38-1 Kansas NSF EPSCoR (KS/NSF)

The Kansas NSF EPSCoR office has announced that there are no funds available for a FIRST Awards competition this fall. The office has also moved to a new location: Foley Hall, 2021 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047-3729. The phone and fax numbers remain the same.

38-2 Youth Gardens Grants (NGA)

The National Gardening Association has announced that Home Depot is once again sponsoring the Youth Garden Grants which provide funding for gardening materials and supplies for children between the ages of three and 18 to learn life lessons from working in gardens and habitats. Priority is given to programs that emphasize educational focus and/or curricular ties; nutrition or plant-to-food connections; environmental awareness/education; entrepreneurship; and social aspects of gardening such as leadership development, team building, community support, or service leaning. FGA 10/2005

• URL: http://assoc.garden.org/grants/

Deadline: 11/30/2005

38-3 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program (ED)

The Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program offers opportunities to faculty of institutes of higher education to engage in research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. Applications that propose projects focused on Western Europe will not be funded. CFDA 84.019A (FR 10/11/2005)

• URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister

Deadline: 11/10/2005

38-4 Environmental Education Grants (EPA)

The Environmental Protection Agency solicits grant proposals to support environmental education projects that promote environmental stewardship and help develop aware and responsible students, teachers, and citizens. This grant program provides financial support for projects which design, demonstrate, or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques. (FR 9/30/2005)

• URL: http://www.epa.gov/enviroed

Deadline: 11/23/2005

38-5 Graduate Assistance in the Areas of National Need (ED)

This program provides fellowships in areas of national need to assist graduate students with excellent academic records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in their courses of study. A project must provide fellowships in one or more of the following areas of national need: Biology, chemistry, computer and information sciences, engineering, geological and related sciences, mathematics, nursing and physics. FR (8/22/05)

• URL: http://www.ed.gov/programs/gaann/applicant.html

Deadline: 11/14/2005

38-6 Graduate Students in Engineering and Science (EPA)

EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality is soliciting applications for a cooperative agreement to provide up to four fellowships to graduate students in the fields of engineering and science, as related to mobile source air pollution. The goal of these fellowships is to support increased diversity at the graduate student level in the fields of engineering and science. OAR-ASD-05-18 (FG 10/4/2005)

• URL: http://www.epa.gov/air/grants_funding.html

Deadline: 11/14/2005

38-7 University Reactor Instrumentation (URI) (DOE)

The Department of Energy is soliciting applications from U.S. universities and colleges with operating research reactors for participation in the University Reactor Instrumentation program. The purpose of the URI program is to upgrade and improve U.S. university nuclear research and training reactors and to strengthen the academic community's nuclear engineering infrastructure. Applications for URI should be directed to the upgrade, purchase and/or maintenance of equipment and instrumentation for the universities' training reactors, specifically: 1) related to the performance, control or operational capability of the reactor and/or facility, 2) for radiation detection and measurement in laboratories directly related to the reactor facility, 3) for security enhancements at the reactor facility. DE-PS07-06ID14718 (FG 10/4/2005)

• URL: http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOE/

Deadline: 12/7/2005

38-8 EDMAP- The Educational Component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (DOI)

The primary objective of the EDMAP component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP) is to train the next generation of geologic mappers. To do this NCGMP provides funds for graduate and selected undergraduate students in academic research projects that involve geologic mapping as a major component. Through these cooperative agreements NCGMP hopes to expand the research and educational capacity of academic programs that teach earth science students the techniques of geologic mapping and field data analysis. 06HQPA0004 (FG 9/8/05)

• URL: http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/DOI/USGS

Deadline: 11/18/2005

38-9 Mathematical Sciences: Innovations at the Interface with the Physical and Computer Sciences and Engineering (NSF)

This solicitation describes opportunities available for support through the Foundation's Mathematical Sciences Priority Area in the following three categories: Interactions between Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science (MSPA-MCS); Interactions between Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (MSPA-ENG); and Interactions between Mathematical Sciences and Physical Sciences (MSPA-MPS). The goal of the Mathematical Sciences Priority Area (MSPA) is to advance frontiers in three interlinked areas: 1) fundamental mathematical and statistical sciences, 2) interdisciplinary research involving the mathematical and statistical sciences with science and engineering, and 3) critical investments in mathematical and statistical sciences that embed training in research activities. NSF 05-622 (Posted 9/21/05)

• URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05622

Deadline: 12/20/2005, 1/13/2006, 3/1/2006

38-10 Healthy Behaviors in Women (HRSA)

The goal of this program is to develop and demonstrate creative and innovative approaches that are effective in reducing the prevalence of overweight/obesity in women by increasing the number of women who adopt positive, healthy lifestyles. The interventions implemented must be substantive in nature, incorporate nutrition, physical activity and health/wellness components, while also positively impacting knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. These approaches should target women in communities who have limited access to preventive health services, and, when appropriate, linked to other relevant services to comprehensively address their health needs. Proposals must include women who are members of racial and ethnic minority populations who are disproportionately affected by overweight/obesity. HRSA-06-063 (FG 10/11/2005)

• URL: http://grants.hrsa.gov/

Deadline: 12/2/2005

38-11 Sunflower Foundation Grants (Sunflower)

The Sunflower Foundation is pleased to announce a new Request for Proposals. The first step is an Open Call for Concept Papers which are due November 15. The foundation will host briefings via telephone conference calls on October 19 and 20, 2995, to discuss the RFP and answer questions. This is a comprehensive RFP across the foundation's three program areas: Access to Health Care (Bridge Grants); Capacity Building; and Healthy Behaviors and Prevention (Promoting Physical Activity, Promoting Healthy Eating, Preventing Tobacco Use, Promoting Physical Activity through Walking Trails).

• URL: http://www.sunflowerfoundation.org/flash/request.html

Deadline: Concept Papers 11/15/2005

38-12 Valuation for Environmental Policy (EPA)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research in three areas of interest concerning the valuation of policy-relevant changes in environmentally-related human health risks: 1) Studies developing values, and models for estimating the economic value of changes in morbidity risks; 2) studies developing or improving benefit transfer methods for morbidity valuation; and 3) studies improving primary methods for morbidity valuation. (As used here, morbidity includes all nonfatal, environmentally related health effects.) CFDA #66.509

• URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2005/2005_vep.html

Deadline: 12/1/2005

38-13 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program (ED)

The Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program supports overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for groups of teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development, or group research or study. As a priority, projects must focus on one or more of the following geographic regions of the world: Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Western Hemisphere, East Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Near East. CFDA 84.021A (FR 10/11/2005)

• URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister

Deadline: 11/10/2005

38-14 Intervention and Practice Research for Combat Related Mental Disorders and Stress Reactions (NIH)

The National Institutes of Health, with the Department of Veteran's Affairs and the Department of Defense, issue this Request for Applications to enhance and accelerate research on the identification, prevention and treatment of combat related posttraumatic psychopathology and similar adjustment problems. This RFA targets studies involving active-duty or recently separated, National Guard and Reserve troops involved in current and recent military operations (e.g., Iraq and Afghanistan). The sponsoring agencies encourage collaborations involving VA, DOD, and other clinicians and researchers that provide screening, assessment, and/or direct care (resilience building, early intervention/prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, maintenance) to groups and individuals who are at-risk, combat exposed, and/or diagnosed with posttraumatic psychopathology. RFA-MH-06-004 (NIHG 9/30/2005)

• URL: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-06-004.html

Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/28/2005; Applications 1/25/2006

38-15 NIJ Data Resources Program (DOJ)

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) requests proposals to replicate findings in previous research or conduct original research using data from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, which houses quantitative and qualitative data from NIJ's sponsored research and makes it available online as downloadable, machine-readable files together with data dictionaries and study abstracts. DOJ-GRANTS-090705-001 (FG 9/7/05)

• URL: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/sl000712.pdf

Deadline: 11/15/2005

38-16 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (ED)

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program provides opportunities to graduate students to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. Projects focused on Western Europe will not be funded. CFDA 84.022A FR 10/11/2005

• URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/fedregister

Deadline: 11/10/2005

38-17 Amelia Earhart Fellowships for Women (Zonta)

Zonta International offers Amelia Earhart Fellowship Awards for women in graduate study in aerospace-related sciences and aerospace-related engineering, 2006 academic year. Women of any nationality are eligible. To apply for the fellowship, you must be registered in an accredited Ph.D/doctoral program in a qualifying area of science or engineering closely related to advanced studies in aerospace-related science or aerospace-related engineering.

• URL: http://www.Zonta.org

Deadline: 11/15/2005