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The National Science Foundation’s Dear Colleague Letter: Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students offers a supplemental funding opportunity for fiscal years FY 2021 and beyond to provide graduate students with experiential learning opportunities through research internships to acquire core professional competencies and skills to support careers in any sector of the U.S. economy.
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ORD Opportunities: Global Food Systems Seed Grant Program request for proposals |
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The Global Food Systems Seed Grant Program announces a new request for proposals for projects to be carried out in the 2022 fiscal year — July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. This will be the only grant offering for that fiscal year.
Proposals must be submitted to Global Food Systems by email to gfsseedgrant@k-state.edu by 5 p.m. Friday, April 9, 2021. Funding notifications will be provided by mid-May.
The funding available in this call for proposals is approximately $900,000. Proposals may request up to a total of $100,000 in direct costs for a one-year period of performance; however, most awards will be in the $50,000-$75,000 range.
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In this episode, we talk with Dr. Sara Rosenkranz, associate professor in The Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health. Dr. Rosenkranz’s primary research is focused on the influence of physical activity, sedentary behavior, nutrition and obesity on cardiovascular and metabolic clinical health outcomes. Her work has assisted in a successful application to the Food and Drug Administration to have resistant starches 4 added to its definition of fiber.
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Stimulating Collaborative Advances Leveraging Expertise in the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning Webinar |
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Noon
Friday, March 5, 2021
The Stimulating Collaborative Advances Leveraging Expertise in the Mathematical and Scientific Foundations of Deep Learning, or SCALE MoDL, Management Team representing several NSF Divisions, including MPS/DMS, will be hosting a webinar.
The webinar will have an open question and answer period for questions submitted anonymously through the Zoom webinar Q&A feature. Participants may also submit questions in advance through the registration form or by sending an email to modl@nsf.gov.
Participants should register at
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support Program Webinar |
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1-3 p.m.
Tuesday March 9
The National Science Foundation, or NSF, recently released two solicitations as part of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support, or ACCESS, program.
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NSF 21-555 (ACCESS) expects to fund five (5) awards for five (5) Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Service Tracks: (1) Allocation Services; (2) End User Support Services; (3) Operations & Integration Services; (4) Monitoring & Measurement Services; and (5) Technology Translation Services. Together, these services are expected to provide a seamless experience for an increasing breadth of research users across a highly performing innovative array of national computational computing resources.
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NSF 21-556 (ACCESS-ACO) expects to fund one award for an ACCESS Coordination Office (ACO) to support the collective and coordinated operation of the five CI coordination services. Specifically, the ACO will provide coordination and support services and staffing for top-level coordination and communications among the ACCESS awardees and with the public, including support for top-level inter-awardee governance, coordination of an external advisory board to the ACCESS awardees, maintenance of the top-level landing page of the ACCESS website, and coordinated community-building activities.
To orient proposers regarding these solicitations, NSF will conduct an informational ACCESS Program webinar on Tuesday March 9 from 1-3 p.m.
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Don't miss Alice Frost, UK Research and Innovation, in the UIDP webinar series |
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Government Partnership, Global Perspectives
Thursday, March 25, 2021
11 a.m.-noon
Alice Frost, director of knowledge exchange at UK Research and Innovation will lead a discussion about programs and research support in the United Kingdom. Frost is responsible for knowledge exchange policy and funding at Research England, having previously had this responsibility at the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
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April 21-23, 2021
Application Deadline: Friday, February 19, 2021 (for mock review participation)
The 2021 NSF Engineering CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop will be held VIRTUALLY April 21-23, 2021, from noon-4 p.m. each day. The workshop aims to provide junior faculty who plan to submit a CAREER proposal to a program in the NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG) with a CAREER proposal review experience and a forum in which they can interact with NSF Program Directors and recent NSF CAREER awardees.
Attendees of the 2021 NSF ENG CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop will benefit from:
- Mock proposal reviews by panels
- Interactions with ENG Directorate Program Directors
- Focus sessions with recent CAREER awardees
- Interaction across disciplines and engineering schools nationwide
All activities for the 2021 NSF ENG CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop will be conducted virtually. The Mock Panel Review session is limited to 300 participants; however, all other sessions will be open. Mock Panel participants will be selected from those who submit completed applications. The deadline for applications is February 19, 2021.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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A video and coaching intervention program for at-risk mothers and infants increases parent-child interactions and helps to improve children’s social, emotional and language development, suggests a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The program, the Video Interaction Project (VIP), consists of videotaping three-minute mother and child interactions, followed by feedback to the mother from a coach with expertise in early childhood development. Scheduled during well baby checkups, the authors say this program is an efficient, cost-effective approach to reducing disparities in school readiness. nih.gov
Considerable research is underway around the world to monitor the spread of new variants of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. That includes the variant B.1.351 (also known as 501Y.V2), which emerged in South Africa towards the end of 2020 [1, 2]. Public health officials in South Africa have been busy tracing the spread of this genomic variant and others across their country. And a new analysis of such data reveals that dozens of distinct coronavirus variants were already circulating in South Africa well before the appearance of B.1.351. directorsblog.nih.gov
Astrophysicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have detected stars at the edge of Tucana II, in a configuration that is surprisingly far from its center but is caught up in the tiny galaxy's gravitational pull. This is the first evidence that Tucana II hosts an extended dark matter halo -- a region of gravitationally bound matter the researchers calculated to be three to five times more massive than scientists had estimated.
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In the arid Mojave Desert, small burrowing mammals such as the cactus mouse, the kangaroo rat and the white-tailed antelope squirrel are weathering the hotter, drier conditions triggered by climate change much better than their winged counterparts, finds a new study published in Science and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. nsf.gov
What could be more exciting than flying a helicopter over the deserts of Mars? How about playing Captain Nemo on Saturn’s large, foggy moon Titan — plumbing the depths of a methane ocean, dodging hydrocarbon icebergs and exploring an ancient, frigid shoreline of organic goo a billion miles from the sun? nytimes.com
A randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 1 clinical trial of two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against the coronavirus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) found that they were well tolerated and generally safe when administered simultaneously to healthy adults. nih.gov
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