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- The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine NRC Research Associateship Programs promote excellence in scientific and technological research conducted by the U.S. government through the administration of programs offering graduate student, postdoctoral, and senior level research opportunities at sponsoring federal laboratories and affiliated institutions.
- The National Science Foundation Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers solicitation is a mechanism for increasing capacity across the engineering academic community to develop ideas, facilitate team formation, and foster stakeholder community networks for a future ERC submission.
- Read more of this week's featured opportunities
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From the desk of the VPR:
Advancing strategic corporate partnerships
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As has been highlighted in this publication previously, the university and our faculty, students, and staff have done a tremendous job of accelerating industry-related engagements in the last five years.
These efforts have generated truly remarkable results, including:
- A 117% increase in the last 5 years in corporate research awards received;
- A 200% increase in the last 5 years in the number of Master Research and Service agreements executed;
- Record corporate sponsored research awards received totaling $28.7 million in fiscal year 2018; and
- A record number of commercial agreements (105) procured through our technology transfer activities generating a near-record amount of licensing revenue of $3.2 million in fiscal year 2018.
As a complement to these efforts and as a next step on our path forward as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP)-designated university, on March 4 I had the privilege of presenting to the Dean’s Council a refined strategy and process for developing and strengthening strategic corporate partnerships.
The Strategic Partner Planning Process
outlined in that presentation provides for a
coordinated and collaborative engagement framework
that enables college leadership, faculty, staff, and other campus stakeholders, including representatives from PreAward Services, The KSU Foundation, the K-State Institute for Commercialization, and the Kansas State University Research Foundation, to identify and engage with corporate partners of potential strategic importance.
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- Research Weekly will be on hiatus next week during Spring Break.
- SciComm 2019 early registration prices are good until Friday, March 8. Abstracts for contributed talks are also due March 8. Register now!
- Join the Global Food Systems "It's All About Water" lecture Thursday, March 21 from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. in 137 Waters Hall. This month's speaker is Mary Knapp, state climatologist. Her topic will be monitoring rainfall. Find more information.
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NSF CAREER info session and panel
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The
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program is NSF's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars.
The Office of Research Development will offer an info session and panel about this award
March 27 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in Union 207.
Join us to hear:
- Submission requirements
- Review criteria
- Submission protocol and evaluation resources
- Tips from recent K-State CAREER awardees
Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a CAREER Writing Clinic that will start this spring and end in July when proposals are due.
Questions? Contact the Office of Research Development at 785-532-6195.
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Agency news and trending topics
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The University of California system is calling it quits with Elsevier, one of the biggest academic publishers in the world, after months of contract negotiations. The announcement that the 10-campus system would cancel its Elsevier subscriptions represents a win for open-access advocates. And it may signal to other academic libraries that pay millions of dollars in subscriptions to large journal publishers that a retreat from those costly mass subscriptions is workable.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recently sent letters to dozens of major U.S. research universities asking them to provide information about specific faculty members with NIH funding who are believed to have links to foreign governments that the Bethesda, Maryland–based institute did not know about. Universities are scrambling to respond to the unprecedented queries, which appear to be NIH’s response to demands from members of Congress and national security officials that federal agencies do a better job of monitoring any foreign interactions fostered by U.S. government funding. The goal is to prevent the theft of intellectual property and the transfer of technologies that could threaten U.S. security. But some academic administrators worry the exercise could cast a chill over all types of international scientific collaborations.
Instead of waiting for the tenure-track market to get better, humanists have finally started to deal with the "new normal"
in humanities hiring
— even if it’s not so new anymore. Professional development now feels like the conceptual center of the MLA’s annual conference. The latest meeting in Chicago focused on the academic workplace more than ever before, and the spotlight promises to widen.
Fifty years ago this week, a sizable fraction of the students and faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, abetted by their colleagues at Harvard University and other institutions in the Boston area, participated in an event that a number of us had been working very hard for months to organize. It was identified by the date of its occurrence, March 4, and, as part of the protest against the Vietnam War then engulfing the nation, was a day on which scientists stopped their research to examine their role in the war effort and the broader social context in which they were immersed. In commemoration, MIT Press has just issued a 50th anniversary edition of
March 4: Scientists, Students and Society
, which reprints all the speeches, by students and eminent scientists alike, that were at the core of the March 4 event.
The social and behavioral sciences (SBS) offer an essential contribution to the mission of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), a mission that requires an understanding of what human beings do, how, and why, says a new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report —
A Decadal Survey of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Research Agenda for Advancing Intelligence Analysis
— recommends that the IC make sustained collaboration with researchers in the social and behavioral sciences a key priority as it develops research objectives for the coming decade. The report provides guidance for the development of a 10-year research agenda and identifies key opportunities for SBS research to strengthen intelligence analysis.
For the first time, a commercially built and operated spacecraft designed to carry a human crew has docked at the International Space Station from U.S. soil. The Crew Dragon spacecraft launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 2:49 a.m. ET Saturday. … The launch, known as the "Demo-1 mission," brings the U.S. closer to restoring human spaceflight capabilities through NASA's Commercial Crew program. Under this $6.8 billion program, the Elon Musk-founded SpaceX and Boeing are building and testing the next generation of space taxis and cargo carriers to the ISS. Saturday's launch marks the first time a crew-capable spacecraft blasted off under this program in a mission aimed at demonstrating and testing its capabilities.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, today responded to ongoing criticism of how the agency handles sexual harassment by NIH-funded investigators by issuing an apology. In a
lengthy statement
from NIH leaders, replete with language unusually contrite and passionate for a federal agency, NIH says it “has been part of the problem” and vows to take new steps, but does not list any immediate policy changes. The agency also released data on actions it has recently taken against individuals found guilty of sexual harassment, which in 2018 included removing 14 principal investigators (PIs) from grants.
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