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December 8, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 44)
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GENERAL
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The Environmental Protection Agency and partner agencies are inviting applications
to conduct research on the use of plants to clean up or neutralize contaminated
soul, with an eye toward developing totally new applications for the technology.
The initiative seeks research that will address the fundamental mechanisms
of interactions between microorganisms, plants and contaminated chemicals
in soils and sediments, including marine, estuarine or freshwater systems,
that result in the degradation, extraction, volatilization or stabilization
of the waste chemical. (FGCW 09/18/00)
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Deadline: 1/22/01
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The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) of the Office
of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announces its interest
in receiving applications for research grants in the Natural and Accelerated
Bioremediation Research (NABIR) Program. Applications should describe research
projects that address the scientific aims of individual NABIR Science Elements
including Biogeochemistry, Biotransformation, Community Dynamics, as well
as Assessment projects that relate to those elements. Notice 01-12
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Deadline: Preapplications 1/8/01; Applications 2/28/01
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Participating Institutions and Centers of the National Institutes of Health
invite applications for R01 awards to support Bioengineering Research Partnerships
(BRPs) for basic multidisciplinary research addressing important biological
or medical research problems. A BRP is a multidisciplinary research team
applying an integrative, systems approach to develop knowledge and/or methods
to prevent, detect, diagnose, or treat disease or to understand health
and behavior. The partnership must include appropriate bioengineering expertise
in combination with basic and/or clinical investigators. A BRP may propose
discovery-driven, developmental, non-hypothesis-driven, design-directed,
or hypothesis-driven research at universities, national laboratories, medical
schools, large or small businesses, or other public and private entities.
PA-01-024 (NIHG 12/01/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/16/01, 7/13/01; Applications 2/16/01,
8/14/01
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) invites applications for research
to broaden our understanding of the transition from drug use to drug addiction.
We actually know very little about the predisposing factors, cellular and
neural mechanisms, and behavioral and social processes associated with
the transition from drug use to drug addiction. There is a tremendous gap
in our understanding of how individuals move from early stages of drug
use to later stages of drug addiction and the mechanisms that underlie
the actual transition from one state to another. Research is needed to
better characterize the stages of drug addiction and transitions to and
from them. DA-01-004 (NIHG 11/21/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/23/01; Applications 2/23/01
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ARTS & HUMANITIES
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The Newberry Library offers both Long-Term and Short-Term Fellowships for
in-residence research. The Newberry's collections concern the civilizations
of Western Europe and the Americas from the late Middle Ages to the early
twentieth century.
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Deadline: 1/20/01
44-6 Opera in Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Creation, Performance, and Reception (UIOWA)
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The University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies announces the
availability of Obermann Fellowships for a summer 2001 Research Seminar,
"Opera in Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Creation, Performance,
and Reception." All faculty and staff with a Ph.D. or comparable professional
degree are eligible. This interdisciplinary research seminar will focus
on the relationship between opera and the social worlds in which, and for
which, it was created. Scholars will address the ways in which individual
operas or operatic traditions have shaped, and been shaped by, their publics
and the cultural and political circumstances in which they existed. New
approaches to opera and new problems in opera studies are particularly
encouraged. Scholars from all fields--for example, music, theatre, history,
classics, English, foreign languages --are invited to apply.
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Deadline: 1/29/01
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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The Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the Office of Science, Department
of Energy (DOE), supports fundamental research in the natural sciences
and engineering leading to new and improved energy technologies and to
understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of energy technologies.
The DOE announces its interest in receiving grant applications for support
under its Robotics and Intelligent Machines (RIM) Program. RIM is critical
to the DOE in facing issues related to budget pressures, energy efficiency,
safety, and security. Applications should be from investigators who are
currently involved in basic research in this area. Notice 01-04
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Deadline: Preapplications 1/2/01; Applications 3/20/01
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The Non-lethal Technology Innovation Center (NTIC), located at the University
of New Hampshire, is inviting Innovative Research Project (IRP) preliminary
proposals and Exploration Survey and Review (ESR) proposals for project
funding consideration. IRP Grants - NTIC is soliciting innovative research
proposals to address military options that deny an area to personnel or
vehicles in rural-open areas using either aqueous or non-aqueous slippery
materials. ESR Grant - NTIC is soliciting proposals that will provide an
assessment of future technology and trends that may provide potential applications
for NLW technology. Reviews or surveys should address such topics as biotechnology
and nanotechnology (exclusive of MEMs). Additionally, reviews in the area
of health or human effects of non-lethal technologies will be considered.
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Deadline: 1/8/01
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The Energy Department's Office of Basic Energy Sciences is inviting applications
for innovative research on nanoscale science, engineering and technology,
with emphasis on materials sciences, chemical sciences and engineering
sciences. Program Notice 01-03 (FR 12/01/00)
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Deadline: Preapplications 1/12/01; Applications 3/14/01
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), along with the
National Science Foundation, offer the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
(SURF) program for students majoring in science, mathematics and engineering.
Students can participate in any one of the six laboratories, i.e., Physics,
Materials Science & Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Building
and Fire Research, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, or Information
Technology. The University prepares a single proposal from the institution
to the NIST SURF program which details its academic program and nominates
one or more students for the program. Please contact Jim Guikema, Associate
Dean, 532-6191, guikema@ksu.edu, by December 31 if you are interested in
submitting an application from K-State.
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Deadline: Internal 12/31/2000; 2/15/01
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The Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting applications for research and
development on automotive fuel cells and direct injection engines. DOE
is also seeking applications for R&D on fuel cell technologies for
stationary applications in support of the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency
and Renewable Energy cross-cutting fuel cell technologies and for R&D
on fuels for fuel cells infrastructure. A major DOE program objective is
to increase the involvement of the automotive industry and power industry
supplier bases in key engine-related and stationary power-related R&D
programs. DE-RP04-01AL67057
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Deadline: Preapplications 12/15/00; Applications 2/15/ 01
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The purpose of this notice is to advise the public that the participating
agencies are soliciting research proposals of up to 3 years duration, and
depending on appropriations, up to 5 years for multidisciplinary regional
studies, for the Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB)
program. This program provides support for research on algal species whose
populations may cause or result in deleterious effects on ecosystems and
human health. Studies of the causes of such blooms, their detection, effects,
mitigation, and control in U.S. coastal waters, are solicited. Harmful
Algal Blooms (HABs) include toxic and noxious phytoplankton, some protists,
and benthic algae. To address the need for research on HABs, NOAA, NSF,
EPA, ONR, and NASA combine each agency's unique interests and missions
into this coordinated research program.
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Deadline: 1/31/01
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The purpose of awards in this program is to develop community-based public
health research approaches to diseases and health conditions having an
environmentally related etiology and determine the impact of these methods.
Moreover, awards are intended to stimulate further advances in the design
and implementation of prevention and intervention methods that are appropriately
applied to environmental health; accumulate and evaluate data, making assignments
of environmental etiologies of diseases more plausible; and develop, implement,
and evaluate community-based exposure assessment protocols. ES-01-003 (NIHG
11/29/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/17/01; Applications 3/15/01
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
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The Justice Department's National Institute of Justice is inviting proposals
to conduct original research using the more than 300 qualitative and quantitative
data sets available from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
that were generated from NIJ sponsored research. Priority topics include
sentencing; adjudication; corrections; violence against women and family
violence; drugs and crime; violence, including examination of the correlates
of violent criminal behavior; and policing, including community-oriented
policing. Among studies of particular interest are those that test original
hypotheses by replicating findings and comparing results with findings
obtained via new statistical methods; test original hypotheses using sensitivity
analysis; and use or combine archived data sets containing similar information
collected at different times or from different sites. (FGCW 10/09/00)
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Deadline: 1/25/01, 5/25/01
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The Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
is inviting applications for research and evaluation projects to inform
prevention and intervention efforts focusing on youths from federally recognized
tribes, particularly youthful offenders, high-risk youths and juvenile
victims of crimes. Areas are alcohol and substance abuse, child abuse and
neglect and indigenous approaches to juvenile justice for tribal youths.
(FR 11/9/2000)
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Deadline: 1/23/01
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SMALL BUSINESS
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A Spring National SBIR Conference will be held from February 26 to March
1, 2001 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ten federal agencies plan to send SBIR Program
Managers to participate in the conference, answer questions and provide
advice.
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Deadline: 2/26/2001
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Navy, Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Missile Defense
Organization, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Special Operations Command,
National Imagery and Mapping Agency, and Chemical and Biological Defense
invite small business firms to submit proposals under this solicitation
for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Objectives 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. 01.1
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Deadline: 1/10/01
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The Department of Energy has released its 2001 Solicitations for the Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) Programs. DOE has issued a combined SBIR/STTR solicitation this
year in order to simplify the submission process and allow companies to
submit to both programs with a single application.
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Deadline: 2/20/01
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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
Sue Peterson, R. W. Trewyn
Last Modified: 11:14am , November 29, 2000
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