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April 7, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 14)
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GENERAL
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The National Science Foundation is inviting applications to conduct demonstration
and intervention projects, information dissemination projects and capacity-building
projects to reduce barriers that inhibit participation and advancement
in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education and careers
for persons with disabilities. (NSF 00-69)
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Deadline: Pre-Proposals 5/15/00, Proposals 8/15/00
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The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is
inviting applications to conduct safety and health training and education
in the workplace. For strategic plan grants, organizations proposing training
programs in three industries: construction, including residential construction;
food processing; and nursing homes. For institutional competency building
grants, organizations should serve clients nationally or in multi-state
areas and provide safety and health training, education and services. OSHA
will give preference to organizations that can reach one or more categories
of target audiences, including vulnerable workers, small business employers
and employees and workers who are employed in high-hazard industries and
industries affected by new OSHA standards. (FR 03/31/00)
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Deadline: 5/19/00
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The Partnerships for Innovation Program is focused on connections between
new knowledge created in the discovery process to learning and innovation.
Concurrently, it addresses NSF's strategic intention to broaden the participation
of people and institutions in NSF activities. The goals of the Program
are to: catalyze Partnerships for Innovation that will enable the transformation
of knowledge created by the national research and education enterprise
into innovations that create new wealth, build strong local, regional and
national economies and improve the national well-being; broaden the participation
of all types of academic institutions and all citizens in NSF activities
to more fully meet the broad workforce needs of the national innovation
enterprise; and create enabling infrastructure necessary to foster and
sustain innovation in the long-term. To develop a set of ideas of pursuing
these goals, this competition will support 15-25 promising partnerships
among academe, government and the private sector; partnerships that will
explore new approaches to support and sustain innovation. (NSF 00-82)
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Deadline: Notices of Intent 6/1/00; Proposals 7/6/00
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AGRICULTURE
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USDA has extended its original deadline for its Initiative for Future Agriculture
and Food Systems (IFAFS), in addition to adding a new program area: Critical
and Emerging Pest Management Challenges. In addition, CSREES has added
sections clarifying the nature of proposals sought and made some revisions
to earlier program areas. For example, the Agricultural Genomics program
area no longer places emphasis on research focusing on economically important
species, genes, or traits. (FR 04/04/2000)
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Deadline: 5/22/00
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BUSINESS
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The Labor Department is inviting applications to respond to employer-identified
skill shortages in regional labor markets. Applicants should propose demonstration
projects and industry-led consortia to upgrade incumbent or dislocated
workers' skills, or design or adapt training curricula in skills shortage
occupations, regions or business/industry areas. SGA/DFA-00-103 (FR 03/29/00)
Deadline: 4/27/00
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EDUCATION
14-6 K-16 Grants Program (Lucent)
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The Lucent Technologies Foundation has issued a call for proposals for
its K-16 Grants Program which supports partnerships between colleges and
universities and K-12 public schools. The goal is to change institutional
relationships in a way that effectively utilizes the resources of higher
education to improve the quality of pre-college education. They are particularly
interested in projects that focus on one or more of Lucent's key objectives:
Reform of urban schools; Changing the way teachers enter the profession
and reforming ongoing systems of professional development and teacher recognition;
Curriculum reform in the areas of science and math to improve K-12 teaching
in order to excite students about science and math; Preparing youth for
a diverse world. K-State can only submit one proposal. Please contact John
Murray, Interim Associate Vice Provost for Research, 532-6195, by April
21 if you would like to participate in proposal development.
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Deadline: 5/22/00
14-7 Best Practices for Children's Programs (KS)
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The State of Kansas Children's Cabinet is requesting proposals for a project
to identify and describe best practices in Kansas and nationwide for services
and programs to benefit children ages birth to 5 years of age. This includes
the identification of indicators or effectiveness and efficiency of best
practices. Project A-National Evaluation should provide a summary and synthesis
of the available national information base for programs and services for
children birth to 5 years of age. Project B-Kansas Evaluation requires
the contractor to identify, evaluate, recommend and measure all programs,
prevention services and delivery systems that directly benefit the physical
and mental health, welfare, safety and overall well-being of children,
from birth to age 5, in the state of Kansas.
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Deadline: 4/27/00
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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The National Science Foundation invites scientists at U.S. institutions
to submit proposals to perform research in Antarctica or to perform related
research and data analysis in the United States. Successful candidates
will be provided funds and operational support needed to perform the research.
Supported fields of study include: Aeronomy & Astrophysics, Biology
& Medicine, Environmental Research, Geology & Geophysics, Glaciology,
and Ocean & Climate Sciences. (NSF 00-72)
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Deadline: 6/2/00
14-9 Development of Aerial/Aerospace Monitoring Systems
(DOD)
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The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has a requirement for Aerial/Aerospace
Monitoring support. The technical objectives of this effort are to develop
a comprehensive database and associated tools catalogue, identify, and
define the technical elements responsive to specific scenario-driven requirements.
These tools will identify, select, and describe applicable imaging and
non-imaging sensors and sensor technologies, requisite aerial and aerospace
platforms, system performance parameters, implementation requirements,
and associated acquisition and integration costs. The task of integrating
disparate foreign and domestic hardware, firmware, and software systems
with inherent inter operability and interaction issues must be addressed.
In addition to integrating sensors with suitable platforms, other critical
AAM requirements to be considered include command, control, and communications;
pointing and tracking; navigation and geospatial referencing; and data
acquisition and management. SOL DTRA01-00-R-0027 (CBD 04/03/00)
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Deadline: 5/11/00
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This special competition is to enable access by the U.S. community to the
3.67-meter Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS) telescope with its sophisticated
adaptive optics system for astronomical research and instrument development.
This telescope system will be made available for 50 observing nights during
calender year 2000. This special competition makes available to the U.S.
astronomical and instrument development community a 3.67-meter telescope
with state-of-the-art passive adaptive optics for imaging through atmospheric
turbulence. Seven fixed Coude rooms are available for astronomical observations
with user-provided instrumentation. Alternatively, scientific observations
can be made using the cameras and instruments provided on-site by the Air
Force. (NSF 00-70)
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Deadline: 6/5/00
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the availability
of fiscal year 2000 funds for cooperative agreement applications from single
institutions or consortia of institutions who are capable of, and interested
in, participating in a Musculoskeletal Disorders Consortium (MSDC). The
goal of the MSDC is to conduct a prospective cohort study to quatify the
risk for upper limb and low back MSDs at varying levels of exposure to
physical job stressors (repetitive, forceful exertion, awkward postures,
vibrations, manual handling, etc.). 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 (CTS), hand-wrist tendinitis, medial and
lateral epicondylitis, hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS), and low back
pain. OH-00-003
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/12/00; Applications 5/15/00
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This request for applications (RFA) solicits applications to establish
national centers for the purpose of detailed metabolic phenotyping of knock-out
mice and other mouse models potentially useful for understanding diabetes,
its complications, obesity and related metabolic disease or conditions.
These facilities are expected to provide a range of standardized procedures
to characterize metabolism, body composition, feeding behavior, activity,
tissue pathology, and other physiologic, antomic or pathological alterations
that may occur in these mice. The user group for these centers is expected
to be NIH grantees and others, both inside and outside the institution,
who wish to submit their various mice for detailed metabolic and physiologic
phenotyping beyond what would be possible or cost-effective in their individual
laboratories. DK-00-014 (NIHG 02/08/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/12/00; Applications 7/12/00
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The application of many molecular technologies currently requires access
to fresh or frozen tissue specimens because of the limited ability to extract
sufficient high quality RNA or protein from fixed tissue. Progress toward
clinical application of potentially useful molecular technologies is also
hampered by fixation methods that fail to conserve the structure of nucleic
acids and proteins in tissues. This initiative would encourage research
to develop (1) new fixation methods to better preserve macromolecules and
(2) methods to reverse the effects of formalin fixation to make nucleic
acids and proteins more readily accessible in archived specimens. PAR-00-079
(NIHG 03/23/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 6/14/00; Applications 7/19/00
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention is inviting cooperative agreement applications
to disseminate effective parenting and family programs to prevent or reduce
substance abuse. SAMHSA is soliciting applications to increase the capacity
of local communities to deliver best practices in effective parenting and
family programs to prevent substance abuse; document decision-making processes
for the selection and testing of effective interventions in community settings;
and determine the impact of the interventions on target families in the
study. SP00-002 (FR 03/02/00)
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Deadline: 6/13/00
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is inviting
applications to implement community-based practice/research collaboratives
to improve the quality of substance abuse treatment. The practice/research
collaborative should increase interaction and knowledge exchanged among
key community stakeholders, including substance abuse treatment providers,
community-based organizations providing support services and researchers
and policy makers, including health plan mangers and purchasers of substance
abuse treatment. Announcement TI 00-004 (FR 03/28/00)
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Deadline: 6/13/00
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STUDENT
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The WREI Fellowships are designed to train women as potential leaders in
public policy formation and to examine issues from the perspective and
experiences and needs of women. This unique legislative program is administered
by WREI, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization located in Washington, DC,
and is the only fellowship program directed by, for, and about women. A
WREI Fellow works 30 hours per week in a Congressional office as a legislative
aide on policy issues affecting women. Fellows meet once a week in issue
seminars directed by the WREI staff. Only students who are currently enrolled
in a master's or doctoral program at an accredited institution in the United
States or who have completed such a program within the past 18 months are
eligible.
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Deadline: 6/15/00
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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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