or select your discipline:
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The National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH)
Summer Stipends
program supports continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research.
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ORD Opportunities: Summer Stipend program
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The Office of Research Development (ORD) staff will again offer a month-long writing clinic that will use an iterative process to help interested faculty members develop and refine their submissions for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend program. This clinic is based on the approach ORD has offered successfully for the National Science Foundation CAREER opportunity and piloted last year for the NEH Summer Stipend.
Interested faculty members will agree to participate in all sessions and assignments of the clinic. We will meet once a week via Zoom to review and discuss the writing assignments.
The steps will be as follows:
- Prewriting questions – submit by July 6; group meeting week of July 6
- Research and contribution section – based on answers to prewriting questions – submit by July 13; group meeting week of July 13
- Methodology and work plan; competencies, skills and access; final product and dissemination sections – submit by July 20; group meeting week of July 20
- Full three-page narrative section – submit by July 27; group meeting week of July 27
We are seeking volunteers to help serve as mentors during the clinic. The clinic will be limited to at most eight participants. We could use two to three mentors with humanities expertise to assist with critiques.
If you are interested in participating in this Writing Clinic either as a mentee or a mentor, please send an email stating your interest to
ord@k-state.edu
by June 12.
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Annual compliance reviews
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During this time of reduced activity, the University Research Compliance Office (URCO) has transitioned its annual review process for all the major compliance committees from a paper process to an electronic format.
The specific committees experiencing these changes are: Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), and the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
In an effort to not only maintain research activity, but to also increase efficiency, the sending, receiving and processing of all annual review forms will occur electronically via email.
The new process began with reports being sent out via email for the month of April.
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K-State Framework for Restarting Research Activity on Campus
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A framework for ramping up research activities across the university is now available on the university COVID-19 website. It will encompass all on or off-campus research activities, including libraries, archives, collections, studios, natural reserves, field sites, clinical research facilities, laboratories, and so on.
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“Modeling a pandemic. How the analysis of big data joined with biological and social scientific research helps in understanding a pandemic spread,” with Dr. Caterina Scoglio, professor in electrical and computer engineering
This episode brings another timely discussion about the challenges caused by the current worldwide pandemic.
Caterina Scoglio
, Paslay chair professor in the
Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Kansas State University, explains the use of modeling in predicting the spread of epidemics. Scoligo specializes in developing theoretical models for the spread of disease. By using a generalized epidemic model framework software for the simulation of spreading, she apples models developed by her team to human and animal infectious diseases. Scoglio has developed models for the movement of ebola in Africa and protein corona formation in nanoparticles, which has been validated by experimental data. She has also developed network architectures and protocols for secure communication in smart grids.
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Research Brown Bag Discussion
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Across the nation, faculty are grappling with how to begin to come out of “hibernation” in research, and this has been a topic for the Council on Research of APLU. The university has adopted a plan to reawaken research efforts at K-State that aligns with the State and County public health Phases to return to normalcy over the next few months. The Brown Bag discussion will attempt to address questions about developing individual research reawakening plans.
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Monday, May 11, 2020
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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You are invited to participate in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Electronic Research Administration (ERA) Forum Webinar on
May 14, 2020 from noon-1:30 p.m
.
The topics for this forum webinar will cover:
- The new requirement beginning June 1, 2020, to use an NSF-approved format for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support sections of NSF proposals.
- The new Award Notice.
- A Research.gov Demo of Separately Submitted Collaborative Proposals from Multiple Organizations.
On April 1, 2020, NSF announced the availability of both NSF-approved formats for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support sections of NSF proposals. NSF conducted a
Webinar
to discuss the policy and system implications for this new requirement. As a reminder we encourage you to send questions ahead of the May 14, 2020 ERA Forum webinar to
nsferaforum@nsf.gov
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Showcase your research at the GROW & EXCITE Summer Workshop
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K-State faculty, staff and students are invited to join KAWSE for the annual middle and high school outreach summer programming, the
Girls Researching Our World (GROW) and Exploring SCIence, Technology, and Engineering (EXCITE) Summer Workshops!
This year, we’re offering our popular camps virtually, offering multiple ways for you to participate:
- Design and facilitate a hands-on activity for students that demonstrates your research, covers fundamental concepts, or showcases interesting phenomena in your disciplines (Live or pre-recorded)
- Host a Career Chat to highlight your career path and other career opportunities within your field (Live)
- Provide a virtual tour of your lab or research facility (Live or pre-recorded)
- And more!
We hope to include a large variety of STEM topics in our activities, and all interested parties are encouraged to sign up. This includes K-State faculty, staff and students! The camp will be hosted virtually via Canvas, using Zoom to provide live sessions. Activity proposal forms are now available online and are due by
May 8, 2020.
Proposal forms, FAQ sheets, and more information is available by visiting the
KAWSE website
.
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Science to Art benefits STEAM education in Kansas City.
Science to Art is a platform for regional scientists to display and describe their research through the visual arts. Each of these remarkable images tells a personal research story and poetically captures the fieldwork performed by the scientists and their teams. These images were submitted by scientists from Columbia, Missouri, to Manhattan, Kansas. All proceeds from the Science to Art auction will be donated to STEAM education in KC.
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Calling all subject-matter experts to volunteer for NASA's Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge!
DEADLINE TO SIGN UP IS
MAY 15, 2020
.
From May 30-31, 2020, citizen scientists around the world will solve challenges related to COVID-19 using NASA’s open-source data in an all-virtual, global hackathon.
The focus will be on the following four themes. (The complete challenge statements will be posted on the Space Apps website the week before the hackathon.)
1. Learning about the virus and its spread using Space-based data
2. Local response/change and solution
3. Impacts of COVID-19 on the Earth system/Earth system response
4. Economic opportunity, impact, and recovery during and following COVID-19
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USDA APHIS NBAF Scientist Training Program
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Apply now for admission to the program for the fall 2020 semester. Applications are due to K-State by 5 p.m. May 18, 2020.
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K-State RSCAD in the news
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Agency news and trending topics
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NIH-Funded Study Also Will Ascertain Percentage of Infected Children Who Develop COVID-19
niaid.nih.gov
As
COVID-19
forces conferences online, scientists discover upsides of virtual format
As the novel coronavirus outbreak shutters businesses and disrupts everyday life for billions around the globe, massive annual conferences and small society meetings alike have moved online.
sciencemag.org
Critics argue that the federal government increasingly has ceded responsibility for basic research to the private sector, which has different priorities.
latimes.com
Many states are far short of
Covid-19
testing levels needed for safe reopening, new analysis shows
As the U.S. tries to move beyond its months-long coronavirus testing debacle, it is at risk of fumbling the next challenge: testing enough people to determine which cities and states can safely reopen and stay open.
statnews.com
Suggests that targeting sleep may help prevent diabetes and improve treatment.
nih.gov
Warming may be triggering drought worse than any in recorded history.
nsf.gov
The notion that returning wolves can repair decades of ecosystem damage is immensely popular — and probably misguided.
undark.org
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