May 20, 2026

Please join the Open Publishing Exchange at Hale Library on May 29 from 11-3 p.m. for a workshop detailing data curation.  This workshop introduces practical approaches to agricultural research data curation, documentation, and sharing, with an emphasis on increasing the scholarly value and reuse potential of research outputs.

Participants will learn how to organize and describe data for publication, prepare datasets for repository deposit, connect data with related articles and research products, and apply FAIR-informed practices that support reproducibility, discoverability, and long-term impact, especially in light of AI.

The workshop is designed for researchers, students, librarians, and research support staff who want to get the most out of their data across the research and publishing lifecycle. Lunch will be provided, as this workshop was generously funded from ID3A.

Registration is limited to 20 seats. 

One of Wildcat Scholar's core components, Symplectic Elements, is now live. The system brings all next-gen land-grant work happening across campus into a connected, organized system ready for sharing.

While Dimensions focuses on global research, Symplectic Elements provides a single home for K-State-specific scholarship, enabling faculty and staff to share their work and impact with ease. Centralizing all land-grant work at K-State into a single, interconnected platform for sharing and reporting, Symplectic Elements will serve as the backbone of Wildcat Scholar.

Wildcat Scholar training sessions are available throughout the month of May via Zoom. Join a session or learn more.

View the full Symplectic Elements announcement in K-State Today.

Joyce Baptist, faculty member in Couple and Family Therapy, is looking for participants (18 to 65 years old) for a clinical study aimed at improving treatments for major depression. Volunteers will be randomized into one of two treatment groups, where they will receive 16 sessions of either Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

For more information or to volunteer, please contact Tanvi at tgadgil@ksu.edu. IRB approval # 11206.

Thank you for being part of the inaugural One K-State Research Week. We invite you to complete a brief survey to share your feedback and help shape future events. Your input is valuable and will guide improvements moving forward. The survey takes less than five minutes to complete.

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The 2027-2028 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition launched on March 31! The Program offers over 1,800 awards to approximately 140 countries each year, allowing award recipients to conduct independent research, graduate study, or an English Teaching Assistantship in a host country of their choosing. U.S. citizens who hold will hold a bachelor’s degree by the award start date, and who will not have a PhD conferred by the application deadline, are eligible to apply. The application will close on October 6, 2026, at 4 p.m. Applicants may visit the website for more information on webinars, eligibility requirements, application components, country award details, and more.  

K-State’s Office of Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research’s (SDUR) staff, Beth Powers and Kyle Padden, will work with students over the summer to meet the internal campus deadline of August 15. Individuals can learn more about the Student Fulbright program and K-State's process here. Beth and Kyle welcome questions from interested students, faculty or staff at sdur@ksu.edu.

NSF webinars & office hours:

Unlock new possibilities in biopreservation. What if we could reliably store organs and other complex tissues far beyond a few hours or days? Join us on May 20 for an informational webinar on ARPA-H's new Technology InteGrator and AcceleratoR (TIGAR) Exploratory Topic.

The TIGAR Exploratory Topic (ET) is an ARPA-H initiative to accelerate research and overcome the current barriers to preserving complex human tissues. TIGAR aims to rapidly evaluate early-stage, high-risk preservation technologies and explore what is possible to stabilize tissues across different temperature ranges, store them for longer periods, and rapidly restore them to a functional state after storage. 

Thursday, May 28

The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP) invites you to attend the first of four introductory webinars on the recently released NSF X-Labs initiative. This first webinar will focus on the topic: Scientific Instrumentation for Sensing and Imaging.

NSF X-Labs represent a bold, flexible, and outcomes-driven initiative designed to build and accelerate novel platform technologies capable of unlocking entirely new sectors, including new fields of scientific inquiry. The program will support full-time research and development (R&D) teams focused on use-inspired scientific breakthroughs and foundational platform technologies that traditional university and industry labs cannot easily address. NSF X-Labs teams will benefit from ambitious R&D goals, operational autonomy, milestone-based funding, and the ability to engage across academia, industry, national laboratories, and nonprofit sectors. NSF X-Labs will bet on ambitious, full-time teams working with urgency and purpose, and provide them with the structure, resources, and flexibility necessary to cultivate early-stage platform technologies that will accelerate breakthroughs and unlock entirely new sectors of the economy. 

Register here.