Doctoral candidate Adam Hedelund is researching how to improve support systems for international students as they navigate grief far from home.

Anyone at K-State can nominate a current faculty member for a Roots of Research award by completing the Qualtrics form.

Awardees will be honored at a spring semester ceremony, receive a plaque and have a tree planted on the Manhattan campus in their name. The names of selected faculty members will be announced in December, and trees will be planted during One K-State Research Week, April 26-30, 2027.

Nominations are due Nov. 1, 2026, by 11:59 p.m.

The University of Kansas Office of Research seeks nominations for the Higuchi-KU Endowment Research Achievement Awards. Late Distinguished Professor Takeru Higuchi and his wife, Aya, partnered with KU Endowment to create four awards that recognize individuals for their accomplishments in research, scholarship and creative activity.

Faculty from any Kansas Regents institution are eligible, and your assistance in identifying outstanding candidates is critical. Winners receive $10,000 in support of research activities.

Awards include:

The deadline to nominate a colleague is December 15.

Space Environment Technologies and Science Broad Agency
The Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Warfare Directorate (RJ), through its Space Environment Technologies and Science (SETS) Broad Agency Announcement-Call 004, seeks sources capable of supporting the program’s fundamental and advanced research in space and environmental impacts technologies. Additionally, the program is interested in understanding and quantifying the impact of the space environment on Department of Defense and National Security Systems and in achieving a capability to specify, predict, mitigate, and exploit the effects of the space environment that can disrupt or degrade operational systems.

Emerging Health Innovators Initiative
The Department of Health and Human Services, ARPA-H’s Emerging Health Innovators (EHI) Initiative aims to increase access to government research funding and to seed new ideas that address healthcare gaps in the United States. The program is designed for early-career biotech investigators and innovators to learn how to become the next wave of ARPA-H Program Managers and research performers. By backing emerging talent, EHI ensures the next big health breakthroughs don’t get stuck on the drawing board. 

New Prairie Press, Kansas State University Libraries' open access publishing program, is exploring the possibility of launching a new scholarly journal focused on short-form publications describing genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and annotation resources. We're currently looking for K-State faculty and researchers who might be interested in helping develop the journal and serving in editorial roles.

As sequencing and computational methods continue to advance, researchers are generating an enormous volume of biological data, but there are relatively few free publication venues dedicated to documenting and describing these resources. Short-form publications, often called Genome Notes or Genome Reports, provide a way to make these research outputs discoverable, citable, and reusable without requiring the extensive biological analysis expected of a traditional research article.

A recent article in Genome Biology and Evolution provides a useful overview of this publication model and the opportunities it presents for researchers, reviewers, and publishers.

Initial ideas for the proposed journal include:

At this stage, K-State Libraries is particularly interested in identifying faculty who might be willing to serve as founding editors or editorial board members and help shape the journal's scope, editorial policies, and publication standards. If this sounds interesting, or if you know a colleague who might be a good fit, please reach out to the New Prairie Press team at nppress@ksu.edu.

This is an exploratory effort, not a formal commitment to launch the journal. We'd like to gauge interest and identify potential editorial leadership before moving further into planning.

Join us for the GROW Saturday workshop on Nov. 14, where middle school students will explore creativity, innovation and bold thinking through this year’s theme, “Think Green, Build Smart: STEM for Sustainability.”

Want to share your research or get youth excited about your field? Consider hosting a hands-on activity at the workshop. Submit a facilitator application by Oct. 26.

Learn more about the workshop and how to get involved on the

GROW/EXCITE facilitation page.

The GROW Saturday Workshop, hosted by the K-State KAWSE Office, engages students in grades 6-8 through hands-on STEM activities led by K-State faculty, researchers, staff and students.

Researchers at Kansas State University can access a K-State Libraries service designed to strengthen the quality, rigor, and transparency of evidence synthesis research.

Evidence synthesis brings together findings from multiple studies to answer a research question or provide a comprehensive view of a topic. Methods such as systematic reviews and scoping reviews use structured, standardized approaches to minimize bias and improve the reliability of conclusions.

Through the service, research teams can partner with librarians trained in evidence synthesis methods and reporting standards. Librarians work collaboratively with researchers to develop comprehensive, transparent, and reproducible search strategies that help identify relevant studies and support high-quality reviews.

The service is available to researchers across disciplines and experience levels, from graduate students considering their first review to experienced teams. Researchers are encouraged to reach out early in the review planning process.

“I was adding new research methods and needed help,” said Mark Haub, professor in the School of Health Sciences. “I had not completed systematic reviews, but I knew Cindy Logan had helped other faculty and students. She did a fantastic job, and the work would not have been possible without her generous assistance. What took her a few meetings would have taken me a semester. Having her as a library resource saved time and improved quality.”

For more information or to request a consultation, visit the Evidence Synthesis Service webpage.

NSF webinars & office hours:

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Biohub signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance the frontier of Super Intelligence (SI) in biology, deepen our understanding of human health and disease, and accelerate breakthroughs in medicine and biotechnology.  

The partnership brings together the computational powerhouse and biological expertise of DOE’s National Laboratories, Biohub’s SI technologies and biomedical research infrastructure, and NIH’s extensive health data, imaging resources, and research enterprise to build an open biological data foundation for predictive models of living systems and accurately predict how cells respond to various interventions.  

The partnership delivers on Launching the Genesis Mission by leveraging SI-ready biological data, automated laboratory experiments, advanced modeling approaches, and state-of-the-art resources across DOE’s National Laboratory system, including: 

The full announcement can be found in the DOE newsletter.