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The FACE Foundation’s Thomas Jefferson Fund issues a Yearly Call for proposals and fund projects led by two outstanding young American and French researchers at the beginning of their careers. Disciplines funded include, humanities and social sciences; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and sciences for society.
The National Science Foundation’s Understanding the Rules of Life: Emergent Networks solicitation is a cross-directorate program that aims to develop a predictive understanding of how key properties of living systems emerge from interactions of factors such as genomes, phenotypes, and environments and how emerging networks of organismal, natural, social, and/or human-engineered systems respond to or influence evolving environments.
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The first week of December featured two exciting announcements for Kansas State University. The first, of course, was the announcement by the Kansas Board of Regents of the appointment of Dr. Richard Linton as K-State’s 15th president. This was followed the next day by the launch of K-State’s Plan for Economic Prosperity in Kansas, a plan developed over the last year in response to a request made by the Kansas Board of Regents. I encourage you to read the plan, see yourself and your work in these commitments, and join us in leveraging our land-grant mission and our amazing capabilities to realize the plan’s bold goals. My thanks to the many people that helped to vision, shape, and bring this bold plan to its final form. I look forward to working with our new president and all of you to put this plan into action and realize its ambitious goals for people, families, businesses and communities in Kansas. K-State’s Economic Prosperity Plan is our land-grant commitment — to Kansans and to the nation – for the 21st century.
I couldn’t be more excited to welcome Dr. Linton as our president in February. He brings a wealth of land-grant experience and a passion for research and innovation with him. He also brings considerable experience in building and sustaining university-industry partnerships. He joins K-State at an exciting time for our university and community.
We also recently published the fall 2021 edition of K-State’s award-winning Seek magazine, which helps us tell the story of the breadth, depth, impact and value of our research and scholarly work. This helps to engender interest and support for our work as a leading public research university and Kansas’ land-grant university. Congratulations to all of those featured in this latest issue. We look forward to featuring more of our amazing research, researchers and research groups in the years ahead.
Finally, I wanted to share the “We Will” statements created for the OVPR, reaffirming our commitment to serving, enabling, and driving K-State’s research mission.
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We will seek efficiencies, lower barriers to success, and remove burdens on investigators.
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We will provide concierge-level service that enables faculty and researcher success.
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We will be national leaders within our specialties in research administration.
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We will communicate the value of K-State research to internal and external constituents.
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We will be an exemplar office on campus for efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and professionalism.
Achieving ambitious goals requires both shared commitment and individual excellence. I am fortunate to work with an exceptional team in the OVPR who helped to articulate and who have embraced these statements. I also am grateful to all who are engaged in research and economic development at K-State — as investigators, research staff, partners and contributors, research administrators, communicators, corporate engagement specialists and fundraisers — and I look forward to welcoming more of you into this exciting space in the months and years ahead.
With my personal best wishes for a good end of the semester and a wonderful holiday season.
-D. Rosowsky
Vice President for Research
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New/Early Career Faculty Research Development Program |
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K-State’s Office of Research Development, in collaboration with the Associate Deans for Research, continues our new/early career faculty research development program. This year the program includes an in-person boot camp initial session to develop new researchers’ understanding of the funding process and proposal writing skills, leading to virtual visits with federal funding agency program managers. We will arrange some group sessions with several funding agencies/subunits of agencies based on research interests.
Because of the added value of meeting other early career researchers from across the campus, this effort is a cohort-based process that will result in better understanding the breadth of research across the university, providing shared experiences, identifying potential collaborators and supporting you in finding potential funding opportunities.
Faculty interested in participating in the faculty development program should complete the following form and return it to their associate dean for research by December 17, 2021. The program kicks off with a boot camp from 1-5 PM. on January 13, 2022. Participants should bring a laptop to the boot camp. Dates for follow-on activities will be announced at a later time.
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ISSIP-NSF Workshop Series | An Industry Perspective on STEM Education for the Future |
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11 a.m.-2 p.m
Dec. 8 and Dec. 15
The urgent need for upskilling is linked to STEM job growth in the supply chain economy, powered by digital transformation and data-driven, science-based service innovations. How can industry and academia learn to co-invest better in upskilling? This online learning series from the International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, or ISSIP, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, explores the challenges and opportunities. Each of the 3-hour workshop events is offered at no-cost, but slots are limited and registration is required. Click on the links below for more information and to register.
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Advancing Careers Through Industry Immersion |
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Ph.D and master’s students in STEM degree programs and Postdocs are invited to apply for the BioKansas Industry Immersion Program. Take part in an immersive seven-module training experience to gain valuable knowledge of the industrial bioscience landscape; from the discovery of an idea, navigating the legal and regulatory process, all the way through moving a product into the marketplace or clinic. Lessons are taught within regional companies and feature executives and staff that provide participants with a deeper understanding of basic business concepts, strategies for thinking entrepreneurially, the economic framework that drives the private sector, and more.
Participate in the program to:
- Gain a deeper understanding of basic business concepts
- Learn tips for thinking entrepreneurially
- Understand the economic framework that drives the private sector
- Build a broad understanding of the state's bioscience industry
- Experience different working environments through company site visits
- Interact with bioscience executives and employees
Deadline to Apply: December 16
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1- 2 p.m.
December 16
Please join IARPC for a launch webinar introducing the new plan on December 16 from 1- 2 p.m.
Speakers will include Larry Hinzman, Nikoosh Carlo, Max Showalter, and Roberto Delgado. Presenters will share successes from the previous Arctic Research Plan (2017-2021), provide an overview of the new plan, and discuss how the research community and Arctic residents can engage in the new plan’s implementation. There will be ample time for questions and discussion.
This webinar will be recorded and posted on the IARPC Collaborations website and YouTube channel. Preregistration is not required.
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3-4 p.m.
January 5, 2022
The MPS-Ascend External Mentoring program aims to fund an institution — or collaboration of institutions — to provide a mentored career development program specifically designed for two cohorts of MPS-Ascend Fellows funded through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship programs.
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NIH Issues Request for Information on Proposed Updates and Long-Term Considerations for the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy |
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On November 30, 2021, NIH published a Request for Information on potential updates to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy to keep pace with evolving scientific opportunities and stakeholder expectations. Comments will be accepted through February 28, 2022. NIH will use the responses to the RFI to consider options to update the GDS Policy and to harmonize with the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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The global supply chain is key to keeping society humming, making sure that manufacturers have what they need to get products like medicines, computer chips or Christmas toys to market. With the COVID-19 pandemic now affecting supply chains across the world, the research that helps us understand how these networks function is even more critical. nsf.gov
The National Institutes of Health is offering up to $1 million in cash prizes for innovative diagnostic technologies to help improve maternal health around the world in conjunction with the White House “day of action” on maternal health. The NIH Technology Accelerator Challenge (NTAC) for Maternal Health will seek to spur and reward the development of prototypes for low-cost, point-of-care molecular, cellular, and/or metabolic sensing and diagnostic technologies. The prize competition is managed by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and with support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health. nih.gov
Scientists are scouring patchy evidence from around the world to better understand Omicron, the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, and what it might mean for the next phase of the pandemic. Three weeks after Omicron was discovered, there are still mostly questions, but a few hints have emerged—some worrisome, others more encouraging. science.org
When Miguel Ángel del Pozo got the email, he didn’t feel great about it. As the head of a lab at Madrid’s Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, del Pozo had been lead author on a 2011 article in the journal Cell about how a molecule called caveolin-1 changes the microenvironment around cancer cells. Yet here it was, four years after the actual research, and the Reproducibility Project was calling. wired.com
A volcano revealed, a lung x-rayed, a rocket launched: National Geographic editors selected these 23 fascinating images of science and technology in action. nationalgeographic.com
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