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April 30, 1999 (Vol. 8, No. 17)
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General
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Applications are available for the FY 2000 Fulbright Scholar Program for
Faculty and Professionals. Over 850 scholar awards in more than 125 countries
are offered. Approximately one-quarter are for research and three-quarters
for lecturing, combined lecturing and research, or seminar participation.
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Deadline: 8/1/99
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The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide
activity that support junior faculty within the context of their overall
career development. It combines in a single program the support of research
and education of the highest quality and in the broadest sense. This premier
program emphasizes the importance the Foundation places on the early development
of academic careers dedicated to stimulating the discovery process in which
the excitement of research is enhanced by inspired teaching and enthusiastic
learning. Applicants must be in the first or second full-time tenure-track
academic appointment and have begun the first tenure-track on or after
July 1, 1995. (NSF 99-110)
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Deadline: 7/22/99
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Arts & Humanities
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The College of Fellows Grants Program of the American Institute of Architects
makes awards to individuals and organizations for diverse projects that
advance the profession of architecture and promote the purposes of the
AIA. Grants have supported a variety of endeavors, including research and
subsequent publications, architectural education projects, exhibitions,
conferences and lectures, television and video productions, and the cataloging
and preservation of architectural records.
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Deadline: 6/1/99
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Education
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The UPS Foundation makes grants for educational programs, including academic
research, programs that raise the level of educational effectiveness, innovative
programs to enhance the quality of instruction, family learning opportunities,
and school involvement projects. A major initiative is adult literacy.
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Deadline: 5/31/99, 9/30/99
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The Education Department is inviting applications to conduct research to
improve bilingual education and special alternative instructional programs
for limited English proficient children and youths. The research may provide
for longitudinal studies of students or teachers in bilingual education,
monitoring the education of those students from entry in bilingual education
through secondary school completion. CFDA 84.292B (FR 04/20/99)
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Deadline: 5/20/99
17-6 Literacy Grants (National Home Library)
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The National Home Library Foundation supports literacy, literature and
library science projects. Grants generally support the purchase of books
and some computer hardware and software. Grants in the past have supported
the purchase of reference materials for libraries, African-American history
books, books and magazines for low-level readers and children's books;
and Girl Scout activities.
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Deadline: Open
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The purpose of the Community Technology Centers program is to increase
access to technology and promote the use of technology in education through
the development of model programs that demonstrate the educational effectiveness
of technology in urban and rural areas and economically distressed communities.
An array of services may be proposed: 1) after-school activities for children
of all ages; 2) adult education and family literacy; 3) career development
and job preparation; 4) small business activities; and 5) home access to
computers and technology. CFDA 84.341 (FR 04/29/99)
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Deadline: 6/14/99
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NASA Learning Technologies Project is sponsoring this solicitation for
cooperative agreements to select a portfolio of projects which collectively
have the promise of enhancing K-12 science, mathematics, technology and
geography education through infusion of information and knowledge generated
by NASA's scientific and engineering endeavors and results. The intent
of this solicitation is to promote the development of science, mathematics,
technology, and geography instructional products that support curricula
that are aligned with national standards and are based on NASA's unique
mission and results.
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/9/99, Proposals 5/30/99
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Science
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The National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency
are sponsoring a competition designed to address pollution avoidance/prevention
processes, methodologies, and technology research. Research proposals are
invited that advance the development and use of innovative technologies
and approaches directed at avoiding or minimizing the generation of pollutants
at the source. Research projects are possible in the general areas of:
chemistry for pollution avoidance or prevention; engineering for pollution
avoidance and prevention; chemical processes and reaction engineering;
simulations, modeling, sensors, and feedback techniques for pollution avoidance
and prevention; and industrial ecology. (NSF 99-108)
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Deadline: 7/26/99
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The Department of Defense announces the FY 2000 competition for the Multidisciplinary
Research Program (MURI), one element of the University Research Initiative.
The MURI supports university teams whose efforts intersect more than one
traditional science and engineering discipline. This MURI competition is
specifically for the following topics: 1) Data Fusion in Large Array of
Microsensors; 2) Fundamental Principles in Adaptive Learning Technology;
3) Decision Making Under Uncertainty; 4) Mobile Augmented Battlespace Visualization;
5) Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Network Protocols; 6) Solitonic Information
Processing; 7) Quantum Communication and Quantum Memory; 8) Tutorial Dialogue
for Artificially Intelligent Training Systems; 9) Adaptive Mobile, Wireless
Networks for Highly Dynamic Environments; 10) Ultracold Atom Optics; 11)
Science Underpinning Prime Reliant Coatings; 12) Phonon Enhancement of
Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices; and 13) Programmed Surface Chemical
Assembly of Functional Material. Sol. ONR BAA 99-014 (CBD 04/21/99)
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Deadline: 10/26/99
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Health & Life Sciences
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The National Institutes of Health invite investigator-initiated research
grant applications to examine a range of fundamental biological issues
considered critical for progress in defeating prostate cancer. The purpose
of this announcement is to encourage new projects focusing on the biology
that underlies the development and progression of malignant prostatic disease.
Multidisciplinary collaborations between basic and clinical scientists
in projects ranging from exploratory basic biology studies to disease progression
in appropriate biological systems or models are encouraged. PA-99-081 (NIHG
04/08/99)
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Deadline: 6/1/99, 10/1/99, 2/1/00
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The purpose of this program announcement is to encourage the submission
of applications for research to enhance stem cells as a model biological
system. Research to isolate, characterize and identify totipotent and multipotent
stem cells from nonhuman biomedical research animal models, as well as
to generate reagents and techniques to characterize and separate those
stem cells from other cell types is encouraged. PA-99-086 (NIHG 04/13/99)
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Deadline: 6/1/99, 10/1/99, 2/1/00
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The National Institutes of Health seek investigator-initiated projects
that have the potential to illuminate functional interactions between bone
and the hematopoietic and immune systems. Projects should have the potential
to either clarify the importance of specific cell types and effector molecules
or identify previously unrecognized cellular and molecular agents that
influence bone physiology. PA-99-085 (NIHG 04/13/99)
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Deadline: 6/1/99, 10/1/99, 2/1/00
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The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
invite applications for research on mechanisms of chondroprotection. The
research should be specifically targeted towards identification and evaluation
of chondroprotective agents to prevent cartilage destruction and/or facilitate
its repair in such conditions as rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis, and osteoarthritis, where there is a decline in the structural
integrity of the articular cartilage. RFA AR-99-004 (NIGH 04/15/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 8/1/99, Applications 9/8/99
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The Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the National Cancer Institute invite applications for research
related to mechanistic-based cancer risk assessments. This RFA solicits
studies that focus on the development of cancer risk assessment methods
and practices. Emphasis should be on the development of new methods and
practices that reduce the uncertainties associated with cancer risk assessment,
especially uncertainties that are encountered in extrapolating from animal
species to humans. Methods development can be based on in vitro and/or
in vivo animal model systems, in vitro human cell model systems, and exploratory
epidemiologic approaches. RFA OH-99-003
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 5/26/99, Applications 7/14/99
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The policies and priorities of the Allen Foundation Inc. are as follows:
To make grants in the field of Human Nutrition; To assist programs in human
nutrition and training of children and young adults to improve their health
and development; To support programs for the education and training of
mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children so that
good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age; To assist in the
training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional
practices; To give financial aid in the publication of periodicals and
articles regarding sound nutritional practices; and To encourage the dissemination
of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits.
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Deadline: Open
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Social Sciences
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The Department of Education has issued proposed priorities for Safe and
Drug Free Schools national grants for coalition-based projects to reduce
and prevent high-risk drinking among college students. The program will
fund projects to implement and evaluate the impact of a state or regional
coalition to develop strategies for reducing and preventing high-risk drinking
among college students. Input on priorities is being sought now with the
program announcement du out this summer. .(FR 04/20/99)
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Deadline: n/a
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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism provides grant support
for Alcohol Research Centers to conduct interdisciplinary research on alcoholism
and alcohol abuse. The Alcohol Research Centers Grant program is designed
to complement the regular research project grants program by providing
long-term support for interdisciplinary research programs with a distinct
focus on a particular theme relating to alcoholism, alcohol abuse, and
other alcohol-related problems. RFA AA-99-005 (NIHG 04/15/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/30/99, Applications 12/28/99
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The Tiger Woods Foundation, established by golf star Tiger Woods and his
father, supports programs that create positive environments for underprivileged
youths and that emphasize the importance of parental involvement and responsibility
in children's lives. The foundation seeks projects addressing children,
youth and families in the areas of education, youth development, parenting
and child and family health and welfare. Education projects should aim
to improve school readiness of children and youths through effective parenting,
parent literacy, day care and early childhood education; to prepare youths
for successful transitions from school to work and to productive adult
lives; and improve school organization and management, with a focus on
children's developmental needs, and parental involvement and accountability.
Youth development projects should seek to develop maximum human potential
through cultural studies, recreation, physical fitness and other productive
leisure activities; encourage youth volunteerism, community service, mentoring
and intergenerational relationships; and build self-esteem, life skills
and positive values and expand life option opportunities. (FGA 07/98)
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Deadline: Open
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