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The Department of Agriculture, NIFA’s Urban, Indoor, and Emerging Agriculture program supports research, education, and extension work by awarding grants to solve key problems of local, regional, and national importance that facilitate development of urban, indoor, and emerging agricultural systems.
The goal of the Department of Energy’s Energyshed: Exploring Place-Based Generation opportunity is to develop the tools and processes to help a broad set of stakeholders including utilities, local governments, and community-based organizations understand the implications and participate in the development of locally-based energy generation in their community.
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Congratulations to Kansas State University inventors — Patents issued in May 2022 |
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The following K-State researchers were issued patents in May of 2022:
Patent Number: 11,318,470
Issue Date: May 3, 2022
Patent Number: 11,346,087
Issue Date: May 31, 2022
Patent Number: 11,344,055
Issue Date: May 31, 2022
*No longer at K-State.
The full list of K-State patent and plant variety protection certificate awardees since 2009, is available on the awards page of the research website.
Have a patentable invention or interested in the commercialization process?
Contact K-State Innovation Partners as early as possible in the discovery process to ensure proper protection of your intellectual property and to gain a comprehensive understanding of the options available in commercializing your research.
K-State Innovation Partners strives to assist K-State faculty, staff and students in developing and protecting their discoveries and inventions to return the greatest advantage to the creators, K-State and the general public.
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NEH Summer Stipends Writing Clinic – Summer 2022 |
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Office of Research Development, or ORD, staff will again offer a month-long writing clinic that will use an iterative process to help interested faculty members develop and refine their submissions for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipends program. This clinic is based on the approach ORD has offered successfully for both the National Science Foundation CAREER opportunity and the NEH Summer Stipends program.
Interested faculty members must agree to participate in all sessions and assignments of the clinic. We will meet once a week via Zoom to review and discuss the writing assignments.
The steps will be as follows:
- Prewriting Questions – submit by July 11; group meeting week of July 11.
- Significance and contribution section as well as the Organization and methods section– based on answers to prewriting questions – submit by July 18; group meeting week of July 18.
- Competencies, skills and access; final product and dissemination sections as well as the work plan (1 page) and bibliography – submit by July 25; group meeting week of July 25.
- Full 3-page narrative section, 1 page work plan and resume – submit by August 1; group meeting week of August 1.
If you are interested in participating in this Writing Clinic, please send an email stating your interest to ord@k-state.edu by June 23.
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The BioNexus Science2Art program utilizes art as an expression of scientific knowledge and creativity and is a platform for regional scientists to display and describe their research.
How the Science2Art Program works:
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Submit high-resolution artwork by Friday, June 17.
- Artwork is reviewed and selected by curators.
- Selected applicants will be notified in early July.
- Chosen artwork will be: Printed on various media, featured online and in the 2022 Science2Art video and featured in Science2Art exhibit at TBD location in KC.
- Auctioned online at BioNexusKC.org and at Annual Event in Fall 2022.
PLEASE NOTE: By submitting artwork, the researcher is committing to a 1-hr video session in Kansas City on a date TBD.
All proceeds from the auction benefit STEAM education in our community.
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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program's 2023-24 competition is open, featuring over 400 awards offered in more than 130 countries in all world regions. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards allow U.S. citizens to teach, research, and carry out professional projects abroad. Applications are due September 15, 2022.
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UIDP webinar and Q&A on NSF Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers |
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10-11 a.m.
Monday, June 27
The National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, or ERC, program supports convergent research that will lead to strong societal impact. This webinar will present information and best practices, as well as provide an opportunity for robust Q&A in support of the current NSF Engineering Research Center NSF 22-580 solicitation. The live Q&A with the seven-member NSF ERC program director team will address themes of interest to ERC principal investigator teams as well as the all-important industry/stakeholder community that collaborate with these ERCs. The awards for each new ERC amount to well over $50 million over a decade in support of themes that have the potential for societal impact, translation to the marketplace, and are centered around a systems engineering approach.
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Fulbright UK University Virtual Exhibition |
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Tuesday, June 28
Noon-2 p.m.
On June 28, the U.S.-U.K. Fulbright Commission is hosting the first virtual U.K. University Exhibition.
Fulbright Scholar liaisons, program advisors and prospective applicants from across the U.S. are invited to join and connect with representatives from U.K. universities, and those looking to build research ties across the pond.
You can visit virtual booths to meet Fulbright partner universities from across the U.K., ask questions, and forge connections with representatives.
There will be a series of presentations throughout the event to help attendees find the best fit for their academic and cultural pursuits. The themes include:
- Studying in different regions of the U.K.
- Student life in the U.K.
- Navigating UK higher education and academia.
- Discipline-specific panels — STEM, social sciences, humanities, arts.
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NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Webinar |
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1-2 p.m.
Wednesday, July 13
The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, or CISE, seeks to award grants intended to support research independence among early-career academicians who specifically lack access to adequate organizational or other resources.
Program directors from across CISE will host a 90-minute webinar to provide the CISE community with information about the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative and answer questions.
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NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure project execution plan development workshop |
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11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Wednesday, July 13
11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Friday, July 15
NSF is hosting a workshop to prepare social and behavioral science and education researchers for the submission of a NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure proposal. The workshop focuses specifically on development of the Project Execution Plan (PEP), which guides the project management for such a project. Workshop participants will gain an understanding of what a PEP is, what PEP requirements are for NSF Midscale proposals and how to develop an effective PEP for their project.
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Sony Research Award Program |
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10-11 a.m.
Friday, July 15
UIDP will host an informative webinar about the Sony Research Award Program on Friday, July 15, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, with 25 minutes of presentation and the remainder for Q&A from the audience. Learn more about the Sony Research Award Program, submission guidelines, and application deadlines during Sony’s webinar with Mark Ortiz, senior manager of the Strategy & Planning Office for Sony Corporation of America’s R&D Center U.S. Laboratory.
The Sony Research Award Program is an academic award initiative created to provide U.S., Canadian, select European country, and Indian universities funding for emerging and innovative technology research projects in collaboration with Sony’s own research division. The program comprises the Faculty Innovation Award and the Focused Research Award within three broad subject categories: Information Technology, Devices & Materials, and Life Sciences. The Program is now in its seventh year.
With awards of up to $150,000 per year for each accepted proposal, the Sony Research Award Program creates new opportunities for university faculties to engage in pioneering research that could drive new technologies, industries, and the future.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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A group of 20 research universities that are also Hispanic-serving institutions have formed an alliance to recruit more Hispanic doctoral students and faculty members to their programs. The newly formed Hispanic Serving Research Universities Alliance, announced Thursday at a launch event in Washington, D.C., aims to double the number of Hispanic doctoral students and increase the number of Hispanic faculty by 20 percent at these institutions by 2030. The leaders of these universities will share data tracking their progress and collaborate on grant proposals for collective projects in order to meet those goals. Inside Higher Ed
Most Americans do not think that Black people are any more likely to be affected by pollution than white people, despite significant evidence that racism is a root cause of environmental injustice in the United States, a survey has found. Nature
On 11 June, more than a quarter-century after the female flew into oblivion, they plan to release eight Spix’s macaws from captivity into the wild. Twelve more are supposed to follow at the end of the year and still more in the years to come. If everything goes according to plan, these birds will be the vanguard of a new population of Spix’s macaws in their natural habitat. The project, long hampered by infighting and overshadowed by controversy, had to overcome significant scientific hurdles to even come this far. But the biggest challenge still lies ahead. Science
After witnessing the rise of monkeypox in parts of West and Central Africa over the past two decades, Anne Rimoin has watched the current outbreak with a certain sense of inevitability. Wired
A team at the University of Pittsburgh is trying to make prosthetic limbs that work like the one in a Star Wars movie. NPR
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Open positions in the OVPR |
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The Office of the Vice President for Research currently has several position openings. Please take a look or share with others who might be interested.
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