NEH Regional Application-Writing Workshop
Hosted by Kansas State University
More information: www.k-state.edu/orsp (click “Events”) or email orsp@k-state.edu
Agenda
Wednesday, March 9; Hale Library Hemisphere Room
8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m. Registration, informal meet-and-greet
9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
Welcome and introductions by Peter Dorhout, Interim Vice President for Research
9:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Overview of NEH programs and special initiatives
10:30 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
Question and comment period
10:45 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Mock panel session/strategies for application-writing
12:15 p.m.–12:30 p.m.
Questions and comment period
12:30 p.m.
Closing remarks by Beth Montelone, Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts & Sciences
Private appointments will be scheduled from 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. March 9 and from 8:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. March 10. (Rooms to
be announced.) Please arrive 10 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment. Appointments last 20 minutes.
Dr. Russell Wyland
Russell Wyland, Deputy Director of Research Programs, received his PhD from the Catholic
University of America in Washington D.C. in English literature, concentrating on 19th-century British
nonfiction and the history of rhetoric. Russ is currently completing a book on the relationship
between the established English universities and the emerging periodical press in the early 19th
century; his publications include contributions to The Victorian Periodicals Review, Romanticism and
Victorianism on the Net, and Rhetorica. He has been awarded research grants from the American
Philosophical Society and is the recipient of the 2000 VanArsdel Prize given by the Research Society
for Victorian Periodicals. Visit www.neh.gov.
About Kansas State University
Kansas State University is the nation’s first operational land-grant university, established in 1863. We’ve held firmly to the
land-grant philosophy of serving our world through discovery and innovation. Today, the university is on its way to becoming a Top 50
public research university by 2025 through supporting, encouraging and growing our research efforts.
1887 Agricultural Experiment Station
Important
points in time
for K-State
Research
1967 Alf Landon Lecture
built to analyze horticultural and
entomological subjects
1863 Kansas State University
1944 First U.S. patent application
is founded
2015 National Bio and
Series on Public Issues
established
Agro-Defense Facility
groundbreaking
1997 Hale Library expansion
filed for a plastic container for
frozen foods
completed
$184.9 million in FY2014 research expenditure
RECENT SUCCESSES:
21 patents granted in 2014–2015
$473.9 million
in FY2014 endowment
Office of the
Vice President for Research
4 USAID
Feed the Future Innovation Labs
1,000 research grants in FY2015
more than
4,300 graduate students
k-state.edu/research
@KState_RSCAD