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March 5, 1999 (Vol. 8, No. 9)
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Notice
9-1 Kansas EPSCoR Conference
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The Kansas Statewide EPSCoR Conference is being held April 1 in Topeka
at the Kansas Expocentre & Capitol Plaza Hotel. Wichita State is hosting
the conference this year. The theme of the conference is Focusing Resources
on Strategic Technologies. Speakers include John Connolly, Director of
Kentucky's NSF EPSCoR program, Irwin Feller, Director of the Graduate School
of Public Policy & Administration, Penn State, and Joe Thompson, Professor
of Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State. Registration should be made
prior to March 17.
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Deadline: 04/01/99
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K*STAR, Kansas' EPSCoR initiative, will make grants to recruit and hire
in institutional priority areas: a) junior faculty with excellent potential
to develop rapidly a highly competitive research program; and b) mid-level
and senior faculty with proven excellence in research and leadership. A
minimum of one-to-one institutional match is required. K*STAR will also
make grants to acquire or upgrade multi-user major instrumentation which
will enhance the research capability and productivity at KSU, KU and WSU.
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Deadline: 4/12/99
General
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The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund
research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. Political scientists,
historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American
studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages
graduate students to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds
for dissertation research.
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Deadline: 4/30/99
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The Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
and Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) invite small business
firms and research institutions to jointly submit proposals for the Small
Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. There are numerous areas of
interest within each division.
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Deadline: 4/14/99
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The Ms. Foundation for Women awards grants in three issue areas: Women's
Economic Security; Women's Health and Safety; and Girls, Young Women and
Leadership. The Foundation supports the work of organizations that are
committed to the empowerment of women and girls, led by a majority of women
and/or girls, and representative of diverse constituencies.
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Deadline: 3/31/99
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Short-term advisory and technical assistance is needed in the areas of
education (from early childhood through higher education), training, telecommunications/information
technologies and related areas of human development. Tasks that may be
assigned can include activities in USAID/Washington, USAID missions, host
countries and non-residence countries concerned with human capacity development.
Such activities may include the following: a) assessing needs in lesser
developed countries, to include the research studies, surveys, evaluations,
analyses and/or recommendations; b) planning, designing and/or implementing
specific human development initiatives; and c) evaluating the impact of
education sector programs nationally and regionally. SOL M/OP-99-04 (CBD
02/25/99)
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Deadline: 4/20/99
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Agriculture
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The International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) is inviting proposals
for the Hyland R. Johns Grant Program. Research must be in keeping with
the ISA mission, i.e., focus on the biology, management and care of trees,
and their relation to environmental, social and economic benefits.
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Deadline: 4/1/99
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The USAID Mission to Nicaragua is requesting proposals from U.S. offerors
to provide technical assistance to the Rural Land Market Unit (RLMU) of
the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Forestry (MAF). The RLMU is
charged with supporting land titling and market development. This assistance
is being provided as part of USAID/Nicaragua's Small Producers Results
Package. SOL USAID Nicaragua 99-05 (CBD 02/25/99)
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Deadline: 4/14/99
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Arts & Humanities
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The National Endowment for the Humanities offers a special opportunity
to mark the approach of the twenty-first century. Schools for a New Millennium
builds on the NEH's Teaching with Technology Initiative and incorporates
the work of the whole-school reform movement. The goals are: to engage
a critical mass of educators in a middle or high school in sustained study
of core subjects such as History/Social Studies, English/Language Arts,
Government, and Foreign Languages; to help teachers explore and master
digitized resources to enrich their own and their students' knowledge and
understanding of significant humanities topics and texts; to translate
this understanding into school-wide curricular improvements; and to enlist
the support of the wider community in these reform activities.
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Deadline: 4/1/99
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Education
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The Office of Vocational and Adult Education, Department of Education,
is inviting comments on plans to issue a call for proposals with a late
spring deadline for National Research Centers to carry out research, development,
evaluation, demonstration, dissemination, and professional development
activities designed to improve academic, vocational, and technical education
in secondary and postsecondary institutions to prepare students for postsecondary
education, careers, and lifelong learning. (FR 03/01/99)
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Deadline: 3/31/99
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The U.S. Information Agency is inviting proposals for a curriculum development
project for secondary school civic education for Moldova. The project should
support development and implementation of new curriculum and teacher training
for 10th through 12th grade civic education courses in Moldova. The grantee
will work with the independent Society for Education and Human Rights in
Chisinau, Moldova. (FR 02/25/99)
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Deadline: 4/19/99
9-12 Youthbuild (HUD)
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The Housing and Urban Development Department is inviting applications to
provide economically disadvantaged young adults with opportunities to obtain
education, employment skills and meaningful on-site construction work experience
as a service to their communities and a means to achieve self-sufficiency.
Eligible activities include work and activities associated with the acquisition,
rehabilitation or construction of the housing and related facilities to
be used in the program; costs of ongoing training and technical assistance
needs related to carrying out a youthbuild program; and education, job
training, counseling and employment leadership development services. (FR
02/26/99)
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Deadline: 4/30/99
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
9-13 Green Energetic Materials (DOD)
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The Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center in collaboration
with the Naval Sea Systems Command is soliciting pollution prevention technologies
for application to insensitive munitions energetic materials/components.
These low adverse environmental impact (or green) technologies must also
support the Navy's Insensitive Munitions requirements. Specific areas of
interest include ingredients, formulations, synthesis, processing, solvent
elimination, modeling, simulation, testing, recover/recycle/reuse technologies
and environmental impact assessment techniques for propellants/rocket motors,
explosives/warheads, primers/igniter/detonators and pyrotechnics. BAA 99-002
(CBD 02/24/99)
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Deadline: 2/24/00
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The Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the Office of Science,
Department of Energy, announces its interest in receiving applications
for research grants in the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research
(NABIR) Program. Grant applications are being solicited for the Biomolecular
Science and Engineering research element. The NABIR program is initially
emphasizing the bioremediation of metals and radionuclides in the subsurface
below the root zone, including both thick vadose and saturated zones. (FR
03/03/99)
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Deadline: Preapplications 3/26/99; Applications 5/4/99
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Health & Life Sciences
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is inviting applications
for research on injury prevention and control, especially studies related
to violent and abusive behavior and unintentional injuries. Areas include
traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, thoracic and abdominal injury resulting
from blunt impact and injuries occurring to the extremities and joints.
Announcement 99050 (FR 02/23/99)
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Deadline: 4/15/99
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The NIH invites applications for research on the genetic bases and molecular
pathways of target organ damage in rheumatic and autoimmune diseases. The
research should be specifically targeted towards identification and evaluation
of cellular and molecular pathways involved in organ damage and on the
genetic basis for target organ involvement in autoimmunity. This request
for Applications (RFA) solicits basic, translational and clinical research
projects, but not epidemiological or clinical treatment projects. AR-99-003
(NIHG 02/26/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/9/99, Applications 5/12/99
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The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation supports research in basic
biological processes governing development, genetics, clinical studies,
studies of reproductive health, environmental toxicology, and social and
behavioral studies relevant to the prevention of birth defects.
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Deadline: 3/31/99, 9/30/99
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Social Sciences
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The purpose of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) epidemiologic
program is to characterize the nature and extent of drug abuse and its
development, to determine trends and the factors that influence them, and
to identify and measure public health problems associated with drug abuse.
NIDA funds investigator-initiated studies focusing on defining factors
and patterns associated with the initiation, escalation, continuation,
and cessation of drug use and on associated antisocial, health-threatening
and other problematic behaviors that arise as a result of drug abuse. As
drug abuse is a constantly changing phenomenon, the epidemiology research
program will also attempt to identify early emergent patterns of drug abuse,
definition of their nature, and, where possible, the prediction of their
future course. PA-99-002 (NIHG 10/02/98)
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Deadline: 6/1/99, 10/1/99, 2/1/00
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The National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on
Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and National Institute on Nursing
Research (NINR) are encouraging applications for the support of theoretically
grounded research on interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS among children and
youth. Behavior change continues to be the primary way of reducing the
spread of HIV. Research submitted in response to this RFA should be based
on an understanding of the types and range of adolescent sexuality, the
contexts in which youths engage in social and sexual activities, perceived
group norms about sexual behavior, knowledge of and misperceptions about
HIV risk among adolescents from different groups, and adolescent attitudes
toward safer sex practices. Culturally and developmentally appropriate
interventions must be developed that target a variety of outcomes (e.g.,
delay in initiation of sex, decreased use of alcohol and illicit drugs,
etc.) and that maintain behavior change over the long term. MH-99-010 (NIHG
02/26/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 4/13/99, Applications 5/13/99
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Student
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announces the availability
of small grants to support doctoral dissertation research in drug abuse
treatment and health services research. Grant support is designed to aid
the research of new investigators and to encourage doctoral candidates
from a variety of academic disciplines and programs to conduct research
in areas of interest to NIDA. Research objectives in the drug abuse treatment
area include studies that expand and improve therapies and HIV risk reduction
interventions available to drug abusers and drug dependent persons. All
drugs of abuse, with the exception of alcohol, are of interest.
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Deadline: 6/1/99, 10/1/99, 2/1/00
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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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