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The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management seeks applications for advanced development and enhancement of emerging informatics technologies to improve the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of data and knowledge across the cancer research continuum including cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, early cancer detection, risk assessment and prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities.
The Kansas Soybean Commission is soliciting Research and Education Proposals addressing cropping systems for the Kansas soybean industry for the year 2021 and beyond that should focus on the most economical/efficient systems with minimal impact on the environment.
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Virtual Meet and Greet
Noon-1 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 21 via Zoom
Register by 10 a.m., Monday, Sept. 21 using your K-State email address.
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Exploring Non-Academic Job Opportunities panel discussion |
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2:30-4 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 21 via Zoom
2-4:30 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 24 via Zoom
The Graduate Student Council will have two offerings of this event with different panelists in each session. You are welcome to attend one of the two or both sessions.
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KAWSE Brown Bag Event: Inclusion/Safety in Research Spaces |
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Noon-1 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 25 via Zoom
Vice President for Research and Professor of Chemistry Peter Dorhout and Executive Director of KAWSE and Professor of Sociology Chardie Baird will be hosting a virtual brown bag. The goal is to learn from you, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, about the challenges and successes you are facing when creating/experiencing physical and cultural safety in your research spaces. VPR Dorhout is committed to incorporating what he learns from you in programming in K-State's research office.
After submitting your RSVP, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to joining the meeting.
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DARPA Young Faculty Award Proposers Day |
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Noon-2 p.m.
September 25, 2020
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office is sponsoring a Proposers Day webcast to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of an anticipated Research Announcement for the Young Faculty Award Program 2021 (YFA 2021) program. The Proposers Day will be held via prerecorded webcast on September 25, 2020 from noon-2 p.m. Advance registration is required for viewing the webcast. The goals of the YFA 2021 Proposers Day are to: (a) introduce the research community (Academia, and Non-Profit) to the YFA 2021 program vision and goals, (b) explain the mechanics of a DARPA program and the milestones of this particular effort, and (c) encourage and promote teaming arrangements among potential organizations that have the relevant expertise, facilities, and capabilities for executing a research and development program responsive to the YFA 2021 program goals.
The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award program is to identify and engage rising stars in junior research positions, emphasizing those without prior DARPA funding, and expose them to DoD needs and DARPA’s program development process. In particular, YFA will provide high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research directions in the context of enabling transformative DoD capabilities. DARPA anticipates soliciting innovative research proposals in the areas of physical sciences, engineering, materials, mathematics, biology, computing, informatics, social science, robotics, neuroscience and manufacturing of interest to DARPA’s Technology Offices.
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Inspire middle and high school students to interact with STEM |
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K-State faculty, staff and students are invited to join KAWSE for the middle school outreach programming, the Girls Researching Our World (GROW). This year, we are 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 (pre-recorded).
- Provide a virtual tour of your lab or research facility (pre-recorded).
- Interact and inspire middle school students in our virtual “Meet the facilitator."
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. Activity proposal forms are now available and are due by Friday, Oct. 2. Your recorded session must be returned to KAWSE by Wednesday, Oct. 14.
To find out more information, please visit:
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Call for Nominations — NAS Awards in the Biological Sciences |
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The National Academy of Sciences is accepting nominations for the 2021 awards presented in the biological sciences listed below. NAS membership is not required to nominate candidates or to be considered for an award. All awards being presented in 2021 can be found here.
Nominations for these awards will be accepted online through Monday, October 5, 2020.
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Minerva Meeting and the Next National Defense Strategy virtual series |
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This series of meetings will be in lieu of the annual Minerva conference. During this series, Minerva grant awardees will share their research findings and how it relates to the NDS Competition Quad framework with defense policy makers and military operations personnel.
The series will include virtual engagements in the afternoons during the five Thursdays in October.
Schedule:
- Thursday Oct 1, 1 p.m.
- Session I - Overview and Connection Research to the NDS (1hr)
- Session II – Quad 4: Regional Balances of Influence (1hr 45min)
- Thursday Oct 8, 1 p.m.
- Session III – Quad 3: Global Influence (1hr 45min)
- Thursday Oct 15, 1 p.m.
- Session IV – Quad 2: Global Freedom of Maneuver (1hr 45min)
- Thursday Oct 22, 1 p.m.
- Session V – Quad 1: Regional Military Balances of Power (1hr 45min)
- Thursday Oct 29, 1 p.m.
- Session VI – Cross-Quad (1hr 45min)
- Session VII – Aggregation, Assessment, and Wrap-up (1hr 30min)
More details, including virtual registration information, will be sent and available on the Minerva website in the coming weeks.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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When it comes to COVID-19, anyone, even without symptoms, can be a “superspreader” capable of unknowingly infecting a large number of people and causing a community outbreak. That’s why it is so important right now to wear masks when out in public and avoid large gatherings, especially those held indoors, where a superspreader can readily infect others with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. directorsblog.nih.gov
The National Institutes of Health has launched two of three adaptive Phase 3 clinical trials evaluating the safety and effectiveness of varying types of blood thinners to treat adults diagnosed with COVID-19. Part of the Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) initiative, these trials will be conducted at more than 100 sites around the world and will involve patients in various clinical settings — those who have not been hospitalized, those currently hospitalized and those discharged after hospitalization for moderate to severe disease. nih.gov
An experimental treatment for eczema that aims to modify the skin microbiome safely reduced disease severity and increased quality of life for children as young as 3 years of age, a National Institutes of Health study has found. nih.gov
A new U.S. National Science Foundation-funded study led by University of Hawaii at Mānoa researchers, published in the journal Nature Communications, has revealed that correctly simulating ocean current variations hundreds of feet below the ocean surface -- the so-called Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent -- during El Niño events is key to reducing the uncertainty of predictions of future warming in the eastern tropical Pacific. nsf.gov
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