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January 12, 2001 (Vol. 10, No. 2)
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NOTICE
2-1 ONR Program Officer Visit
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Tanja Blackstone, a Program Officer with the Office of Haval Research,
is holding an informational meeting for all interested K-State researchers,
regarding a current ONR Request for Proposals. The meeting is January 25,
from 9 to 11 am, in Room 213, K-State Union. The RFP is for basic research
proposals that provide the underpinnings to applied research in selection
and classification, distribution and assignment, attrition, retention,
recruiting and overall management of military personnel. ONR supports basic
and innovative research across various disciplines such as operations research,
computer science, management, psychology, mathematics, and economics.
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Deadline: 1/25/2001
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GENERAL
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The Housing and Urban Development Department is inviting applications to
provide assistance to economically disadvantaged and minority graduate
students who participate in a community development work study program.
Work assignments should provide practical and useful experience to students
and assignments should further the participating students' preparation
for professional careers. Applications must demonstrate faculty participation
in the program. (FR 11/29/00)
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Deadline: 2/2/01
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The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology
is soliciting proposals for cost-shared projects with industry under a
single ATP competition to speed development and dissemination of challenging
high-risk enabling technologies with significant commercial promise and
public benefit. Technology areas include biotechnology; electronics/ computer
hardware/ communications; information technology; manufacturing technology;
advanced materials and chemicals and other areas. (FR 01/02/01)
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Deadline: Proposals Accepted Beginning 1/10/01 Through 9/30/01
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AGRICULTURE
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The USDA's North Central Region (NCR) SARE Program is requesting proposals
for professional development projects in sustainable agriculture. Projects
should focus on professional development targeted to educators within the
Cooperative Extension Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service,
other governmental agencies, and educators and service personnel in the
non-profit and for-profit sectors serving the food and fiber system. The
NCR SARE program is shifting its emphasis to outcome-based programming.
The overall desired outcome of the North Central PDP is: educators that
are knowledgeable in the general concepts of sustainable agriculture, and
engaged in partnership with farmers, ranchers and the general public on
developing programs and activities that enhance the sustainability of rural
communities and the food and agricultural system.
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Deadline: 2/2/01
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EDUCATION
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The purpose of this grant competition is to provide support for the development
or enhancement, implementation, and evaluation of campus- and/or community-based
prevention strategies to reduce high-risk drinking and/or violent behavior
among college students. CFDA 84.184H (FR 12/27/00)
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Deadline: 2/16/01
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The State Department's Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau is inviting
applications to support higher education reform in the Republic of Serbia.
Proposals must focus on curriculum, faculty and staff development at the
Serbian partner institution in economics, political science, social sciences,
communications, journalism and law. ECA/A/S/U-01-05 (FR 12/14/00)
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Deadline: 2/5/01
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The State Department's Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau is seeking
applications to expand or develop school partnership programs with Russia
or Ukraine. All proposals must have a thematic focus and feature ongoing
joint projects between schools, a student exchange component and educator
(teacher/administrator) component. ECA/PE/C/PY-01-26 (FR 12/14/00)
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Deadline: 2/9/01
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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The Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research of the Office of Science,
U.S. Department of Energy, announces its interest in receiving applications
for projects in the Integrated Software Infrastructure Centers (ISIC) component
of the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) research
program. Successful ISIC activities must establish and maintain close interactions
with other ISIC activities and SciDAC efforts, and it is essential that
they address the complete software lifecycle including transition of successful
research software to robust production software and appropriate mechanisms
for long term software support and evolution. Partnerships among universities,
national laboratories, and industry are encouraged. Notice 01-07 (FR 12/19/00)
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Deadline: Preapplications 1/31/01; Applications 3/15/01
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The Office of Fusion Energy Sciences of the Office of Science, U.S. Department
of Energy announces its interest in receiving grant applications for the
development of scientific simulation codes needed to address complex problems
in fusion energy sciences. The goal is the creation of codes that achieve
high performance on a single node, scale to hundreds of nodes and thousands
of processors, and have the potential to be ported to future generations
of high performance computers. This announcement is focused on some of
the topical areas that are important to developing integrated models of
fusion systems and require the capabilities of terascale computers. Notice
01-10
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Deadline: Preapplications 1/31/01; Applications 3/15/01
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The Energy Department is inviting applications to support the national
collaboratories and high performance networks programs, specifically work
on high-performance middleware services; innovative high performance network
research; and "collaboratories" to test and validate enabling technologies.
Notice 01-06 (FR 12/19/00)
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Deadline: Preapplications 1/31/01; Applications 3/15/01
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is seeking applications
for research to advance the biomechanical understanding of traumatic brain
and spinal cord injuries, evaluate interventions; and define human tolerance
for injury. CDC will give additional consideration to proposals that emphasize
research applicable to young children, women (especially pregnant women)
and the elderly. Notice 01014 (FR 12/22/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/7/01; Applications 3/7/01
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is inviting applications
for research to prevent unintentional injuries in areas ranging from human
factors to improve non-occupational safety to models of care giver behavior
related to child and older adult injuries. The emphasis is on what works
in community-based intervention trials and the rigorous assessment of effectiveness
of interventions to reduce injury. Topics include the effectiveness of
school injury prevention curricula; evaluation of environmental and behavioral
programs to modify pedestrian risks; and interventions that improve older
adult driver safety. Notice 01015 (FR 12/22/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/8/01; Applications 3/8/01
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The Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis and the Division of Cancer
Prevention of the National Cancer Institute invite research grant applications
from interested investigators to explore innovative strategies for the
early detection of cancer, assessment of cancer prognosis or prediction
of response to cancer treatment. Advances in the understanding of basic
cancer biology and the development of powerful molecular technologies are
leading to the identification of many new abnormalities in precancerous
and cancer cells. This initiative promotes the initial evaluation of molecular
or cellular characteristics in human specimens and/or the development of
assays that may result in important advances in the detection, diagnosis
and treatment of cancers. PA-01-010 (NIHG 10/31/00)
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Deadline: 2/1/01, 6/1/01, 10/1/01
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The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK)
recognizes the need to increase the racial and ethnic diversity of the
pool of scientists in research areas important to the NIDDK. This program
is aimed primarily at recently trained M.D. and/or Ph.D. investigators.
The program will enable the applicant to accept a tenure-earning position,
gain additional research experience while transitioning to independence,
and obtain preliminary data on which to base a subsequent research grant
application in an area of diabetes, endocrinology, metabolism, digestive
diseases, obesity, nutrition, kidney, urology, or hematology research.
PA-01-031 (NIHG 12/12/00)
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Deadline: 2/1/01, 6/1/01, 10/1/01
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
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The National Science Foundation is announcing a new emphasis on proposals
in the area of Cognitive Neuroscience. The Directorate for Social, Behavioral
and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation has a history
of supporting basic research in cognitive, perceptual, linguistic, developmental,
affective, and social neuroscience, primarily through the Programs of the
Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS). Support for neuroscientific
approaches will now receive added emphasis via additional funding to many
of these existing programs. In addition to regular, multi-year research
proposals submitted to the disciplinary programs, several additional funding
mechanisms will be used with the goal of building research capacity in
cognitive neuroscience. These include small grants for pilot projects and
planning activities, workshops, and doctoral dissertation research. Proposals
for these activities must be submitted no later than April 16, 2001. NSF
01-41
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Deadline: Target Date 1/15/01; Additional Funding Mechanism Proposals
4/16/01
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The purpose of these grants is to stimulate interest in broadcast research,
especially research on economic, business, social or policy issues of importance
to the U.S. commercial broadcast industry. Topics listed below typify the
kinds of issues that are most frequently raised in discussions among broadcast
managers; however proposals may include any variety of other issues. Training
tomorrow's broadcasters; Impact of new technologies (digital radio, DTV/HDTV,
DBS, Internet/Web, wireless communications, multimedia); Internet users
and content providers; Provision and effectiveness of local news programs;
Analysis of audience response to digital television; Impact of new ownership
regulations on radio industry; Commercial advertising effectiveness or
recall studies; Importance of television and radio advertising on local
and national economics; Changing relationships between networks and local
stations; Public use of parental notification.
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Deadline: 2/2/01
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This Program Announcement (PA) is designed to solicit research projects
that anticipate, analyze, and address the ethical, legal, and social implications
of the discovery of new genetic technologies and the availability and use
of genetic information resulting form human genetics and genomic research.
Of particular interest are studies that: 1) examine the issues surrounding
the completion of the human DNA sequence and the study of human genetic
variation; 2) examine the issues raised by the integration of genetic technologies
and information into health care and public health activities; 3) examine
the issues raised by the integration of knowledge about genomics and gene-environment
interactions into non-clinical settings; 4) explore the ways in which new
genetic knowledge may interact with a variety of philosophical, theological,
and ethical perspectives; and 5) explore how socioeconomic factors, gender
and concepts of race, ethnicity and culture influence the use and interpretation
of genetic information, the utilization of genetic services, and the development
of policy. PA-00-133 (NIHG 09/22/00)
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Deadline: 2/1/01, 6/1/01, 10/1/01
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The Health and Human Services Department's Administration on Children,
Youth and Families is inviting applications for research on infant and
toddler development to improve Head Start Services. Projects explore infant
and toddler development within the cultural context; school readiness;
and mental health. First-year partnership grants support testing instruments
or interventions. Projects should increase the knowledge of low-income
children's development to improve Head Start services or inform policy.
(FR 11/9/2000)
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Deadline: 2/7/01
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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
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