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July 21, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 28)
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NOTICE
To enable staff to take a summer break, the Funding Bulletin
will not be published July 28 through August 11. Publication will resume
August 18. If you anticipate the announcement of a program during this
period or would like individual assistance in locating grants, please contact
Beverly Page, Research and Sponsored Programs, 785-532-5045.
GENERAL
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The Thanks Be To Grandmother Winifred Foundation encourages, through individual
grants, the creativity of women over 54 years of age to develop and implement
projects, programs, or policies that empower and enrich one or more aspects
of the cultural, economic, educational, ethnic, mental, physical, professional,
racial, sexual, social, and spiritual well being of women. Grants are awarded
to enable the grantees to achieve a specific objective; produce a report
or similar product; or improve or enhance literary, artistic, musical,
scientific, teaching or similar capacities, skill, or talent in order to
accomplish the foundation's objectives. A grant may be used for study at
an educational institution although they are not limited to such an activity.
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Deadline: 9/21/00, 3/21/00
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The goal of this Program Announcement is to promote the development of
the technology of high resolution electron microscopy (EM) so that it can
be applied together with complementary structural approaches for 1) routine
determination of the atomic structures of isolated macromolecular assemblies
and 2) the analysis of the spatial distribution of macromolecules in cells.
The application of EM to a broad range of problems in molecular and cellular
biology is not part of this program announcement. This PA addresses technology
development. The participating institutes are especially interested in
promoting cross-disciplinary collaborations with established experts in
fields of engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science, chemistry,
and materials science. (PA-00-084)
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Deadline: 10/1/00, 2/1/01, 6/1/01
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Participating Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health
invite applications for P20 planning grants that lead to the establishment
of National Programs of Excellence in Biomedical Computing. A subsequent
series of solicitations will be issued to invite applications for National
Programs of Excellence in Biomedical Computing (NPEBC). The NIH is interested
in establishing NPEBC to promote research and developments in biomedical
information science and technology that will support rapid progress in
areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research. As defined here,
biomedical computing or biomedical information science and technology includes
database design, graphical interfaces, querying approaches, data retrieval,
data visualization and manipulation, data integration through the development
of integrated analytical, tools, synthesis, data archiving, data exchange,
tools for electronic collaboration, and computational research including
the development of structural, functional, and integrative, and analytical
models an simulations. PAR-00-102 (NIHG 05/30/00)
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Deadline: 10/1/00, 2/1/01, 6/1/01
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AGRICULTURE
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The Food and Drug Administration is inviting cooperative agreement applications
for research in selected food safety areas. Areas are produce safety; egg
safety; development of extraction procedures of food borne viruses from
foods to enhance detection; and food service, transportation and consumer
practices. (FR 07/10/00)
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Deadline: 8/24/00
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ARTS & HUMANITIES
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The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced
study. Fellowships are normally for the full academic year (September through
May). Fellowships are open to scholars from any nation and to humanistically
inclined individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the
professions and public life as well as from all fields of the humanities.
While most of the Center's fellowships are unrestricted, the following
designated awards are available for the academic year 2000-01: two or three
fellowships for scholarship concerning nature, environmental history, or
ecological concerns; a fellowships in art history or visual culture; a
fellowship in twentieth-century biomedical history.
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Deadline: 10/15/00
28-6 The Richard Florsheim Art Fund (Florsheim)
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The Richard Florsheim Art Fund addresses the situation faced by senior
American artists of merit whose public recognition may have declined, but
who continue to be productive in their artistic work. Both individual artists
and institutions may apply for assistance from the fund. It is intended
to assist living American artists of established reputation of sixty years
or more in the following ways: participate in the funding of exhibitions;
or assist in the purchase of works for the collections of nonprofit institutions.
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Deadline: 10/1/00, 3/1/01
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EDUCATION
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The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is pleased to announce
its 2001 national grant cycle. The Foundation's grant-making program seeks
to develop or expand projects that are designed to support the development
of literacy skills in families. The organization must currently have an
instructional literacy program that has operated for at least two years
and includes one or more components of a family literacy program, specifically,
literacy for adults, parent education, pre-literacy or literacy for children,
or intergenerational literacy activities; and the organization must propose
a family literacy project that promotes families reading together.
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Deadline: 9/8/00
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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is accepting proposals
for its Teachers as Scholars program which supports partnerships between
institutions of higher education and public schools that result in a series
of professional development seminars for K-12 teachers. Under the program,
teachers participate in small seminars held on college campuses during
the school day. Seminars are conducted by leading professors in the humanities,
social sciences and sciences and allow teachers to study a topic of interest
to them away from their school environment.
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Deadline: 10/2/00
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The Education Department's Office of Educational Research and Improvement
is inviting applications to conduct investigator-initiated education research.
Topics are up to the researcher, but proposers must make a well-reasoned
and compelling case for the national significance of the problems or issues
they select and present a design that is complete, clearly delineated and
incorporates sound research methods. ED encourages collaborative research;
for example, research-intensive universities may collaborate with historically
underrepresented institutions. (FR 07/14/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent: 8/18/00; Applications 9/15/00
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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The purpose of the Focused Research Groups in the Mathematical Sciences
(FRG) activity is to allow groups of researchers to respond to recognized
scientific needs of pressing importance, to take advantage of current scientific
opportunities, or to prepare the ground for anticipated significant scientific
developments in the mathematical sciences. Groups may include, in addition
to mathematical scientists, research from other science and engineering
disciplines appropriate to the proposed research. The activity will support
projects for which the collective effort by a group of researchers is necessary
to reach the scientific goals. (NSF 00-114)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent: 9/18/00; Applications10/18/00
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The Air Force Office of Scientific Research is inviting proposals under
a Defense Department Initiative, the Defense University Research Instrumentation
(DURIP) program to purchase costly equipment to support research and research-related
education in areas of interest to major defense science agencies. (CBD
05/24/00)
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Deadline: 8/17/00
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The recently published Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States,
1950-1994 displays the geographic patterns for various forms of cancer.
This PA encourages applicants to use this exciting new resource as a catalyst
for research in cancer etiology and control. The NCI wishes to stimulate
research in three areas in order to encourage researchers to us the Atlas
to speed the process of scientific discovery and application. The areas
include: 1) epidemiologic research to study the determinants of the geographic
patterns uncovered by the Atlas; 2) use of GIS for cancer research in response
to the Atlas; and 3) methodologic GIS research needed to accomplish such
research. PAS-00-120 (NIHG 07/11/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent: 10/9/00; Applications 11/13/00
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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) invites applications
to develop strategies and technologies for obtaining DNA sequence in the
gaps that, due to limitations in available cloning and sequencing technology,
will remain in essentially finished genomic sequences. Such gaps may arise
from an inability to clone a region in any available vector system or to
an inability to obtain sequence from all or part of an available clone.
Such gaps that remain have been encountered in every large genome sequencing
effort to date. NHGRI is encouraging development of novel approaches that
will allow completion of the DNA sequence within the gaps that are left
by current sequencing methods and that will improve the efficiency of sequencing
in genomic regions that have proved difficult to sequence. PAS-00-112 (NIHG
06/27/00)
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Deadline: 10/1/00, 2/1/00, 6/1/01
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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The Kansas Children's Cabinet is accepting applications for grant proposals
to fund innovative, research-driven, outcomes-based early childhood-focused
prevention initiatives. The purpose of these grant applications should
be to initiate, enhance or expand services or programs that affect early
childhood. (KSR 07/13/00)
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Deadline: 9/11/00
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), through the issuance of
this Program Announcement (PA), intends to facilitate the entry of new
investigators into the field of behavioral science research. NIMH invites
newly independent investigators to submit applications for small-scale
exploratory or pilot research projects related to the behavioral science
mission of the NIMH. This includes basic research on psychological and
behavioral processes (e.g., cognition, emotion, personality, interpersonal
interaction, social cognition), research incorporating neural and other
biological approaches if the research has a primary focus on behavior,
research on mental illness (risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention),
and research on mental health services (e.g., organization, financing,
delivery, and effectiveness; psychosocial rehabilitation, adherence). To
be eligible for a B/START award, the proposed Principal Investigator must
be independent of a mentor at the time of the award, but be at the beginning
stages of his/her research career (typically not more than five years from
receipt of the doctorate or, if applicable, from the end of postdoctoral
training). PAR-00-119 (NIHG 07/14/00)
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Deadline: 10/1/00, 2/1/01, 6/1/01
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The Foundation accepts applications for grants to conduct research on important
aspects of alcohol consumption and its effects. The Foundation is particularly
interested in: Factors influencing transitions in drinking patterns and
behavior; Effects of moderate use of alcohol on health and well-being;
Mechanisms underlying the behavioral and biomedical effects of alcohol;
and Biobehavioral/interdisciplinary research on the etiology of alcohol
misuse. The Foundation does not encourage applications on treatment of
the complications of advanced alcoholism. However, research involving treatment
intended to elucidate the pathogenesis of alcohol-related problems will
be considered. Non-research activities such as education projects, public
awareness efforts and referral services are not eligible for support.
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Deadline: 9/1/00
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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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