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- Arts and Humanities
- Education
- Engineering, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences
- Health and Life Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Students
- Postdoctoral Fellows
- General
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Faculty members with the rank of assistant professor and above may request support from these programs for their scholarly activities and professional development. To be eligible, faculty members must have at least some percentage of their appointment devoted to research.
The
FDA program
is primarily known for providing support for travel to international meetings to present research. A relatively little-known option of the FDA program is for funding of travel to meet with program officers from potential external sponsors. The
USRG program
provides "seed" grants to support early research, scholarly activity, and other creative efforts.
Applications are due October 2 for travel/projects occurring before July 1, 2018.
We will be conducting
two FDA and USRG information sessions
to share information and answer questions about the programs and the application and review process. The sessions will be at
3:30 p.m. Thursday, September 14
and
3:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 27.
Both sessions will be held in
Union 207
.
We use final reports on trips and project outcomes to learn how these programs have helped faculty make connections in their fields or obtain needed preliminary data resulting in later larger external awards.
If you have previously obtained one of these awards and have stories to share about their impact, we would love to hear them!
— Beth Montelone, senior associate vice president for research
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- An NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program information session will take an in-depth look at submission requirements. September 13, 3:30-5:00, Union 207. See above for information on info sessions for Faculty Development Awards and University Small Research Grants.
- Kansas Science Communication Initiative, or KS-SCI will meet 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday, September 14 in 121 Eisenhower Hall. Hear about Science Communication Week plans, other future activities, and more.
- Check the Kansas Humanities Council Calendar to find information about events around the state, including book discussions, Kansas Poet Laureate talks, Water/Ways Smithsonian exhibitions, and more.
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Celebrating K-State economic engagement
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Stakeholders across the institution, community, state and region provided valuable input that was critical to achieving the designation.
All are invited to a celebration from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 23, in the Tadtman Boardroom at the K-State Alumni Center.
Please register
to attend and help recognize all who contributed to the rigorous self-assessment process and find out about next steps and future involvement. Formal remarks will be made around 5:15 p.m.
The
IEP designation from APLU recognizes strong commitment to economic engagement. With the national designation, K-State joins 60 other public institutions across the country that are improving lives well beyond the confines of their campuses. In addition to national recognition, the designation serves as a valuable process and step toward achieving the goal of becoming a Top 50 public research university.
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Agency news and trending topics
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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will award up to $1 million in emergency grants to preserve humanities collections and help restore operations at libraries, museums, colleges, universities, and other cultural and historical institutions in the areas of Texas and Louisiana affected by Hurricane Harvey, Acting Chairman Jon Parrish Peede announced today.
Today we posted a policy (NIH Guide Notice
NOT-OD-17-101) describing current plans for the Next Generation Researchers Initiative. ... NIH leadership have reviewed data and deliberated about how best to proceed. Our goal is to increase the number of NIH-funded early-stage investigators and assure, as best we can, that funded early-stage investigators have a reasonable chance to secure stable funding during the earliest stages of their independent research careers. This new policy will supersede previous notices on new and early stage investigators.
Cuts in research funding have left midwestern state schools—and the economies they support—struggling to survive.
The cause of scientific transparency and accuracy got a boost on Tuesday with the decision by the publishing giant Elsevier to endorse a broad set of standards for open articles and data. Elsevier agreed to add its 1,800 journals to the 3,200 that already accept the "Transparency and Openness Promotion" guidelines drafted in 2005 by a group of university researchers, funders and publishers.
Responding to the disaster provides a major test—and opportunity—for the country’s fast-growing network of professional UAV operators, almost exactly one year after the Federal Aviation Administration began to
hand out licenses for commercial drone operation.
As neural nets push into science, researchers probe back. (video)
“NSF’s merit review report provides a wealth of quantified information that informs the Board in its oversight of the agency. It is also a resource for Congress, the science and engineering communities, and others interested in the National Science Foundation,” said John Anderson, Chair of NSB’s Committee on Oversight.
In recent years, scholarship on the history of slavery has leapt beyond academe to force a societal reckoning. This occasional series explores fresh questions scholars are asking as America confronts its history of human bondage.
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