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- The Spencer Foundation Conference Grant Program provides support for small research conferences and focused symposia that are structure to build upon and advance best practices in education research.
- The NSF Developmental Science program supports basic research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to human development across the lifespan.
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Peek into the spring edition of Seek magazine
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The spring 2019 edition of Seek, the research magazine for Kansas State, is now available in print or online.
Check out the online edition here or find a physical copy around campus to read about the CattleTrace project that aims to better secure the beef industry, geologists who explore under the sea and travel to Alaska's Wrangell volcanic belt, the student development supported by the NBAF Scientist Training Program, and more.
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- Join the upcoming EHR CAREER webinar on May 7 at 2 p.m. EDT, which will provide an overview of the issues to consider for PIs planning to submit a CAREER proposal to the Directorate for Education and Human Resources. Time is allotted for Q&A at the end of the presentation. No registration required. Join here.
- The Kansas Science Communication Initiative will host an end-of-the-year mixer from 4:00-5:30 p.m. May 8 at Arrow Coffee Co. Find the event page here.
- Join the next EPA Office for Water Watershed Academy Webcast seminar on May 9 from 2-4 p.m. CDT on "The Water Data Collborative: Citizen Science Monitoring Data and Data Sharing." Participants can receive a certificate for their involvement. Register here.
- Take advantage of this an opportunity to hear directly from federal agency representatives and meet one-on-one with agency decision makers at the Small Business Innovation Research Road Tour stop in Kansas City, Kansas on May 21. Find more information and register.
- The Midwest Regional 3D Symposium will explore how 3D the field of direct manufacturing, digital imaging, and 3D processing is changing dramatically. The symposium will take place on June 7 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. Read more and register.
- Save the date for the BEYA STEM Conference Feb. 13-15, 2020 in Washington, D.C., hosted by The Council of HBCU Engineering Deans and US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine. Students can attend the career fair and meet top employers, take advantage of onsite resources designed to enhance job search, to enhance their academic career, as well as to get tools for a successful STEM career. Professionals will find training, networking, role models, mentors, and inspiring awards events. Find more information.
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National Geographic's limited series called
THE HOT ZONE features two Kansas State University veterinarians and leaders: Nancy and Jerry Jaax.
The series is based on the 1994 best-seller by Richard Preston and is inspired by the true story of an Ebola-related outbreak in 1989.
Nancy and Jerry Jaax both graduated with veterinary medicine degrees from Kansas State University
and served in medical defense with the U.S. Army, during which time they became involved in the events depicted in THE HOT ZONE. Nancy and Jerry later returned to Kansas State University and served in research leadership positions to further the university's biodefense mission. They played important roles in the development of the Biosecurity Research Institute and the National Bio and Agro-defense Facility.
Kansas State University will host an advance screening of the premiere of THE HOT ZONE
followed by a panel discussion with Nancy and Jerry Jaax, along with the showrunners, writers and executive producers Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders. The event will be at
7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, in Forum Hall in the K-State Student Union.
The six-part limited series premieres on National Geographic at 8 p.m. on Monday, May 27, and will air over three nights. Julianna Margulies plays Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax and Noah Emmerich plays Lt. Col. Jerry Jaax.
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Listen to the latest Global Food Systems Podcast with Dr. Melanie Derby.
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Dr. Melanie Derby currently holds the Hal and Mary Siegele Professorship in Engineering where her research focuses mainly on thermal-fluids problems. She is part of the
newly founded KSU R3 NRT team that is looking to leverage interdisciplinary collaboration
to tackle some of the greatest challenges at the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus.
In this recent podcast
, we cover engineering approaches to improve water use efficiency in both the agriculture and energy sectors as well as Melanie’s experiences in science education.
For more about Dr. Derby and KSU R3 NRT please check the team’s
website
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Agency news and trending topics
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For seven decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been trusted to set the norms and standards for global health. Over the past year, the organization has been critically appraising its processes in light of technological and societal progress, and has restructured itself to focus on building up health-systems capacities. The WHO science division, which I lead, was established last month. It brings together existing research groups focused on reproductive health, infectious diseases and health-care systems. It is also charged with strengthening the WHO’s capacity to promote and establish guidelines on public health, preventive care, clinical medicine and ethical research, and ensuring that emerging technologies improve safety and well-being.
Fresh evidence suggests that the universe is expanding faster today than it did in its infancy, a difference that has set off a search to understand what cosmic forces could be at play. If confirmed, the changing rate—which is nine percent faster than had been projected—would force us to reconsider a fundamental aspect of the cosmos. The result, announced in
a new report
publishing in the
Astrophysical Journal
, marks the latest in a long-running controversy over the Hubble constant, a key measure of the universe's age and expansion rate.
For far too long, biomedical research has been based on a small subset of the United States population, leading to prevention and treatment methods that are often one-size-fits-all. To address this issue, the All of Us Research Program is working to build a cohort of one million or more participant partners that reflects the diversity of the United States. The program has a special focus on engaging communities that have been historically underrepresented in research, including racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities, older adults, people with disabilities and others. Program participants provide data that will be broadly accessible to researchers for a wide range of studies. By taking into account individual differences, researchers will uncover paths toward delivering precision medicine — or individualized prevention, treatment, and care — for all of us.
The giant asteroid is in a horrible orbit and has a 1% chance of striking the Earth in just eight years. And — thank goodness — it doesn't really exist. It's a fictitious asteroid that's the focus of a realistic exercise devised for scientists and engineers from around the world who are attending the
2019 Planetary Defense Conference
being held this week outside of Washington, D.C. A real asteroid of this size, should it ever hit the planet, could wipe out an entire city. "This is a threat that could happen, even though it's extremely unlikely," says
Paul Chodas
, director of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who created this realistic simulation. "Our goal here is to go through all of the steps that we would have to go through."
Scientists fail every day.
Failure is an essential
and inescapable part of scientific research. It’s baked right into the scientific method: observe, measure, hypothesize, and then test. Of course, that hypothesis is often wrong. When it is, scientists go back, observe more, get new measurements, come up with a new hypothesis, and test again. And again.
Despite this, scientific failure is rarely talked about openly, which was why when University of Arizona astrophysicist
Erika Hamden
used her TED 2019 talk last week to share how her work has been characterized by setback after setback, it felt like a radical act. As she spoke, she seemed at times near tears. And yet the talk, video of which is not currently available on TED’s channels, was not just brave; it was inspiring.
University presses periodically face threats to the financial support they receive from their universities. Such support is crucial, leaders of academic publishing say, because university presses publish work with scholarly significance, knowing that impact must be measured in ideas shared or conventional wisdom challenged, not commercial standards on book sales. But even if such threats occur periodically, many academics were stunned and angry to learn that
Stanford University
has announced that it will no longer provide any financial support for its press. Professors at Stanford are pushing back, but there are no signs that the university will reconsider.
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