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The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research is seeking, through its Next Generation Crops Challenge Area, innovative research focused on improving climate resilience in crops to provide the critical solutions necessary to enhance the sustainable production of nutritious food for a growing global population.
The National Science Foundation's investments in Antarctic Science support research to advance the understanding of biota and physical systems operating in the Antarctic region and adjacent seas through field, laboratory, modeling, and theoretical work encompassing terrestrial, marine, cryospheric, atmospheric, and space settings.
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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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Researcher Academy: Research productivity webinar 'Lead your research program with a business mindset' |
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3-4 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 29
Hear from Dean Matt O’Keefe, Carl R. Ice College of Engineering and multi-disciplinary faculty teams who have adapted a business mindset approach in building their successful research programs.
Developing a research program takes more than technical expertise; like a business, successful research programs need strong leaders with good management and communications skills. Regardless of your research program size and style, using a business mindset to make decisions and manage your program enhances your likelihood for success!
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Broadening Participation in STEM through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Webinar |
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1:30-3:30 p.m.
September 30, 2020
The National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) is hosting a FREE Webinar on September 30, 2020 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
NSF program officers and staff will highlight current funding opportunities available in EHR focused on diversifying the STEM workforce, supporting broadening participation in STEM research, and promoting equitable STEM practices and opportunities.NSF representatives from all four divisions in EHR will be represented.
In addition, Q & A opportunities with program officers will be provided during the webinar.
Principal Investigators, faculty, administrators, researchers, evaluators, and other STEM and education professionals and community-based leaders interested or engaged in research and efforts to broaden participation in STEM are encouraged to attend.
Please be sure to register using this link as soon as possible.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Applicant Webinars |
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The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is offering a series of Applicant Webinars for the 2021 competition. These webinars will provide an overview of the GRFP Program, eligibility requirements, and the application process. The webinars will be held September 24, October 2, and October 8, 2020. Interested applicants should register on the NSF GRFP website.
NSF also welcomes any faculty member who would like to help out as a GRFP reviewer.
Finally, there are many resources available to help prepare a strong application package at https://www.nsfgrfp.org.
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Preparing Successful NSF S-STEM Proposals
NSF-funded Online Proposal-Writing
Workshop
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Friday, October 9-Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020
Virtual Workshop to be held Friday October 9th to Sunday October 11, 2020
- An intensive online workshop to develop competitive S-STEM proposals
- One-on-one mentoring of your team by former NSF S-STEM Program Officers and experienced application reviewers
- Post workshop follow-up webinars and one-on-one mentoring through to successful submission of proposals by NSF deadline of March 31, 2021
- Institutions that have not had prior NSF S-STEM awards are especially encouraged
- NSF S-STEM awards provide $650K - $1M for scholarships and other activities
- Workshop supported by the National Science Foundation under award 1826514
Application deadline: Preference given to workshop applications received by October 1, 2020.
For more information and to register, contact the Office of Research Development at ord@k-state.edu. Please include contact information and brief background of the two team members and a 150-300 word description of your current idea for the focus of your S-STEM proposal. Include STEM disciplines involved and the types of student support activities currently envisioned.
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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 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)
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This notice serves to remind the applicant community about existing guidance that restricts use of hypertext (e.g., hyperlinks and URLs) in NIH applications. Increasing use of unallowable hypertext in NIH grant applications raises multiple concerns, including:
- Reviewer Confidentiality
- “Overstuffing”
- Review Consistency
- Malware
Policy:
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There is no change in the NIH policy on the use of hyperlinks.
Applications that do not follow these instructions, and include unallowable hyperlinks, may be withdrawn from review and funding consideration.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Six months after COVID-19 shut down world economies, closed borders and unleashed sickness and death around the globe, the pandemic has helped to break open the cloistered world of medical research. fredhutch.org
We stand at a critical juncture in the history of science. CRISPR and other innovative genome editing systems have given researchers the ability to make very precise changes in the sequence, or spelling, of the human DNA instruction book. If these tools are used to make non-heritable edits in only relevant tissues, they hold enormous potential to treat or even cure a wide range of devastating disorders, such as sickle cell disease, inherited neurologic conditions, and muscular dystrophy. directorsblog.nih.gov
We are witnessing in real time the spread of a virulent, infectious disease known as COVID-19 among the human population. Livestock and poultry are susceptible to infectious diseases as well, and the impacts can be devastating for anyone raising farm animals. healthyagriculture.gov
Vaping marijuana and vaping nicotine rose sharply in the past three years among college-age (19-22 years old) adults, according to 2019 survey results from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study. The percentage of college students who said they vaped marijuana in the past 30 days rose from 5.2% in 2017 to 14% in 2019. nih.gov
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