If you are tenured or in a tenure track position, you must be nominated to apply for this program. NEH limits these nominations to two per institution. If you are interested in being nominated, you must notify the Office of Research Development with the project working title and a short, two or three sentence synopsis of your project by 5 p.m. on August 5, 2022 via ordlimitedsubs@k-state.edu. If more than two faculty members are interested, then an internal competition will be necessary with a preproposal due to ORD by 5 p.m. on August 22, 2022. If you are in a non-tenure track position, you do not need to be nominated to submit.

NSF welcomes scientists and engineers to serve as reviewers of its Graduate Research Fellowship Program, or GRFP, applications. Serving as a GRFP reviewer is an excellent opportunity to apply your research and career expertise to help identify future science and engineering leaders. You will also gain first-hand knowledge of the GRFP review process so that you can better help your own students apply for this prestigious fellowship. You will also gain valuable perspective on NSF’s merit review process. To find out how to apply to become a GRFP reviewer, please see the GRFP reviewer website.

K-State is an institutional member and every September our Office of Research Development, or ORD, coordinates with NPA to host National Postdoc Appreciation Week activities on our campus. This year the festivities will take place September 19-23. Look for more information in Research Weekly on the exact events taking place at K-State. See more information regarding the national activities on NPA’s National Postdoc Appreciation Week website. 

NPA provides professional development opportunities as well as career resources to help postdocs with job hunting. The Association also publishes a quarterly newsletter covering news items and features of interest to the postdoctoral community that is available on the NPA publications website. NPA also hosts a library with reports and other documents to help postdocs with such things as advocacy, tax issues, loan repayment and juggling parenthood. Because K-State is an institutional member, all of our postdocs can join NPA for free, but you must sign up at the NPA individual member website.

Note: ORD is looking for postdocs to help with this year’s Postdoc Appreciation Week. If you are interested, please contact Michelle Langvardt.

Nominees must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and be 40 years of age or younger OR not be more than 10 years beyond Ph.D. receipt by December 31, 2022. Nominees should have demonstrated exceptional individual achievements in scientific or engineering research of sufficient quality, originality, innovation and significant impact on the field to place them at the forefront of their peers. If you know of a K-State faculty member who fits these criteria, consider nominating them. For more information, see the NSF website for this award program.

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K-State is proud to be a major sponsor of the inaugural Innovation Festival, presented by BioKansas. General admission tickets start at just $25.

The festival includes:

To join, use the Build and Broaden office hour Zoom link.

The NSF Directorate for Engineering will host a virtual Q&A about the Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers, or ERC, program solicitation on August 4, 2022, at 11 a.m.

This virtual session will provide a brief overview of key FAQs and focus primarily on answering attendee questions. Attendees are encouraged to watch the June 27 webinar recording (which will not be replayed during this second event) and come with questions prepared!

Register for the Webinar

ERC Program Consultation Scheduling 

Prior to the meeting, teams must provide two documents: a 1-page summary of the ERC concept and engineered system, and the accompanying 3-plane chart. These documents should be emailed to nsferc@nsf.gov.

Sign up for a 20-minute time slot.

Please submit an online Letter of Intent Form by September 26. The letter of intent requires a draft “specific aims” page and a list of three suggested reviewers from Frontiers partner institutions who have appropriate expertise; additional reviewers from external institutions may also be included.

Eligible researchers will be asked to submit the narrative components of their grant application by the deadline in October. Visit the Frontiers Mock Study Section page for a detailed list of requirements and key dates.

Contact Whitney Onasch, wonasch@kumc.edu, with questions.

Announcement of Opportunity for the fall 2022 award cycle under Universities Research Association’s, or URA, Visiting Scholars Program, or VSP. Proposals for this cycle are due Monday, August 29, 2022, and awards are anticipated to be announced at the end of September.

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