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The Foundation for Food and Agriculture’s Disruptive Technology Fellowship program aims to spur and foster disruptive innovation in the next generation of fertilizer research and development through a research challenge, whereby emerging young scientists in agriculture research can enhance their efforts in fertilizer efficiency research and technology development.
The Department of Health and Human Services, NIH's Director’s New Innovator Award Program supports early-stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the mission of NIH.
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K-State events and announcements
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Facilitate a hands-on activity demonstrating the broader impacts of your research
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K-State faculty, staff and students are invited to design and facilitate a hands-on science, technology, engineering and/or math activity for the GROW/EXCITE Summer Workshops. There is no set theme for the summer workshops. Our goal is to provide students with hands-on experiences in a broad range of STEM disciplines and introduce them to career options in STEM.
Any questions about the GROW/EXCITE Summer Workshop may be directed to KAWSE Program Coordinator Morgan Greene at morgangreene@k-state.edu.
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Attend inaugural K-State Libraries Lecture Series
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3:30 p.m
Thursday, April 14
David Rosowsky, vice president for research at Kansas State University, will present "Telling Our Story: Value, impact and the importance of land-grant universities" at the inaugural K-State Libraries Lecture Series at 3:30 p.m April 14. In this talk, we will explore the challenges and opportunities of affirming our land-grant mission in the context of an uncertain post-pandemic world.
The lecture will be in the Hemisphere Room on the fifth floor of Hale Library. Rosowsky will be joined by panelists Michael Dowd, student body past president; Laurel Littrell, director of assessment at K-State Libraries and Faculty Senate president; Ernie Minton, dean of the College of Agriculture and director of K-State Research and Extension; and Be Stoney, interim chief diversity and inclusion officer.
A reception will immediately follow the lecture. Space is limited and registration is required. Please register online.
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Kansas Water Resources Institute research grants
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The Kansas Water Resources Institute, or KWRI, is accepting proposals for research grants. This year KWRI expects to fund up to four grants up to $50,000 each. Projects are funded for up to 24 months. Graduate and undergraduate training is encouraged and refereed scientific research publications are an expected output of this program.
Successful proposals will focus on research that explores new ideas to address water problems in Kansas and expands understanding of water and related phenomena within the Kansas context.
Faculty and research staff at state universities — including K-State, KU, WSU, ESU, PSU and FHSU — may submit proposals. Researchers in the social, biological, physical and engineering sciences, as well as fields such as water management, water law and economics, are encouraged to apply. Funded projects start in the fall of 2022, contingent on federal budget approval.
The deadline for applications is 5 p.m., April 15, 2022. The full RFP, along with additional details about how to submit and proposal review criteria can be found on the KCARE website.
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The Kansas Water Resources Institute, or KWRI, is pleased to announce the release of the FY2022 RFPs for three National Competitive Grants from the United States Geological Survey.
These grants focus on regional or interstate water issues and are open to any investigator from an accredited college or university. Proposals may be for projects of 1-3 years in duration, and investigators can request up to $250,000 of federal funds (match required).
The three grants are:
- General.
- Aquatic Invastive Species.
- Per- and Polyfluroalkyl Substances.
KWRI is responsible for submitting all Kansas proposals to USGS. The deadline for submissions to KWRI is April 26, 2022.
More information about program objectives, research priorities, or grant submissions can be found on the KCARE website. Contact KWRI director Dan Devlin with questions.
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3 p.m.
Thursday, April 21
0049 Rathbone Hall
The Carl R. Ice College of Engineering invites the research community to attend a series of laboratory tours to exhibit the capabilities of each facility as well as foster collaboration within the Kansas State University research community. Dong Lin, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, will open his multi-scale advanced manufacturing laboratory for a tour at 3 p.m. on April 21 in 0049 Rathbone Hall. Lin's lab is equipped with a 3D freeze printing setup, CO2 laser, ultrasonic welding system, ND:YAG laser, lab roll coater and universal test machine. Lin's research involves 3D printing of multifunctional aerogels for various applications and 3D printing of carbon fiber composites. He is also interested in additive manufacturing of lightweight, super strong metal composites. This will be the last lab tour of the semester with tours resuming in the fall.
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External events and announcements
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NSF Division of Mathematical Science Virtual Office Hour
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1-2 p.m.
Friday, April 15
The Office Hour will include brief discussions of current and upcoming Division of Mathematical Science activities followed by an open question and answer period.
Topics for April 15:
Participants may submit questions in advance through the registration form or by sending email to DMS-VOH@nsf.gov. There will also be an opportunity to submit questions anonymously through the Zoom webinar Q&A feature. We will prioritize questions deemed to be of interest to the widest audience. Questions on individual projects will not be addressed in the VOH.
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April Virtual Office Hour with the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems
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Noon-1 p.m.
Thursday, April 21
Join the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, or IOS, for this month’s IOS Virtual Office Hour where we will focus on the Leading Cultural Change Through Professional Societies of Biology, or LEAPS, program. The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Biological Sciences, or NSF BIO, recognizes that culture change in the biological sciences is an urgent priority because it is foundational to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the discipline. The BIO-LEAPS program aims to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the biological sciences broadly by leveraging the leadership, broad reach, and unique ability of professional societies to create culture change. To participate in this office hour, please register, using the link below. Upcoming IOS Virtual Office Hours are announced ahead of time on IOS in Focus; sign up to follow our blog, from the same page, so you don’t miss anything.
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Funding opportunity webinar: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences
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1-2 p.m.
Friday, April 22
The Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program supports basic scientific research about the nature, causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and environmental processes, from the community level to the global level.
The program welcomes proposals that creatively integrate scientific and critical approaches while engaging rigorous quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods in novel ways.
Researchers, administrative staff and others in the social, behavioral and economic sciences community are encouraged to attend. Featured speakers include acting NSF Deputy Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Antoinette Winklerprins and NSF program directors Kendra McLauchlan, Tom Evans and Jeremy Koster.
Registration is required to attend. The event will be held on Zoom and live captions will be available.
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K-State research in the news
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Agency news and trending topics
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Details about variants hiding in the deluge of genetic SARS-CoV-2 sequences would be good to know, if only researchers could get to them. A U.S. National Science Foundation-funded program developed at Rice University will make that possible, at least for "intrahost variants" -- variants that appear in genome data from the same COVID-19-positive person. NSF
An analysis by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has found that public research universities had spent nearly $14.5 billion, or over 70 percent of the federal COVID-19 relief grant dollars they received, as of Dec. 31, 2021. This includes the nearly $10 billion from the first two pandemic relief bills—the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, as well as a substantial portion of the third round of funding that came from the American Rescue Plan Act. Funds were used to meet students’ basic needs, mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and shift to digital then hybrid instruction formats with unprecedented speed. Spending has continued this year. Inside Higher Ed
Maps of the American West have featured ever darker shades of red over the past two decades. The colors illustrate the unprecedented drought blighting the region. In some areas, conditions have blown past severe and extreme drought into exceptional drought. But rather than add more superlatives to the descriptions, one group of scientists believes it's time to reconsider the very definition of drought. NSF
The greatest threat to honey bees isn’t much larger than a pinhead. But left unchecked, the varroa mite—a blind, eight-legged parasite—can kill enough bees to doom an entire colony. Now, researchers report that a strain of honey bee bred to fight back survives much better than standard commercial colonies, even under the stressful conditions of industrial-scale pollinating. Science Magazine
An invasion. A war. A pandemic. A financial crisis. All have conspired to put unprecedented stress on global food systems. Ukraine and Russia produce a combined total of 14% of the world’s wheat and 30% of the world’s wheat exports, as well as 60% of the world’s sunflower oil. These supplies are under threat, with Russia suspending food and fertilizer exports, and Ukraine’s farmers under extreme stress, fighting an invading army while tending to this year’s crop. Nature
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