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February 19, 1999 (Vol. 8, No. 7)
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General
7-1 One-Stop Career Center System Grants (KS)
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The Kansas Department of Human Resources requests applications for the
Kansas One-Stop Career Center System Grant program. Proposals should establish
one-stop career centers across the state offering employment services in
a consistent, customer-focused manner to address the needs of job-seekers
and employers to build and maintain a strong, viable Kansas workforce.
A pre-bid conference will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, February
24, at the Airport Hilton, Consulate #2, Wichita.
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Deadline: 3/15/99
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The National Security Education Program (NSEP) seeks to facilitate the
development and/or enhancement of innovative approaches to increasing the
quantity and quality of participation in internationally-oriented curriculum
development and international education opportunities. The NSEP's five
areas of emphasis for FY99 are: 1) Improving Language Acquisition and Cultural
Knowledge; 2) Improving Study and Work Opportunities Abroad; 3) Stimulating
Faculty Involvement; 4) Improving Information Dissemination and Linkages
Across Institutions; and 5) Broadening the Base of Interdisciplinary and
Institutional Relationships.
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Deadline: Preproposals 4/9/99; Proposals 8/20/99
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In order to facilitate the development of innovative methods and models
for understanding complex social and behavioral science phenomena, the
Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research and the Division
of Mathematical Sciences announces a joint competition for a limited number
of mid-career research fellowships in the social, behavioral, economic,
and statistical sciences. The purpose of this fellowship is to facilitate
interactions among statisticians and social, behavioral, or economic scientists.
Awards made from this competition will cover release time and related expenses
so that successful investigators can spend an extended period of time at
a host location immersing themselves in an area of study outside their
current areas of expertise. The host location may be a different institution
from the investigator's home institution or a different department within
the home institution. (NSF 99-33)
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Deadline: 3/1/99, 9/15/99
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Agriculture
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces the availability
of fiscal year 1999 funds for a cooperative agreement program for Community
Partners for Healthy Farming. The purpose of this cooperative agreement
is to utilize the special resources of researchers, workers, farm managers,
local agricultural communities, and other stakeholders to evaluate farm
safety and health interventions. Activities should include the development
of an intervention with a clear prevention effect, evidence of community
support, and strategies or adoption by the community and for sustainability
and the development of a research proposal which is predicated upon an
active partnership between experienced researchers, communities, agricultural
workers, management and other stakeholders in the planning, implementation,
and evaluation of intervention against known agricultural injuries, illness,
or hazards. Announcement 99039 (FR 02/10/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/23/99, Applications 4/23/99
7-5 Crop Improvement Research Grants (KCIA)
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The Kansas Crop Improvement Association is offering research support for
the purpose of encouraging and supporting research in the following areas:
1) Improved variety development; 2) Seed Technology-testing, processing,
etc.; 3) Certified seed marketing research; 4) Proposals that are likely
to result in early benefit to growers.
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Deadline: 3/24/99
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Education
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The Interagency Education Research Initiative (IERI) is an initiative of
the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, and the National
Institutes of Health which is designed to build a knowledge base for improving
educational practice by: 1) fostering innovative research on basic learning,
teaching, and organizational mechanisms, and 2) developing and studying
sustainable and scalable interventions in education. For FY 99 IERI proposals
will be research directed toward understanding how to make substantial
improvements in school readiness for learning reading and mathematics;
K-3 learning in reading, mathematics and science; and education of preK-12
mathematics, reading, and science teachers in content knowledge and science
underlying cognitive development and learning. (NSF 99-84)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/1/99, Proposals 5/14/99
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The Education Department is inviting proposals to improve education opportunities
for low-income families, including early childhood education, adult literacy
and parenting education, to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy.
CFDA 84.258 (FR 02/12/99)
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Deadline: 3/30/99
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The Education Department is inviting applications to strengthen and improve
undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages;
conduct research and studies to improve and strengthen instruction in modern
foreign languages and areas studies and strengthen higher education centers
to improve capacity to teach and learn foreign languages through teacher
training, research, materials development and dissemination projects. CFDA
84.016, 84.017, 84.229 (FR 02/16/99)
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Deadline: 3/19/99, 3/31/99
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
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This solicitation seeks proposals for regional partnership projects in
the following technical topic areas: Revolutionary NGI Applications and
Innovative NGI Networking Techniques. Proposed research should investigate
innovative approaches and techniques that lead to or enable revolutionary
advances in the state-of-the-art. Research should result in prototype hardware
and/or software demonstrating integrated concepts and approaches. Proposals
may involve other research groups or industrial cooperation and cost sharing.
BAA 99-23 (CBD 02/12/99)
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Deadline: 3/29/99
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The Physics Division of the US Army Research Office (ARO), together with
the National Security Agency, solicits proposals for demonstrative or analytic
studies of the possible physical realizations of quantum computers. Research
proposals exploring implementations of quantum bits and quantum logic are
sought. Experimental explorations should be tightly coupled to theoretical
phenomenological studies with the common goal of elucidating the efficacy
for implementing quantum logic in a specific physical system. There is
also interest in exploring other aspects of quantum computing, especially
demonstrations of error correction that result in a net reduction in noise
with only moderate increases in storage and processing overhead. DAAD19-99-R-BAA3
(CBD 02/11/99)
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Deadline: White Papers 3/3/99, Proposals 5/18/99
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology
Program (ATP) is soliciting proposals for 1999. The single competition
is open to all technology areas. ATP is designed for the Federal government
to work in partnership with industry to foster the development and broad
dissemination of challenging, high-risk technologies that offer the potential
for significant, broad-based economic benefits for the nation. All fiscal
year 1999 proposals will be distributed to technology-specific source evaluation
boards in areas such as advanced materials, biotechnology, electronics,
information technology, etc. CBD99-01
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Deadline: 4/14/99
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This amendment to NASA Research Announcement (NRA) 99-OSS-01, entitled
Research Opportunities in Space Science - 1999 (ROSS-99), solicits basic
research proposals for two new program elements in addition to those presented
in the original NRA. The new program elements are: Energetics and Dynamics
of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere: TIMED/CEDAR Collaborative Studies,
and Planetary Suborbital Research. NRA-99-OSS-01 (CBD 02/12/99)
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Deadline: Notice of Intent 4/2/99, Proposals 6/1/99
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The Combined Research-Curriculum Development Program, a joint initiative
of the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and the Directorate for Computer
and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), supports multidisciplinary
projects that integrate new, state-of-the-art research advances in emerging
technology areas into upper level undergraduate and introductory graduate
engineering and computer and information science curricula. Projects address
a need for innovative curricula, courses, textbooks, instructional modules
and instructional laboratories by integrating the research and education
interests of faculty through involvement in curriculum change. Since an
institution may submit no more than three proposals in response to this
announcement, please send a one page letter of intent with a short description
of the proposed project and an approximate budget total to John P. Murray,
Interim Associate Vice Provost for Research, 103 Fairchild Hall, by March
5. (NSF 99-72)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/19/99, Proposals 5/21/99
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Health & Life Sciences
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Several Institutes of the National Institutes of Health invite applications
to develop new technologies to rapidly screen normal and mutagenized mice
in order to detect and characterize abnormal immune responses, with an
emphasis on immunce dysfunction associated with autoimmune disease. This
Request for Applications (RFA) addresses many of the recommendations of
the NIH Committee on Priority Setting for Mouse Genomics and Genetics Resources.
Applications for highly innovative exploratory/developmental projects are
being sought. AI-99-005 (NIHG 02/11/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/15/99, Applications 5/6/99
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The Center for Population Research (CPR) of the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Office of Research on Women's
Health (ORWH) seek applications that address basic biomedical research
on female pelvic floor structure and function with the purpose of stimulating
research that can contribute to improving the understanding of pelvic floor
disorders and their sequelae. HD-99-003 (NIHG 02/11/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/10/99, Applications 5/12/99
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The objective of this initiative is to stimulate development and validation
of animal models of HIV-related lung disease and animal based research
in these models. The models are needed to improve our understanding of
the basic pathogenetic mechanisms of disease in the lung and to begin testing
new treatment for consequences of HIV infections; HIV interactions with
opportunistic infections in the lung; tuberculosis, with an emphasis on
latency, reactivation, and resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis; and
better animal models of Pneumocystis carinii for studying such things as
attachment, phagocytosis, and killing, the role of the epithelial cell
in pathogenesis of P. carinii pneumonia, the life cycle/cell cycle of P.
carinii in the lung, and mechanisms of P. carinii-induced lung injury.
HL-99-012 (NIHG 02/11/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 3/29/99, Applications 4/29/99
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
7-17 Dispute Resolution Grants (KS)
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The Dispute Resolution Fund (DRF) was created to fund grants to carry out
the Dispute Resolution Act and to promote, encourage and facilitate dispute
resolution services that are appropriate, affordable and accessible to
all Kansas citizens. Proposals are especially being sought that concentrate
on providing mediation services to one or more of the following: rural,
low-income or underserved areas or that provide direct services to Kansans.
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Deadline: 4/12/99
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Student
7-18 James B. Pearson Fellowship for Study Abroad (KS)
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The Kansas Board of Regents is now accepting applications for the James
B. Pearson Fellowship for the 1999-2000 academic year. The Pearson Fellowship
provides stipends to assist graduate students with approved study abroad
programs. Applicants must have been a resident of the state of Kansas for
a minimum of five years, be accepted to a graduate program at an accredited
Kansas college or university, and be pursuing or plan to pursue, a program
of study, preferably related to foreign affairs. Appropriate fields of
study include but are not limited to anthropology, economics, geography,
history, international relations, law, philosophy, political science, psychology,
sociology.
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Deadline: 4/1/99
Last Modified: 10:00am , February 18, 1999
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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
Last Modified: 11:14am , July 17, 1998
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