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November 3, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 40)
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GENERAL
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The State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is inviting
proposals that foster growth of democratic institutions in the New Independent
States (NIS) by sponsoring training and exchange programs that enhance
institutional partnerships and offer practical information to promote participants'
professional and volunteer activities. Program activities may include trainer
training, internships, short-term training, consultations, study tours,
site visits and extended intensive workshops which may take place in the
United States or in the NIS country. Interest areas vary by geographical
region and include media, training, women's leadership programs, public
advocacy training for non-government organizations and associations and
prevention of trafficking in women and girls. ECA/PE/C/EUR-01-19 (FR 10/19/00)
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Deadline: 2/19/00
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The Center offers four fellowships each summer for individuals in any field
or profession who wish to pursue an innovative project or creative idea.
The ten-week residency is on the campus of Northwood University (Midland,
Michigan) from mid-June to mid-August. Emphasis is placed on a totally
creative learning experience independent of formal education. The residency
provides each Fellow the freedom to pursue his/her own concepts through
independent, non-scheduled study. Applications are welcomed from all disciplines
and areas of interest including the arts, sciences, and humanities. (TGA
09/00)
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Deadline: 12/31/00
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The Alan T. Waterman Award is the highest honor awarded by the National
Science Foundation. Since 1975 when Congress established the Award to honor
the Foundation's first Director, the Award, conferred annually, has been
bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated exceptional individual
achievement in scientific or engineering research of sufficient quality
to place them at the forefront of their peers. The purpose of the award
is to recognize outstanding young researchers in any field of science or
engineering supported by the Foundation. The Awardee receives a $500,000
nonrestrictive grant over a 3-year period for continued research. Candidates
must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must be 35 years old or
younger, or not more than seven years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. by December
31, 2000. Criteria include originality, innovation and significant impact
on the field. NSF 00-124
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Deadline: 12/31/00
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The fellowships are open to U.S. doctoral and postdoctoral scholars proposing
research in the fields of humanities, social sciences, or allied natural
sciences. Research should have regional significance in the Middle East,
North Africa, and/or South Asia, and must be conducted in more than one
country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas
research center. CAORC member centers include the American Academy in Rome,
W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, American Institute
of Bangladesh Studies, American Institute of Indian Studies, the American
Institute of Iranian Studies, American Institute for Maghrib Studies, American
Institute of Pakistan Studies, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies,
American Institute for Yemeni Studies, American research center in Egypt,
American Research Institute in Turkey, American School of Classical Study
at Athens, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, and the West
African Research Association.
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Deadline: 12/31/00
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ARTS & HUMANITIES
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The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library offers residential research
fellowships in American Art; Material Culture and Design; and American
History. Professors, museum and public history professionals, doctoral
students, and independent scholars are eligible.
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Deadline: 1/15/01
41-6 The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship in Greek
Studies (PBK)
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Phi Beta Kappa offers fellowships for the study of Greek language, literature,
history, or archaeology. Candidates must be unmarried women between 25
and 35 years of age who have demonstrated their ability to carry on original
resources. They must hold the doctorate or have fulfilled all the requirements
for the doctorate except the dissertation, and they must be planning to
devote full-time work to research during the fellowship year that begins
September 1, 2001. Eligibility is not restricted to members of Phi Beta
Kappa.
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Deadline: 1/15/01
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Twelve short-term fellowships are available to assist scholars who must
travel to work within the Library's collections. Each fellow is expected
to be in residence at Harvard for at least one month during the fellowship
year, July through June. The Houghton Library is the principal rare book
and manuscript library of Harvard College. The Library's holdings are particularly
strong in the following areas: European, English, American, and South-American
literature--including the country's pre-eminent collection of American
literary manuscripts; philosophy; religion; history of science; music;
printing and graphic arts; dance; and theatre. Fellows will also have access
to collections in Widener as well as throughout the world's largest library.
(TGA 10/00)
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Deadline: 1/15/01
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BUSINESS
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The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) was created
in 1995 by the Lemelson Program in Invention, Innovation and Creativity
at Hampshire College. The objective is to create an independent national,
cross-disciplinary community of faculty and students with an interest in
learning through team-based, commercially focused innovation. Through the
grants program and other member resources, the NCIIA supports existing
innovation and entrepreneurship programs and helps to create new courses
and programs.
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Deadline: 12/15/00, 5/15/01
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The National Institute on Aging (NIA) invites applications for cooperative
agreements (U01s) for exploratory controlled human intervention studies
on the effects of caloric restriction (CR) interventions on physiology,
body composition, and risk factors for age-related pathologies in non-obese
persons. Applications are also invited for studies of similarities, differences
and/or potential interactions between the effects of CR and of physical
activity (PA) on these outcomes. Studies in young adults and/or middle-aged
persons up to age 60 may be proposed. Subject populations of interest are
overweight persons (Body Mass Index of 25.0-29.9), other individuals at
high risk for becoming overweight or obese, and formerly obese persons
at risk for recurrence of obesity. AG-01-001 (NIHG 10/12/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/12/01; Applications 4/25/01
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The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and
the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invite qualified researchers
to submit applications to study the demographic, social, and behavioral
aspects of the transmission of HIV through sexual intercourse. This program
announcement describes NICHD and NIMH programs of behavioral research in
the sexual transmission of HIV, which include five general areas: (1) demographic
studies of sexual behaviors related to HIV transmission looking at individuals
of all ages; (2) studies of the interrelationships between social, institutional,
economic, and cultural contexts and sexual behavior; (3) studies of the
interrelationships among pregnancy, pregnancy prevention, and HIV prevention;
(4) theoretically grounded intervention studies within these areas; and
(5) studies of the appropriate methodologies for addressing sensitive issues
and complex data. PAS-00-136 (NIHG 09/21/00)
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Deadline: 1/2/01, 5/1/01, 9/1/01
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This initiative seeks to stimulate research utilizing specific, well-characterized
transgenic and mutant animal models to elucidate molecular bases for the
normal development and function of sensory-motor mechanisms that detect
and respond to gravity. Gravitational loading plays an important role in
the development (maturation and aging) of the body's gravity-sensing organs,
notably the vestibular receptors, the proprioceptors, the central motor
pathways and the skeletal muscles. These functions are fundamental to an
organism's ability to control its balance and posture, locomotion and other
volitional movements, and its spatial orientation. A deeper understanding
of the interactions between gravity and mechanisms of gene expression in
sensory-motor functions would impact the fields of developmental biology,
vestibular and motor physiology, space biology and space medicine. DC-01-001
(NIHG 10/16/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/18/00; Applications 1/17/01
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The AFAR Grant program, which began in 1982, funds pilot research projects
in the basic mechanisms of aging, the role of aging processes in the pathogenesis
of disease, and the nature of age-related deficits such as arthritis, memory
loss, visual and hearing impairments, confusion and incontinence. Projects
investigating the epidemiology of certain age-related disorders are also
considered. The primary goal of AFAR research grants is to fund investigators
in the early stages of their independent research careers, enabling them
to accumulate preliminary data to apply for major grant support. (TGA 09/00)
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Deadline: 12/15/00
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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The Justice Department's National Institute of Justice is inviting new
fiscal 2001 grant applications in areas selected by investigators to solve
new, recurring and continuing justice-related problems. NIJ supports topics
of relevance to state and local criminal justice policy or practice with
potential for informing national policy and proposals that fill important
gaps in development of key areas of scientific knowledge. Recent grants
have focused on such areas as community crime prevention, policing research,
juvenile and criminal justice systems improvement, corrections and alcohol-
and drug-related crime and treatment. Collaborative projects are encouraged.
(FGCW 10/09/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/17/00; Proposals 1/17/01
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The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to stimulate research
on new or existing tobacco control interventions relevant to state and
community tobacco control programs. This will be achieved by supporting
research on innovative tobacco prevention and control interventions at
the community, state, or multi-state level. The results of this research
will guide tobacco control programs across the nation in order to increase
program effectiveness and produce real reductions in the prevalence of
tobacco use. This is a reissuance of RFA-CA-99-001. CA-01-017 (NIHG 10/19/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/9/01; Applications 2/13/01
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The United States Institute of Peace has announced topics for its 2001
Solicited Grants Competition. The themes/topics are: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding;
Asia Pacific; The Balkans; Training. (FR 9/5/00)
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Deadline: 12/29/00
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Up to five research awards are available in three different categories:
individual fellowships, institutional grants and the Manfred Woerner Fellowship.
Individual Fellowships in Political/Military Studies allow the applicants
to conduct research in the social sciences and related disciplines in one
or more of the European/Asian NATO/EAPC member countries in close liaison
with recognized academic institutions. The research must lead to publication
on political, security and economic issues directly affecting the health
of the alliance. A stay at the NATO headquarters in Brussels is strongly
recommended. A limited number of institutional grants will be offered to
departments of political science or economics, international affairs institutes,
centers for security studies and research teams. The Manfred Woerner Fellowship
honors the late NATO secretary-general. It is intended for an outstanding
individual scholar or institution to conduct NATO-EAPC-related research
along the same guidelines as those described above for individual fellowship
in political/military studies.
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Deadline: 1/1/01
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R. W. Trewyn, Vice Provost for Research &
Dean of the Graduate School
Jim Guikema, Associate Dean
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
Marissa McClelland, Secretary
Congressional Relations
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