or select your discipline:
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- The National Science Foundation Economics program supports research designed to improve the understanding of the processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part.
- The NSF Political Science program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics.
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes and rewards outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study (i.e., chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field.)
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Cayuse SP Implementation Update
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The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the
July 1
st
roll out of Cayuse Sponsored Projects.
Cayuse SP will simplify the entire sponsored project lifecycle management from proposal creation to award close-out by providing a centralized system with cloud storage for all project records with easy access for research administrators as well as for principal investigators.
There will be no K-State process changes for sponsored project proposal submissions due prior to July 1
st
. If you are preparing a proposal that will be due on July 1
st
or later please work closely with your
PreAward Services contact
who will assist you with the proper routing protocol during this transition. Please discuss any proposal routing questions you may have with your
PreAward Services contact
or email any questions you may have regarding the Cayuse SP transition to
mollierobbins@ksu.edu
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- The inaugural Rural Education Summit will be an event to strengthen partnerships between the K-State College of Education, the Rural Education Center, and rural schools in Kansas on June 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Leadership Studies Building. Learn more.
- Dr. Michael Kleinhenz, Beef Production Medicine candidate, will be presenting his seminar entitled “My vision for Beef Production Medicine: Research, Teaching, and Beyond” at 3 p.m. June 17 in E-107 Mosier Hall. Learn more.
- The Fusarium Laboratory Workshop will be held at K-State on June 23-28. This workshop, hosted by the Department of Plant Pathology, is taught by international Fusarium experts. Participants are introduced to standard morphological, genetic and molecular biological techniques used to identify and characterize strains of Fusarium. Read more and register.
- Multiple opportunities for Van Operator Training will occur this summer. National Safety Council training will be conducted for all operators and/or potential operators of motor pool vans operated by K-State faculty, staff, and students. This training is mandatory for all operators as of November 1, 2001. Pocket certificates will be issued to all participants. Dates include July 12 and August 8. Learn more and register.
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GFS Stipend Awardees Selected
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The Global Food Systems Initiative will support the GFS research of four graduate students this summer. These were selected in an open call for proposals that resulted in twenty submissions.
Choosing only four was challenging, but we would like to recognize them for the quality of the work to be carried out. We look forward to reporting on results of these studies:
College of Arts and Sciences:
Michael Miller, doctoral student, PhD candidate working with Dr. Gerad Middendorf, department head and professor of sociology,
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work; “The Stories We Tell About Food: Understanding Narratives of Food Environments and Coping with Loss of Food Access."
College of Engineering:
Haripriya Naidu, doctoral student, PhD candidate working with Dr. Alexander Mathews, professor of environmental engineering,
Department of Civil Engineering; “Production of Acidulants from Xylose for Food Preservation.”
College of Engineering:
Yufei Ao, doctoral student, PhD candidate working with Dr. Landon Marston, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Dr. Nathan Hendricks, associate professor of agricultural economics, College of Agriculture; “Socio-environmental feedbacks between groundwater depletion and farm consolidation: Empirical evidence from the Kansas High Plains."
College of Agriculture:
Luciana Nieto, masters student working with Dr. Ignacio Ciampitti, associate professor, cropping systems specialist,
Department of Agronomy; “Use of Satellite Imagery Data to Predict Corn Phenology."
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New Features on the URCO/IBC Website
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The University Research Compliance Office website now has new informational features to educate faculty, staff, students, and university visitors about the Institutional Biosafety Committee. The IBC is committed to providing a comprehensive and compliant biosafety program for researchers, staff, and students.
One new feature on the URCO/IBC website is a series of short videos,
The Biosafety Chronicles. The videos cover topics like the IBC application process and defining biosafety and biosecurity. (If you have ideas for additional topics in this series, please email
Greg Peterson.)
Another new webpage is the IBC
FAQ page, which aims to inform researchers about IBC review and approval.
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Latest GFS Podcast: "Making a Tastier Tomato"
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Dr. Harry Klee is a Professor in Horticultural Sciences at the University of Florida
working to understand the chemical and genetic make-up of "flavor" in fruits and vegetables. After starting his career at Monsanto, in 1995 he accepted an endowed chair position tasked with developing better tomato varieties through traditional breeding techniques.
Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation
covering plant breeding, genetic modification/gene editing, why tomatoes at the supermarket don’t taste very good, how Harry’s lab is producing a better tasting tomato, and much more!
For further information about Dr. Klee and his lab, check out his
website
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Agency news and trending topics
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In January 2004, NASA announced it was canceling a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. In light of dangers associated with the Columbia tragedy the previous year, it was considered too risky. As a result, the Hubble, lauded as one of the most influential scientific instruments of all time, would have only a few remaining years to survive.
Say you are prescribed medication for depression, anxiety or even just to sleep. Would you want to take it if you knew that the drug had only been tested on men and male animals? Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston, thinks you might not. When she tells nonscientific audiences that researchers “for the most part don’t study female animals, people are blown away,” she said. She added: “It seems like such an obvious thing to a normal person. But when you come up in the academic and science world, it’s like, ‘Oh no, females are so complicated, so we just don’t study them.’”
In September 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) terminated a contract between Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. and the Food and Drug Administration that provided human fetal tissue from elective abortions to develop testing protocols. The Department was not sufficiently assured that contract included the appropriate protections applicable to fetal tissue research or met all other procurement requirements. As a result, HHS also initiated a comprehensive review of all HHS research involving human fetal tissue from elective abortions to ensure consistency with statutes and regulations governing such research, and to ensure the adequacy of procedures and oversight of this research in light of the serious regulatory, moral, and ethical considerations involved.
The William Penn Foundation has announced grants totaling $11.8 million in support of arts and cultural organizations that contribute to the vibrancy of the Philadelphia region. Thirty-five organizations received unrestricted operating support through the foundation's Creative Communities program, which supports arts and cultural groups, educational experiences that increase student access to the arts, and the development of high-quality public spaces as platforms for community and cultural expression.
Researchers have devised a method to forecast outbreaks of dengue – a sometimes fatal mosquito-borne disease – as much as four months in advance. George Sugihara, a mathematical biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and mathematician Martin Rypdal at UiT/the Arctic University of Norway, found that the size of human populations susceptible to contracting dengue fever during peak seasons of the year can be related to the stability of cases during off-seasons.
Thousands of scientists and their supporters marched through the streets of Budapest on June 2 to protest against a proposed law that would give the Hungarian government direct control of the country’s top research institutes. The proposal is the latest move in a months-long battle between the government and the independent Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), and part of a worrying trend of restricting academic freedom in the country, say the protesters. The HAS runs a network of some 40 research institutes that do much of the country’s basic science.
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