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The National Science Foundation’s Mid-Career Advancement offers an opportunity for scientists and engineers at the Associate Professor rank (or equivalent) to substantively enhance and advance their research program through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships, typically at an institution other than their home institution.
The Department of Energy invites applications for support under its Early Career Research Program in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research; Basic Energy Sciences; Biological and Environmental Research; Fusion Energy Sciences; High Energy Physics; Nuclear Physics; Isotope R&D and Production ; or Accelerator R&D and Production.
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As part of its export control program, the United States Department of Commerce maintains an “Entity List” that identifies persons or organizations reasonably believed to be involved, or to pose a significant risk of being or becoming involved, in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. This could include anything from intellectual property theft to exporting restricted items to sanctioned or embargoed countries.
A new Entity List SOP, and Entity List Proposed Activity Form are now available for download on the research compliance website. Please note that the Entity List Proposed Activity Form requires prior approval by a university working group for any university employee who plans to engage in any activity, including but not limited to, purchasing, shipping, research, teaching, attending conferences, hosting visitors to campus or hiring or sponsoring VISAs for students or other employees affiliated with any organization or person on the Entity List.
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The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce that effective October 1, 2020, K-State has executed a Phase VII FDP Memorandum of Understanding and is now a member of the Federal Demonstration Partnership, or FDP. The FDP is a cooperative initiative convened under the auspices of the Government-University-Industry Roundtable of the National Academies and includes 10 federal agencies and over 270 diverse institutional recipients of federal funds. The FDP mission is to streamline the administration of federally sponsored research and to foster collaboration to enhance the national research enterprise while maintaining high standards of stewardship and accountability. Many initiatives have also focused on opportunities to work collaboratively with the federal government to reduce administrative burden that in effect, requires researchers to exert ever-increasing administrative effort outside of specific technical performance of federally sponsored grants and contracts.
Though K-State has designated representatives to serve as subject matter contacts, it is noteworthy that this is an institutional membership and as such, anyone at K-State can sign up for the various FDP mailing lists, as well as participate in FDP meetings. Furthermore, opportunities to participate in demonstration projects focused on the FDP mission will occur.
Save the date! The next FDP Virtual Meeting will occur in early 2021, beginning on Monday, Jan. 11 through Thursday, Jan. 14.
The Office of the Vice President for Research is very excited about this opportunity to participate and for the K-State community to contribute our perspective to future FDP demonstration initiatives.
Please contact Paul Lowe at plowe@k-state.edu if you have any questions regarding K-State’s FDP membership.
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The Office of Research Development highlights in this week’s Funding Connection an exciting new NSF program, NSF 21-516, Mid-Career Advancement, aimed at expanding opportunities for mid-career researchers to expand and invigorate their research and scholarly programs through establishments of new partnerships. These may occur at another institution and partners may be from a different disciplinary area exploiting a new-found synergy.
The awards support a total of 6.5 months of salary over the three-year award, and could be used to fund a sabbatical leave plus one summer month in each of the other two years of the project. This opportunity incorporates elements of the NSF CAREER and NSF EPSCoR Track 4 programs, but is aimed at tenured associate professors in rank at least three years.
The following NSF directorates are participating in this program: BIO, ENG, GEO, SBE, and EHR.
ORD is offering an informational session at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 18 regarding this opportunity. Please register in advance for this meeting using your K-State email address by noon on November 18.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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A series of Town Hall meetings are being held in October and early November to present the current K-State F&A distribution model and information from other institutions. Recordings of the meetings and the presentation slides are available on the OVPR website.
Following the presentation for your college, please take just a few minutes to fill out a Qualtrix survey to share your input and suggestions about how we can improve and refine the F&A model to best support research at K-State.
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Demo Site for Research.gov Proposal Preparation Now Available |
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National Science Foundation has launched the Research.gov proposal preparation demonstration site. The new demo site offers proposers the opportunity to create proposals in Research.gov with the role of a Principal Investigator prior to preparing and submitting proposals in the actual Research.gov Proposal Submission System.
NSF invites you to try the Research.gov proposal preparation features on the new demo site, such as:
- Initiating research proposals (other proposal types will be added to the demo site as they are enabled in the actual system):
- Single submissions from one organization
- Collaborative proposals with subawards
- Separately submitted collaborative proposals from multiple organizations
- Adding co-PIs, Senior Personnel, and Other Authorized Users
- Uploading required and optional proposal documents
- Creating budgets
- Checking proposal compliance
- Adding subawards
- Linking collaborative proposals
- Enabling Sponsored Project Officer /Authorized Organizational Representative access
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NSF funding has enabled discoveries and technologies that improve the lives of people across the U.S. and around the globe. As an NSF awardee, you’re part of that story. NSF wants to make sure that people know the difference fundamental research makes in their lives, and how support from NSF makes it possible.
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New Podcast | UIDP Conversations |
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Episode 8: Malcolm Skingle, GSK, on the elements of successful industry-academic collaboration
Join UIDP for these candid conversations about partnership and collaboration across academia, industry and government.
Malcolm Skingle, GlaxoSmithKline’s director, academic liaison, discusses the critical role of industry-academic collaboration to address the world’s big scientific challenges and what it takes for industry-academic collaborations to succeed. Take a listen.
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Data Security Training Sessions |
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3:30-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28 via Zoom
Overview of Data Security Training – an introduction to the types of data needing to be secured and resources.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
3:30-5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16 via Zoom
Federal Data Security Requirement Training – a detailed look at federal data security requirements and how to meet them.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
TBA
Industry/Proprietary Data Security Training – details from K-State Innovation Partners on handling potentially proprietary or sensitive data during collaborations with the private sector.
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NSF Invites Public Participation in Identifying Mid-Scale Infrastructure for STEM Education Research |
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10 a.m.-2 p.m.
October 30
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Education and Human Resources invites your participation in a listening session to stimulate thinking about mid-scale research infrastructure for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education research. It is not intended to make recommendations to NSF.
The listening session will be conducted virtually via Zoom. Pre-registration is required for this event. Please pre-register for this event.
A Zoom meeting link and password will be sent to you after your registration is confirmed.
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Global Food Systems Food Safety Workshop |
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8:15–11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020
This workshop will focus on current research and future needs of meat safety in the food industry.
Mindy Brashears, undersecretary for food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture will open the session with an overview of the current state of the food industry and anticipated technological needs.
Presentations from K-State faculty include:
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Sara Gragg, associate professor in animal sciences and industry discussing meat processing — Validation of commercial antimicrobial intervention technologies to control salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli on market hog carcasses and pork products.
- Gordon Smith, director, International Grain Programs Institute — the intersection of industry and academia in solving food safety challenges.
- Sally Davis, assistant professor of experimental pathology and Randall Phebus, professor in animal sciences and industry — It Requires a Transdisciplinary Team: Tackling COVID-19 threats to the meat and poultry processing industry.
This workshop aims to inspire discussion between colleges to take an interdisciplinary approach to research and solving problems.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Early Career Funding Opportunities Information Session |
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3:30-5 p.m.
November 12
Via Zoom
Which early career funding opportunity is right for you? Come to this session and find out. The NSF CAREER program is one option, but sometimes it seems like it is the only option. Other prestigious young faculty awards are offered by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy that are focused solely on research rather than the teacher-scholar role required by NSF.
An overview of young faculty career programs will be presented at this session followed by a panel of faculty members who have received young faculty awards from NSF and DoD. The panelists will provide insight on their awards, addressing why they applied to the program and what the award has meant to their career. Take advantage of this opportunity to ask questions and talk with the awardees.
Zoom links will be sent out after registration and a few days prior to event.
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The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Research Assistantship Program (RAP) offers highly qualified doctoral students practical and applied research experience in the criminal justice field. NIJ provides funds to participating universities to pay salaries and other costs associated with research assistants who work on NIJ research activities.
In this webinar, NIJ will provide an overview of eligibility requirements, application materials, and the candidate review process for the 2021-2022 academic year application cycle. There will be time during the webinar for participants to ask questions of the panelists, which will include the RAP Manager and current Research Assistants.
The webinar will be held Thursday, November 12 from, 2-3 pm. Register to attend or receive email notice when the transcript is available.
Students have until December 23, 2020 to work with their schools to apply.
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2020 One Health Research Symposium: Biosensors
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11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
November 16, 17, 18
Recently, biosensors and wearable sensors have been garnering more attention as they offer opportunities to access continuous, real-time data for human, animal and environmental health. The data is often acquired using non-invasive means, which has been shown to enhance and increase patient engagement, and can provide early detection of abnormal conditions.
The use of biosensors in One Health applications has significant potential to improve the health of humans and animals by enhancing and accelerating the identification of disease conditions and by providing access to real-time data to improve decision-making capabilities.
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NSF Virtual Grants Conference – Save the Date |
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Save the Date! Join the National Science Foundation for the very first NSF Virtual Grants Conference, to be held during the weeks of November 16 and November 30, 2020.
This event is designed to give new faculty, researchers and administrators key insights into a wide range of current issues at NSF. NSF staff will be providing up-to-date information about the proposal and award process, specific funding opportunities and answering attendee questions.
Registration will be free of charge and opens on Thursday, October 29 at 11 a.m. Each conference session will have its own Zoom registration page. Please sign up only for sessions that you are able to attend. For those who cannot attend the live conference, all recorded conference sessions will be available on-demand shortly after the event. We anticipate the sessions will reach capacity very quickly, so we encourage you to register as soon as possible.
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K-State RSCAD in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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More than 8 million people in the United States have now tested positive for COVID-19. For those who’ve recovered, many wonder if fending off SARS-CoV-2—the coronavirus that causes COVID-19—one time means their immune systems will protect them from reinfection. And, if so, how long will this “acquired immunity” last? nih.gov
Election Day is 3 November, but U.S. voters have already started to mail in or drop off their ballots. In addition to selecting candidates for local, state, and federal positions, voters in many states will be weighing in on more than 100 initiatives and referenda. sciencemag.org
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced a $100 million public-private partnership in support of efforts to boost disease surveillance and emergency response capacity across the continent. philanthropynewsdigest.org
If you get too close to a pufferfish, this undersea creature will blow up like a balloon to scare you away.
Now, a team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a robot that can do much the same thing--and it could make flying drones safer in the not-so-distant future. eurekalert.org
Some people love spicy food -- the hotter, the better. Others go out of their way to avoid the palate-singeing burn of capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their kick. Now, researchers have developed a portable device (whimsically shaped like a chili pepper) that can reveal how much capsaicin a pepper contains, before biting into it. sciencedaily.com
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