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July 7, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 26)
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GENERAL
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The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD),
and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) seek to apply advances in bioengineering,
cognitive science and neuroscience to the clinical environment by encouraging
the development of new techniques and therapies for rehabilitation treatments.
The purpose of the Innovative Rehabilitation Interventions grants is to
provide support for the initial development and testing of non-pharmaceutical
and non-surgical rehabilitation interventions, including development of
an effective research group, preliminary proof-of-concept projects, development
of new therapeutic modalities, fabrication of new devices, and pilot studies
to determine safety and effect size in preparation for future formal clinical
trials. HD-00-016 (NIHG 07/27/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 8/15/00; Applications 10/12/00
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The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary
research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster
the development of a new generation of researchers interested in policy-relevant
topics of long-range importance who are willing and able to become key
members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.
It strives especially to promote a new level of intellectual cooperation
between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities
committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem-solving.
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Deadline: 9/1/00
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The Department of Defense has released its FY 2000 Small Business Innovation
Research (SBIR) program announcement. Participating departments include:
Army, Navy, DARPA, Special Operations Command, and Office of Secretary
of Defense. Small businesses are invited to submit proposals under this
solicitation for the SBIR program. Objectives of the DoD SBIR Program include
stimulating technological innovation, strengthening the role of small business
in meeting DoD research and development needs, fostering and encouraging
participation by minority and disadvantaged persons in technological innovation,
and increasing the commercial application of DoD-supported research or
research and development results. Sol. No. 00.2
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Deadline: 8/16/00
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AGRICULTURE
This solicitation will support research to develop scientifically
valid approaches for assessing and comparing the risks to a population
of a wildlife species from multiple stressors. Stressors include (but are
not limited to) contaminants, habitat loss or alterations, and introduced
species. For the purposes of this solicitation, wildlife is defined as
birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. Research proposed through this
solicitation should support a tiered approach to wildlife risk assessment,
with the tiers progressing from general and broadly-based (screening level)
to more realistic, accurate and situation-specific (definitive level) assessments.
In order to better predict the population-level responses of wildlife species
to stressors, the tools of wildlife toxicology, population biology, and
conservation biology need to be integrated so that stressor-response relationships
can be considered in the contest of a species' life history and habitat
requirements.
Deadline: 10/17/00
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ARTS & HUMANITIES
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Collaborative Research grants support original research undertaken by a
team of two or more scholars or research coordinated by an individual scholar
that because of its scope or complexity requires additional staff or resources
beyond the individual's salary. Eligible projects include research leading
to the preparation of scholarly publications that break new ground or offer
fresh perspectives; editions of works or documents that are of value to
humanities scholars and general readers and have been either previously
inaccessible or available only in inadequate editions; annotated translations
into English of works that provide insight into the history, literature,
philosophy, and scientific and artistic achievements of other cultures;
and conferences addressing a specific set of research objectives on a topic
of major significance to the humanities.
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Deadline: 9/1/00
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The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire was founded in 1907
to provide a place where creative artists could find freedom to concentrate
on their work. This remains its guiding purpose today. Writers, Composers,
Visual Artists, Photographers, Printmakers, Filmmakers and Architects come
to the Colony each year from all parts of the United States and abroad.
They take advantage of uninterrupted time and seclusion in which to work
and they enjoy the experience of living in a community of gifted artists.
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Deadline: 9/15/00, 1/15/01, 4/15/01
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The American Historical Association provides modest grants to support research
in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. The funds for this program
come from the earnings of a bequest from Bernadotte E. Schmitt, president
of the Association in 1960. The grants are intended to further research
in progress and may be used for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms,
photographs, or photocopying-- a list of purposes that is meant to be merely
illustrative, not exhaustive. Preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates
and junior scholars.
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Deadline: 9/15/00
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ENGINEERING, MATHMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support
and recognition to young scientists, often in their first appointments
to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories and
establish their independent research projects with little or no outside
support. Candidates for Sloan Research Fellowships are required to hold
the Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer
science, economics, or neuroscience, or in a related interdisciplinary
field, and must be members of the regular faculty (i.e., tenure track)
of a college or university in the United States or Canada. They may be
no more than six years from completion of the most recent Ph.D. or equivalent
as of the year of their nomination, unless special circumstances such as
military service, a change of field, or child rearing are involved or unless
they have held a faculty appointment for less than two years.
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Deadline: 9/15/00
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The Office of Naval Research and the N875 Science & Technology Branch
are interested in receiving white papers for scientific research and exploratory
development in the areas of identifying and countering threats to the submarine
force, as well as any other areas of interest that may improve the overall
submarine force security and survivability. These areas of interest include
the full spectrum of issues that will help to quantify the potential threat,
as well as improve submarine force survivability. Specific ares of interest
include basic physics; sensor development; signal and noise modeling; detection
algorithms (signal processing); performance assessments; countermeasure
concepts (proof-of-concept); at-sea exercises and demonstrations; Port
Ingress/Egress self defense and port security concepts; technology areas
such as passive acoustics, active acoustics and non-acoustics (magnetics,
lasers, infra-red, and wake phenomenology). BAA 00-001
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Deadline: White Papers 10/14/00
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The Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) of the Office of Science (SC),
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in keeping with its energy-related mission
to assist in strengthening the Nation's scientific research enterprise
through the support of basic science, engineering, and mathematics, announces
its interest in receiving grant applications for collaborative partnerships
between academic or industrial researchers from states eligible for the
DOE/EPSCoR program and researchers at DOE's National Laboratories, facilities,
and centers. The purpose of this program notice is to initiate and promote
partnering and collaborative relationships that build beneficial energy-related
research programs with strong participation by students, postdoctoral fellows
and young faculty from EPSCoR states. Notice 00-14 (FR 04/17/00)
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Deadline: Preapplications 10/3/00; Applications 1/16/01
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The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center -- San Diego (SSC-SD) invites
proposals for defining and developing next generation C4ISR systems and
Command Centers. This includes innovative approaches to defining and documenting
next generation C4ISR system architectures and Command Center Architectures,
research development, test, and evaluation of advanced technologies in
the areas of battlespace visualization and display engineering, human-system
interfaces, collaboration, decision support, distributed information management,
advanced simulation, and seamless access to global information. SOL N66001-99-X-6906
(CBD 10/05/99)
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Deadline: White Papers 10/5/00
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The American Cancer Society has announced a new grants program, Research
Scholar Grants, that replaces the former Research Project Grants. The new
grants, which offer increased funding and extended time periods, are designed
to fund the work of gifted, innovative investigators engaged in a broad
spectrum of cancer research. Research Scholar Grants for Beginning Investigators
support basic, preclinical, clinical, cancer control, or epidemiologic
research projects initiated by investigators in the first eight years of
their independent research careers. Research Scholar Grants for Health
Services and Health Policy and Outcomes Research are available for investigators
at any stage of their careers. Research Scholar Grants for Psychosocial
and Behavioral Research are also available for investigators at any stage
in their careers; however, applications in which beginning researchers
are partnered with senior investigators as co-principal investigators are
encouraged.
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Deadline: 10/15/00
26-13 Biomedical Science Grant (Arthritis)
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The purpose of the Arthritis Biomedical Science Grant program is to encourage
and support high quality, original biomedical research closely related
to under-standing the etiology, pathogenic mechanisms and control of arthritis
and related rheumatic diseases in adults and children. Individuals with
doctoral degrees (MD, PhD, DO or equivalent) at the assistant professor
level or higher at any nonprofit U.S. institution are eligible to apply.
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Deadline: 9/1/00
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) seeks to expand the number
of partnerships between typical clinical/services settings and academic
institutions in order to enhance the national capacity to transfer state-of-the-art
interventions into those non-academic settings. This IP-RISP seeks to foster
the scientific interaction of mental health intervention/treatment and
services researchers with typical clinical/services settings, clinicians
and patients/clients to: 1) study and conduct interventions (treatment,
rehabilitative, and preventive) in non-academic health care settings; and
2) describe practice patterns and care variations in those settings. These
two scientific aims should also seek to identify and utilize those factors
(organizational, sociocultural, interpersonal) in day-to-day practice settings
which may be associated with quality care and optimal outcomes for patients
and clients. PAR-00-096 (NIHG 05/24/00)
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Deadline: 10/1/00, 2/1/01, 6/1/01
The U.S. Institute of Peace announces its upcoming fall
unsolicited grant competition, which supports research, education and training
and the dissemination of information on international peace and conflict
resolution. Grantees carry out basic and applied research on the causes
of war and other international conflicts; develop curricula and texts for
high school through post-graduate study and conduct teacher-training institutes,
workshops and seminars; and strengthen information resources, such as library
resources and bibliographic databases, and information sharing. (FR 6/28/00)
Deadline: 10/1/00
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
(NICHD), and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), invite qualified researchers
to submit applications for research on the determinants and consequences
of population movement. The determinants of migration include characteristics
of places and sociopolitical units, and of persons and their families.
The consequences of migration refer to the relative performance of migrants
in their new location, the effects of migration on origin and destination
populations, and the impact of migrants on population structure, density,
crowding, and environmental outcomes. The potential contribution of demographic
research and methods to understanding individual and social outcomes extends
broadly across the spheres of health, human development, aging, retirement,
family, and material well-being. PA-00-032 (NIHG 12/22/99)
Deadline: 2/1/01, 6/1/01, 10/1/00
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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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