Starting this week, the Funding Connection will be generated by a new database system that will:
- Provide more robust opportunity search capability, including the ability to search funding opportunities by keyword;
- Allow users to identify student and postdoc opportunities by subject area and to identify opportunities specifically applicable to young investigators; and
- Ease data input and retrieval, including a way to better track recurring opportunities.
Take a look at the new format, plus direct links to specific disciplines!
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or select your discipline:
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- DARPA’s Young Faculty Award Program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior faculty positions, expose them to national security challenges and needs, and help them develop innovative research directions that enable transformative Department of Defense capabilities.
- The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowships are an opportunity for scholars (faculty, postdocs, and students) to use the Museum as a place for exchange, research, and professional advancement.
- Read more of this week's featured opportunities
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I have been thinking a great deal about the value of higher education, particularly the value of a degree from a “Highest Research” Carnegie Classification like K-State.
A recent editorial in
Science
magazine spoke to the importance of
research integrity and how that affects our students’ preparation for their careers. Research integrity is a topic that can be introduced and amplified in our classrooms, laboratories, and studios — learning how we trust our observations and build trust among coworkers and colleagues is part of our K-State ethos, it’s part of the value of getting a K-State degree. This important value emanates from our land-grant heritage and is best tested and ultimately embraced by students being educated here. It is critical that we continue to promote integrity in all we do.
Integrity is a double-edged sword. As learned people, we should strive for unbiased observations as we test our hypotheses, build new knowledge, create new objects; however, we are human beings who come with biases. Some are explicit and some are implicit.
Jeremy Berg wrote his editorial in the September 1 issue of
Science
about acknowledging and managing bias in all we do — teaching, listening, interviewing, and performing research. Several “
implicit association tests” have served as useful tools for each of us to understand our own implicit biases. Implicit biases affect how we view subjects for research, including animal and plant subjects, which in turn may affect our research outcomes. Implicit biases also affect how we view staff, students, and faculty in the hiring process.
I encourage you to learn about your implicit biases so that you may be confident in your observations and selections.
Veritas is the Harvard motto, but there is no reason why it can’t be ours at K-State, too.
— Peter
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- 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.
- The Kansas State University Research Foundation, or KSURF, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this month. Attend a reception to commemorate the occasion from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Thursday, September 21 in the K-State Alumni Center Tadtman Board Room. RSVP for the event.
- National Research Administrator Day is September 25. Be sure to thank the staff who help you and K-State accomplish research goals!
- The annual Dance Your Ph.D. Contest is accepting submissions until 11:59 EST on September 29. A $500 cash prize goes to the best in each category (physics, chemistry, biology, and social sciences). Read the details.
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Build partnerships at November 7 event
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All engaged in research, scholarly, and creative activity and discovery at K-State are invited
to attend and exhibit at this internal K-State Research event.
The event will be held in the K-State Alumni Center Banquet Room Tuesday, November 7, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Setup will be available starting at 1:00 p.m.
Exhibitors will have a table and display space for posters, banners, signs, handouts, and some limited equipment or other items.
Read more about the event.
A K-State Research Showcase event for prospective industry collaborators is planned for May 16, 2018 at K-State Olathe. Be sure to save the date. More information is coming soon!
Read about last year's showcase
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Agency news and trending topics
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This memorandum highlights the priorities that should receive special focus in agency budget requests, provides additional guidance on balancing new priorities with existing demands, and encourages agencies to focus on R&D investments that best serve the American people and are budget neutral.
NIH Notice
Effective for receipt dates on or after January 25, 2018 applicants must use FORMS-E application packages —
see NOT-OD-17-062. This change will apply to all funding opportunity announcements and all application types (new, resubmission, renewal, revision). Applications submitted using the wrong forms will automatically be withdrawn by the NIH Center for Scientific Review Division of Receipt and Referral and will not be reviewed. Application guides for FORMS-E application packages will be posted on the
How to Apply Application Guide page no later than October 25, 2017.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has published this report offering recommendations and guidance to enhance the disaster resilience of the academic biomedical research community, with a special focus on the potential actions researchers, academic research institutions, and research sponsors can take to mitigate the impact of future disasters.
This report documents the activities and contributions of the
ad hoc Task Force on NEON Performance and Plans (NPP).
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will nose-dive into Saturn and burn up in the planet's atmosphere. It's the final, suicidal step of a months-long dance through Saturn's rings that has given scientists an unprecedented view of the sixth planet from the sun.
Publication ethics and integrity are at the core of scientific research, but the necessary skills are learnt informally on the job. Busy senior researchers may leave it to the first author to choose a journal, submit the work and move it through peer review. They end up with a predatory publication, without realizing it, or realizing it too late.
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k-state.edu/research
researchweekly@k-state.edu
785.532.5011
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