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February 4, 2000 (Vol. 9, No. 5)
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NOTICE
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Kansas NSF EPSCoR will submit its Phase IV Research Infrastructure Improvement
Proposal to NSF on July 17, 2001. PHASE IV will continue some of the successful
programs from previous phases as well as fund several new initiatives.
Kansas NSF EPSCoR solicits proposals in areas funded by NSF to: Hire new
faculty; Acquire or upgrade multi-user equipment; Stimulate the competitiveness
of junior faculty; Develop competitive proposals; Develop new initiatives;
Increase the research competitiveness of mid-career faculty. Special focus
areas are: agriculture, aviation, biotechnology, the environment, energy,
manufacturing and materials.
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Deadline: New Initiatives Preproposals 3/15/01; Faculty Start
Up, Multi-User Equipment 4/9/01; New Initiatives Proposals 4/30/01
GENERAL
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The Information Technology Workforce (ITWF) program welcomes proposals
that address important research questions related to the under-representation
of women and minorities in the IT workforce. While there is no consensus
on a single definition of the IT workforce, researchers are encouraged
to carefully articulate and justify their own definition of the IT workforce
model. Anticipated research topics revolve around three basic themes: Environment
and Culture; IT Educational Continuum; and IT Workplace. ITWF requires
multi-disciplinary collaboration among researchers in IT, the social sciences
and/or education. The research can address issues at the individual level,
at the societal level, at the institutional level, or across levels of
analysis. NSF 01-33
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Deadline: 3/19/01
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The Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, announces their interest
in receiving applications for research grants in support of the Microbial
Cell Project (MCP), an effort to build on information from completely sequenced
microbial genomes to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the
functioning of a prokaryotic microbial cell. This notice encourages applications
from interdisciplinary scientific partnerships or teams that include such
disciplines as microbiology, molecular biology, applied mathematics, biochemistry,
structural and computational biology, as well as physics, chemistry, engineering
and computer science. The MCP is focused on fundamental research to understand
those reactions, pathways, and regulatory networks that are involved in
environmental processes of relevance to the DOE, specifically the bioremediation
of metals and radionuclides, cellulose degradation, carbon sequestration,
and the production, conversion, or conservation of energy. Notice 01-20
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Deadline: Preapplications 2/21/01; Applications 4/24/01
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The intent of this Inter-Agency Announcement is to provide an opportunity
for an Inter-Agency granting activity in the area of Metabolic Engineering
(ME). Proposals are invited that address enabling technologies useful for
the study of metabolic processes and metabolic engineering. Three areas
are of particular interest: Instrumentation, sensors, new analytical tools,
and new experimental methods which facilitate the study of metabolic pathways,
especially those technologies that allow the examination of individual
cells; Quantitative and conceptual models integrated with experimental
studies that better characterize the regulation and integration of complex,
interacting metabolic pathways; The use of bioinformatics to deduce the
structure, function, and regulation of major metabolic pathways. NSF 01-19
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Deadline: 3/2/01
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AGRICULTURE
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho Operations Office (ID) is seeking
applications for innovative cost-shared research, development and demonstration
of technologies that will enhance economic competitiveness, reduce energy
consumption and reduce environmental impacts in the emerging renewable
bioproducts industry. The proposed research and development projects must
address priorities in at least three out of the four key barrier areas:
Plant Sciences, Production, Processing and Utilization, as identified in
the Technology Roadmap for Plant/Crop-Based Renewable Resources 2020. The
project needs to link the R&D in each of the barrier areas selected,
in an integrated and crosscutting approach, to achieve overall project
objectives. This will require a multi-disciplinary collaboration. DE-PS07-01ID14039
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Deadline: 3/28/01
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The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES)
is announcing the Higher Education Challenge Grants Program for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2001. Proposals must address one or more of the following targeted
need areas: 1) Curricula Design and Materials Development; 2) Faculty Preparation
and Enhancement for Teaching; 3) Instruction Delivery Systems; and 4) Student
Experimental Learning. A proposal may address a single targeted need area
or multiple targeted need areas, and may be focused on a single subject
matter area or multiple subject matter areas, in any combination.
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Deadline: 3/5/01
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The Agriculture Department is inviting applications for research grants
to support science-based biotechnology regulation and address public concerns
about introducing genetically modified organisms to the environment. (FR
01/16/01)
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Deadline: 3/15/01
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EDUCATION
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The Education Department is inviting cooperative agreement applications
to develop and deliver quality postsecondary education and career-oriented
lifelong learning through asynchronous distance education. Grantees must
develop and assess model distance learning programs or innovative software;
develop methods to identify and measure skill competencies; develop and
assess innovative student support services; or support other activities
authorized for the program. ED is especially interested in these priorities:
projects that achieve economies of scale by delivering programs over large
regions; develop high quality interactive software that is modular or flexible
enough for faculty modification of content and portable for wide-scale
implementation; package courses to help students access offerings; use
skill competencies and learning outcomes to measure progress; improve quality
and accountability of distance education; create new opportunities for
underserved learners. CFDA 84.339A and B (FR 01/16/01)
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Deadline: 3/15/01
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ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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The purpose of the Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC) program is
to enable groups of researchers to respond to recognized scientific needs,
to take advantage of current scientific opportunities, or to prepare the
groundwork for anticipated significant scientific development in chemistry,
broadly defined. Collaborations should involve three or more investigators,
each of whom has a well-established research group. The research focus
should be interdisciplinary; thus collaborators may include, in addition
to chemists, researchers from other science and engineering disciplines
appropriate to the proposed research. Collaborations involving investigators
with backgrounds in diverse areas of chemistry are also appropriate. NSF
01-29
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Deadline: 2/26/01
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HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES
5-10 Health Effects Institute Requests for Applications
(HEI)
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The Health Effects Institute has announced topics for its Fall 2000 Research
Agenda. RFA 00-1, Effects of Diesel Exhaust and Other Particles on the
Exacerbation of Asthma and Other Allergic Diseases, has as its objective
a better understanding whether DEP and particles from other sources may
contribute to the frequency and severity of asthma attacks and the exacerbation
of allergic responses, especially in susceptible populations such as children,
the elderly, or patients disabled by chronic diseases. RFA 00-2 is the
Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award which provides funding for
outstanding investigators who are beginning independent research.
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/14/01; Applications 4/11/01
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The purpose of this solicitation is to support efforts to develop non-mouse
animal models of diabetic complications. The animal models are expected
to mimic vascular diseases in patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus
with an emphasis on, but not limited to, cardiovascular disorders of coronary
heart disease, stroke, peripheral arterial disease, cardiomyopathy, and
congestive heart failure. Improved animal models of microvascular complications
are also needed. HL 01-010 (NIHG 11/20/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/26/01; Applications 3/21/01
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Through its Special Competition in Systematic Biology, NSF will support
competitively reviewed projects that target groups of poorly known organisms
for modern monographic research. Projects must train new taxonomists (two
per project minimally) and must translate current expertise into electronic
databases and other products with broad accessibility to the scientific
community. NSF 00-140
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Deadline: 3/1/01
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Fight For Sight provides funding for research in opthamology, vision and
related sciences. FFS supports grants-in-aid, post-doctoral research and
student fellowships to encourage and advance scientific training and research
to study the eye in various branches of biological sciences and clinical
medicine. Priority is given to pilot projects for research relating to
clinically important eye diseases.
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Deadline: 3/1/01
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This initiative is designed to explore the underlying mechanism(s) of action
of hormones and growth factors in the regulation of prostate development,
growth, and tumorigenesis. The focus will be on fundamental studies of
hormone and growth factor action including the mechanisms of action of
nuclear hormones, the role(s) of nuclear accessory proteins and the signal
transduction pathways important for nuclear hormone action in prostate.
Focus will also be on growth factor action in prostate, including growth
factors, binding proteins, receptors and signal transduction pathways.
DK-01-008 (NIHG 08/07/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/27/01; Applications 3/27/01
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The American Massage Therapy Association Foundation invites research proposals
investigating the effects of massage therapy across a variety of applications.
Research grants are awarded to individuals or teams conducting studies
which seek to advance our understanding of specific therapeutic applications
of massage, public perceptions of massage therapy, and the role of massage
therapy in health care.
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Deadline: 3/1/01
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This initiative will provide Pilot and Feasibility grants to utilize non-mammalian
models to develop reagents, methodologies, and novel approaches to the
processes involved in diseases of relevance to NIDDK and especially those
involved and required for normal cell function of interest to NIGMS. Examples
of relevance to NIDDK include new highly differentiated cell lines (such
as tubule cells), mutant organisms, and regulation in vivo; structure-function
studies of purified homologous proteins or proteins in model membrane systems
identification of human homologues to proteins studied in model organisms,
and the search for novel genes and proteins involved in membrane transport
of ions and nutrients. DK-01-012 (NIHG 09/26/00)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/22/01; Applications 3/22/01
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The Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation provides funding for basic,
clinical and translational breast cancer research and for innovative projects
in the areas of breast health education and breast cancer screening and
treatment. In addition, the Foundation awards three-year postdoctoral fellowships
to individuals working under the guidance of experienced cancer researchers
in order to recruit and retain young scientists in the field of breast
cancer research. The focus is on research projects with potential for high
impact that may not be considered by other agencies.
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Deadline: 3/15/01
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The EPA will support longitudinal case studies designed to assess aggregate,
non-occupational exposures to pesticides in defined populations aimed at
addressing important public health issues. These issues may concern the
toxicity of a particular chemical or class of chemicals and/or relate to
a health endpoint and its potential link to pesticide exposures. Specifically,
there is a need for information on aggregate human exposures to commercial
pesticide chemicals such as, but not limited to, pyrethroid insecticides,
triazine herbicides, and residential-use pesticides.
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Deadline: 3/7/01
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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
Sue Peterson, R. W. Trewyn
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