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The Department of Defense's, U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program offers hands-on exposure to Air Force research challenges through 8- to 12-week research residencies at participating Air Force research facilities for full-time science, mathematics, and engineering faculty at U.S. colleges and universities. Fellowship faculty participants can bring a graduate student with them.
The National Science Foundation’s Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus program supports fundamental research at the intersection of mind, machine and motor. A distinguishing characteristic of the program is an integrated treatment of human intent, perception, and behavior in interaction with embodied and intelligent engineered systems and as mediated by motor manipulation.
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Introduction to Polar Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation |
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3-4 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 21
The term “Polar Cyberinfrastructure” can feel like esoteric jargon, can maybe be a bit of a mouthful, and can mean a lot of different things to the research community. In addition to the big facilities and fancy supercomputers, Polar CI aims to serve the full breadth of NSF-funded polar researchers. In this webinar, the NSF Polar Cyberinfrastructure Program Officer (Allen Pope) will explain what Polar CI means at NSF and introduce the core program as well as related opportunities within NSF at the intersection of polar science and computing. The webinar will also share highlights from some NSF-funded polar cyberinfrastructure projects and will finish with ample time for audience Q&A.
Preregistration is not required.
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3-5 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 26
Research Connections is an internal event where K-State faculty, postdocs, graduate students and staff can promote their work, find resources to help support their efforts, network with peers and spark interdisciplinary collaboration.
Attendees can register through Monday, Oct. 25.
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Funding opportunities with industry partners | Partner with PepsiCo |
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Join Halo for a live webinar with PepsiCo to learn about its latest funding opportunity on Halo.
The webinar is hosted by Sameer Talsania, Ph.D., senior manager of external innovation, and Ted Rivera, Ph.D., senior principal scientist. Following a brief presentation, they will be available to answer questions directly from researchers.
Relevant expertise: Food science, water treatment, biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science.
Who should attend: Primary investigators, postdocs, doctoral students, university administrators.
Here's what you'll learn:
- What technologies and approaches are of particular interest.
- The must-have versus preferred requirements.
- How PepsiCo can help bring your innovation to the world.
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VPR Brown Bag Series: Conflict of Interest/Talent Recruitment Programs
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Noon-1 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 28
Federal regulations have been tightening around potential conflicts of interest and the access of foreign governments to U.S.-sponsored research. This session will highlight sensitive issues around reporting conflict of interest and plans to update the annual reporting process. It will also cover the topic of participation in foreign government talent recruitment programs and the potential ramifications of such participation.
Please register to attend by 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28 using your K-State email address.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please add this information to your calendar.
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Information and Intelligent Systems Office Hours |
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Noon-1 p.m,
Thursday, Oct. 28
The Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, or IIS, office hours are for researchers interested in learning about programs and policies in IIS in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Office Hours are designed to give current and potential investigators a window into IIS. Each session will feature a topic of interest to a diverse group of researchers. Attendance at office hours is voluntary and designed to help investigators gain information that can help them strengthen their proposals. Short summaries will be posted after each session. Sessions will be closed-captioned.
Please note that the office hours are designed to answer questions for a broad range of researchers and not inquiries about specific proposals.
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January 13-14, 2022
The deadline to register and submit an abstract for the 20th Annual K-INBRE Symposium is December 1, 2021.
Registration and Abstract Submission Deadline: December 1, 2021
Register for the K-INBRE Symposium and submit your abstract for an iPoster presentation before November 1st to receive your iPoster login credentials and get started on your iPoster early.
Registrations with iPoster abstracts submitted later than November 1, will receive iPoster login credentials after registration closes on December 1st, 2021.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Neutrinos are tiny, nearly massless elementary particles that rarely interact with normal matter. They were first made during the Big Bang and are continuously produced today by stars, black holes and other cosmic structures. Neutrinos are everywhere – billions pass through a square centimeter of Earth every second – but are difficult to detect and study. nsf.gov
People who have previously recovered from COVID-19 have a stronger immune response after being vaccinated than those who have never been infected. Scientists are trying to find out why. nature.com
Machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence used to detect patterns in data, can pinpoint "genes of importance" that help crops grow with less fertilizer, according to a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded study published in Nature Communications. It can also predict additional traits in plants and disease outcomes in animals, illustrating its applications beyond agriculture. nsf.gov
An effort to probe the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic that was intended to sidestep politics has foundered amid accusations of conflicts of interest and bias. The head of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission, an interdisciplinary initiative set up by the prestigious medical journal to improve the world’s response to the pandemic, last month quietly and abruptly dissolved its origin task force after 10 months of work. That news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, was preceded by a dispute over academic freedom, Science has learned, and also reflects the deep and bitter divisions that have been steadily escalating over whether a natural spillover of a virus was the trigger or whether laboratory studies might have played some role. science.org
On a dusty hilltop in San Diego, the drinking water of the future courses through a wildly complicated and very loud jumble of tanks, pipes, and cylinders. Here at the North City Water Reclamation Plant, very not-drinkable wastewater is turned into a liquid so pure it would actually wreak havoc on your body if you imbibed it without further treatment. wired.com
Genetic testing of the siblings of newborns found to have mutations in any one of 11 genes most commonly associated with childhood-onset cancers could reduce deaths from these rare cancers by about 50%, suggests a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Moreover, such routine testing could save nearly $17,000 per year for each year of life gained among the siblings, compared to not testing for the mutations. nih.gov
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