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The National Endowment for the Humanities' Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments.
The National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers.
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Upcoming Changes to the NIH Biographical Sketch and Other Support Format Page for Due Dates on or after May 25, 2021 |
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In an effort to support strong collaboration between federal research agencies, NIH has made every effort to align the Biographical Sketch, or Biosketch, Other Support format page and Application Form Instructions with the guidance issued by the Office of Science and Technology Policy Joint Committee on the Research Environment.
As a result, this Guide Notice informs the extramural community that NIH has updated its application forms and instructions to support the need for applicants and recipients to provide full transparency and disclosure of all research activities, foreign and domestic.
The updated forms and instructions will be required for use for applications and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPR) submitted for due dates on or after May 25, 2021.
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Visit the Fulbright Catalog of Awards for details of more than 400 awards offered across 130 countries. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2021. Please note that U.S. citizenship is required. Join a webinar this month to learn more about Fulbright opportunities around the world.
Join one of the following live webinars in March 2021:
All webinars listed will take place 1-2 p.m. To view more upcoming and archived webinars, visit the Fulbright Webinar Schedule.
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Grant Opportunities at the National Endowment for the Humanities and Application Writing Tips |
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1-2:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 18
The Office of Research Development will host a web-based learning session with the National Endowment for the Humanities, or NEH, open to all researchers interested in humanities questions or methods are welcome, including from the social sciences and the sciences.
To register for this event, please complete the registration by March 15. A zoom link will be sent to all registered participants in advance of the event.
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Infectious Disease Intelligence: Predicting the Next Pandemic |
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11 a.m.-noon
March 24, 2021
Can we predict the emergence and spillover of infectious diseases like Ebola or COVID-19? Can we develop an infectious disease warning system that is analogous to weather forecasts, that pinpoints the origin and path of disease spread?
In this webinar, John Drake, Ph.D., will describe the surveillance tools used to understand how interactions between humans and pathogenic reservoir-species may lead to spillover events. He’ll also discuss the dynamical models that researchers use once an outbreak has been reported to understand how an infectious disease spatially spreads.
Drake will also introduce the Global Infectious Disease Intelligence Consortium, which brings together leaders in academia, federal agencies, industry, and NGOs to discuss the challenges that pandemics create and how they can be collectively solved.
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Designing Accountable Software Systems office hour |
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3 p.m
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
The Designing Accountable Software Systems, or DASS, program aims to bring researchers in computer and information science and engineering together with researchers in law and social, behavioral, and economic sciences to jointly develop general advances in understanding the social, behavioral, economic and/or legal context of software design; and improving the methodology for designing accountable software beyond specific use cases.
DASS is holding a virtual Town Hall at 3 p.m on Wednesday, March 24.
The Town Hall will provide:
- A brief introduction to the DASS program.
- An opportunity to ask program directors questions.
- A way to meet researchers from other disciplines.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
In order to facilitate the virtual meet and greet, DASS asks that you come prepared to share (via the chat feature) a 1-2 sentence introduction to your work relevant to DASS and a link to your website.
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Global Food Systems Food Safety Workshop: Produce |
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9 a.m.–noon
Thursday, March 25
How important are vegetables in your diet? Has the pandemic impacted the availability of fresh produce? Is the safety of the food you eat important to you? Explore how basic research fits in the world of applied sciences in the production of food at the second Global Food Systems Food Safety Workshop.
Global Food Systems will welcome keynote speaker Max Teplitski, chief technical officer for the Produce Marketing Association, to discuss challenges and lessons learned during the COVID-19 era.
Additional presentations will provide an overview of just some of the research on produce that is happening at K-State, including:
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Fundamental research on E-coli.
- Applications in storage.
- Water safety
- Produce handling.
We invite you to join this workshop to learn more about your colleagues’ research and to perhaps discover a possible collaboration opportunity.
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NSF CAREER Nuts and Bolts Session |
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3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 25
Via Zoom
The National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development, or NSF CAREER, Program is NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.
The Office of Research Development will host a Nuts and Bolts Session at 3:30 p.m. on March 25 via zoom. The session will begin with presentations on:
- Requirements for submission.
- Review criteria.
- Submission protocol.
- Evaluation resources.
These will be followed by a panel of recent K-State CAREER awardees who will provide tips on submitting to and receiving an award under this program.
Session attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a CAREER Writing Clinic that will start after the session and end in July when the proposals are due.
Invitations to participate in the clinic will be sent to all Nuts and Bolts Session registrants.
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EPA Environmental Justice and Systemic Racism Speaker Series: Redlining and the Climate Crisis |
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11 a.m.-noon
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
This session of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice and Systemic Racism Speaker Series will focus on redlining and the climate crisis. Understanding structural racism and the climate crisis is key to shaping urban governance and the future of America’s cities. The co-authors of a recent study on the correlation of redlined areas and the location of urban heat islands will discuss their participatory research on the spatial distribution of climate impacts, involving communities in measuring heat in cities. Their interdisciplinary approach offers a compelling perspective on how scientists and residents seek to address disproportionate vulnerability emerging from climate change.
Speakers:
- Dr. Jeremy Hoffman, Science Museum of Virginia
- Dr. Vivek Shandas, Portland State University
- Moderated by Charles Lee, Senior Policy Advisor for Environmental Justice, EPA
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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The mosquito protein AEG12 strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West Nile, and Zika and weakly inhibits coronaviruses, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators. The researchers found that AEG12 works by destabilizing the viral envelope, breaking its protective covering. Although the protein does not affect viruses that do not have an envelope, such as those that cause pink eye and bladder infections, the findings could lead to therapeutics against viruses that affect millions of people around the world. The research was published online in PNAS. nih.gov
New research by the National Institutes of Health found that unbalanced progesterone signals may cause some pregnant women to experience preterm labor or prolonged labor. The study in mice — published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — provides novel insights for developing treatments. nih.gov
As the frequency and size of wildfires continue to increase worldwide, new research by Carnegie Mellon University scientists shows that the chemical aging of the particles emitted by these fires can lead to more extensive cloud formation and intense storm development in the atmosphere. The U.S. National Science Foundation-funded research was published in Science Advances. nsf.gov
The virus that causes COVID-19 holds many mysteries. Scientists remain in the dark on aspects of how it fuses and enters the host cell, and how it assembles and buds off the host cell. Computational modeling combined with experimental data provides insights into these behaviors. But modeling the dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus over meaningful timescales has so far been limited to its pieces, such as the spike protein, a target for the current round of vaccines. A new multiscale coarse-grained model of the complete SARS-CoV-2 virion -- its core genetic material and shell -- has been developed for the first time using supercomputers. The model offers scientists new ways to exploit the virus's vulnerabilities. nsf.gov
Across the United States, small songbirds have faced a rise in salmonellosis, a deadly infection caused by the salmonella bacteria. A small finch called the pine siskin has taken the brunt of the disease, Amanda Bartlett reports for SFGate. Pine siskins migrate south from Canada each autumn when they run out of food, and this year, the birds have come to the U.S. in remarkably large numbers. Once a few birds pick up salmonella in the environment, they can easily spread it to others in the places where birds congregate. smithsonianmag.com
Just as two companies can merge to expand their capabilities, two technologies can become more powerful when integrated into one. That’s why researchers recently merged two breakthrough technologies into one super-powerful new method called ExSeq. The two-in-one technology enables researchers for the first time to study an intact tissue sample and track genetic activity on the spot within a cell’s tiniest recesses, or microenvironments—areas that have been largely out of reach until now. directorsblog.nih.gov
CRISPR gene-editing technology has tremendous potential for making non-heritable DNA changes that can treat or even cure a wide range of devastating disorders, from HIV to muscular dystrophy Now, a recent animal study shows that another CRISPR system—targeting viral RNA instead of human DNA—could work as an inhaled anti-viral therapeutic that can be preprogrammed to seek out and foil potentially almost any flu strain and many other respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. directorsblog.nih.gov
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