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- The USDA Sustainable Agricultural Systems program seeks creative and visionary research that will take a systems approach and that will significantly improve the supply of abundant, affordable, safe, nutritious, and accessible food, while providing sustainable opportunities for expansion of the bioeconomy.
- The Department of State U.S. Fulbright Scholars Program offers nearly 470 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in almost in over 125 countries. Opportunities are available all areas of endeavor, including the sciences, engineering, business, academe, public service, government, and the arts.
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- An information session about the Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative will be held on Monday, April 8 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the College of Business Building Room 2047. Drs. Brian Lindshield and/or Andy Bennett will be on hand to review application requirements and selection criteria and discuss aspects of a successful application. They will also outline the resulting cost savings for students and the adaptability of open/alternative classroom materials, two of the major benefits reported by previous award winners. Read more and register.
- Join the last KSCI Workshop of the semester, "It's Not You, It's Me," at noon on Thursday, April 11 in 121 Eisenhower Hall. Community partners are essential to successful public engagement. This workshop will introduce tools and strategies that researchers can use to engage partners for impact (so they don’t have to break up). Find more information.
- Join the Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry for the first day-long, K-State undergraduate research conference on April 14! The day-long event includes paper sessions from 9 a.m. to noon and a Developing Scholars Poster Symposium from 2-4 p.m. Read more.
- The University of Arkansas and UIDP are hosting an NSF-supported workshop in Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 21-23. The workshop brings together thought-leaders from academic, corporate, government and non-profit sectors to discuss and consider practical and effective strategies that can be used to propel university-industry partnerships and advance local innovation ecosystems. Read more and register.
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Broader Impacts Information Session and Exhibition
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Faculty planning an NSF proposal in the coming months should consider attending
the next Office of Research Development event focusing on "Broader Impacts."
The session will occur
Wednesday, April 10 from 3-5 p.m. in the K-State Union Flint Hills Room.
This will be an information session followed by the chance to talk with representatives of programs existing at K-State that can be leveraged to help meet the “broader impacts” and outreach components that are required for many research funding opportunities from NSF and other agencies.
These programs offer existing recruitment and retention mechanisms for students from underrepresented groups
or public outreach channels that can be included into proposals.
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Agency news and trending topics
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A graduate student entering an assistant professorship gets a career jump-start through his fieldwork in Latin America. A social-work scholar is inspired by methodology from engineering, reconceptualizing her research. A public-health expert transitions from theoretical understanding to practical intervention in her community work. All three are minorities who get a foothold in the world of major scientific research grants. How? Through intense, hands-on, carefully mentored training that demonstrates what a diversity program can do.
Elaine Weyuker earned her master’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1960s, in an academic building that lacked a women’s bathroom. She went on to receive the first Ph.D. in computer science that Rutgers University awarded to a woman, and to become the first woman hired in the computer science department at New York University and as a fellow at Bell Labs. Now a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a professor at both the University of Central Florida and Sweden’s Mälardalen University, she has seen little improvement in her field’s dismal representation of women since her student days, she told the attendees at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
symposium
about women’s underrepresentation in science last month. Throughout her career, she has had no or few female colleagues.
Karen Barry knew that mental health was a problem for Ph.D. students at her institution. In her role as graduate research coordinator at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, she had spoken with many students over the years who had confided in her, sharing personal stories about their struggles with stress, depression, and anxiety. But for Barry—who is also a senior lecturer in plant biology—the problem came into full focus a few years ago when a student who was a leader of the graduate student body visited her office feeling stressed and overwhelmed. “Everyone else is coming to me and telling me they’re stressed,” the Ph.D. student—a scientist—told Barry. “What can I do to help the students around me?”
The National Science Foundation has completed the first phase of an experiment to tap outside expertise to design tools for a better understanding of the skills needed for jobs at the large federal agency, which employs 2,100 workers at its headquarters in Alexandria, Va. The
project
, dubbed the Career Compass Challenge, aims to tap technology such as artificial intelligence to map the knowledge and skills its employees need and have earned. Its goal is to help employees plot a path for changing careers or moving up in their current job, and to assist them in continuously developing their skills.
A clinical trial of an experimental drug designed to treat cravings associated with opioid use disorder has begun in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. The Phase I trial in healthy adults will assess the safety of the experimental compound, ANS-6637, and how it is processed in the body when given with another drug that is processed by the same liver enzyme pathway. The NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is helping to conduct the trial, which is funded through NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-Term Initiative, a comprehensive program to accelerate research efforts to stem the public health crisis of OUD.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the initial down-select list of
136
Expressions of Interest received from parties in 35 states
vying to become the new homes of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). USDA is following a
rigorous site selection process
to identify the new locations with involvement from USDA, ERS, and NIFA leadership. “The announcement of this middle list shows that we are committed to the important missions of these agencies and transparency in our selection process. USDA will make the best choice for our employees and customers,” Perdue said. “Relocation will help ensure that USDA is the most effective, most efficient, and most customer-focused agency in the federal government, allowing us to be closer to our stakeholders and move our resources closer to our customers.”
For Jo Cameron, it takes the sight of blood or the smell of her own flesh burning for her to know that something is very wrong. As the 71-year-old Scottish woman
recounted
to The New York Times earlier this week, she has lived a life virtually free of pain, fear, and anxiety, thanks to a missing stretch of DNA. Doctors discovered there was something different about Cameron when she came in for surgery and turned down painkillers after the nerve blocker from her operation wore off. After years of investigating, they identified the never-before-seen mutation believed to be responsible for her almost supernatural pain tolerance. Weirdly, any wounds she gets also heal faster than other people, and she cannot recall ever having felt anxious, depressed, or scared. They
published their findings
Tuesday in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
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