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The National Science Foundation’s Critical Aspects of Sustainability program supports basic research through core disciplinary programs (Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Geology) aimed at improving the sustainability of resources for future generations while maintaining or improving current products in order to offer technologically-advanced, economically competitive, environmentally-benign and useful materials to a global society.
The National Science Foundation’s Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus program supports fundamental research at the intersection of mind, machine and motor. A distinguishing characteristic of the program is an integrated treatment of human intent, perception, and behavior in interaction with embodied and intelligent engineered systems and as mediated by motor manipulation.
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I am both excited and proud to share this latest issue of Seek magazine with you, highlighting just some of the research, scholarly work and creative activity at Kansas State University. K-State is a leading land-grant university, a public research university with rich history of exceptional teaching, research and service to Kansans and to Kansas. It is through our research and discovery that we make our greatest impact. We create new knowledge and new understanding. We change minds and we change the world. We facilitate learning, discovery and engagement through our research. And we help to shape a future that is more secure and more sustainable.
As always, we highlight research activity across the entire university in Seek magazine. However, in this issue you will also notice references to the different parts of our Economic Prosperity Plan: food and agriculture systems innovation, digital agriculture and advanced analytics, biosecurity and biodefense and K-State 105: Every Town to Gown, which seeks to connect our economic development work to all 105 counties in Kansas.
Please enjoy this beautiful new issue of Seek and thank you for your interest, your engagement and your support of research at K-State. We are proud to be Kansas’ land-grant university, a great public research university, an engine of discovery and economic development and a point of pride for Kansans.
— D. Rosowsky, vice president for research
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Faculty start-up guidelines, Office of the Vice President for Research |
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Start-up packages for new faculty members that involve participation by the Office of the Vice President for Research, or OVPR, are negotiated with college deans and the OVPR. Policies established by the OVPR for such start-ups are described below.
- The OVPR will review start-up requests from deans as received. The OVPR would prefer to receive preliminary requests from colleges once they have identified which positions will be filled in each year. Final requests, following negotiation with selected candidates, should be submitted to the OVPR when available.
- There is no automatic OVPR obligation of investment in new faculty hires. Each request will be thoughtfully considered with respect to the candidate’s potential for contributions to research and scholarly work and potential to achieve extramural funding.
- A maximum of 20% of the total startup amount will be invested by the OVPR in a start-up package.
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Start-up will be split across three years and the OVPR share of start-up must be spent within the three years.
- An additional year for untenured faculty to spend their start-up will be considered only under exceptional circumstances and must be formally requested through the OVPR. Faculty members who were awarded start-up covering the two COVID years of FY 2020 or FY 2021 may request the extension on this basis. It is not granted automatically.
- Start-up commitments will be transferred at the end of the fiscal year, based on actual amount spent. Please provide the expenditure information on the Recruiting/Commitment Form and complete the second tab explaining contributions to RSCAD.
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Commitments for hires that are not made in the current year will not automatically transfer to the next fiscal year. Request for funding a specific position that was not filled must be made again.
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In this podcast, Jeongdae Im, Jeffrey and Joy Lessman keystone research scholar and assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering discusses destructive greenhouse gases in the food system. From hay bales to landfills, plastics to wastewater, the intersection of engineering and microbiological science has allowed Im to tackle multiple challenges in studying ways to mitigate the negative effects of those greenhouse gases.
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External events and announcements |
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Mechanisms of Disease Research and Recruitment Conference |
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Apply to attend | Submit an abstract | Apply for a travel award
Innovation Festival is taking a novel approach to placing early career scientists in bioscience industry jobs and academic research programs, including full-time jobs; internships; post-baccalaureate, summer, graduate, and postdoctoral training programs; and more! Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind scientific conference experience.
Industry companies and academic institutions will be in attendance to recruit attendees into highly sought-after positions. Experience one-on-one conversations with industry and academic leaders interested in helping you reach your goals. Participate in small group dinners and other unique experiences to build your network and identify new possibilities. Open the door to this unique experience and a wealth of opportunities by applying today!
This application form needs to be completed by anyone looking to attend or present.
Innovation Festival’s Mechanisms of Disease Research and Recruitment Conference invites abstract submissions from graduate students and postdocs, as well as undergraduate students with laboratory research experience. Space is extremely limited. Delegates wishing to submit an abstract to be considered for an oral or poster presentation at the Mechanisms of Disease Research and Recruitment Conference must complete this form. Payment is not required to submit an abstract and due to a generous donation from K-INBRE and SHARPhub, there will be no registration costs for postdocs, undergraduate students, and graduate students!
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Call for Comments: Preliminary Observations on Collaboration in the Land-grant System |
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You are invited to comment on the topic of “Collaboration in the Land-grant System.” USDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to appoint a Blue Ribbon Panel to examine how collaboration among Land-grant Institutions can be more impactful in addressing the nation’s needs for a successful, sustainable food and agricultural system, and to recommend ways those institutions can better capture and share the collective outcomes of their collaborations. The panel has posted online 17 preliminary observations about the current state of collaboration, and is seeking feedback from stakeholders that it will use to inform the planning of a virtual workshop, and ultimately, a consensus report to USDA and Congress. You can find a link to the reference document containing the preliminary observations in the online comment form, which also contains a link to the project website with more information about the panel and a place to subscribe to project updates. Please send comments by Friday, May 6.
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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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Building Research Capacity of New Faculty in Biology |
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2-3 p.m.
Tuesday, May 10
BRC-BIO is a new NSF program intended to enhance research capacity and broaden participation among new faculty of biology at minority-serving institutions, predominantly undergraduate institutions, and other universities and colleges that are not among the nation’s most research-intensive and resourced institutions.
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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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2-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 11
The goal of the RED program is to catalyze revolutionary changes to the education of the next generation of engineers while expanding the reach of those changes that have proved efficacious in particular contexts.
During the webinar, program directors will describe and answer questions about the RED program's three tracks:
- RED Innovation
- RED Adaptation and Implementation
- RED Two-Year
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Spring 2022 NSF Grants Conference |
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Save the Date! Join the National Science Foundation, or NSF, for the Spring 2022 NSF Virtual Grants Conference, to be held during the week of June 6 - 10, 2022.
Registration will be free of charge and opens on Wednesday, May 11 at 11 a.m. It is anticipated that the sessions will reach capacity very quickly, so early registration is encouraged.
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K-State research in the news |
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Agency news and trending topics |
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The NIH could find itself wading into the drug pricing debate as it houses a new biomedical accelerator, despite its longstanding policy not to get involved in the cost of new therapies…. No federal agency has ever exercised its march-in rights, and the NIH has denied all march-in petitions. The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, will sit within the National Institutes of Health under a plan to get the new entity off the ground. That setup means NIH dollars will have a more direct hand in publicly-funded technologies that come to market—raising questions over whether the NIH should intervene in high prices. Bloomberg Law
National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently launched an equity action plan with steps to offer more resources and opportunities to faculty members and students at minority-serving institutions. … As a part of the new plan, the agency will conduct an analysis of the hurdles researchers at minority-serving institutions face in securing NASA grants and cooperation agreements. NASA is also in the process of transitioning to a dual anonymous peer-review system for grant proposals, where names of reviewers and proposers are kept anonymous to reduce implicit bias. Inside Higher Ed
The 21st Century Cures Act called for NIH to collaborate with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration to reduce administrative burdens associated with laboratory animal research programs, while maintaining high standards of animal welfare as well as the integrity and credibility of the research. We jointly released a final report in 2019 outlining steps to accomplish this goal, and have since worked together to implement many of the recommendations. We wanted to take this opportunity today to share some of NIH’s progress and how you can remain involved. NIH
China’s powerful State Council is calling on research institutions to expand and improve their ethics training. …Researchers have mostly welcomed the statement, which was released with the central committee of the Chinese Communist Party last month. They say it sends the strongest warning yet to scientists who might consider carrying out research that violates ethical norms, such as genome editing of human embryos. But some have also questioned how effective the document will be at preventing such practices. Nature
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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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