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January 19, 2001 (Vol. 10, No. 3)
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GENERAL
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is inviting applications
for research to prevent violence-related injuries among different segments
of the population and in different settings, and reduce the severity of
emotional and physical consequences of violence. The program announcement
covers a broad range of topics from a variety of disciplines, including
public health, health services, medicine, criminal justice and the behavioral
and social sciences. Among the suggested topics are the etiology of violence,
interpersonal youth violence, child abuse, intimate partner violence, suicide
and sexual assault. Notice 01016 (FR 12/22/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/9/01; Applications 3/9/01
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This Request for Application (RFA) solicits applications to study the development
or refinement of behavioral, pharmacological or other innovative treatment
interventions for individuals with autism or other autism-spectrum disorders.
This RFA seeks Exploratory/Development R21 applications in order to assist
researchers in developing new treatments for autism and obtaining initial
pilot data on the efficacy of new treatments. It is designed to support
phases of intervention development that are prerequisite to (but do not
include) conducting a full-scale intervention study or trial. MH-01-010
(NIHG 11/29/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/15/01; Applications 3/22/01
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EDUCATION
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The purpose of this program is to provide grants for field-initiated research
activities related to the improvement of bilingual education and special
alternative instructional programs for limited English proficient (LEP)
children and youths. Funds under this program are available to carry out
field-initiated research conducted by current or recent recipients of grants
under subparts 1 or 2 who have received those grants within the previous
five years. Research under this program may provide for longitudinal studies
of students or teachers in bilingual education, monitoring the education
of those students from entry in bilingual education through secondary school
completion. CFDA 84.292B (FR 01/09/01)
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Deadline: 2/8/01
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The Education Department is inviting applications for consortia to help
future teachers become proficient in using modern learning technologies.
Implementation grants fund consortia that are implementing full-scale program
improvements in the preparation of technology-proficient educators. Catalyst
grants fund national, regional, or statewide consortia that have the expertise
and resources to stimulate large-scale improvements in the development
and/or certification of technology-proficient educators. (FR 12/15/00)
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Deadline: 2/22/01
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology
is inviting applications for an array of grant programs, including research
grant and fellowship programs in engineering, manufacturing, materials
and measurement science. (FR 01/11/01)
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Deadline: Precision Measurement Grants Program Abbreviated Proposals
2/1/01; Precision Measurement Grants Program Full Proposals 5/11/01; PL,
MSEL, ITL, BFRL, & EEEL SURF Programs Proposals 2/15/01; MSEL Grants
Program Proposals 9/30/01
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The Energy Department is seeking applications for cost-shared research
and development of technologies to reduce energy consumption, reduce environmental
impacts and enhance economic competitiveness. Technology development activities
should address the following key industry sectors: aluminum, steel, forest
products, glass, agriculture, chemicals, metal casting, mining and petroleum
refining. Research proposals should address priorities for the following
industries: heat treating, forging, welding, industrial process heating
and advanced ceramics. DE-PS07-01ID14026 (CBD 11/22/00)
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Deadline: 2/7/01
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The Energy Department's Office of Basic Energy Sciences is seeking applications
for projects in theory, modeling and simulation related to the computational
chemistry component of the broad Scientific Discovery through Advanced
Computing (SciDAC) initiative. DOE is interested in the development of
computational approaches to solving problems in modeling chemical processes
that exceed current capabilities in the following areas: reduction of the
power law scaling of current quantum chemistry algorithms for systems with
large numbers of atoms and electrons; calculation with chemical accuracy
of the properties of open shell systems such as free radicals and excited
electronic states appropriate to many areas of chemistry; and calculation
of the significant properties of complex systems comprising hundreds of
reactions coupled with fluid dynamics and turbulence. Notice 01-08 (FR
01/11/01)
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Deadline: Preapplications 2/7/01; Formal Applications 3/15/01
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The Energy Department is inviting applications to support development of
the individual plasma physics research programs of exceptionally talented
scientists and engineers early in their careers. Notice 01/02 (FR 10/06/00)
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Deadline: 2/7/01
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
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The National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug
Abuse and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
invite research grant applications through this Request for Applications
to support research focused on the neuropsychological, neurobehavioral,
neuroimaging and neuropsychiatric correlates of human immunodeficiency
virus/central nervous system (HIV/CNS) disease. MH-01-007 (NIHG 12/14/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/13/01; Applications 3/20/01
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The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease
(NIAMS) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
(NINDS) encourage investigator-initiated research grant applications of
therapeutic and pathogenic approaches for the muscular dystrophies. Responses
to this program announcement may include studies in appropriate animal
models or preclinical or clinical studies in patients with Duchenne muscular
dystrophy, Becker muscular dystrophy, facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, limb-girdle
muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, congenital muscular dystrophy,
Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, or other forms of muscular dystrophy.
PAS-01-041 (NIHG 01/04/01)
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Deadline: 2/1/01, 6/1/01, 10/1/01
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The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) invite research
grant applications to study genetic testing as it may relate to the clinical
management of nonsyndromic hereditary hearing impairment. There is a broad
range of issues that must be addressed to comprehensively determine the
clinical validity and utility of genetic testing for hereditary hearing
impairment. Such issues include the correlation of genetic and audiologic
information, the utilization of genetic information in clinical management
and outcomes, and the impact of genetic testing on the behaviors and attitudes
of individuals with hearing impairment and their families. PAS-01-036 (NIHG
12/20/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/15/01, 4/15/01; Applications 3/14/01,
6/26/01
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This initiative is intended to stimulate and support new research projects
that have the potential to increase our understanding of skeletal pathology
in osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), and to lead to improved therapeutic approaches
to the disease. In particular, it is intended that new studies should test
the importance of dysregulated bone remodeling in the pathogenesis of OI,
with a view to exploiting pharmacological therapies that may ameliorate
the consequences of the underlying genetic defects. A second major goal
is an improved understanding of osteoprogenitor cell biology that will
form the basis for future therapeutic efforts employing genetic modification
and transplantation of such cells. AR-01-001 (NIHG 12/08/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/14/01; Applications 3/14/01
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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The Justice Department's National Institute of Justice is seeking proposals
for scientifically sound basic research to form the basis for policy and
program changes related to reducing excessive police force, abuse of authority
and improved police-community relations. Activities of interest include:
projects to determine the nature and extent of police behaviors that humiliate,
embarrass or physically abuse, and the effects of these behaviors on public
attitudes, particularly of minorities and youths, toward the police; research
on how perceptions and stereotypes of police, minorities and youths are
formed, influence police-public interactions and can be dispelled; the
relationship of officer approach, tone, level of respect and suspect demeanor
to the use of force and incivilities; studies of the effects of aggressive
enforcement efforts such as zero tolerance, on community opinions of the
police; the impact of various methods of training, types of accountability
systems and policies on the incidence of use of force and behaviors that
humiliate and embarrass; the role of leadership on police departments;
and the effects of community education programs. (FR 11/24/00)
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Deadline: 2/15/01
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research grant applications
for Translational Research Centers in Behavioral Science. The purpose of
these centers is to support the translation of work from basic behavioral
science research, and relevant integrative neuroscience research, to pressing
issues regarding all aspects of mental disorders. Such clinical issues
include an understanding of the etiology and assessment of disorders, the
assessment of functioning, development of innovative and culturally appropriate
preventive, treatment and rehabilitation interventions, and improvement
of methods for the effective delivery of mental health services. The centers
are also intended to encourage basic behavioral processes through an exploration
of how those processes are altered by mental and behavioral disorders.
PAR-01-027 (NIHG 12/05/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/12/01; Applications 3/12/01
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This Small Grant (R03) is designed to solicit small research projects that
anticipate, analyze, and address the ethical, legal, and social implications
(ELSI) of the discovery of new genetic technologies and the availability
and use of genetic information resulting from 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-00-132 (NIHG 09/22/00)
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Deadline: 2/1/01, 6/1/01, 10/1/01
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The National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Drug
Abuse seek to encourage the development of collaborative partnerships between
scientists who study basic behavioral processes (e.g., cognition, emotion,
decision making, social networks, culture) and those who study the etiology,
diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and behavioral disorders
(including drug abuse and addiction) and the delivery of services to those
suffering from those disorders. NIMH and NIDA are issuing this Request
for Applications as a catalyst for a major, long-term commitment to (a)
encourage the systematic translation of basic behavioral theory, methods,
and findings into research designed to reduce the burden of mental illness
and behavioral disorders and (b) encourage basic behavioral scientists
to seek a further understanding of behavioral processes through an exploration
of how those processes are altered by mental and behavioral disorders.
MH-01-005 (NIHG 11/08/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/11/01; Application 4/11/01
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