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The Department of State’s Fulbright Specialist Program pairs highly qualified U.S. academics and professionals with host institutions abroad to share their expertise, strengthen institutional linkages, hone their skills, gain international experience, and learn about other cultures while building capacity at their overseas host institutions.
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2020 and 2021 Excellence in Innovation and Economic Engagement Award Winners |
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The winners were announced during the 2021 Research Connections event, held on Tuesday, October 26. Each winner received a $1,000 grant to advance their economic engagement efforts.
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Global Food Systems Seed Grant Presentations |
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Join the Global Food Systems Initiative for a review of the 2019 Global Food Systems Seed Grant results. Faculty research will be presented from 4-5 p.m., on November 9, 11 and 15 in the K-State Student Union, room 207. Presentations will include:
Tuesday, Nov. 9:
- Vipan Kumar — Skills lost to the age of GMO’s, creating IPM Leaders to thrive in 21st-century farming.
- Umut Yucel — Sustainable and biodegradable food packaging applications using sorghum Distillers Dried Grains.
- Kaliramesh Siliveru — Rapid detection and mitigation techniques to prevent the potential risk of E. coli contamination in the wheat supply chain.
Thursday, Nov. 11:
- Audrey Joslin — Agricultural food production and the conservation reserve program in the context of wildfire: Assessing rural perceptions and land management in the U.S. Southern Plains.
- Yonghui Li — Screen and identify sustainable plant-protein sources as alternatives to animal-protein foods.
Monday, Nov. 15:
- Prathap Parameswaran — Closing the loop: Sustainable food production through integrated recovery of biofertilizers and water for reuse from animal waste operations.
- Donghai Wang — Hemp: A new crop for nutritious food in Kansas.
- Raghavendra Amachawadi — Evaluation of antimicrobial activities of sorghum phenolic compounds against liver abscess-causing pathogens.
The Global Food Systems Initiative provides seed grants to promote K-State research that impacts the complex food system in support of advancing the goals of business development in the state of Kansas.
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Registration is now open for Summer 2022 Virtual Internship Fair at DOE National Laboratories |
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Noon-5 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021
Registration is now open for the Summer 2022 Virtual Internship Fair – sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists. The Virtual Internship Fair is organized in collaboration with DOE national laboratories and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. This exciting event features internship opportunities for undergraduates, recent college graduates, and university faculty interested in authentic research opportunities at DOE national laboratories. Attendees can speak with scientists, engineers, and Human Resources representatives from DOE national laboratories across the country, chat with past participants, meet with program managers from DOE Office of Science, discover pathways for connecting with workforce training opportunities and career options, and have their questions answered in real-time.
Faculty and students are encouraged to register.
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Noon-1 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 9
The Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, or LEAPS-MPS, program supports tenure-track but non-tenured faculty members at institutions of higher education in MPS who have not previously served as principal investigators, co-principal investigators, on an NSF-funded research award. We particularly encourage submissions from applicants at R2 institutions, as defined in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, predominantly undergraduate institutions, as well as minority-serving institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions. As part of the proposal, applicants should include a discussion of how the proposed research activities will facilitate development of a subsequent research proposal and present a plan that demonstrates the way in which the proposed activities will increase the participation of scientists who are underrepresented minorities, ultimately helping to create role models for the scientific workforce of the future.
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1-2 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 10
The Mathematical and Physical Sciences, or MPS, Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships program provides support for postdoctoral fellows who will broaden the participation of groups that are underrepresented in mathematical and physical sciences fields in the U.S. including Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics, Latinos, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and other Native Pacific Islanders and enable the fellows to develop as future leaders in MPS. Awards will support research in any scientific area within the purview of the five MPS divisions: astronomical sciences, chemistry, materials research, mathematical sciences and physics. Proposals must be submitted by the potential postdoc and applicants must be U.S. citizens or legally admitted permanent residents of the U.S. at the time the proposal is submitted. The proposal should present research, professional development, and plans that describe how the suggested activities will broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities who will become leaders in MPS fields. Fellowships are awards to individuals, not institutions, and are administered by the fellows. Underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
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3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 17
Via Zoom
The Office of Research Development will host a discussion on opportunities to work with the Department of Defense, or DOD, for "scientific study and experimentation directed toward advancing the state-of-the-art or increasing knowledge or understanding.” This session is intended to broaden faculty understanding and awareness of traditional and non-traditional research potential for basic and applied research that aligns interest areas, expertise and research focus with the needs of organizations within DOD.
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New Volunteer Reviewer Opportunities Posted |
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NASA's Science Mission Directorate is seeking subject matter experts to serve as external and/or virtual panel reviewers of proposals to the "ROSES" research solicitation. All of the reviewer volunteer forms may be accessed from the landing page. If your skills match our needs for that review and there are not too many organizational conflicts of interest, we will contact you to discuss scheduling.
Twenty volunteer reviewer forms are currently open and new forms posted this month include:
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Department of Energy Releases Request for Information on Software Stewardship |
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The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, Office of Science has issued a Request for Information seeking feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to the stewardship of software for scientific and high-performance computing. Scientific software stewardship is multi-faceted, potentially including but not limited to training and workforce support, infrastructure and curation, and shared engineering resources and project support.
Through this RFI, DOE is soliciting input in nine categories:
- Software dependencies and requirements for scientific application development and/or research in computer science and applied mathematics relevant to DOE’s mission priorities
- Practices related to the security and integrity of software and data
- Infrastructure requirements for software development for scientific and high-performance computing
- Developing and maintaining community software
- Challenges in building a diverse workforce and maintaining an inclusive professional environment
- Requirements, barriers, and challenges to technology transfer, and building communities around software projects, including forming consortia and other non-profit organizations
- Overall scope of the stewardship effort
- Management and oversight structure of the stewardship effort
- Assessment and criteria for success for the stewardship effort
This is solely a request for information and not a funding opportunity announcement. DOE is not accepting applications in response to this RFI.
The ASCR program’s mission is to discover, develop, and deploy computational and networking capability to analyze, model, simulate, and predict complex phenomena important to the DOE and the advancement of science.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Reducing bullying and risky photo sharing with behavioral science, understanding spatial thinking with AI, and using robot swarms to help mobility-impaired kids. These NSF-supported projects are expanding our understanding of childhood development and how to help kids learn and grow. nsf.gov
As a leading climate scientist, Paola Arias doesn’t need to look far to see the world changing. Shifting rain patterns threaten water supplies in her home city of Medellín, Colombia, while rising sea levels endanger the country’s coastline. She isn’t confident that international leaders will slow global warming or that her own government can handle the expected fallout, such as mass migrations and civil unrest over rising inequality. With such an uncertain future, she thought hard several years ago about whether to have children. nature.com
To date, we lack precise estimates of the extent to which Indigenous peoples in parts of North America were dispossessed of their lands and forced to migrate by colonial settlers, as well as how the lands that they were moved into compare to their original lands. Farrell et al. constructed a new dataset within the boundaries of the current-day United States and found that Indigenous land density and spread in has been reduced by nearly 99% (see the Perspective by Fixico). The lands to which they were forcibly migrated are more vulnerable to climate change and contain fewer resources. Research and policy implications of these findings are discussed. science.org
Twice since the onset of the public health emergency, we have taken a look at the number of research applications submitted together with some demographic information on the affiliated scientists (see this July 2020 post for data on the May-June timeframe and this June 2021 post for the January to April timeframe). It was interesting, and maybe a bit reassuring, that there were no particularly marked changes seen in the demographics of designated PI’s on R01-equivalent and research project grant (RPG) applications even one year into the pandemic. nih.gov
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