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July 14, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 27)
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GENERAL
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Newman's Own provides general support for a wide variety of charitable
and educational organizations. Grants received by charitable organizations
reflect support for single disease entities, hospitals, educational institutions,
the aged, environmental concerns, children and youth, family and community
services, hunger and homelessness, and others.
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Deadline: 9/1/00
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The government of Canada's grant programs are designed to promote teaching
and research in Canadian Studies. Research Grants promote research in the
social sciences and humanities with a view to contributing to a better
knowledge and understanding of Canada and its relationship with the U.S.
and/or other countries of the world. Priority topics include: business
and economic issues, Canadian values and culture, communications, environment,
national and international security, natural resources, and trade. Graduate
Student Fellowships are also available for dissertation research.
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Deadline: Research Grants 9/30/00; Graduate, Course Development
10/31/00
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The Department of Energy's Office of Science has issued its annual open
solicitation for energy-related research, including in the physical and
biological sciences. Interests include basic energy sciences, which supports
fundamental research in the natural sciences and engineering; high energy
and nuclear physics; computational and technology research; fusion energy
sciences; and biological and environmental research. Notice 00-01 (FR 11/05/99)
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Deadline: Open
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The Sustainable World Program supports efforts to ensure that human activities
do not erode the Earth's capacity to support living organisms by focusing
on four inter-related themes: 1) maintaining biological diversity; 2) creating
economic incentives and policies that will encourage environmentally sound
development; 3) developing resources that protect the climate; and 4) avoiding
contamination that undermines children's health. Special funds are set
aside in the Sustainable World Program to support grassroots efforts of
organizations working from local to statewide levels. (TGA 6/00)
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Deadline: Open
AGRICULTURE
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The Philip Morris family of companies has opened competition for its 2000
Shared Solutions Agricultural Contributions program. Grants support innovative
programs addressing science and economics issues shared by agriculture
and ag-based consumer products companies like Philip Morris. Grants will
be awarded based on the organization's ability to create and implement
a program that addresses a specific industry shared issue. Programs for
consideration must fit categories of consumer education, food safety, environmental
preservation, risk management or trade liberalization. (FGA 7/00)
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Deadline: 8/1/00
ARTS & HUMANITIES
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The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) offers
the Thomas O. Enders Fellowship to encourage scholarship on Canada and
Canadian-U.S. relations. Eligible candidates include senior scholars whose
work will advance the Canada-U.S. relationship and post-doctoral candidates.
The fellow will spend up to 9 months at the University de Montreal and
McGill University and teach one course per term.
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Deadline: 9/22/00
27-7 Art Preservation Grants (Rothschild)
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The Judith Rothschild Foundation makes grants to present, preserve or interpret
work of the highest aesthetic merit by lesser known American artists who
have died after September 12, 1976. The primary emphasis is to promote
public awareness of the scope of the artists' achievements as well as direct
aesthetic experience of their work.
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Deadline: 9/15/00
EDUCATION
27-8 American Honda Foundation Grants (AHF)
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The American Honda Foundation provides support for projects in the areas
of youth and scientific education. Scientific education encompasses both
the physical and life sciences, mathematics, and the environmental sciences
Programs should be dedicated to improving the human condition, look to
the future, be innovative and creative, and be broad in scope, intent,
impact and outreach.
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Deadline: 8/1/00, 11/1/00
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The Corporation for National and Community Service is inviting applications
for volunteer service-learning projects and activities to meet the needs
of low-income urban and rural communities. Projects incorporate community
and civic service learning into the curriculum and focus on transferring
skills to community residents and expanding the capacity of community-based
organizations to solve local problems. (FR 7/7/00)
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Deadline: 8/4/00
ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO), together with the Advanced Research
Development Activity (ARDA) and the National Security Agency (NSA), solicits
proposals for experimental and theoretical studies relating to the possible
physical realization of quantum computers. The proposals being sought are
specifically for both experimental studies of potential physical embodiments
of quantum logic, and for more basic (usually, but not necessarily, theoretical)
studies in the related fields of quantum error correction and control,
quantum computational complexity and algorithms, and quantum decoherence
and entanglement. DAAD19-00-R-0007
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Deadline: White Papers 9/15/00; Proposals 12/15/00
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The specific objective of this research initiative is to facilitate advances
in technologies that will lead to improved capabilities to sustain/maintain
engineered systems. The scope of appropriate research topics for this BAA
includes topics that range from those addressing the creation, archiving,
and utilization of design and production data/information, to those focusing
on the use of virtual design-space to effect a system/part design and production
capability. The range of appropriate topics also includes those that address
the general issues of integrated, interactive and machine-based software/system
engineering environments for modern and advanced approaches to modeling
and simulation, visualization, data-access/utilization methodologies (machine-learning,
intelligent agents, multi-media, etc.); however, any of these proposed
software/system engineering research and data/information-centric efforts
must have obvious connections to the physical-system/parts manufacturing
focus of this BAA. DAAD19-00-R-0009
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Deadline: 8/11/00
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The Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office, is seeking applications
for cost-shared research and development of technologies which will reduce
energy consumption, enhance economic competitiveness, and reduce environmental
impacts of the Steel Industry. Collaborations between industry, university,
and National Laboratory participants are encouraged. DE-PS07-00ID13964
(FR 06/20/2000)
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Deadline: 9/14/00
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The objectives of the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program is
to attract to Army research outstanding young university faculty members,
to support their research and to encourage their teaching and research
careers. Proposals are sought in biosciences, chemistry, physics, engineering,
and electronics, and materials, mathematical, computer, and environmental
sciences.
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Deadline: Open
HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
27-14 Alcohol and Substance Abuse Grants (McManus)
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The Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust supports research on the causes of
alcoholism and other substance abuse. Projects may examine basic, clinical,
social and environmental causes of substance abuse. (FGA 7/00)
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Deadline: 8/31/00
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The Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences of the National
Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research (NIDCR) invite grant applications for interdisciplinary studies
to better understand the molecular epidemiology and role of cofactors in
the etiology of pre-neoplastic conditions and cancers occurring among persons
infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), specifically those
cancers associated with the DNA viruses, including human papilloma virus
(HPV), Epstein Barr virus (EBV), and human herpes virus 8/Kaposi's sarcoma
associated herpes virus (HHV8/KSHV). Cofactors of keen interest to the
NCI include host genetic susceptibility and phenotype; age at first acquisition
of the oncogenic virus; measurements of immune response; and role of behavioral
factors such as tobacco use and diet. PA-0-086 (NIHG 04/06/00)
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Deadline: 9/1/00, 1/2/01, 5/1/01
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The purpose of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Established Investigator
Award in Cancer Prevention, Control, Behavioral and Population Research
(K05) is to provide established investigators protected time to devote
to research and to act as mentors for new investigators. The target candidates
are outstanding established scientists who have demonstrated a sustained,
high level of productivity, research accomplishments, and contributions
to cancer prevention, control, behavioral and population cancer research;
and who can demonstrate the need to sustain an intensive research focus
that will enhance the progress of their own research and provide them greater
opportunity to serve as mentors to new scientists. The award provides salary
support for an award period up to five years, and is renewable for an additional
five year period. PAR-00-039 (NIHG 01/10/00)
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Deadline: 10/1/00, 2/1/01, 6/1/01
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The National Institutes of Health invites applications to promote research
into the role of microglia in the initiation and expansion of autoimmune
processes of the central nervous system (CNS) and the resulting injury
to CNS components. Microglia become reservoirs of infectious agents including
viruses, fungi, treponema and prions. Under certain conditions, they assume
the phenotypes and functions of macrophages. They may become activitated
and then be able to serve in antigen presentation. The contributions of
these cells not only to infections of the CNS, but also to autoimmunity,
are beginning to be appreciated. The intent of this PA is to intensify
interest and investigator-initiated research to attract new investigators
to this field and to mobilize interdisciplinary approaches. PA-00-029 (NIHG
12/15/99)
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Deadline: 10/1/00, 2/1/01, 6/1/01
SOCIAL SCIENCE
27-18 Family Friends/Volunteer Senior Aides (HHS/AoA)
(HHS)
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The Health and Human Services Department's Administration on Aging is inviting
applications for demonstrations of effective ways of planning, developing
and sustaining new Family Friends/Volunteer Senior Aides projects in communities
without them. The focus is on new model projects, so organizations that
have conducted projects previously are not eligible. (FR 7/7/00)
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Deadline: 8/14/00
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announces the availability
of support for a Social Work Research Development program focused on the
development of social work research in all areas of drug abuse intervention
and services research. The award machanism is designed to provide flexibility
to meet unique institutional needs for developing an enduring drug abuse
research program. The goal is to strengthen the institutional infrastructure
and to develop the capability of faculty members to develop and carry out
interdisciplinary drug abuse research. The goals of this program are two-fold:
1) to build a stable infrastructure for drug abuse research in schools
of social work; and to increase interdisciplinary participation in drug
abuse and addiction in this country. PAR-00-008 (NIHG 11/02/99)
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Deadline: 10/1/00; 2/1/01; 6/1/01
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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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