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The Department of Agriculture’s Equipment Grant Program serves to increase access to shared-use special purpose equipment/instruments for fundamental and applied research for use in the food and agricultural sciences programs at institutions of higher education, including State Cooperative Extension Systems.
The Department of Defense, DARPA’s Broad Agency Announcement: Biological Technologies supports DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office mission to foster, demonstrate, and transition breakthrough research, discoveries, and applications that integrate biology, engineering, computer science, mathematics, and the physical sciences. Some areas of interest include: Materials and Sensors; Ecosystem and Environmental; Biosecurity, Biodefense, and Biosafety; and Biomedical and Biodefense.
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First, please welcome So Lee Park, D.V.M., Ph.D. to the Comparative Medicine Group, or CMG. Park will be joining CMG in June as a clinical veterinarian.
The CMG is committed to providing high-quality animal care to support animal use in research and teaching. Please visit the CMG website for the fee schedule for fiscal years 2023, 2024 and 2025. CMG is publishing rates for the upcoming three-year period to help researchers manage and incorporate these changes into their budget. The fiscal year 2023 rates will be effective July 1, 2022.
Investigators/administrators preparing budgets beyond fiscal year 2025 should factor in a five to seven percent increase per year for future years to cover anticipated increases due to inflation.
The CMG is committed to providing the highest quality laboratory animal facilities and services. Please contact me at abby99@k-state.edu if you have any questions.
-Abby Lear
Executive director of operations, Office of the Vice President for Research; acting director, CMG
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External events and announcements |
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USDA NIFA listening session |
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3-4 p.m.
Thursday, April 28
USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, or NIFA, invites the public to participate in an April 28 virtual listening session for the new Bioproduct Pilot Program, which seeks to study the benefits of using materials derived from covered agricultural commodities in construction and consumer products.
This new program, which is authorized under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, directs USDA to partner with no less than one qualified institution to support the scale-up of sustainable bioproduct manufacturing, with the goal of providing a low-cost alternative to conventional products.
Input received from this listening session, in addition to comments received via email at bioproductpilotprogram@usda.gov, will help shape the content for the program’s Request for Applications.
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Informational Webinar: NSF Convergence Accelerator 2022 Cohort Phases 1 & 2 for Tracks H, I, and J |
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Noon-2 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4
2-4 p.m.
Thursday, May 5
NSF’s Convergence Accelerator, aligned to the TIP directorate, is speeding research and discovery into practice by issuing a new funding opportunity focused on three new research track topics: Enhancing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, Sustainable Materials for Global Challenges, and Food & Nutrition Security.
In this 90 minute informational webinar, participants will learn about:
- The NSF Convergence Accelerator program, to include our phased approach and innovation processes used to accelerate basic research into practice.
- The funding opportunity to include the research track focuses, required Convergence Accelerator fundamentals, and important submission information.
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Building a Biotechnology Innovation Ecosystem for Adaptive and Sustainable Health |
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Tuesday, May 10-Wednesday, May 11
The National Science Foundation has engaged UIDP to develop and facilitate a workshop on this topic. The workshop is intended to identify partnership strategies to create a sustainable healthy human ecosystem and an integrated system-of-systems approach to solve physical, mental, and social health problems.
The workshop will be held on May 10-11, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. via a virtual conferencing platform. Please register to attend by May 2, 2022.
The goal of this workshop is to help understand and design what an adaptive and sustainable healthy human ecosystem would look like. Four key themes will be explored:
- Systems Analysis
- Managed Systems
- Natural Systems
- Human systems
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Engineering for Civil Infrastructure Webinar |
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1-3 p.m.
Tuesday, May 10
The ECI program is a core, unsolicited research program in the NSF Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation, in the NSF Directorate for Engineering.
During the webinar, Program Directors will discuss recent revisions in the program scope and new research thrusts within the ECI program.
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NSF Workshop for EHR CAREER Applicants |
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9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Tuesday, May 10
The Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.
EVENT: The workshop is intended to provide guidance and mentorship to prospective CAREER applicants to the NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources. It will serve as an opportunity for participants to gain a better understanding of the program, including eligibility requirements, the application process, and outcomes of past CAREER awardees, and for participants to interact with other applicants, former awardees, and NSF program officers.
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2022 NSF CAREER Foundation-Wide Program Briefing |
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1-3 p.m.
Tuesday, May 10
1-3 p.m.
Monday, May 16
The NSF-wide CAREER program supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.
Both webinars will include the same briefing on the CAREER program and key solicitation requirements followed by a question and answer session. Faculty who are interested need to attend only one. Prior to the webinar, submit questions to NSF CAREER Webinar Questions.
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Updated NSF Pre-Award and Post-Award Disclosures Table and Current and Pending Support FAQs |
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Any questions regarding these updates should be directed to the Policy Office at policy@nsf.gov.
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NSF Panelist Opportunity! Looking for Panelists for the Civic Innovation Challenge Competition |
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The National Science Foundation would like to know if you would be willing to be a panelist for NSF’s Civic Innovation Challenge, or CIVIC, competition.
CIVIC is designed to accelerate the transition, to practice, of foundational research and emerging technologies into communities through civic-engaged research. This year, CIVIC features a track that is GEO related.
- Track A: Living in a changing climate: pre-disaster action around adaptation, resilience and mitigation.
If interested in being considered for one of the CIVIC panels, please complete the form linked here no later than April 28. NSF is looking for panelists with broad expertise, as well as leaders in local government and community organizations, non-profit organizations, and the private sector.
Please note that if you are submitting a proposal to one of the tracks, you cannot volunteer to be a panelist.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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Across the United States, Extension Master Gardener (EMG) programs and other Extension efforts work to reduce food insecurity in their communities. Katie Dunker, state Master Gardener coordinator for Colorado State University Extension said that food insecurity and access to fresh produce is a concern among Colorado Masters Gardeners. NIFA
A scientific team supported by the National Institutes of Health has created a tiny, bioengineered 3-D model that mimics the biology of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and multifocal motor neuropathy, a pair of rare, devastating neuromuscular diseases. The researchers used the organ-on-a-chip, or “tissue chip,” model to show how a drug could potentially treat the diseases. They provided key preclinical data for a drug company to submit to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to get authorization for testing in a clinical trial. NIH
The concept: Show authentic, relatable images of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. The goal: Spotlight successful role models for young girls to open their eyes to possible careers in STEM fields. NSF
It’s hard to take stock of this, being still in the midst of Covid, but the US is in the grip of a ferocious epidemic—a panzootic, in technical terms—caused by highly pathogenic avian flu. So far, there has been no threat to human health, though bird flu strains have jumped species to sicken humans before. But the harm to farmers and the food supply is already profound; as of Friday, more than 27 million birds, including almost 5 percent of all egg-laying hens in the country, had died or been killed to slow down its spread. Wired
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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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