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NSF's S&CC and CIVIC programs - seeking reviewers | |
KU Center for Genomics — 2nd Annual Research Symposium | |
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The KU Center for Genomics invites you to the 2nd Annual Research Symposium. The meeting will be held in person on Friday, May 19, at Maceli's Banquet Hall in Lawrence. The symposium aims to highlight genetics and genomics work by researchers at regional institutions in diverse fields from evolutionary biology to anthropology to engineering. They will have an exciting keynote talk from UCSF Postdoctoral Scholar, Colin Brand on his work examining molecular phenotypes using machine learning.
Everyone is invited, especially postdocs, graduate students, research staff and undergraduate students, to apply to present their work via poster or oral presentation. Abstracts are due March 15 for oral presentations. Registration is open until April 15, 2023. The event is free for anyone to present or attend, and registration is required.
Read additional information about the symposium including registration information.
Please contact kucg@ku.edu with any questions.
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Apply to Present at the Innovation Festival | |
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Applications are being accepted from companies and individuals interested in presenting about company or academic efforts and research in the following topic areas:
- Deep Tech: Biology, Engineering, Agriculture, Space, Energy, Digital, and more!
- Tech Cluster Development Efforts
- Start-up Pitches
- Investor Talks
- Talent Recruitment Talks
- Research or Project Talks: Genetic Mechanisms, Engineering Advancements, Nutrition & The Microbiome, Digital Health, Drugs & Pharmacology, Development & Disease, Data Science, and Computational Biology
Oral and poster presentations are available. Add your insight and expertise to the Innovation Festival lineup. Apply to present, TODAY!
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BioKansas Early Career Webinar Series | |
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Build your professional knowledge and advance your skills with the BioKansas spring webinar series. This series contains lessons essential to your success.
Building Professional Skills for Diverse Career Paths - March 14
Join this session to familiarize yourself with data on the value of professional skills for bioscience careers and career satisfaction; discuss ways to strengthen professional skills; and learn strategies to demonstrate professional skills in resumes, cover letters, and interviews.
Writing an Effective Resume - April 11
Join this session to: understand the key differences between a resume and Curriculum vitae, learn how to structure a resume, receive tips on formatting, explore ways to effectively highlight your experiences, and discover how to tailor a resume for each role.
These courses are appropriate for early career scientists from undergraduate through postdoctoral level.
Students and postdocs from BioKansas member institutions are invited to attend the series for FREE on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact BioKansas for a discount code.
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2-3 p.m.
Wednesdays through April 26
Heard about the new Growing Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity, or GRANTED, and you want to learn more? Thinking about applying to our most recent Dear Colleague Letter? Then NSF invites you to GRANTED office hours, held every Wednesday from 2-3 p.m. to meet with the GRANTED team of Program Directors.
- 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.
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If you need captions or other accommodations, please contact Dina Stroud in advance.
Learn more.
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NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments Office Hours | |
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1-2 p.m.
Thursday, March 2
2-3 p.m.
Wednesday, March 15
NSF Program Directors will be available at virtual office hours to answer your questions about NSF's Revolutionizing Engineering Departments, or IUSE/PFE: RED, program solicitation 23-553. The RED program supports radical changes to the training of undergraduate engineering students to help them establish identities as professional engineers with the technical and professional skills needed to solve the complex problems facing society.
RED solicitation 23-553 is limited to the RED Two-Year track. RED Two-Year projects will develop radically new approaches among multiple two-year institutions to expand the path to engineering and engineering technology four-year programs from two-year institutions with programs such as pre-engineering, engineering and engineering technology.
At RED office hours, come prepared with your questions or simply join in to listen. Responses will be provided to questions typed into the Zoom chat window or you may use your microphone to ask a question. Office hours will not be recorded.
Learn more and register to attend.
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NSF Innovation Corps Teams Q&A Webinar | |
Spring 2023: Global Centers Office Hours | |
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2:30-3:30 p.m., March 7
2-3 p.m., March 13
1-2 p.m., March 17
2-3 p.m., March 20
2:30-3:30 p.m., March 21
The Global Centers Program Team is hosting a series of Virtual Office Hours aimed at giving potential PIs an opportunity to ask questions. The series of sessions will start on March 7 and end on May 2, during which any questions about the program can be asked and discussed. Two of the sessions will have a special focus: Monday, March 13, focus on non-R1 institutions and Monday, March 20, focus on minority-serving institutions.
There are no restrictions on attending multiple sessions, so please feel free to attend the session which best fits your schedule. The zoom link will be the same for all sessions.
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Frontiers Research Symposium | |
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Thursday, March 9
Frontiers is hosting a Research Symposium on March 9 with the theme "Communicating Research to Communities." The event will begin at 11 a.m. and include a poster session and reception from 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
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NSF Virtual Office Hour featuring the new Safe and Inclusive Work Environments Plan Requirement | |
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2-4 p.m.
Monday, March 20
Several solicitations from the Directorates for Biological Sciences and Geological Sciences will soon require the submission of a Safe and Inclusive Work Environments Plan that will be considered as part of the Broader Impacts criteria during the review process.
An upcoming Virtual Office Hour will occur on March 20 from 2-3 p.m. Program Officers from BIO and GEO will provide an overview of the new requirement and take your questions and comments.
If you are planning a submission that will involve off-campus or off-site research, defined as data/information/samples being collected off-campus or off-site including via fieldwork and research activities on vessels and aircraft, you are encouraged to join this webinar.
Register to attend.
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Office Hours: Preparing your Phase I Proposal for America’s Seed Fund at NSF | |
K-State research in the news | |
Agency news and trending topics | |
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Politicians and some government agencies continue to contend the Covid-19 pandemic started as a leak from the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, even as scientists and public health officials say the evidence points to it naturally emerging from animals at a food market in China. Forbes
An asteroid in the laboratory
Small asteroids are leftover material from the formation of the Solar System, so samples of them could provide information on processes that occurred during that early period. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected about 5 grams of material from the nearby asteroid (162173) Ryugu and brought it to Earth, where scientists have access to more techniques and can collect data with far greater sensitivity than is possible with spacecraft instruments. Science
Data hint at Russia’s shifting science collaborations after year of war
Nature analysed co-authorship patterns on papers in the Scopus database. The results suggest that, in 2022, an increased share of Russia’s internationally collaborative papers had co-authors from China and India, whereas the proportion co-written with US or German authors fell. Ukraine, meanwhile, has sharply reduced its scholarly ties with Russia, and seems to have increased research connections with Poland. Science
As scientists explore AI-written text, journals hammer out policies
“It’s all we’ve been talking about since November,” says Patrick Franzen, publishing director for SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He’s referring to ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot unveiled that month. In response to a prompt, ChatGPT can spin out fluent and seemingly well-informed reports, essays—and scientific manuscripts. Worried about the ethics and accuracy of such content, Franzen and managers at other journals are scrambling to protect the scholarly literature from a potential flood of manuscripts written in whole or part by computer programs. Science
MagLab makes magic with magnets
That magnet on your refrigerator? Let's supersize it. Imagine it's 1 million times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field and as heavy as a small herd of elephants. Imagine it's powerful enough to image not just the organs but the individual cells in your body. NSF
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