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The Department of Defense, DARPA’s Young Faculty Award aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions, particularly those without prior DARPA funding, to expose them to Department of Defense needs and DARPA’s mission to create and prevent technological surprise.
The National Science Foundation's/National Institute of Health's Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science supports innovative, high-risk/high-reward research with the promise of disruptive transformations in biomedical research, which can only be achieved by well-coordinated, convergent, inter-disciplinary approaches that draw from multiple domains of computer and information science, engineering, mathematical sciences and the biomedical, social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
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Director of the Comparative Medicine Group and University Attending Veterinarian candidate presentation
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11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021
Please join The Office of the Vice President for Research from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, via Zoom for an open forum with the Director of the Comparative Medicine Group and University Attending Veterinarian candidate, Travis Hagedorn.
Hagedorn will present his vision for leading a comprehensive animal care and use program at Kansas State University.
Since completing his residency training at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, Hagedorn has accumulated more than 10 years of relevant work experience at Kanas University Medical Center. He has worked to enhance his knowledge and expertise in clinical veterinary medicine, administration, regulatory management, teaching and collaborative research. Hagedorn has participated in both Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care and U.S. Department of Agriculture site visits, has been an active member of the institutional animal care and use committee at his current institution. He also has supervisory and leadership experience, and received his Diplomate from the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine in 2012. He received his Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the College of Veterinary Medicine here at Kansas State University in 2008 and a Master of Science in veterinary biomedical sciences from K-State in 2007.
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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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Request for Applications: KL2 Mentored Career Development Award | Summer 2022 Appointment |
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The KL2 Mentored Career Development Award is specifically designed to foster the development of junior investigators interested in conducting groundbreaking clinical and translational research. Frontiers is wholly committed to attracting and welcoming diverse, early stage researchers to its institutions.
Letters of Intent for the 2022 KL2 Mentored Career Development Award are now being accepted.
Benefits of the KL2 program:
- Salary support for up to 75% protected time dedicated to clinical and translational research
- Two years of training in a collaborative, supportive environment
- Intensive mentored research experience
- Formal training in clinical and translational research
- Approximately $20,000 in research funds per year (e.g., project supplies, publication costs, travel)
- Assistance toward securing independent funding by the end of Year 2
Key Dates:
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Letters of Intent due: November 1, 2021
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Full Applications due: January 30, 2022
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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.
Exhibitors must register no later than Tuesday, Oct. 12. Individuals or groups within the following colleges, units, centers and institutes have already signed up for booths:
College of Agriculture; College of Architecture, Planning and Design; College of Arts and Sciences; College of Education; Carl R. Ice College of Engineering; College of Health and Human Sciences; College of Veterinary Medicine; K-State Salina; K-State Olathe; Global Campus; K-State Libraries; Staley School of Leadership Studies; Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art; National Agricultural Biosecurity Center; Office of the Vice President for Research and Office of Student Success.
Attendees can register through Monday, Oct. 25.
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Funding opportunities with industry partners: Partner with PepsiCo |
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Noon
Thursday, Oct. 14
Zoom
Join Halo for a live, interactive webinar with PepsiCo, one of the world's leading food and beverage companies. PepsiCo will be discussing 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.
Who should attend:
- PIs, postdocs and doctoral students.
- Startups.
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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1:30-2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021
The Division of Mathematical Sciences, or DMS, is hosting virtual office hours to share information about NSF’s current operations and provide guidance to the mathematical sciences community. All members of the mathematics research community interested in the work of DMS are welcome to attend.
Events are planned at roughly monthly intervals, and the topics vary for each event. The event will be in the form of a webinar, starting with a brief presentation of a few selected current topics, with DMS program directors available to answer questions from the community.
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U-I Partnerships in the Social Sciences
10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021
The University of Maryland, College Park, in collaboration with UIDP and with support from the National Science Foundation, MITRE, and the Consortium of Social Science Associations, will host a two-part workshop, convening a diverse group of experts and leaders from academia, industry, and government to consider how academic-corporate partnerships can advance social, behavioral, and organizational science research to positively impact science and society. Part one of the workshop will be a virtual workshop on October 14, 2021, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m., and part two will be an in-person workshop at the University of Maryland, College Park, on April 20-21, 2022.
With the rapid growth of social networks over the last two decades and the corresponding availability of big data, the behavioral and social sciences have become increasingly important to the development and growth of organizations’ capacity to understand and address global challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of social science research during societal crises. Social, behavioral, and organizational science can help institutions address societal needs, and these contributions can be magnified through collaborations between academia and industry.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today announced his decision to end his tenure as the director of the National Institutes of Health by the end of the year. Dr. Collins is the longest serving presidentially appointed NIH director, having served three U.S. presidents over more than 12 years. nih.gov
The world is on the verge of a manufacturing revolution, but some production lines can't be seen by the naked eye. Pioneers in the field of synthetic biology are turning cells into microscopic production machines by "programming" the basic operations of the cell. nsf.gov
Three researchers have won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on describing complex physical systems — including foundational research that created a pioneering mathematical model of Earth’s climate and predicted that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere would raise global temperatures. nature.com
The European and Japanese BepiColombo mission has made its first fly-by of Mercury, passing just 199 kilometres above the planet’s surface at 23:34 UTC on 1 October.
It captured black-and-white pictures of Mercury’s crater-filled surface from a distance of about 1,000 kilometres; BepiColombo flew around Mercury’s nightside, so it was not able to take photographs at its closest approach. The shots were taken by auxiliary cameras at relatively low resolution, because the mission’s main cameras are tucked away during interplanetary travel. nature.com
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