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March 24, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 12)
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GENERAL
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Tenured or tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply for big 12 Faculty
Fellowships which allow the faculty member to visit any Big 12 university.
Visits are ordinarily for two weeks, but shorter or longer visits are possible.
The visiting fellow may consult with faculty and/or students, offer lectures
or symposia, or engage in whatever activities are agreeable to the visitor
and host institution.
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Deadline: 5/1/00
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The National Institutes of Health, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
invite applications for participation in a Global Network for Women's and
Children's Health Research. The purpose is to establish an innovative and
flexible research network that will be responsive to the most critical
existing and emerging health needs and public health problems of women
and children, globally. Through competitive cooperative agreements, international,
multidisciplinary teams of investigators will work collaboratively to answer
scientific and/or public health questions to help improve health, and to
prevent premature disease and death among women and children, primarily
in developing countries. Initial efforts will focus on safe pregnancy and
birth outcomes. RFA HD-00-007 (NIHG 05/15/2000)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/14/00; Applications 7/13/00
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The National Institutes of Health invites applications to develop or expand
on current graduate curricula in international bioethics related to performing
research in low- and middle-income nations. The curricula will provide
a core set of advanced study courses that primarily focus on the internationally
relevant aspects of the ethical, legal and social principles guiding the
responsible conduct of research in developing countries, particularly on
scientific integrity and the protection of the interests of research participants.
Support will be provided for advanced multi-disciplinary training for developing
country health professionals working at institutions conducting biomedical,
behavioral or public health research involving human and animal subjects
as well as ethicists or philosophers from developing countries with no
prior experience in biomedical/clinical research. RFA TW-00-008 (NIHG 03/13/2000)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/7/00; Applications 5/5/00
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The Department of Energy is inviting applications for research on imaging
gene expression in real time in tissue culture and whole animals. Special
consideration will be given to applications arising from a well integrated,
multidisciplinary team effort of scientists with skills to address the
needs, issues and importance of nucleic acid biochemistry, radioligand
synthesis and macromolecular interactions; functional consequences of gene
expression by targeting and perturbing the activity of a particular gene;
and biological applications of optical and radio nuclide imagining devices.
Notice 00-013 (FR 03/17/00)
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Deadline: Preapplications 4/14/00; Applications 5/30/00
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The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation is inviting applications
for grants. The Foundation supports pilot projects for innovative ideas
at an early stage of their development. Projects should exhibit a critical
balance between our scientific and technological achievements and the preservation
of our natural world.
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Deadline: 6/13/00
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AGRICULTURE
12-6 Agriculture and Food Sector Research (IMBA)
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The Executive Management Committee of the Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology
Alliance (IMBA) is soliciting proposals for research projects consistent
with the IMBA mission. The two programmatic objectives of IMBA are: enhancing
profitability of the American agriculture and food sector by improving
the quality, safety, and affordability of agricultural and food products
(The Enhanced Profitability Program); and maximizing the benefits of agricultural
biotechnology for the domestic agriculture and food sectors and ultimately
the American public (The Socioeconomic Research Program).
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Deadline: 5/15/00
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ARTS & HUMANITIES
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The U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture is accepting applications for grants for
projects that involve cultural exchanges and collaboration between Mexico
and the United States. The fund supports exemplary projects that reflect
the artistic and cultural diversity of the two countries, that deepen cultural
exchange and that promote lasting ties among artists, scholars, independent
groups and cultural institutions in both nations. Projects may be in the
following disciplines: dance, theater, music, visual arts, literature,
media arts, cultural studies, and libraries.
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Deadline: 4/28/00
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EDUCATION
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The Department of Education is inviting applications for investigator-initiated
research activities related to improving bilingual education and special
alternative instructional programs for limited English proficient children
and youths. ED is especially interested in research on assessment of academic
achievement. Research may provide for longitudinal studies of students
or teachers in bilingual education, or monitoring the education of those
students from entry in bilingual education through secondary school completion.
CFDA 84.292B (FR 03/17/00)
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Deadline: 4/17/00
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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The Energy Department is inviting research applications for research on
terrestrial carbon processes, with primary emphasis on measurements of
the net exchanges of CO2 between the atmosphere and the biosphere and fundamental
regulatory processes. Notice 00-12 (FR 03/17/00)
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Deadline: 4/27/00
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The Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division, National Risk Management
Research Laboratory, EPA, plans to enter into a cooperative agreement with
a qualified nonprofit research organization to support and stimulate their
research into mitigation of indoor air pollution. Research areas include:
1) air cleaning systems research; 2) research into the impacts of cleaning
materials and maintenance products; 3) building system research in such
areas as construction materials, materials introduced by occupants and
visitors, HVAC, and air filtering systems, movement of air from outside
as well as within the building; and 4) aerosol and fine particulate matter
research. Sol. APPCD 2000-2 (CBD 03/15/2000)
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Deadline: 5/18/00
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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics announces a new Transportation
Statistics Research Grants program to support its goal of advancing the
field of transportation statistics. Applications for projects should 1)
support the development of the field of transportation statistics; and/or
2) involve research or development in transportation statistics. (FR 03/14/00)
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Deadline: 4/27/00
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The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuzent River Maryland
is interested in receiving proposals for technical/cost proposals for research
support in technologies that are applicable to Electro-Optical (EO) and
Acoustic Sensor systems for Navy Aircraft. Major areas of interest include:
1) Signal Processing, 2) Non-Acoustic ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) Sensors
and Systems, 3) Information Processing, 4) Devices and Materials, 5) EO
Systems Engineering Methodologies, 6) LIDAR Components and Systems, 7)
Hyperspectral Components and Systems, 8) LASER Components and Systems,
9) EO Senors and Systems for Reconnaissance and Surveillance, 10) Magnetic
Sensors and Systems, 11) Laser based IRCM systems, 12) Acoustic ASW Sensors
and Systems, 13) Acoustic MCM (Mine Counter Measures) Sensors and Systems,
14) Research involving the interrelationship of acoustic and non-acoustic
phenomena applicable to ASW, 15) Telemetry methods for offboard sensors
to and from various platforms, 16) Mathematical modeling and techniques
for analyzing ASW effectiveness and performance, and 17) In-sensor acoustic
signal processing. SOL N00421-00-R-0250 (CBD 11/19/99)
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Deadline: 1/16/01
12-13 Environmental Research (EREF)
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The Environmental Research and Education Foundation awards grants for research
or education in topics pertaining to any aspect of solid waste management.
Topic areas include: Waste generation rates and composition; Waste minimization;
Collection and transport; Sorting, recycling, and remanufacture; Disposal
options; Waste or energy recovery; Sustainability of resources; Life-cycle
assessment of waste management; Development of high school and college
educational programs. Grant proposals are evaluated four times a year.
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Deadline: Open
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the availability
of funds for cooperative agreements for single institutions or consortia
of institutions who are capable of participating in a Musculoskeletal Disorders
Consortium (MSDC). The goal of the MSDC is to conduct a prospective cohort
study to quantify the risk for upper limb and low back MSDs at varying
levels of exposure to physical job stressors. This research will involve
multiple work sites from the service and manufacturing industries with
job tasks that represent a range of exposures to physical job stressors
that can result in carpal tunnel syndrome, hand-wrist tendinitis, medial
and lateral epicondylitis, hand-arm vibration syndrome, and low back pain.
RFA OH-00-003 (NIHG 03/15/2000)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/12/00; Applications 5/15/00
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NCRR continues to offer the K01 award: Special Emphasis Research Career
Award (SERCA) in Pathology and Comparative Medicine. An important eligibility
requirement is that the applicant must possess a D.V.M. or V.M.D. Degree
from a School of Veterinary Medicine which is accredited by the American
Veterinary Medical Association. The Special Emphasis Research Career Award
(SERCA) in Pathology and Comparative Medicine is intended to assist graduate
veterinarians who have experience in laboratory animal science-related
activities to become independent biomedical research investigators in research
related to comparative medicine. The SERCA award emphasizes in-depth research
experience in a variety of basic and clinical scientific disciplines. The
overall program should be focused around a central research question; for
example, the elucidation of disease mechanisms of induced and spontaneous
mutant animals such as mice, rats, or zebrafish and other aquatic species.
Deadlines vary. RR-00-005 (NIHG 02/29/00)
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Deadline: Varies
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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The National Institute of mental Health and the National Institute on Drug
Abuse invite research grant applications to study interventions to reduce
suicidal behaviors in youth. Although youth suicidal behavior has been
recognized as a significant public health problem for several decades,
there are few effective treatments or preventive interventions that have
been developed and specifically tested to reduce such behavior. The purpose
of this announcement is to support efforts to develop and test such interventions
that build on both risk and protective factors. This PAS identifies the
need to test the effectiveness of interventions for reducing suicidal behavior
from a number of approaches, ranging from broad-based community or school-based
prevention efforts, to more targeted approaches that reduce suicidal behavior
in youth with identified mental disorders or substance use disorders. PA-00-077
(NIHG 03/13/2000)
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Deadline: 6/1/00, 10/1/00, 2/1/01
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The AARP Andrus Foundation offers funding for grants that develop new research
information on aging, test the connections between research and practice,
disseminate research information, and train the next generation of researchers
in aging. The current priority areas for the Foundation are: Living with
Chronic Health Conditions and Aging and Living Environments.
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Deadline: Open
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SMALL BUSINESS
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The primary objective of the NSF SBIR/STTR Program is to increase the incentive
and opportunity for small firms to undertake cutting-edge, high risk, high
quality scientific, engineering, or science/engineering education research
that would have high potential economic payoff if the research is successful.
The STTR program includes joint venture opportunities for small businesses
and non-profit research institutions. At least one research investigator
is employed by the small business concern and at least one investigator
is employed by the research institution. NSF's topics for SBIR/STTR are:
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing systems; Biotechnology; Electronics;
and Information-Based Technologies. (NSF 00-48)
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Deadline: 6/8/00, 2/4/01
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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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