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February 4, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 5)
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General
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The purpose of this program announcement is to encourage and support short-term
Education Grants in Neuroinformatics Research. Support is provided for
the development of short courses, seminars, and workshops on interdisciplinary
Neuroinformatics education. This short-term training will be provided to
scientists seeking to combine knowledge about the various subdisciplines
of neuroscience and behavioral science research with expertise in informatics
research. It is anticipated that these Short Courses will allow the participants:
(a) to acquire new conceptual approaches to basic neuroscience research
and analysis; and (b) to learn to develop unique strategies for acquiring,
storing, retrieving, organizing, managing, analyzing, visualizing, manipulating,
integrating, synthesizing, disseminating, and sharing data about the brain
and behavior. PAR-99-137 (NIHG 08/05/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/1/00; Applications 7/11/00
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The purpose of this program announcement is to encourage and support applications
from individuals, with the requisite scientific expertise and leadership,
for the development of courses and curricula designed to train interdisciplinary
Neuroinformatics scientists at U.S. educational institutions. The field
of Neuroinformatics combines neuroscience research with informatics research
developed from the computer sciences, mathematics, physics, engineering
or closely related sciences. It is anticipated that these courses or curricula
would be useful to students and scientists who wish: 1) to develop new
conceptual approaches to basic and/or clinical neuroscientific research
and analysis; or 2) to acquire, store, retrieve, organize, manage, analyze,
visualize, manipulate, integrate, synthesize, disseminate, and share data
about the brain and behavior. Development of courses at the graduate and
undergraduate level is encouraged. As part of this program, awardees will
be expected to develop and implement the courses or curricula in their
institutions. It is expected that such courses and curricula will be models
that could be transferable to other institutions in whole or in part. PAR-99-135
(NIHG 08/05/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/1/00; Applications 7/11/00
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Agriculture
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USDA's North Central Region is requesting applications for Innovative Producer
Grants for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program.
Producer grants support single producers or groups of producers who are
protecting natural resources, enhancing communities, and boosting profitability
while exploring innovative marketing of sustainable agriculture projects.
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Deadline: 4/28/00
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Arts & Humanities
5-4 Kansas Arts Commission Grants (KAC)
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The Kansas Arts Commission has issued its 2001 Grant Guidelines. Funding
is available for: Operational Support for Arts and Cultural Organizations
(deadline March 27); Arts Project Support which assists non-arts organizations
in developing and presenting arts projects (deadline March 13); Arts in
Education Projects (deadline March 13); Technical Assistance, Grassroots
and Kansas Touring Program which award grants on a first-come, first-served
basis.
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Deadline: 3/13/00, 3/27/00
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
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The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Geosciences has published
an update to its Geoscience Education Program. The program has two elements.
Element 1 is Awards to Facilitate Geoscience Education (AFGE) which may
target any educational level, including education outside the classroom.
Awards are intented to facilitate the initiation or piloting of highly
innovative educational activities that involve leading geoscience researchers
where support may not otherwise be available. Element 2 is Application
of Digital Libraries to Undergraduate Earth Systems Education which supports
a process leading to the establishment of a national digital library which
would support and promote high-quality undergraduate education in the geosciences,
in particular innovative Earth systems curricula, associated archive data
sets, and tools for handling real-time data. (NSF 00-38)
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Deadline: 4/10/00
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is soliciting
basic research proposals for experimental and theoretical investigations
of transport and chemical evolution over the Pacific (TRACE_P). The TRACE-P
mission is directed toward providing and conducting experiments aboard
the NASA DC-8 or P3-B aircraft and/or theoretical studies with the data
to be obtained from both the airborne and supporting ground-based experiments.
(NRA-00-OES-01)
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Deadline: 3/28/00
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This program is to encourage and facilitate state-of-the-art developments
in polar instrumentation and technology. One of the objectives of this
solicitation is to develop unique techniques and instruments for research,
and technologies to enhance or streamline support for facilities and operations.
This program is designed to accomplish the goals of modern measurements,
minimizing environmental impact and enhancing the research support capability
by using the latest technologies that economically permit low-risk, environmentally
friendly observations of remote regions with limited or no direct access.
(NSF 00-25)Deadline: 4/3/00
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The Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification
Program (ESTCP) Office is soliciting white papers for environmental technologies
that address DOD requirements. ESTCP will fund demonstration and validation
projects for innovative and new environmental technologies that address
the following: 1) Unexploded Ordnance detection, discrimination, and remediation;
2) Long Term Monitoring; and 3) In-Situ remediation of groundwater. BAA
00-003 (CBD 1/13/00)Deadline: White Papers 3/9/00
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The purpose of this solicitation is to provide terascale computing capabilities
for support of U.S. science and engineering research. The National Science
Foundation will financially assist the establishment of a single, new,
terascale computing system FY2000 to enable U.S. researchers in all science
and engineering disciplines to gain access to leading edge computing capabilities.
The system will be balanced in terms of processor speed, memory, communication
and storage systems. It will also include system software comparable to
that on other high-performance systems, including system administration,
job scheduling, and compliers and programming tools. Only one application
per organization is allowed. Please contact John Murray, 532-6195, by February
4 if you are interested in participating. (NSF 00-29)
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Deadline: 4/3/00
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Health & Life Sciences
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The goal of this program announcement is to promote research in primary
pulmonary hypertension (PPH) with an emphasis on elucidating a mechanistic
understanding of the disease. Studies are encouraged, at the cellular and
molecular level, to address the basic mechanisms involved in the unique
vascular remodeling that occurs in PPH, regulation of pulmonary vascular
tone and the genetic basis of PPH. Research to identify novel genes or
vasoactive mediators jmportant in PPH pathology and determination of their
functional effects on pulmonary vascular cells, on extracellular matrix
and on pulmonary vascular tone is a high priority. Further, research integrating
the relationship between mediators of vasoconstriction and pulmonary vascular
remodeling is strongly encouraged. PA-00-043 (NIHG 01/10/00)
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Deadline: 2/1/00, 6/1/00, 10/1/00
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The Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications invites cooperative
agreement applications for an estimated five Field Centers and one Coordinating
Center to participate, with the assistance of the National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute (NHLBI), in a collaborative multicenter study focused
on physical activity of adolescent girls. The purpose of this community-based
multicomponent intervention is to prevent the decline in physical activity
levels and cardiopulmonary fitness of girls in middle school. Applications
will be invited from investigators to participate in a multicenter randomized
field trial that will test an intervention designed to meet the needs and
interests of middle school girls. The multicomponent intervention to be
tested is a school-community linked approach, where schools and several
existing community agencies will provide skills-building, supportive environments,
and opportunities for participation in physical activity during and outside
of the school day. The duration of the grant period will be six years for
the Field Centers and seven years for the Coordinating Center. The planning
phase to implementation will include establishing the cooperative organizational
structure and collaboratively agreeing upon the protocol including the
study design, intervention design, measurements, and analysis approaches.
HL-00-011 (NIHG 01/27/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/6/00, Applications 4/13/00
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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is soliciting
proposals to use targeted gene disruption and overexpression techniques
in mice to elucidate the roles of specific neuronal proteins in mediating
in effects of ethanol on brain function and behavior. This manipulative
approach offers the possibility of establishing a causal relationship between
function of specific proteins and specific behaviors. To be considered
responsive to this RFA, applications must propose elucidation of the relationship
between ethanol's effects on a specific aspect of nervous system function
and a specific behavioral effect of ethanol. NIAAA strongly encourages
mouse geneticists with expertise in targeted mutagenesis techniques to
seek collaborations with established alcohol researchers, in order to bring
these powerful approaches to bear on the elucidation of the mechanisms
of alcohol's effects on behavior. AA-00-001 (NIHG 01/18/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/5/00, Applications 5/5/00
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Social Sciences
4-13 Child Care Research (ACF)
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The Administration for Children and Families has announced the availability
of funds for child care research. Funding is in four priority areas: 1)
Field Initiated Child Care Research Projects; 2) Child Care Policy Research
Partnerships; 3) Child Care Research Scholars; and 4) the Child Care Research
Fellowship Program. The Research Scholars program will provide support
for doctoral candidates in conducting dissertation research. The Fellowship
program will bring early-to-mid career professionals in the fields of child
care, early childhood education and research to the Child Care bureau.
(FR 01/27/00)
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Deadline: 3/31/00
Student
4-14 Minority Research Opportunity in Psychopharmacology and
Neurosciences (ACNP)
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The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology is offering the opportunity
to minority graduate students to work during the summer of 2000 in the
Section on Behavioral Neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental
Health Intramural Research Program. The laboratory research is oriented
toward understanding the role of neurotransmitters in memory processes
and neuropsychiatric disorders.
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Deadline: 4/1/00
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The Engineering Society for Advancing Mobility Land Sea Air and Space International
(SAE) offers the SAE Doctoral Scholars Program which provides funding to
assist in the development of engineering graduate students to encourage
them to pursue careers in teaching at the college level. Applicants must
be accepted to a graduate engineering program. SAE also offers a scholarship
to undergraduates entering their senior year of undergraduate engineering
or enrolled in a postgraduate engineering program who are pursuing a course
of study or research related to the conservation of energy in transportation,
agriculture and construction, and power generation.
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Deadline: 4/1/00
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NASA announces graduate student training fellowships for persons pursuing
Master of Science or Doctoral degrees in Earth System Science. The purpose
is to ensure continued training of interdisciplinary scientists to support
the study of the Earth as a system. NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE)
supports basic and applied research in the following areas: Biology and
Biogeochemistry of Ecosystems and Global Carbon Cycle; Climate Variation
and Prediction; Global Water and Energy Cycle; Solid Earth and Natural
Hazards; and Ozone and Atmospheric Chemistry. Awards are made initially
for one year and may be renewed annually, no more than two additional years
for a total of three years, based on satisfactory progress as reflected
in academic performance and evaluations by the faculty advisor.
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Deadline: 3/15/00
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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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