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December 15, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 45)
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AGRICULTURE
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The Agriculture Department is inviting applications for grants and loans
to fund distance learning and telemedicine projects serving rural areas.
Eligible applicants include: an incorporated organization, partnership,
Indian tribe and tribal organization or other legal entity which will operate
a school, college, university, learning center, training facility, or other
education institution, including a regional education laboratory, library,
hospital, medical center, medical clinic or any rural community facility;
or consortium. (FR 11/06/00)
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Deadline: Grants 3/2/01; Loans or Combination Loans
and Grants 9/30/01
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EDUCATION
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The Education Department is inviting cooperative agreement applications
to address a particular problem area or improvement approach in postsecondary
education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
ED is particularly interested in proposals to form education consortia
of American and Brazilian institutions to foster coordination of curricula,
student exchange and expansion of education opportunities between the United
States and Brazil. (FR 11/14/00)
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Deadline: 3/30/01
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The USP is a K-12-based program that promotes systemic reform of science
and mathematics education for all students. The USP also includes programmatic
components that seek to foster partnerships between urban school districts
and two-and four-year colleges and universities and embed research on educational
practice and learning. Only urban school districts that serve a central
city as determined by National Center for Educational Statistics' Metropolitan
Statistical Area data are eligible to apply through this program announcement.
NSF 01-15
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Deadline: 1/31/01
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The purpose of the Career Clusters Initiative, formerly known as the Building
Linkages Initiative, is to enable States to establish linkages among State
educational agencies, secondary and postsecondary educational institutions,
employers, industry groups, other stake holders and Federal agencies. Through
these linkages, States will be able to develop curricular frameworks designed
to prepare students for a successful transition from high school to postsecondary
education, employment in a career area, or both. CFDA No: 84.051B (FR 12/06/00)
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Deadline: 1/5/01
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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The Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences
(SCREMS) program, from the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National
Science Foundation, is for computing environments dedicated to research
in the mathematical sciences. Proposals may request support for purchase
of computing equipment, and limited support for professional systems administrators
or programmer personnel for research computing needs. Awards are made to
provide support for specific research projects rather than to provide general
computing capacity. NSF 01-16
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Deadline: 1/18/01
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The Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development
Program (SERDP) Office is interested in receiving proposals for research
focusing on the area of Cleanup technologies. A SERDP project has been
defined as one that 1) looks ahead to address emerging and predicted problems
of a complex nature, 2) is essential for the solution of a major mission
readiness problem, 3) is supportive of policy formulation and/or program-level
decisions, and 4) is catalytic in causing the initiation, organization,
and/or acceleration of other essential research.
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Deadline: 1/23/01
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The Transportation Department is inviting applications to develop the field
of transportation statistics and pursue research and development in transportation
statistics. DOT encourages research and development to: visualize and mine
transportation databases; aggregate and analyze databases maintained by
DOT agencies, especially research that involves multiple modes of transportation;
improve the quality and usability of federal transportation statistics;
develop exposure measures for use in risk analysis; improve the statistical
use of geographic information systems to better understand and quantify
travel behavior; develop performance measure for the transportation system;
design and analyze transportation surveys; improve data quality and data
collection; and enhance or extend the National Transportation Library to
better express or incorporate statistical analysis. (FR 11/20/00)
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Deadline: 1/19/01
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is soliciting innovative
research in Meta-Materials. Meta-materials are engineered (nano) composites
exhibiting superior properties that are 1) not observed in the constituent
materials, and 2) not observed in nature. The novel properties result from
the inclusion of artificially fabricated, extrinsic, low-dimensional inhomogeneities.
This four-year DARPA program will focus on developing the theoretical and
processing capabilties necessasry to exploit meta-materials that exhibit
superior properties consistent with the requirements of the two general
Department of Defense application areas: Low frequency (<1 MHz) meta-materials
with superior magnetic properties for power generation, propulsion, and
power electronic applications; High frequency (>1 MHz) meta-materials with
superior microwave and/or optical properties for communication, radar,
and wireless power transfer applications. SOL BAA 01-12
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Deadline: 1/22/01
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This activity is aimed at bringing together faculty at undergraduate institutions:
associate of arts (two-year, community) colleges, baccalaureate colleges,
and masters universities, with faculty at research universities to enhance
the research and educational opportunities in chemistry at both the undergraduate
institutions and research universities. An RSEC will provide: 1) a mechanism
for disseminating the understanding, skills, ethics and practice of research
to the undergraduate institutions, 2) assistance in developing viable,
sustainable research at all participating institutions, 3) a means of involving
faculty and graduate students with a broader cross-section of faculty and
students, and 4) an effective means of involving underrepresented groups.
A Principal Investigator may submit only one proposal to this competition
and each institution may submit only one proposal under this program. Please
contact Jim Guikema, Associate Dean, 532-6191, guikema@ksu.edu, by December
29, 2000 if you are interested in submitting a proposal. NSF 01-10
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Deadline: Internal 12/29/00; 1/24/01
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The U.S. Department of Energy, Oakland Operations Office is issuing a Solicitation
and a Program announcement seeking applications/proposals for innovative
scientific and engineering research and development in the field of nuclear
energy as part of the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI). NERI is
designed to support innovative research that can address the principal
technical and scientific obstacles to future use of nuclear power in the
U.S. NERI is also intended to reinvigorate the vital nuclear scientific
and engineering infrastructure within U.S. universities, industry and DOE
national laboratories. The fields of research include: 1) Generation IV
Nuclear Energy Systems; 2) Proliferation Resistant Reactors and Fuel Technology;
3) Advanced Nuclear Fuels; and 4) Fundamental Science. SOL DE-PS03-01SF22221
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Deadline: 1/19/01
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The Program seeks to broaden the participation of girls and young women
in all fields of science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET)
education by supporting research, demonstration, and dissemination projects
that will lead to change in education policy and practice. Typical projects
will investigate gender-related differences in learning; gender-related
differences in education experience, interest, and performance; and pedagogical
approaches and teaching styles that are gender-neutral or encouraging to
female students. An organization may not, in the same competition, submit
as the primary performer on one proposal and as a collaborator on another
proposal. An organization may submit one proposal to each competition.
Please contact Jim Guikema, Associate Dean, 532-6191, guikema@ksu.edu,
by January 5, 2001, if you are interested in submitting a proposal. NSF
01-6
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Deadline: Elementary and Middle School, Informal
Education 1/30/01; High School, Undergraduate, Teacher and Faculty Development
and Educational Technologies 3/30/01
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The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) announces a fiscal
year 2001 competition for research in three focus areas to be known as
Themes. The Theme areas are: 1) Cooperative Control; 2) Plasma Dynamics
for Aerospace Applications; and, 3) Miniaturization Science for Space.
BAA AFOSR 2001-2
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Deadline: 1/25/01
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The Instrumentation for Materials Research (IMR) Program supports the acquisition
or development of research instruments that will provide new capability
and/or advance current capability to: (1) discover fundamental phenomena
in materials; (2) synthesize, process, and/or characterize the composition,
structure, properties, and performance of materials; and (3) improve the
quality, expand the scope, and foster and enable the integration of research
and education in research-intensive environments. NSF 01-05
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Deadline: 1/25/01
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The Directorate for Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation
announces its intention to support research to determine the function of
all genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana by the year 2010. Individual
investigators or groups of investigators will be supported to conduct creative
and innovative research designed to determine, using all available means,
the function of a network of genes of the investigator's interest and choice.
Also supported will be development of critical research tools for Arabidopsis
functional genomics that enable a broad community of scientists to participate
in the 2010 Project. NSF 01-13
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Deadline: 1/31/01
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The VZV Research Foundation (VZVRF) announces its fifth international competition
for research grants to study the origination and development of infections
caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), including chickenpox, shingles
and post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN).
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Deadline: 1/24/01
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The Fogarty International Center, the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are
inviting applications to support international training and research in
environmental and occupational health-related sciences. The program supports
a variety of types of training in areas including laboratory and toxicology
research; epidemiology and surveillance; environmental monitoring; hazardous
waste assessment; and workplace risk assessment. RFA TW-01-002 (NIHG 12/8/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/16/01; Applications
3/16/01
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STUDENT
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Each year, the U.S. Department of Energy sponsors the Computational Science
Graduate Fellowship Program (CSGF) through the Office of Science and Office
of Defense Programs. Fellowships are awarded for one-year renewable terms
form September 1 through August 31 in support of full-time doctoral study
and thesis research in the United States. Study and research under the
fellowship is to be conducted in an applied science or engineering discipline
with applications in high-performance computing. Research in computational
science is inherently multidisciplinary and includes environmental modeling,
simulation of complex physical systems that generate energy, semiconductor
design, modeling DNA sequences and protein structure, and the simulation
and analysis of flow through geologic structures. DE-FG02-97ER25308
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Deadline: 1/24/01
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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, Rich Doan, 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
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