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- The Department of Agriculture, North Central Region Graduate Student Grant Program supports projects by graduate students that address sustainable agriculture issues.
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Women and Patenting Participation: USPTO report analysis
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The report notes that women’s participation in U.S. patent activity has tripled since the 1980s.
Even with this increase in participation, only 21% of 2016 U.S. patents included at least one female inventor. However, the number is significantly lower when considering patents where the only inventor is female, or where a group of all women are named. According to the report, “In the last decade, all-female invented patents constituted only about 4% of issued patents." The USPTO report represents a first step by quantifying the size of the challenge.
On the brighter side, K-State and the Kansas State University Research Foundation are committed to changing these statistics. To bring about this change, KSURF set a FY2019 goal to have women make up at least 50% of first time participants in the invention disclosure process. I am pleased to say that we are exceeding this goal with 22 new women inventors (out of 40 first time inventors) so far this year.
Our team continues to work to make participating in the K-State technology transfer process easy.
We are willing to talk with student groups or formal/informal groups of women faculty about the tech transfer process. Please reach out to us or check out our
website
, which provides information about the disclosure and commercialization process and makes it easy to submit your next innovation.
Questions? Please reach out to KSURF with questions about new innovations, sponsored research, and industry interest in your discoveries.
Visit our website
or contact us at 785-532-5720 or
tech.transfer@k-state.edu
to learn more about our services.
— Chris Brandt, president and CEO, Kansas State University Research Foundation
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- The NSF EPSCoR Regional Outreach: All About Research Center Programs meeting will be held on April 2 in Mobile, Alabama. This event will be attended by up to five NSF Center Program Officers and two to three Center Directors who will provide extensive information about the various Centers sponsored by the NSF. Learn more here.
- The food, nutrition, dietetics and health department in the College of Human Ecology will host "Food Science and Nutrition Funding at the USDA-NIFA," a presentation by Deirdra Chester, Jodi Williams and Melvin Carter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This presentation will be held at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in 164 Justin Hall. Faculty and students are welcome to attend. Learn more here.
- Join the last KSCI Workshop of the semester, "It's Not You, It's Me," at noon on Thursday, April 11 in 121 Eisenhower Hall. Community partners are essential to successful public engagement. This workshop will introduce tools and strategies that researchers can use to engage partners for impact (so they don’t have to break up). Find more information.
- The University of Arkansas and UIDP are hosting an NSF-supported workshop in Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 21-13. The workshop brings together thought-leaders from academic, corporate, government and non-profit sectors to discuss and consider practical and effective strategies that can be used to propel university-industry partnerships and advance local innovation ecosystems. Read more and register.
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Registration for NPA Conference Closes Soon
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The
17th NPA Annual Conference
will be held at the Rosen Centre Hotel
in Orlando, Florida, April 12-14.
The NPA has confirmed Bahija Jallal, Ph.D., as keynote speaker at the 2019 Annual Conference. Angela Byars-Winston, Ph.D., and Joshua N. Weiss, Ph.D., have also been confirmed as plenary speakers.
Register
by March 29 to attend
the largest national conference and networking event dedicated to the postdoctoral community.
Now approaching its 17th year, the Annual Conference remains
the largest national conference and networking event dedicated to the postdoctoral community.
The event continues to grow, and NPA anticipates 500 attendees this year. Conference attendees include postdoctoral scholars, administrators, and faculty, along with representatives from disciplinary societies, industry, and corporations.
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Agency news and trending topics
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Scientists rise up against statistical significance
When was the last time you heard a seminar speaker claim there was ‘no difference’ between two groups because the difference was ‘statistically non-significant’? If your experience matches ours, there’s a good chance that this happened at the last talk you attended. We hope that at least someone in the audience was perplexed if, as frequently happens, a plot or table showed that there actually was a difference. How do statistics so often lead scientists to deny differences that those not educated in statistics can plainly see? For several generations, researchers have been warned that a statistically non-significant result does not ‘prove’ the null hypothesis (the hypothesis that there is no difference between groups or no effect of a treatment on some measured outcome).
There’s an “urgent need” to create a transparent global registry that would list all experiments related to human genome editing, an expert committee convened to advise the World Health Organization (WHO) said today. The international committee of 18 researchers and bioethicists, which met in Geneva, Switzerland, over the past 2 days, also agreed with the widespread consensus that it would be “irresponsible at this time for anyone to proceed with clinical applications of human germline genome editing.”
The importance of strong, sustainable annual funding for the National Institutes of Health is known to states with major biomedical R&D hubs like California, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas. In these states there is a clear link between the NIH-funded research that occurs there and the state’s economy and job creation. But what about states where such a link might be less apparent? What is the impact in states that tend to be more rural than urban and that aren’t among the top recipients of NIH research funding?
People around the world are becoming increasingly skeptical of science, says a new report analyzing global attitudes on the subject. According to 3M’s
2019 State of Science Index
, which includes responses from 14,000 people in 14 countries, 35% of respondents say they’re skeptical of science, an uptick of 3% since last year. Just over a quarter of the world say they’re suspicious of the role of science over the next 20 years—in the U.S., this number grows to one third. This could be linked to the fact that 45% said they only believe in science that aligns with their personal beliefs, likely causing unconscious skepticism, says the report.
Duke University will pay $112.5 million to settle a lawsuit over its alleged submission of falsified data to obtain $200 million in federal research grants.The lawsuit, filed by a former lab analyst, Joseph Thomas, alleged that from 2006 to 2013 a research technician, Erin Potts-Kant, fabricated data that Duke used to get research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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