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Identifying Graduate Fellowship Opportunities Session | |
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3:30 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 21
Zoom
The Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships, the Graduate School and the Office of Research Development will host an overview of fellowship opportunities that are available to Graduate Students on Thursday September 21 at 3:30 pm via zoom. Key funding programs will be discussed from NSF, DoD, DoE, NIH, Hertz Foundation, Fulbright and the American Association of University Women. Opportunities in the Humanities and Social Sciences will also be addressed, and you will learn to search for fellowships on your own.
Please register to attend.
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Call for Equipment Proposals to Support Biomanufacturing | |
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K-State has received funding from the State of Kansas to support Biomanufacturing Training and Education. We will use some funding in the first year to support equipment acquisition to support research and/or teaching activities in biomanufacturing, related biosciences, and enabling technologies.
A total of $1M will be available. Requests for OVPR funding in the range of $100,000 to $250,000 are invited. Departments/colleges must provide a 25% match on top of the requested funds.
To apply for this funding, send a request (maximum of two pages) containing the following information, together with a current price quote, to ord@k-state.edu no later than October 15, 2023.
Required information:
- Requestor/principal investigator name, department, college
- Equipment description, vendor, and cost
- Justification for request:
- New research/instruction to be made possible
- Anticipated users
- How this purchase will increase K-State’s biomanufacturing/bioscience capabilities
- A letter committing required matching funds
- Description of the plan for maintaining the equipment, training users, and location in which it is to be housed.
Awards will be announced by November 15, 2023.
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Reminder: Excellence in Innovation and Economic Engagement Award applications due Sep. 27 | |
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K-State faculty and staff, centers, institutes and units engaging in innovation and economic prosperity are invited to submit a two-page narrative for the K-State Excellence in Innovation and Economic Engagement Award by Wednesday, Sep. 27, 2023, to ecodevo@k-state.edu.
Award winners are selected based on the award criteria – including the key questions, illustration and metric – by an external committee of innovation and economic prosperity practitioners.
This award recognizes exemplary economic engagement across efforts in talent, innovation and place — plus the intersections of these categories.
- Talent: focus on education and workforce development.
- Innovation: focus on innovation and technology-based economic development.
- Place: focus on social, cultural, or community development.
Two winners will be selected to account for both 2022 and 2023. At least one of the two winners selected will be an applicant who intentionally advanced talent, innovation or place in accordance with K-State’s Economic Prosperity Plan.
Finalists will be recognized at the K-State Research Connections event on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Each winner will receive a commemorative plaque, along with a certificate and a $1,000 grant to advance their economic engagement efforts.
Visit the award website for full submission details or email questions to ecodevo@k-state.edu.
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External events and announcements | |
Moore Inventor Fellows
Call for nominations | 2024 cohort
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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is pleased to share with you the nomination call for 2024 Moore Inventor Fellows. Inspired by Gordon Moore’s passion for discovery, this fellowship seeks to identify outstanding early-stage inventors. We are looking for individuals who are harnessing science and technology solutions to enhance scientific research, strengthen environmental conservation, or improve the experience and outcomes of patient care.
The Moore Inventor Fellows program recognizes inventors at select research universities and organizations. The foundation has allocated nearly $34 million through 2026 to support 50 Moore Inventor Fellows.
We invite you to nominate two individuals from your institution for this opportunity.
Fellows will receive funding for three years at a level of $200,000 per year from the Moore Foundation. In addition to funds for the fellow, the foundation will provide $25,000 each year to the institution to cover costs associated with administering the grant award, resulting in a total three-year award of $675,000. Host institutions are required to contribute $50,000 in annual support of the inventor’s work.
Because K-State can only submit two nominations, internal nominations, faculty name, department, rank, and 2 to 3 sentences on why this person should be nominated must be first sent to ordlimitedsubs@k-state.edu by 5 p.m. on October 10. If there are more than two nominations, the Office of Research Development will have an internal competition with pre-nomination packages due October 31.
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NSF-NIH Smart Health Solicitation Webinar | |
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1-2:30 p.m.
September 25
This interagency program solicitation aims to support the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral, and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Transformations hinge on scientific and engineering innovations by interdisciplinary teams that develop novel methods to intuitively and intelligently collect, sense, connect, analyze, and interpret data from individuals, devices, and systems to enable discovery and optimize health. Solutions to these complex biomedical or public health problems demand the formation of interdisciplinary teams that are ready to address these issues while advancing fundamental science and engineering.
This webinar covers the program solicitation and ends with questions and answers.
Register to attend.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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NSF Ethical and Responsible Research Program Office Hours | |
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2-3 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 4
Please join the Ethical and Responsible Research Program, or ER2, to discuss questions about the program with the program director.
Office hours take place over Zoom, generally on Wednesdays.
To join, use the Ethical and Responsible Research office hour Zoom link.
All meetings during office hours are 1-on-1. Guests are seen in the order they join. You may have to wait if others join before you.
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NSF MCB Virtual Office Hour: Tool Development for Molecular and Cell Biology | |
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1-2 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 11
Join the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the National Science Foundation for our next virtual office hour on Tool Development for Molecular and Cell Biology.
Program Directors will be present to address your questions.
Please register to attend.
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NSF ExpandAI Virtual Office Hours | |
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2-3 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 16
ExpandAI Office hours are provided for your convenience. NSF Program Directors representing different categories of MSIs will be available on the days and times listed to answer your questions about the program. Feel free to join/leave at any point during the meeting.
To join, simply follow the event link below. You do not need to turn on your microphone or share your camera to join. Responses will be provided to questions typed into the Zoom chat window. Office hours will not be recorded but will be held regularly as advertised. Come prepared with your questions or simply join in to listen.
Join the Office Hours.
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October 12-13, 2023
Denver, Colorado
Calling all land-grant colleagues!
Join the Northcentral Region Water Network in Denver, Colorado to discuss how we can work together across institutions to address vulnerability associated with climate change, protect and restore our waters for future generations, and advance culturally rich and sustainable food systems and food sovereignty.
The North Central Region Water Network, The First American Land-Grant Consortium, or FALCON, and partners from across the North Central Region are excited to host a workshop for 1862, 1890, and 1994 land-grant colleagues working on climate and water-related issues.
This in-person workshop will be held ahead of the FALCON Annual Conference, starting mid-day on October 12 and ending at 1 p.m. on October 13 in Downtown Denver, Colorado.
Together, we will create actionable recommendations to improve collaborations among land-grant institutions in ways that will increase our ability to provide climate and water programming in equitable and just ways with a focus on serving Black and Indigenous communities.
Learn more.
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Defense TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2023 | |
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November 28-30
Gaylord National Harbor in Washington D.C.
This is our 12th annual program, bringing together defense, private industry, federal agencies, and academic leadership to accelerate applications for state-of-the-art technology solutions. Our unique Innovation Partner packages for Defense TechConnect 2023 offers exceptional networking, showcase, pitch, and expo opportunities for your organization. By participating, you will have the chance to be front and center at one of the largest dedicated emerging tech and innovation matchmaking conferences of the year. Become a TechConnect Innovation Partner!
In addition to Defense TechConnect 2023, we are co-locating two conferences - SBIR/STTR Fall Innovation and Smart Cities 2023. This collaboration will provide a unique opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange.
Save the date and mark your calendars for this premier event! Already prepared to apply? Go ahead and submit your technology applications.
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Agency news and trending topics | |
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A $72.5 million investment from the U.S. National Science Foundation will drive the design, discovery and development of advanced materials needed to address major societal challenges. The Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program will fund 37 new four-year projects. NSF
New $50 million institute aims to use the power of math to model, predict biological processes
The National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology will bring together mathematical and biological scientists to make new advances in challenging and potentially high-reward research areas. NSF
In 1994, Peter Shor created one of the first practical uses for a quantum computer: hacking the internet. Shor, an applied mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), showed how a quantum computer could be exponentially faster than a classical computer at finding the prime number factors of large numbers. Those primes are used as the secret keys that secure most of the encrypted information sent over the internet. Science
When conservation biologist Jaime Ramos began the fieldwork for his doctoral studies on the elusive Azores bullfinch in 1991, one sound in the island forests excited him the most—the patter of a light drizzle. But there was no rain in sight. The sound was created by the falling fruit husks of the lily-of-the-valley tree as they landed on the leaves below. “It meant that the Azores bullfinch was nearby and it was de-husking the fruit to get to the seed,” says Ramos, of the University of Coimbra, in central Portugal. The sound helped Ramos locate the bird in the dense forest and observe its foraging behavior. Smithsonian Magazine
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