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February 12, 1999 (Vol. 8, No. 6)
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General
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The United States Army Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC)
is interested in receiving proposals for research support pertaining to
ecosystem-based, adaptive land management under the Land Management System
(LMS). LMS is being developed to manage terrestrial and aquatic resources
to achieve balanced resource use in support of military missions. The principle
components of LMS are models that represent ecological, geophysical, risk
and mission processes operating on the land base, and their interactions.
Models will be applied to evaluate the consequences of alternative land
use and management scenarios. Sol DACA88-99-R-0007 (CBD 01/20/99)
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Deadline: 3/22/99
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The Energy Department's Office of Basic Energy Sciences is inviting applications
for innovative research on the topic of complex and collective phenomena.
The initiative signals a switch from research to solve difficult problems
in idealized, simple systems to focusing on complex systems. Areas include:
Materials that are beyond binary, lack stoichiometry, are far from equilibrium;
and have little or no symmetry or low dimensionality; functional synthesis;
control of entropy; phenomena beyond the independent particle approximation;
and scaling in space and time. Notice 99-13 (FR 02/03/99)
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Deadline: Preapplications 3/2/99, Applications 4/21/99
6-3 Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research (Johnson)
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Investigator Awards in Health Policy
Research program requests proposals to interpret, develop, or substantially
advance ideas or knowledge that can improve health or health care policy
in the United States. Applications are encouraged from investigators in
diverse fields, including economics, sociology, political science, education,
public health, medicine, allied health, business, philosophy, ethics, journalism,
social work, the management sciences, and other fields.
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/9/99, Applications 7/30/99
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Arts & Humanities
6-4 ArtsREACH (NEA)
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) developed ArtsREACH as a special
project to provide more support to communities that have been underrepresented
among the agency's grant recipients. ArtsREACH is a community cultural
assessment and planning initiative to stimulate and strengthen the role
of the arts in the economic and cultural development of communities. It
aims to encourage the long-term development, availability, and preservation
of artistic and cultural resources in targeted states, including Kansas.
It is designed to help community-based coalitions to develop community
cultural plans or undertake cultural assessments and to strengthen the
capacity of participating arts organizations to seek and receive future
support from private and public funding sources, including the Arts Endowment.
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Deadline: 4/26/99
6-5 Grants for Visual Arts (AWF)
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The Andy Warhol Foundation is focused primarily on supporting work of a
challenging and often experimental nature, while noting that the interpretation
of those terms may vary from place to place and culture to culture. In
this regard, the Foundation encourages curatorial research leading to new
scholarship in the field of contemporary art. Grants are made on a project
basis to curatorial programs at museums, artists' organizations, and other
cultural institutions to assist in the innovative and scholarly presentation
of contemporary visual arts. Projects may include exhibitions, catalogues,
and other organizational activities directly related to these areas. The
program also supports the creation of new work through regranting initiatives
and artist-in-residence programs. The work of choreographers and performing
artists occasionally is funded when the visual arts are an inherent element
of a production. The Foundation makes historic preservation grants to organizations
working to preserve historic buildings, districts, and landscapes.
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Deadline: 3/15/99, 9/15/99
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Education
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The Education Department's Office of Postsecondary Education is inviting
applications for the Teacher Quality Enhancements grant program. Partnership
grants will bring teacher preparation programs, schools of arts and sciences
and high-need school districts and schools together to improve traditional
teacher education.(CFDA 84.336) FR 02/08/99
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Deadline: Preapplications 4/2/99, Applications 7/9/99
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The USP is a K-12 based program that promotes systemic reform of science
and mathematics education for all students. To provide further assurance
that significant improvement will occur district-wide at the K-12 level,
the USP program includes programmatic options that seek to foster partnerships
between urban school districts and two and four year colleges and universities.
Submitting urban school districts must demonstrate how the system's plan
will lead to full-scale implementation of a K-12 standards-based science
and mathematics operation system-wide, inclusive of the curriculum, instruction
and instructional materials, assessment, and professional development.
The K-12 reform program may include a component that affords opportunities
for graduate students and post-doctoral personnel in science, mathematics,
engineering, and technology disciplines to assist in expanding K-12 teachers'
understanding and depth of content knowledge of fundamental principles
of science and mathematics. (NSF 99-52)
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Deadline: 3/31/99
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This program supports fellowships and associated training that will enable
graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the sciences, mathematics,
engineering, and technology to serve in K-12 schools as resources knowledgeable
about both the content and applications of science, mathematics, engineering,
and technology. Academic institutions apply for awards to support fellowship
activities, and are responsible for selecting fellows. The fellows will
serve as resources for teachers in science and mathematics instruction.
Expected outcomes include improved communication and teaching skills for
the fellows, enriched learning by K-12 students, professional development
opportunities for K-12 teachers, and strengthened partnerships between
institutions for higher education and local school districts. An institution
may submit no more than two proposals in which it is the only participating
institution in the prospective award, and no more than one proposal in
which it is the lead institution in a multi-institution collaboration,
per round of competition. Please contact John P. Murray, Interim Associate
Vice Provost for Research, 532-6191, e-mail jpm@ksu.edu, by March 1 if
you are interested in submitting a proposal for this initiative. (NSF 99-75)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/1/99, Applications 5/5/99
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
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Air Force Research Laboratory, ARFL/MLBC, solicits research proposals on
Innovative Thermal Protection Materials. The principle objective of this
PRDA is to identify, select, develop, and characterize materials and processing
(M&P) technology solutions which provide thermal protection in the
extreme thermal and structural environment of atmospheric hypersonic flight,
including an extended cruise segment. The program focus is on innovative
M&P providing the necessary thermal protection at an affordable cost.
SOL PRDA NO. 98-40-MLK (CBD 02/05/99)
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Deadline: 3/30/99
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites grant applications from
partnerships between local and state governments, research institutions,
non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and/or the federal
government for the EMPACT Program. The goal of Environmental Monitoring
for Public Access and Community Tracking (EMPACT) is to assist communities
to provide sustainable public access to environmental monitoring data and
information that are clearly-communicated, time-relevant, useful, and accurate
in the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Environmental monitoring consists
of the systematic measurement, evaluation, and communication of physical,
chemical, and/or biological information intended to give insight into environmental
conditions. Kansas City and Wichita are among the qualifying metro areas.
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Deadline: 4/8/99
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The National Science Foundation and Sandia National Laboratories are offering
a collaborative research grant program focused on advancing the fundamental
knowledge needed to support advanced computer simulations. For FY 99 proposals
should address modeling and simulation advances in the following focus
areas: Thermal Transport, Solid Mechanics, Engineering Design, and Computational
Intelligence and Engineering Systems. The Engineering Design area will
consider only proposals which involve at least three Principal Investigators
with diversity in research expertise and which address significant, broad-based
engineering research problems requiring a synergistic approach, particularly
at the interface of disciplines. (NSF 99-56)
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Deadline: Abstracts 4/12/99, Proposals 5/10/99
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Health & Life Sciences
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The NIH invites applications for innovative investigator-initiated basic
or population based research to determine the role of environmental and
infectious agents in the initiation and/or exacerbation of autoimmune diseases.
Three specific areas of interest are: 1) the role of exposure to environmental
and/or infectious agents in the development of autoimmune diseases, including
timing of exposure; 2) the role of genetic factors in modulating the induction
or perpetuation of autoimmune diseases by environmental or infectious agents
and 3) the interaction of hormones and gender differences with environmental
or infectious agents in development of autoimmune diseases. ES-99-003 (NIHG
02/04/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/12/99, Applications 5/7/99
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The Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award (FIRCA) facilitates
collaborative research between U.S. biomedical scientists supported by
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and investigators in the developing
world as well as in Central and Eastern Europe, and countries of the former
Soviet Union. Awards are made to the U.S. applicant institution to support
a collaborative research project that will be carried out mainly at the
foreign collaborator's research site. PAR-99-008 (NIHG 10/30/98)
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Deadline: 3/25/99, 7/25/99
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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) invites research
grant applications to conduct studies on the pathogenesis of nocturnal
asthma and the role of circadian rhythm and/or sleep/sleep disturbances
in this disease process. The overall goal of this program is to establish
the cellular and molecular mechanisms which underlie the chronobiology
of nocturnal exacerbations of asthma and airway inflammation, as well as
the role played by sleep/sleep disturbances. Toward this goal, this initiative
strongly encourages scientific collaborations among investigators with
interest in asthma, chronobiology, sleep medicine, immunology, physiology,
and neurophysiology. HL-99-011 (NIHG 01/20/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/12/99, Applications 6/16/99
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Social Sciences
6-15 Multiple Social Science Research Projects for the NPS (DOI)
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The help achieve the objectives of the National Park Service (NPS) Social
Science Program, the University of Idaho (UI) is currently soliciting proposals
for five research projects. These projects will be awarded and funded through
subcontracts with the UI Cooperative Park Studies Unit (CPSU). Research
Project 1 will focus on advancing the NPS Money Generation Model (MGM),
a regional economic impact model that was developed to estimate the economic
benefits of park visitor expenditures. Research Project 2 will focus on
the development of advancement decisions that may limit visitor use. Research
Project 3 will focus on the development and advancement of the Visitor
Experience and Resource Protection (VERP) framework, a visitor use management
and planning tool that has been use by several units of the National Park
System. Research Project 4 will focus on the development and administration
of a national survey of the American public to help answer key research
questions related to the management of the National Park System. Research
Project 5 will focus on evaluating the effect on the NPS Fee Demonstration
Program on backcountry users in Grand Canyon and everglades national parks.
SOL UI99-101H (CBD 01/20/99)
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Deadline: 4/1/99
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Student
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Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research support original investigation in all
areas of science, including social sciences, and engineering. Graduate
and undergraduate students in degree programs may apply. Grants cover direct
costs only for a research project.
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Deadline: 3/15/99,10/15/99
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R. W. Trewyn, Interim Vice Provost for Research &
Dean of the Graduate School
John P. Murray, Interim Associate Vice Provost
for Research
Ruth Bennett, Secretary
Preaward Section
Paul Lowe, Director, PreAward Services
Anita Fahrny, Assistant Director
Kathy Tilley, Lisa Duer, Carole Lovin, Rex Goff,
Dawn Caldwell
Information Specialist & Editor
Beverly Page
Human Subjects, Animal Care & Use, and Biosafety
Gerald P. Jaax, Research Compliance Officer
Roberta Johnson, Secretary
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R. W. Trewyn
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