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USDA Challenge Grant Workshop Update

Because of USDA delays in publishing the call for proposals for the Higher Education Challenge Grant competition, KSU's grant workshop has been rescheduled for 1:30 pm, January 19, Waters Hall 137. Jeff Gilmore, the national program leader for the Challenge Grants will participate via teleconference and will be happy to answer questions from participants.

1-1 Extramural Research Facilities Construction Projects (NIH)

The National Center for Research Resources is inviting applications for matching grants to construct, renovate and remodel basic and clinical biomedical and behavioral research and research training facilities. Since only one application may be submitted from an institution, John Murray, Interim Associate Vice Provost for Research, will coordinate KSU's submission selection. Please send him a one page Letter of Intent, Room 103 Fairchild Hall, by January 18 if you wish to submit. PAR-99-032 (NIHG 12/24/98)

Deadline: 2/25/99

1-2 Young Investigator Programs (NRC)

The National Research Council (NRC) Young Investigator Programs (YIPs) are based on the premise that scholars make some of their most important professional contributions in the early stages of their careers and that professional relationships established during this period tend to endure for many years. With support from the U.S. Department of State's Research and Training Program for Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII), the National Research Council, will sponsor three Young Investigator Programs in 1999. Each program will consist of a fifteen to twenty day session in the foreign country in the summer of 1999. Each program will include five to seven American specialists and an equal number of foreign specialists; all participants must have earned his/her Ph.D. or achieved equivalent professional accomplishments not earlier than January 1, 1991. Program descriptions include Energy in Armenia; Trauma in Bosnia-Herzegovina; and Health Impacts of Nuclear Testing in Russia and Kazakhstan.

2/17/99

1-3 IREX Short-Term Travel Grants (IREX)

IREX Short-Term Travel Grants provide support to US scholars for visits of up to two months to conduct postdoctoral research, present papers at conferences, or consult with colleagues in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Mongolia. Projects should demonstrate academic merit and relevance for the American academic community studying these regions, as well as a positive impact on public, cultural and historical knowledge of these regions through dissemination of research results.

Deadline: 2/1/99, 6/1/99

1-4 Training Programs: Central, Eastern Europe (USIA)

The U.S. Information Agency is inviting applications for exchanges and training programs focusing on specific topics designated to specific geographical areas. Activities may include internships, study tours, short-term training, consultations and intensive workshops. USIA is interested especially in proposals that take into account the need for ongoing information sharing, training and concrete plans for self-sustainability. (FR 12/10/98)

Deadline: 2/23/99

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1-5 Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (USDA)

The North Central Region (NCR) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Professional Development Program (PDP) is seeking proposals for professional development initiatives in sustainable agriculture. Projects should focus on professional development for Cooperative Extension Service (CES) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and other appropriate agency and private sector personnel within the region, in the concepts, systems and practices of sustainable agriculture. Priority Categories and Topics for Professional Development are: Marketing and value-added processing; Farming and ranching systems; Economics of sustainable agriculture; Sustainable weed and pest management; Measuring and improving soil quality and soil health; Nutrient management; and Synthesizing and communicating results of past NCR SARE project results.

Deadline: 1/29/99

1-6 Agricultural Telecommunications Program (ADEC)

The ADEC Distance Education Consortium is soliciting proposals under the Agricultural Telecommunications Program. This program encourages the development and utilization of an agricultural communications network to facilitate and to strengthen agricultural extension, resident education and research, and domestic and international marketing of United States agricultural commodities and products through a partnership between eligible institutions and the Department of Agriculture. The objectives are to make optimal use of available resources for agricultural extension, resident education, and research by sharing resources between participating institutions; to improve the competitive position of US agriculture in international markets by disseminating information to producers, processors, and researchers; to train students for careers in agriculture and food industries; to facilitate interaction among leading agricultural scientists; to enhance the ability of US agriculture to respond to environmental and food safety concerns; and to identify new uses for farm commodities and to increase the demand for US agricultural products in both domestic and foreign markets.

Deadline: Preproposals 2/15/99; Proposals 4/30/99

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1-7 Bilingual Education (ED)

The Education Department is inviting applications under four bilingual education programs. Funding priorities range from empowerment zone and enterprise community activities to reading, math and college prep focused instruction for enhancement projects, which carry out focused, innovative, locally designed projects to augment existing programs and for development and implementation projects, which effect new comprehensive programs. ED will fund only schools with at least 25 percent limited English proficient (LEP) students for comprehensive school grants, which implement schoolwide bilingual education and alternative instruction reforms; and system-wide improvement projects that serve only LEAs with 1,000 or 25 percent of LEP students per LEA. CFDA 84.289P, 84.290U, 84.288S, 84.291R (FR 01/04/99)

Deadline: Program enhancement, development, implementation 2/16/99; Comprehensive, Systemwide 2/26/99

1-8 Women's Educational Act Program (ED)

The goal of the Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Program is to promote gender equity in education; to promote equity in education for women and girls who suffer from multiple forms of discrimination based on sex and race, ethnic origin, limited english proficiency, disability or age; and to provide financial assistance to enable educational agencies to meet the requirements of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The Department will award two types of grants: 1) grants for the implementation of gender equity programs in schools; and 2) research and development grants to develop model equity programs.

Deadline: 2/19/99

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1-9 Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Research and Applications (NASA)

The Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Research and Applications program aims to develop and apply NASA space geodetic and remote sensing technology in the solution of important scientific problems which improve our understanding of the dynamics of the solid earth and which demonstrate or disseminate this technology in ways that are important to society, especially in the assessment and mitigation of natural hazards. This NRA solicits basic research in areas of Solid Earth Science, applied research in Natural Hazards, Geologic Applications, Pacific Disaster Center Modeling and Simulation, and the development of supporting technology. NRA-98-OES-13

Deadline: 1/19/99, 2/19/99

1-10 NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education (PFSMETE) (NSF)

The primary objectives of the Postdoctoral Fellowships in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education (PFSMETE) program are: to prepare Ph.D. graduates in science, mathematics, engineering and technology with the necessary skills to assume leadership roles in SMET education in our Nation's diverse educational institutions, and to provide opportunities for outstanding Ph.D. graduates to develop expertise in a facet of science education research that would qualify them for the new range of educational positions that will come with the 21st century. (NSF 99-17)

Deadline: 2/1/99

1-11 EPA/NSF Partnership for Environmental Research (EPA/NSF)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announce their intent to continue to support an extramural grants program in fundamental environmental research in Fiscal Year (FY) 1999. This announcement solicits applications for Decision-making and Valuation for Environmental Policy (DMVEP). The FY 1999 DMVEP competition solicits proposals in two years: The Relationship Between the Economy and the Environment; and Environmental Decision-making. NSF 99-14

Deadline: 2/1/99

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1-12 Kansas Racing Commission Grants (KRC)

The Kansas Racing Commission has issued a call for applications for equine research or research related to prevention of injury to and disease of greyhounds and horses. Proposals should be sent to Priscilla, Office of Business Affairs, Veterinary Medicine, by February 8 for internal processing. Dr. Minocha will forward the proposals to the Kansas Racing Commission for their February 22 deadline.

Deadline: 2/08/99; 2/22/99

1-13 Integrated Genomics Technologies (NIH)

The National Center for Research Resources, National Human Genome Research Institute and National Institute of General Medical Sciences are inviting applications for new, innovative, multidisciplinary efforts to develop integrated genomics technologies that will lead to the development of future tools for biologists, especially for genome analysis. Types of technologies include those that will enable the applications of powerful combinatorial approaches to understanding and regulating the interior world of the cell and characterizing the cell-physiological consequences of rare phenotypes. RFA-RR-99-003 (NIHG 12/24/98)

Deadline: 2/23/99

1-14 Phenotypic Characterization of Sleep in Mice (NIH)

The primary goal of this initiative is to advance our understanding of sleep and wakefulness by developing improved molecular, cellular, and systems approaches to investigate sleep and circadian phenotypes in mice. Better and more extensively-characterized mouse models will help determine the genetic underpinnings of sleep and wakefulness, elucidate the physiological role of sleep, and develop new directions for the treatment of sleep disorders. Establishing inbred mice strains as a platform for sleep studies will advance our understanding of normal sleep phenotypes; facilitate the use of targeted and transgenic gene modification approaches; and lead to a refinement in the definition of sleep state in molecular and genomic terms. HL-99-001 (NIHG 12/18/98)

Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/26/99; Proposals 2/26/99

1-15 Emerging Infections (CDC)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is inviting cooperative agreement applications to operate provider-based emerging infections sentinel networks. Sentinel networks linking group of participating individuals or organizations will monitor infectious disease problems, enhance communications among participants and with the public health community and provide the capacity to address urgent infectious disease problems rapidly. Announcement 99025 (FR 12/29/98)

Deadline: 2/15/99

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1-16 Cost Research on Alcohol Treatment & Prevention Services (NIH)

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism (NIAAA) seeks health services research grant applications that are aimed at increasing knowledge about the cost of services for the treatment and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. This knowledge can be increased through cost analysis studies, cost effectiveness studies, cost benefit studies, cost offset studies, and cost modeling studies. It can also be increased through advances in the methods used to measure costs of treatment and prevention interventions. PA-98-104 (NIHG 09/16/98)

Deadline: 2/1/99, 6/1/99, 10/1/99

Last Modified: 03:06pm , January 14, 1999

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