The Microbial Innovations for Climate-Resilient Agriculture, or MICRA, an NSF funded Focused EPSCoR Collaboration project, is accepting now applications for its Career Seed Grant.



The grant provides funds to build and boost the research career of Kansas State University assistant professors in the area of climate resilient agriculture in the Central High Plains by providing up to $10,000 funds for research, professional development and/or professional travel. Awarded funds should be spent within 12 months.

Applicants must be a tenure-track assistant professor or a non-tenure track research assistant professor with a home department in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering, the College of Agriculture or the College of Arts and Sciences and have an official research appointment.

Please apply through the online link. 

Applications are due June 15. 

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Stipends program supports continuous full-time work on a humanities project for a period of two consecutive months. NEH funds may support recipients’ compensation, travel, and other costs related to the proposed scholarly research. This is a limited submission; thus, if you are interested in submitting to this program you must notify (working title and a short, two to three sentence synopsis of your project) the Office of Research Development by August 2, 2024 via ordlimitedsubs@ksu.edu. If two or more faculty members notify by this date, an internal competition will be held with preproposals due by August 16, 2024.

This program’s anticipated due date to NEH is September 18, 2024. The new 2024 application should be available on the NEH website by June 18. Typically, NEH hosts a webinar for this program in mid-August, but due to the changes NEH is making to this program the webinar will be July 10 at 1-2 p.m. CT. Again, remember that to apply to this program, you must first go through the internal process outlined above because K-State can only nominate one tenure-track/tenured faculty to apply to this program. However, non-tenure track faculty may apply without nomination and without going through this process, but the Office of Research Development (ord@ksu.edu) would like to know in this case if you will be submitting.

The Office of Research Development 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 (NEH) Summer Stipends program. This clinic is based on the approach ORD has successfully offered for the National Science Foundation CAREER opportunity and has used for the last four years for the NEH Summer Stipends program.

The Writing Clinic steps will be as follows:

1. Prewriting Questions – submit by July 8; group meeting week of July 8.
2. Significance and contribution section as well as the Organization and methods section– based on answers to prewriting questions – submit by July 15; group meeting week of July 15
3. Competencies, skills and access; final product and dissemination sections as well as the work plan (1 page) and bibliography – submit by July 22; group meeting week of July 22
4. Full 3-page narrative section, 1 page work plan and resume – submit by July 29; group meeting week of July 29.

We will meet once a week via zoom to review and discuss the writing assignments. Participants agree to take part in all sessions and complete the assignments of the clinic.

If you are interested in participating in this Writing Clinic please send an email stating your interest to ord@ksu.edu by June 26. Please use “Summer Stipends” on the email subject line.

NOTE: You do not have to participate in this writing clinic to notify the Office of Research Development of your interest in being nominated for a submission to the Summer Stipends program and participate in the limited submission process. Please see the Summer Stipends program announcement included above for more information.

NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli praises the recent release of the United States Government Policy for Oversight of Dual Use Research of Concern and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential and its role in bolstering research capabilities and collaborations.

Read the full statement here.

You’re invited to take part in a short survey to assist with NIFA’s Grants Modernization Initiative (GMI). Your participation in this survey is a crucial component in ensuring that our GMI is successful and that we can work to improve your experience over time. No matter where you fit into the NIFA grants management process, we want this to work for you!

This survey is designed to take less than 10 minutes to complete.

Take the survey.

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science monthly virtual office hours are opportunities to share information and ask questions about our six research programs and two research and development and production offices. Researchers at all institutions are welcome to attend and learn more about our programs. Topics will vary each month.

Learn more about the programs, dates and times using the links provided below:

• Advanced Scientific Computing Research 
• Basic Energy Sciences 
• Biological and Environmental Research 
• Fusion Energy Sciences 
• High Energy Physics 
• Nuclear Physics 
• Accelerator R&D and Production 
• Isotope R&D and Production 

The office hour will be in the form of a zoom meeting, starting with a brief presentation on the monthly topic, followed by questions. 

Are you interested in serving as a reviewer for the Linguistics Program and/or the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Program?

We want to hear from you! Help us learn more about you and your area of expertise by taking a short survey.

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking subject matter experts to serve as peer reviewers to evaluate grant applications for the Fiscal Year 2024 grant cycle. AMS grant peer reviews bring together diverse individuals who provide fair, expert, and unbiased evaluations of grant applications. Reviewing applications will take approximately 6 weeks and non-federal reviewers will be compensated for their reviews.  

Current Programs Seeking Peer Reviewers:

• Acer Access and Development Program (Acer)
• Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP)
• Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP)
• Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP)
• Regional Food System Partnerships (RFSP)

Learn more here.

Join us Thursday, May 16, from 12 - 2 p.m. for K-INBRE's virtual Spring 2024 Grant Writing Webinar "Time to Get Funded: Crafting A Competitive NIH Grant Application". The webinar will feature K-INBRE Principal Investigator Professor in Anesthesiology, Pain, and Perioperative Medicine Doug Wright.

Please register to attend the event.

If you have any questions, please contact Heiata Chapman, hchapman@kumc.edu, or Clare Frantz, cfrantz2@kumc.edu.

May 16, 2024, 12 - 1:30 p.m.

In this interactive session, representatives from 10 Fulbright Commissions across Europe and Eurasia will be available to discuss their awards and answer your questions live! Commission representatives will be in dedicated breakout rooms by country, and you can meet with as many countries as you wish during the event. You can preview the 66 U.S. Scholar awards offered by these countries on the awards section of the U.S. Scholar Program website.

Representatives from the following Commissions will attend:

Belgium/Luxembourg/European Union, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Turkey

This is the first time Fulbright has offered this event – please spread the word among faculty and administrators who might be interested. Fulbright Commission colleagues look forward to meeting applicants!

Register here.

The Office of Science would like to remind you of our monthly virtual office hours to share information and provide opportunities to ask questions about our Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Program. Researchers at all institutions are welcome to attend and learn more about our programs; no existing relationship with DOE or the DOE national laboratories is required to attend. Research administrators are also encouraged to attend. 

BES will hold virtual office hours on the third Thursday of the month, 1 - 2 p.m. Topics will vary each month. The office hour will be in the form of a zoom meeting, starting with a brief presentation on the monthly topic, followed by questions. Program managers will be available to answer questions from the community. Click on the topic below to register for the office hour.  Upcoming topics include: 

• Thursday, May 16, 2024, 1 - 2 p.m. – Introduction to BES Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division - Organization, priorities, and funding opportunities 

For more information on BES office hours, including registration, upcoming topics, slides, and recordings, please visit the DOE website.

May 17, 2024, 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.

Join Germano Iannacchione, Director of NSF's Division of Materials Research, and DMR Program Directors for our monthly Zoom office hour and Q&A session. May's Open Hour will focus on the Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) solicitation.

Register here.

May 20, 2024, 3 – 4 p.m.

See additional dates and times on nsf.gov

The AccelNet Program Team is hosting a series of virtual Office Hours aimed at giving potential PIs an opportunity to ask questions about the AccelNet 2024 solicitation.

We will be holding a series of sessions starting May 6, 2024 and ending on May 23, 2024, during which any questions about the Program can be asked and discussed. 

More information and Zoom links can be found here.

ExpandAI Virtual Office Hours

May 21, 2024, 2 – 3 p.m.

June 18, 2024, 2 – 3 p.m.

July 16, 2024, 2 – 3 p.m.

See additional dates and times on nsf.gov.

Representatives from across the division will be available to discuss specific programs and funding opportunities. There will then be an open question and answer period – questions can be on any NSF or DBI topic. Join us remotely and bring your questions!

Register here.

May 21, 2024, 2 – 3 p.m.

June 18, 2024, 2 – 3 p.m.



The NSF Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI) program is hosting virtual office hours for early career faculty planning to submit proposals to the Faculty Early Career Development Program by the July 24, 2024, deadline. The ECI program is a core, unsolicited research program.

More information and a Zoom link can be found here.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is hosting a virtual grant writing webinar series: Debuting Your Research Career: How to Plan for and Write Your First (or Next) NIH Grant Application. This monthly webinar series is free and open to all to pre- and post-doctoral fellows, clinician-scientists, as well as early-stage and mid-career research investigators.

The series will provide information on the funding opportunities for early career researchers at NIAID, navigating the F, K, DP2 and R38/K38 awards, and understanding the peer review process.

Dates and Topics:

• May 23, 2024: Developing your candidate information section and research strategy for F and K awards
• June 20, 2024: Navigating NIH to prepare your grant application – DP2/R38/K38 awards
• July 18, 2024: Understanding the Peer Review process

Register here.

May 23, 2024, 6 – 7 p.m.

July 25, 2024, 6 – 7 p.m.

See additional dates and times on nsf.gov



Join this question-and-answer session to learn more about America’s Seed Fund powered by the National Science Foundation. A Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer program director will answer questions about how to get started, the basics of eligibility and what they look for when they review project pitches.

Register here.

The Cybersecurity Workforce Data Initiative (CWDI), mandated by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 and led by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), is assessing the feasibility of producing national estimates on the U.S. cybersecurity workforce. As part of this effort, CWDI is holding three virtual workshops in 2024. Through these workshops, the public has the opportunity to provide input that will shape a possible future federal data collection on the U.S. cybersecurity workforce. Taking place in May and June 2024, these workshops will address three broad themes:

• May 23, 2024, 12 - 2 p.m. - Understanding the Knowledge Gaps: What Do We Need to Learn about the Cybersecurity Workforce?
• June 11, 2024, 12 - 2 p.m. - Aligning the Supply and Demand of Cybersecurity Professionals

Registration is now open.

The Frontiers CTSA TL1 Postdoctoral Program is a prestigious training opportunity designed to cultivate a diverse and skilled cadre of postdoctoral translational researchers. Supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), the TL1 Program provides trainees with the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to drive innovative and impactful clinical and translational research. Through a combination of mentorship, education, and hands-on research experience, the program aims to foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation among its trainees, ultimately leading to improvements in health outcomes for individuals and communities.

Important Dates:

Applications Due: May 29, 2024, at 5 p.m.

Applicant Notification: June 17, 2024

Start Date: July 1, 2024

Program Benefits:

• Up to 2 Years of Training and Support

• Competitive Stipend and Research Project Expenses

• Childcare support

• Intensive Mentored Research Experience

• Formal Training in Clinical and Translational Research

• Tuition Remission for MS-Clinical Research Coursework.

• Additional Travel Support

Learn more and apply here.

A webinar will be held on May 29, 2024 from 11 - 1 p.m. to provide information to the community on the Hardware-Aware Artificial Intelligence for High Energy Physics lab call.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, under the High Energy Physics program, is issuing a $15M funding opportunity for Hardware-Aware Artificial Intelligence research to improve operations of experiments and facilities and enable the next generation of smart detectors.

The long-term goal is to develop AI techniques that benefit the unique hardware systems used across the High Energy Physics program. Investing in this area is a key step towards building more efficient experiments and facilities and moving intelligence onto detectors.

This announcement builds on HEP’s past investments in AI and Advanced Detector research as well as improved operations of experiments and facilities. Learn more about this opportunity and eligibility by visiting the HEP AI Initiative website.

May 30, 2024, 12 - 1 p.m.

The grant writing process can be daunting for early career scientists. In this webinar, we will have experts share their insights and experience on structuring the grant, the writing process, and building a compelling narrative. Questions from the audience as well as prepared questions will be addressed by the speakers. This zoom webinar is free and open to the public.

Register now!

For more information and to learn about future events, please visit the BES ECN events page.

Fulbright International Education Administrator awards allow U.S. citizens to travel on fully-funded seminars to learn about a country’s higher education system and gain new perspectives. In an interactive session, a panel of alums will share their experiences to help the audience pursue these unique professional development opportunities.

More information can be found on the Fulbright Program website.

The U.S. National Science Foundation will host the Spring 2024 NSF Grants Conference from June 3 – 5, 2024 in Philadelphia, PA. The conference is making an eagerly anticipated transition to a hybrid event.

Registration will open on Wednesday, March 6, at 11 a.m. for in-person and virtual participation. We anticipate in-person registration will sell out quickly, so be prepared to register as soon as possible.

More information can be found here.

Office Hours: Preparing your Phase I Proposal for America’s Seed Fund at NSF 

June 6, 2024, 1 - 2 p.m.

June 20, 2024, 1 - 2 p.m.

See additional dates and times on nsf.gov

Join this open-ended session to ask questions about what’s needed when creating a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) proposal. A SBIR/STTR program director will answer questions and point you to resources.

Register here.

June 6, 2024, 3 - 4 p.m.



Join NSF program directors from the Division of Research, Innovation, Synergies and Education in the Directorate for Geosciences regarding the new Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST) program in a virtual webinar to learn more about this new opportunity.

The FORECAST program seeks to facilitate transitions from status-quo graduate career preparation to student-centered models with an emphasis on building entrepreneurial and innovation capacity through intentional professional development activities. Focused on developing cohorts of innovative scholars from emerging research institutions and groups historically excluded in STEM, FORECAST should help develop STEM talent adept in community resilience and the translation of research outcomes for societal benefits.

Register here.

Representatives from NSF's Division of Enterprise Services will hold a technical webinar on system-related information to assist with CAREER proposal submission on Friday, June 7, 2024, from 1 - 2 p.m.

This webinar will include a review of the system-related requirements in the CAREER proposal submission timeline guidance, a demo of how to prepare a CAREER proposal in Research.gov, and a question and answer session. Submit question and answer session questions prior to the webinar to careerproposalprep@nsf.gov.  

Webinar registration link will be available in an advisory at the top of the Research.gov homepage on Monday, May 13. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details about joining the webinar.

June 7, 2024, 1 - 2 p.m.

Representatives from NSF's Division of Enterprise Services will hold a technical webinar on system-related information to assist with CAREER proposal submission. This webinar will include a review of the system-related requirements in the CAREER proposal submission timeline guidance.

We invite you to submit your scientific images to be displayed in a professional art exhibition and then auctioned to support STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) programs in our region.

Your submission will ignite curiosity, inspire creativity, and support educational initiatives that empower future generations in STEAM fields.

How the program works:

1. Submit high-resolution artwork by Friday, June 7.

2. Artwork is selected by professional curators

3. Selected applicants will be notified in early July.

4. Chosen artwork will be:

• Professionally printed and framed
• Featured online and in the 2024 Science2Art video
• Featured in Science2Art exhibit at Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, MO

5. Auctioned online at BioNexusKC.org and at Annual Event in Fall 2024.

For more information or to submit artwork, visit the BioNexus KC website.

June 11, 2024, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

July 9, 2024, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

See additional dates and times on nsf.gov

Please join this Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) Q&A webinar to learn about the PFI program. During the webinar, you will have the opportunity to ask questions about the PFI program and what to expect for the submission deadline.

The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the U.S. National Science Foundation has issued a Request for Information on Use Cases to Inform a Future National Secure Data Service (NSDS) via its America's DataHub Consortium (ADC). This RFI encourages response from a broad and diverse group of communities, including but not limited to individuals and organizations that conduct work in research, policy, program, and education. The goal is to gather current and anticipated research, policy, program, and education use cases for a National Secure Data Service, and to also identify current and anticipated challenges and barriers that could be addressed through the use of an NSDS.

Responses are due by June 14, 2024.

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Office Hour

June 19, 2024, 1 – 2 p.m.



Please join the Decision Risk Management Sciences office hour to discuss questions about the program with the program directors. 



To join, use the Decision Risk Management Sciences 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.
• If you need captions or other accommodations, please contact Claudia Gonzalez-Vallejo or Bob O'Connor in advance. 

For more information about the program, visit the Decision Risk Management Sciences program page.

NASA invites applications for the 5th annual course of the Spaceflight Technology, Applications, and Research (STAR) virtual training focused on the science and technology behind biological experiments in space. STAR is designed to encourage networking and collaborations in spaceflight technologies, applications, and research across all areas interested in space and biological sciences.

This course aims to facilitate the entry of researchers into space biology and preparation for spaceflight experiments using NASA and commercial platforms. The STAR course will cover both fundamental and applied aspects of the field of space biology, as well as practical aspects of preparing for, conducting, and analyzing the results of spaceflight experiments. See the STAR Program website for more information.

Responses must be submitted electronically using the NSPIRES web site before June 28, 2024. STAR-5 is open to all eligible individuals based on eligibility as outlined in Section III in the RFI.

Submitting a STAR application does not guarantee course acceptance. The course will take place virtually from September 2024 – February 2025 with sessions held weekly for two hours each.

STAR-5 questions will be accepted by email only and must be addressed to the STAR Management Team (Egle Cekanaviciute at NASA Ames and Ursula Koniges at NASA Headquarters) HQ-STAR-Management@mail.nasa.gov using a subject line that states “STAR-5 Application”.

The National Endowment for the Humanities will hold a Summer Stipends webinar on July 10 at 1 - 2 p.m. CT. This webinar will be important to attend if you are interested in applying to this program because NEH has made several substantial changes to the program including to eligibility, increasing the stipends from $6,000 to $8,000 and reducing the number of nominations an institution can make from two to only one. If you are unable to attend this webinar, NEH typically includes a YouTube video of its annual webinar on its Summer Stipends website.

Criminal justice researchers, practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and those interested in promoting safety, equity, and justice for all are encouraged to join us in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 16-18, 2024. 

During the three-day research conference, we will cover current and emerging challenges and present strategies for applying research findings into practice, including guidance on equitable and community-engaged research designs.

Plenaries include: 

• Ten Years of Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science 
• Violence Against Women Act 30-Year Anniversary 
• Advancing Justice for the Missing and Unidentified Through Research 

Let’s come together to advance justice through science. 

NIH to open long COVID clinical trials to study sleep disturbances, exercise intolerance, and post exertional malaise

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will launch clinical trials to investigate potential treatments for long-term symptoms after COVID-19 infection, including sleep disturbances, exercise intolerance and the worsening of symptoms following physical or mental exertion known as post-exertional malaise (PEM). The mid-stage trials, part of NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, will join six other RECOVER studies currently enrolling participants across the United States testing treatments to address viral persistence, neurological symptoms, including cognitive dysfunction (like brain fog) and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. NIH

AI Tool Using Single-Cell Data Has Promise for Optimally Matching Cancer Drugs to Patients

Precision oncology, in which doctors choose cancer treatment options based on the underlying molecular or genetic signature of individual tumors, has come a long way. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a growing number of tests that look for specific genetic changes that drive cancer growth to match patients to targeted treatments. The NCI-MATCH trial, supported by the National Cancer Institute, in which participants with advanced or rare cancer had their tumors sequenced in search of genetic changes that matched them to a treatment, has also suggested benefits for guiding treatment through genetic sequencing. But there remains a need to better predict treatment responses for people with cancer. NIH Director's Blog

Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail

Researchers have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in astonishing detail. The resulting cell atlas, which was described today in Science1 and is available online, reveals new patterns of connections between brain cells called neurons, as well as cells that wrap around themselves to form knots, and pairs of neurons that are almost mirror images of each other. nature.com

A new drug shows potential benefits in the recovery of patients after a heart attack

Researchers from the Cardiac Regeneration and Heart Failure Research Group (ICREC) at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and the Heart Institute of the Germans Trias Hospital (iCor) have found beneficial effects of the novel drug Sacubitril/Valsartan in the management of myocardial infarction (MI). EurekAlert!

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