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January 14, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 2)
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Notice
2-1 Kansas Initiative for the COBRE Program (NIH)
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In response to the recently announced Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence
(COBRE) program from National Institutes of Health, Gunda Georg, Professor
in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, KU, has taken the lead in coordinating
a proposal for the initial development and support of the Experimental
Therapeutics Program of the Kansas Cancer Center, a step toward the ultimate
goal of obtaining the NIH/NCI Cancer Center designation. The goal of the
ETP is to establish a seamless strategy for drug discover, from the discovery
of anticancer agents to their development for clinical trials. Five page
preproposals are being solicited and will be submitted to an external review
committee. 3-5 will be selected for final development of 10 page research
project proposals that will be assembled as part of the final COBRE proposal.
For submission guidelines, please contact Beverly Page, bbpage@ksu.edu,
785-532-5045.
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Deadline: Preproposals to KU 1/25/00
General
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DARPA is announcing a new program called Fundamental Research at the [Bio:Info:Micro]
Interface. The goal of the program is to create interdisciplinary teams
of researchers drawn from the fields of biology, information technology
and microsystems technology and who are primarily from institutions of
higher education. The biology or [BIO] component of the program includes
the disciplines studying biology from the molecular and cellular level
through the organismal and population level. The information technology
or [INFO] component of the program includes, but is not limited to, the
disciplines contributing to the development of theories, algorithms, models
and simulations, and scalable parallel and distributed systems. The microsystems
technology or [MICRO] component of the program includes, but is not limited
to, the disciplines contributing to the development of sensors, materials,
microfluidics, micromechanics, microphotonics, microelectronics and large-scale
systems created from such components. The program will enable teams of
investigators from [BIO], [INFO] and [MICRO] to work collaboratively to
address fundamental research issues at the intersections of these three
broadly defined areas. SOL RA00-14 (CBD 12/23/99)
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Deadline: Preproposals 2/18/00; Proposals 3/31/00
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Agriculture
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The Peanut Foundation is soliciting research proposals to address key industry
concerns. A major consideration in project funding will be the explanation
of how the results of the project can be implemented or utilized by the
peanut industry.
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Deadline: 2/15/00
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Arts & Humanities
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The National Endowment for the Humanities supports faculty development
through residential summer seminars and institutes designed to provide
teachers drawn from across the nation with intensive summer study of important
texts and topics in the humanities. Seminars and institutes are intended
to foster excellent teaching by encouraging collegial discussion of humanities
topics within close-knit scholarly communities. They also promote active
scholarship in the humanities in ways suited to teachers at all levels
from grade school through college.
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Deadline: 3/1/00
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Business
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The Council for International Exchange of Scholars is seeking candidates
for a new Fulbright distinguished lecturing/research award in E-commerce
in Sweden for the 2000-2001 academic year. The award is for lecturing and
research. Expertise should include e-commerce, especially in the field
of Internet-based applications, targeting business to consumer or consumer
to business applications.
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Deadline: 3/15/ 00
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) invite applications for demonstrations that facilitate
consumer and patient use of information about quality. They are seeking
demonstrations that: 1) develop and test methods and models for developing
information on quality for consumer and patient use in health care decisions;
and 2) evaluate the impact of strategies to provide information about quality
to consumers and patients. HS-00-002 (NIHG 01/05/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/11/00; Applications 3/24/00
Education
2-7 Congressional Fellowships in Child Development (SRCD)
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The Society for Research in Child Development is accepting applications
for Congressional Fellowship positions. Fellows spend one year working
as a legislative assistant on the staff of a congressional committee or
on the staff of a member of Congress. Fellows make invaluable contributions
through the effective use of research-based knowledge to inform the policy
community.
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Deadline: 1/31/00
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The Education Department is inviting cooperative agreement applications
for Learning Anytime, Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP) to improve the delivery,
quality and accountability of postsecondary education and career-oriented
lifelong learning through technology and related innovations. The objectives
of the program are to: develop innovative partnerships resulting in economies
of scale; increase access to asynchronous distance education for diverse
groups of learners; enable advancements in quality and accountability;
and enable advancements in flexibility of distance education design and
delivery. CFDA 84.339A, B (FR 12/30/99)
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Deadline: Preapplications 3/3/00; Applications 6/9/00
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The Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology program provides grants
to consortia that are helping future teachers become proficient in the
use of modern learning technologies. This program addresses looming teacher
shortages by developing well-qualified, technology-proficient teachers,
who are prepared to teach in 21st century schools, particularly schools
in low-income communities or rural areas. This program provides support
for two types of grants: implementation grants, and catalyst grants. Only
consortia may receive grants under this program. A consortium must include
at least two members. Consortium members may include institutions of higher
education (IHEs), Schools of Education, State educational agencies (SEAs),
local educational agencies (LEAs), private schools professional associations,
foundations, museums, libraries, for profit agencies and organizations,
nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, and others. CFDA
84.342 (FR 12/28/99)
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Deadline: 3/7/00
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
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The Department of Energy is announcing a program solicitation entitled
Energy and Environmental Solutions. The areas of interest are: 1) Biomass
and/or biosolids, and 2) Environmental Management Program which includes:
Inner Layer Confinement Reduction; Technology Deployment Assistance; Technology
Acceptance; Technology Evaluation; International Technology Studies; and
Long-Term Stewardship. DE-PS26-00FT40776 (FR 01/07/00)
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Deadline: 2/2/00; 5/3/00; 8/30/00
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The Environmental Statistics competition, a joint program from EPA and
NSF, will continue the emphasis of FY1999, inviting proposals in the three
areas of: 1) statistical models and methods for environmental social science
research; 2) environmental statistics research to improve risk assessment;
and 3) physical environmental statistics research. Proposals are particularly
welcome that further the development of statistical methods for environmental
social science research, including research in the area of risk assessment.
(NSF 00-20)
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Deadline: 3/10/00
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The Department of Energy Golden Field Office has issued a supplemental
announcement to its Broad Based Solicitation 2000 for Research, Development
and Demonstration. DOE is seeking research and development proposals that
can advance current market opportunities for biobased products and bioenergy
systems and facilitate the development of existing and new markets. A fundamental
goal of this solicitation will be to perform research and development that
results in integrated co-products addressing at least two of the three
major areas of chemicals, fuel, and/or power, where power can be electricity
and/or heat. DE-PS36-00GO10482-03
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Deadline: 3/7/00
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The Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) announces its interest in receiving applications for research
on Carbon Sequestration in the Terrestrial Biosphere and the Oceans. Notice
00-09
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Deadline: 3/2/00
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Health & Life Sciences
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The American Massage Therapy Association Foundation invites research proposals
investigating the effects of massage therapy across a variety of applications.
Research grants are awarded to individuals or teams conducting studies
which promise to advance our understanding of specific therapeutic applications
of massage, including their efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness, as
well as studies investigating possible physiological mechanisms of effect,
psychological and social dimensions, public perceptions of and attitudes
toward massage therapy, and the role of massage therapy in health care
delivery.
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Deadline: 3/1/00
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The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National
Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke invite research grants applications to study the ontogeny of
drug metabolizing enzymes, transporters, and receptors, and the corresponding
ion channels and related proteins. A major objective of this initiative
is the characterization of the mechanisms involved in gene regulation and
expression of these proteins during development, both prenatal and postnatal.
This initiative is aimed at unraveling the effects of development on mechanisms
of drug action, pharmacodynamics, and drug biotransformation, prenatally
and from birth through adolescence. HD-00-001 (NIHG 01/05/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/7/00; Applications 4/13/00
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announces the availability
of funds for research project grants for the study of drug abuse and related
areas using microarray technology. In an effort to expand our understanding
of the basic biology of drug addiction, NIDA is initiating this grant program
in order to support innovative studies that exploit the emerging microarray
technology. With this announcement, NIDA plans to develop a strong, multidisciplinary
basic research program--drawing from neuroscience, genetics, behavioral
science, bioengineering, and computational biology--aimed at adapting and
applying microarray techniques to the general problem of drug abuse. DA-00-003
(NIHG 12/16/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/28/00; Applications 3/28/00
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The purpose of this request for applications is to solicit feasibility
studies for profiling gene expression patterns in the mammalian nervous
system. Exploratory research projects supported under this RFA will utilize
neural tissue-specific cDNA reagents and state-of-the-art microarray technologies,
in order to quantify in a highly parallel way expression profiles of genes
in mammalian neural tissue. The creation of collaborative teams is encouraged,
in which scientists with expertise in neuroscience research, genomics,
and bioinformatics work to apply innovative approaches for analyzing microarray
data. MH-00-002 (NIHG 11/22/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/28/00; Applications 3/29/00
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Social Sciences
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This request for applications encourages a new generation of drug abuse
prevention research. Applications are solicited to examine components of
empirically validated drug abuse prevention interventions that may account
for program effectiveness. The purpose is to gain a better understanding
of what accounts for program effectiveness through: 1) empirical tests
of theoretically derived processes that may account for program effectiveness;
2) identification of patterns related to differential effectiveness; 3)
generating and testing alternate hypotheses accounting for effectiveness
based on differential outcomes from previous research; and 4) specification
and testing of components singularly and in combinations that contribute
to effectiveness. DA-00-004 (NIHG 12/20/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/28/00; Applications 3/28/00
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R. W. Trewyn, Vice Provost for Research &
Dean of the Graduate School
John P. Murray, Interim Associate Vice Provost
for Research
Ruth Bennett, Secretary
Preaward Section
Paul Lowe, Director, PreAward Services
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Lisa Duer, Carole Lovin, Rex Goff,
Dawn Caldwell, Cheryl Brooks
Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use, and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, University Veterinarian and Research Compliance Officer
Carrie VonLeonrod, Secretary
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R. W. Trewyn
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