|
January 28, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 4)
Contents
General
-
The Department of Commerce's Technology Opportunities Program is an updated
version of the TIIAP program. The name change reflects the evolution of
the program over its first six years. TOP will provide matching grants
for projects that improve the quality of, and the public's access to, cultural,
educational, and training resources; reduce the cost, improve the quality,
and/or increase the accessibility of health care and public health services;
promote responsive public safety services; improve the effectiveness and
efficiency of government and public services; and foster communication,
resource-sharing, and economic development within communities, both rural
and urban.
-
Deadline: 3/16/00
-
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) is continuing its competitive
Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program initiated in Fiscal Year 1982.
The objective of the program is to make available to institutions expensive
research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and
for which meritorious research projects are described. The SIG Program
provides a cost-effective mechanism for groups of NIH-supported investigators
to obtain commercially-available, technologically sophisticated equipment
costing more than $100,000. PAR-00-031 (NIHG 12/15/99)
-
Deadline: 3/17/00
Return
to Contents
Education
-
The Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDB) of the National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), invites research grant applications
to develop new knowledge in the ares of definition, classification, epidemiology,
prevention (and preventative strategies), early intervention, etiology,
diagnosis, and treatment of children who display learning disabilities
in component oral language abilities (phonology, morphology, semantics,
syntax, pragmatics), reading (word attack skills, word recognition skills,
reading fluency and automaticity, reading comprehension), written expression
abilities (spelling, composition), and mathematics (basic calculations
skills, mathematical reasoning), and combinations and relationships among
them. The specific focus of this RFA is on the discovery of cognitive,
linguistic perceptual, behavioral, genetic, hormonal, and neurobiological
mechanisms that are influential in the expression of learning disabilities
and the development of preventive and treatment approaches to ameliorate
these disorders. HD-00-003 (NIHG 01/18/00)
-
Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/28/00; Applications 4/21/00
-
The Education Department's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
is inviting applications for grants or cooperative agreements for projects
focusing on problem areas or improvement approaches in postsecondary education.
Of particular interest is the formation of consortia between institutions
in the U.S. and in the European Union to provide for coordination of curricula,
the exchange of students and the opening of education opportunities between
the U.S. and the E.U. CFDA 84.116 (FR 1/20/00)
-
Deadline: 3/17/00
-
The Department of Education is soliciting applications for three programs
authorized by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). 1)
Research and Innovation to Improve Services and Results for Children with
Disabilities; 2) Personnel Preparation to Improve Services and Results
for Children with Disabilities; and 3) Technical Assistance and Dissemination.
The Research grant deadline is March 20, the others March 10. CFDA 84.324D,
325N, 326A, F, G (FR 1/19/00)
-
Deadline: 3/10/00, 3/20/00
4-6 Advanced Studies Fellowship Program (Spencer)
-
The Spencer Foundation is launching a new initiative to support the research
career development of beginning scholars: the Advanced Studies Program.
This new program has two components: Research Group Fellowships which are
awarded to experienced researchers to develop and offer postdoctoral fellowships
to cohorts of beginning scholars and Institute/Seminar Fellowships awarded
to either experienced or beginning researchers to support short-term institute
or seminar-like activities for early career scholars. Applications for
the Institute/Seminar Fellowships may be sent anytime.
-
Deadline: 2/1/00, 7/14/00
-
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMN) invites research grant applications
to study the development, refinement, or implementation of preventive,
behavioral or other innovative interventions for children at risk for or
diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and co-occurring
disruptive behavior problems. This RFA encourages highly focused research
applications that build on emerging findings from treatment studies of
ADHD, revealing how children with different symptom profiles and needs
respond to different types of interventions. Collaborations between basic
scientists and clinical researchers in response to this RFA, especially
in the development of new interventions, are strongly encouraged. MH-00-005
(NIHG 01/21/00)
-
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/13/00; Applications 4/27/00
-
The Urban Systemic Program (USP) is a K-12 based program that prompts systemic
reform of science and mathematics education for all students. The USP also
includes programmatic components that seek to foster partnerships between
urban school districts and two-and four-year colleges and universities
and that embed research on education practice and learning. The proposal
must be submitting by a school district that serves a central city, enrolling
at least 20,000 students as determined by the 1996 data from the U.S. Department
of Educations's National Center for Education Statistics. NSF 00-34
-
Deadline: 3/31/00
Return
to Contents
Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Science
-
-
The Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation announces
a research initiative on model-based simulation (MBS). The primary objective
of this initiative is to foster an integration of computational sciences,
modeling and information technologies for simulating and visualizing the
behavior of complex engineering and natural systems in structures, geotechnical,
controls and dynamics, solid mechanics, materials engineering, manufacturing
and materials processing, civil infrastructure systems and construction
management. Because the Internet looms large as a deployment environment,
issues of scalability will be crucial in the development of this initiative.
NSF 00-26
-
Deadline: 3/23/00
-
This solicitation, NEES: Earthquake Engineering Research Equipment, requests
proposals to develop the NEES experimental earthquake engineering research
equipment portfolio by investing in new and upgraded experimental earthquake
engineering research equipment. NSF intends to hold two competitions to
complete the NEES research equipment portfolio. This solicitation serves
as the Phase 1 NEES equipment competition. A second and similar NEES research
equipment solicitation, Phase 2, is anticipated to be released by NSF in
FY 2002. NSF 00-6
-
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/31/00; Proposals 5/11/00
-
The goal of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program
is to provide a networked, national resource of geographically-distributed,
shared-use next generation experimental research equipment installations,
with teleobservation and teleoperation capabilities, which will shift the
emphasis of earthquake engineering research from current reliance on physical
testing to integrated experimentation, computation, theory, databases,
and model-based simulation. NEES will be a collaboratory, i.e., an integrated
experimental, computational, communications, and curated repository system,
developed to support collaboration in earthquake engineering research and
education. The NEES Program will be developed through a series of solicitations.
This solicitation requests proposals to develop the high performance system
that will enable the NEES collaboratory for the earthquake engineering
research community. NSF will use a two-step process to select one System
Integration award. First, NSF intends to fund up to three awards for six-month
scoping studies. Second, NSF intends to select one System Integration award
from among one of the scoping study awardees. NSF 00-7
-
Deadline: 3/21/00
-
NASA's Office of Space Science is releasing its broad agency announcement
soliciting proposals for supporting research, analysis, and technology
across a broad range of different space science program elements relevant
to the four defined Office of Space Science themes: Astronomical Search
for Origins, Solar System Exploration, Structure and Evolution of the Universe,
and the Sun-Earth Connection. Proposal dates are staggered from April 38
through September 15, 2000. NRA 00-OSS-01
-
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/10/00; Proposals 4/28/00
-
The Department of Energy has issued a supplemental announcement to its
Broad Solicitation for Research, Development and Demonstration for the
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. This Supplemental Announcement,
Photovoltaic Research, is for the advancement of crystalline silicon solar
cell technology through a University Research, Education, and Collaboration
program. The objectives of the program are to advance the state of technology
in crystalline silicon solar cells through research and development; to
verify advances in crystalline silicon technology through solar cell fabrication
and testing; to educate and train undergraduate and graduate students through
courses and laboratory experience; and to collaborate with U.S. crystalline
cell manufacturers for improving manufacturing processes, product performance,
and cost. DE-PS36-00GO10482
-
Deadline: 3/21/00
-
The objective of this collaborative research program between the National
Science Foundation and Sandia National Laboratories is to fund research
projects that are focused on advancing the fundamental knowledge base needed
to support advanced computer simulations. Advances are needed in the following
broad classes of technical development: the fidelity of the simulation
models, experimental discovery necessary for the determination of the models
and their validations, uncertainty quantification of the resulting computations,
and computational techniques for the solution of the simulation models
on high performance computing platforms. (NSF 00-31)
-
Deadline: Abstracts 3/31/00; Proposals 5/19/00
Return
to Contents
Health & Life Sciences
-
The objective of this initiative is to support research to elucidate the
cellular and molecule mechanisms that underlie the pathogenic processes
occurring in the heart leading to diabetic cardiomyopathy. The overall
goal is to stimulate innovative multidisciplinary research to develop new
strategies that effectively prevent or treat cardiac myopathic disease
progression in diabetic patients. HL-00-009 (NIHG 01/18/00)
-
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/3/00; Applications 4/21/00
-
The objective of this program is to encourage basic and applied research
on the development and evaluation of procedures to remove or destroy the
infectivity of transfusion-transmitted viruses and other pathogens in blood
components, while maintaining the therapeutic effectiveness of these preparations.
HL-00-010 (NIHG 01/18/00)
-
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/1/00; Applications 4/12/00
Return
to Contents
Social Sciences
-
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) request applications for research
aimed at the development of behavioral interventions for youth violence.
This RFA solicits exploratory/Developmental research (R21) grant applications
exploring the translation of ideas from basic behavioral and social science
into novel interventions for children and youth demonstrating or at risk
for violent behavior. OD-00-005 (NIHG 01/19/00)
-
Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/1/00; Applications 4/14/00
-
The Army War College is soliciting conceptual strategic research ideas
and dialogue, proposals on landpower and national security. Deliverables
are scholarly papers, articles, conference rappatour reports, edited collections
of papers, and/or books for open publication. Sol DABT43-00-R-BAA1 (CBD
1/21/2000)
-
Deadline: 10/3/00
Return
to Contents
Return
to Bulletins
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
Last Modified: 11:14am , January 14, 2000
|
