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The Department of State’s Fulbright Specialist Program pairs highly qualified U.S. academics and professionals with host institutions abroad to share their expertise, strengthen institutional linkages, hone their skills, gain international experience, and learn about other cultures while building capacity at their overseas host institutions.
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Hot off the press: Seek magazine |
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Featured stories in the issue:
Seek is published twice a year and is a collaboration among the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Division of Communications and Marketing and other university communicators. The magazine recently received a gold 2021 Circle of Excellence award, which is a prestigious international award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE.
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Global Food Systems Seed Grant Presentations |
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Join the Global Food Systems Initiative for a review of the 2019 Global Food Systems Seed Grant results. Faculty research will be presented from 4-5 p.m., on November 11 and 15 in the K-State Student Union, room 207. Presentations will include:
Thursday, Nov. 11:
- Audrey Joslin — Agricultural food production and the conservation reserve program in the context of wildfire: Assessing rural perceptions and land management in the U.S. Southern Plains.
- Yonghui Li — Screen and identify sustainable plant-protein sources as alternatives to animal-protein foods.
Monday, Nov. 15:
- Prathap Parameswaran — Closing the loop: Sustainable food production through integrated recovery of biofertilizers and water for reuse from animal waste operations.
- Donghai Wang — Hemp: A new crop for nutritious food in Kansas.
- Raghavendra Amachawadi — Evaluation of antimicrobial activities of sorghum phenolic compounds against liver abscess-causing pathogens.
The Global Food Systems Initiative provides seed grants to promote K-State research that impacts the complex food system in support of advancing the goals of business development in the state of Kansas.
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NSF Fall 2021 ERA Forum Webinar |
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12:30-2 p.m
Tuesday, Nov. 16
FastLane is going away at the end of 2022. Be in the know on the National Science Foundation's proposal preparation and submission modernization and other important NSF updates.
You are invited to participate in the NSF Electronic Research Administration, or ERA, Forum webinar. To participate in this Forum, please register now.
The topics for this Forum webinar will cover:
- NSF Public Access Repository 2.0
- Unique Entity Identifier
- Development of the Research.gov Proposal Submission System
- Where we are and what is planned for the future
- Status of migration and adoption of Research.gov
- Demo – NSF-PAR and how to prepare a proposal.
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Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program Webinar |
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1-2 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 16
Join this informational webinar to learn more about the NSF's Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers program. IUCRC catalyzes breakthrough pre-competitive research by enabling close and sustained engagement between industry innovators, world-class academic teams and government agencies.
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Organismal Response to Climate Change Solicitation Webinar |
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2-3 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 16
Join National Science Foundation Program Officers to learn about the recently released solicitation:
The solicitation calls for proposals focused on understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of organismal response to climate change to improve our ability to predict and to mitigate maladaptive biological responses to rapidly changing environments and to facilitate organismal adaptation and persistence. In particular, proposals are sought that integrate the study of genomic, physiological, structural, developmental, neural, or behavioral mechanisms of organismal response to climate change with eco-evolutionary approaches to better manage the effects of a rapidly changing climate on earth’s living systems. Specific areas of emphasis include but are not limited to: integrating physiology and genomics into the next generation of species distribution models; mechanistic understanding of plastic responses to climate change; functional genomics of organismal response to climate change; the role biological interactions play in organismal responses to climate change; and improving our ability to predict how organisms will respond to climate change and the consequences these responses will have across biological scales.
Proposal submission due date: March 1, 2022
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3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 17
Via Zoom
The Office of Research Development will host a discussion on opportunities to work with the Department of Defense, or DOD, for "scientific study and experimentation directed toward advancing the state-of-the-art or increasing knowledge or understanding.” This session is intended to broaden faculty understanding and awareness of traditional and non-traditional research potential for basic and applied research that aligns interest areas, expertise and research focus with the needs of organizations within DOD.
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ISSIP-NSF Workshop Series | An Industry Perspective on STEM Education for the Future |
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11 a.m.-2 p.m
Nov. 17, Dec. 8 and Dec. 15
The urgent need for upskilling is linked to STEM job growth in the supply chain economy, powered by digital transformation and data-driven, science-based service innovations. How can industry and academia learn to co-invest better in upskilling? This online learning series from the International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, or ISSIP, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, explores the challenges and opportunities. Each of the 3-hour workshop events is offered at no-cost, but slots are limited and registration is required. Click on the links below for more information and to register.
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Early career funding opportunities: Which early career funding opportunity is right for you?
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3:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 2
Via Zoom
Join the Office of Research Development to find out which early career funding opportunity is right for you.
The National Science Foundation CAREER program is one option, but other prestigious young faculty awards are offered by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy that are focused solely on research rather than the teacher-scholar role required by NSF. An overview of young faculty career programs will be presented at this session followed by a panel of faculty members who have received young faculty awards from NSF and DOD. The panelists will provide insight on their awards, why they applied to the program and what the award has meant to their career. Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions and talk with the awardees.
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Please submit any feedback on the draft strategy via the comment boxes online no later than 4 p.m. on November 24, 2021.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have found that a process in cells may limit infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, and that mutations in the alpha and delta variants overcome this effect, potentially boosting the virus’s ability to spread. The findings were published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was led by Kelly Ten Hagen, Ph.D., a senior investigator at NIH’s National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. nih.gov
Safe, in-person school during the COVID-19 pandemic requires research that involves community engagement in underserved or vulnerable areas of the United States, writes Alison Cernich, Ph.D., deputy director of NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and colleagues. Earlier studies on safety measures in schools (e.g., masking, physical distancing and symptom monitoring) were often conducted in affluent and ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods. To address health disparities during the pandemic, NIH launched Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics – Underserved Populations (RADx-UP), which includes the Return to School Diagnostic Testing Approaches initiative. Projects from this initiative are also summarized in this special supplement of Pediatrics. nih.gov
The shoots of plants get all the glory, with their fruit and flowers and visible structure. But it's the portion that lies below the soil -- the branching, reaching arms of roots and hairs pulling up water and nutrients -- that has deep implications for the future, according to plant physiologist and computer scientist Alexander Bucksch of the University of Georgia. nsf.gov
Gravitational-wave observatories have released their latest catalogue of cosmic collisions, bringing their total number of detections to 90. The new crop of 35 events includes one featuring the lightest neutron star ever seen, as well as two clashes involving surprisingly large black holes. nature.com
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