientists have genetically engineered immune cells, called myeloid cells, to precisely deliver an anticancer signal to organs where cancer may spread. In a study of mice, treatment with the engineered cells shrank tumors and prevented the cancer from spreading to other parts of the body. The study, led by scientists at the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Center for Cancer Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, was published March 24, 2021, in Cell. nih.gov
New findings on the diet of Arctic foxes, determined by the condition of their teeth, show how varying climate conditions in the Arctic affect the animals that live there. In a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded study published in Polar Biology, scientist Peter Ungar of the University of Arkansas and colleagues analyzed the tooth breakage and wear of Arctic foxes from Russia's Yamal Peninsula. Studying the effect of varying climate conditions in this region helps scientists understand the impact of climate change on vulnerable animals, and could explain future responses and adaptations, given warming and thawing in Arctic areas. nsf.gov
Determining how rapidly the universe is expanding is key to understanding our cosmic fate, but along with more precise data comes a conundrum. Estimates based on measurements in our current universe don't agree with extrapolations from shortly after the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago. A new U.S. National Science Foundation-funded estimate of the local expansion rate -- the Hubble constant -- reinforces that discrepancy. The Hubble constant is a unit that describes how fast the universe is expanding at different distances from a particular point in space. nsf.gov
To make a vibrant iridescent rainbow, two ingredients are needed: water and light. In Hawaiʻi, those two components are not in short supply. The islands' abundance of sunlight and water, combined with their geographical location, make rainbows a common occurrence on the islands. Because of their ubiquity, the bands of light are deeply intertwined in Hawaiian culture, reports the Deccan Herald. smithsonianmag.com
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