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June 18, 1999 (Vol. 8, No. 23)
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General
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The AOL Rural Telecommunications Leadership Awards recognize and promote
exceptional achievement in rural community development resulting from the
deployment and use of advanced telecommunications. The AOL Foundation is
sponsoring the awards and the National Center for Small Communities is
administering the awards. To be eligible, community leaders must demonstrate
that they haven enhanced rural telecommunications, through a public-private
partnership, in a community with a population of 10,000 or less. Applications
can also come from regional public-private partnerships that serve a collection
of communities, each with populations of 10,000 or less. All efforts must
show how enhancing rural telecommunications has invigorated the community
or region in demonstrable ways. An award will be made in each of the following
categories: Community Capacity Building; Infrastructure Technology; Policy;
Telecommunications Applications; and Youth Development.
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Deadline: 7/7/99
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Staples Inc., through its charitable contributions program, awards grants
in the area of education. Staples focuses on the broad category of job
skill training for underprivileged youth, who for reasons of economic deprivation,
handicaps, race or sex have not had access to rewarding education experiences.
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Deadline: Open
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Small Business
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The Department of Defense has announced the release of the FY99.2 Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) solicitation. Small high technology
firms are encouraged to submit proposals to DOD for R&D projects with
military and commercial applications. This solicitation contains over 250
R&D topics under which DOD is seeking proposals--topics from the Army,
Navy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of
the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM).
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Deadline: 8/11/99
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The NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is designed
to provide small business with opportunities to compete for federal research
and development awards and to stimulate commercialization of the resulting
technology. The NASA SBIR 99-1 technical topics and subtopics support the
NASA strategic enterprises of Aero-Space Technology; Human Exploration
and Development of Space; Earth Science; and Space Science. In addition,
topics are included for new thrust areas which support more than one strategic
enterprise.
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Deadline: 7/14/99
23-5 Small Business Innovation Research Grants (USDA)
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USDA has announced a solicitation for the Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) Grants Program. Research to be supported is in the following topic
areas: 1) Forests and Related Resources; 2) Land Production and Protection;
3) Animal Production and Protection; 4) Air, Water and Soils; 5) Food Science
and Nutrition; 6) Rural and Community Development; 7) Aquaculture; 8) Industrial
Applications; and 9) Marketing and Trade. (FR 05/21/99)
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Deadline: 9/2/99
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Arts & Humanities
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Creative Capital is a new, national organization designed to support artists
pursuing innovative approaches to form and/or content in the visual, performing
and media arts, and in other new emerging art fields. In each discipline
the Foundation's focus will be on work that challenges traditional content
and form. Visual arts includes painting, sculpture, works on paper, installation,
photo-based and craft-based contemporary works, and conceptual arts. Performing
arts includes the production of dance, music theater, experimental opera,
performance and theater art. Media arts includes the production of original
experimental film/video, experimental documentary, animation or narrative
work in all formats. New/Emerging Fields includes the development of computer-based
artworks, digital sound environments, interactive installations, and interdisciplinary
work.
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Deadline: 8/16/99
Education
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The Coca-Cola Foundation focuses on helping others through education, by
offering scholarships, helping build schools and libraries and donating
books. The foundation aims to provide youth with education opportunities
and support systems to be knowledgeable about the world around them and
to enable them to give back to the community. They also encourage grantees
to develop new solutions to the countless problems that impede our educational
system today, as well as support effective programs already in place. The
foundation's education focus has three main areas: higher education, classroom
teaching and learning, and global education. Programs that foster global
understanding, enrich lives through art, encourage children to stay in
school, train and support those who lack sufficient opportunity and link
higher education to younger students are supported.
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Deadline: Open
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is releasing a DRAFT
Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for community review and comment for the
next missions in the Small Explorer (SMEX) program. Selections of proposals
through the final AO, once released, are intended to provide two mission
launches by July 2004. A Mission of Opportunity may also be selected. The
science objectives covered by this AO include those in the currently defined
Office of Space Science themes of the Astronomical Search for Origins and
Planetary Systems; the Sun-Earth Connection; and the Structure and Evolution
of the Universe.
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Deadline: N/A
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The Department of Energy announces its interest in receiving applications
for federal assistance to assist U.S. manufacturing industries in research,
development, and demonstration projects on advanced sensor and control
technologies. Each project must: 1) meet the high priority needs identified
in the eight Industries of the Future (IOF) technology roadmaps. Roadmaps
have been issued for each of the following eight IOF's: agriculture, aluminum,
chemical forest products, glass, metalcasting, mining, and steel; 2) have
wide applicability across the IOF industries; and 3) improve energy efficiency
and productivity as well as reduce the impact of U.S. manufacturing industries
on the environment through a reduction in the generation of wastes and
pollutants. DE-SC02-99CH10999 (FR 06/11/99)
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Deadline: 8/20/99
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EPA is soliciting grant proposals under the Environmental Justice Through
Pollution Prevention (EJP2) grant program. This program promotes pollution
prevention approaches that address environmental justice concerns in affected
ommunities. The grant funds support: 1) local environmental, environmental
justice, and community grassroots organizations, as well as tribal governments;
2) national and regional organizations working in partnership with local
organizations, or tribal governments; 3) state and local governments; and
(4) academic institutions. The FY 1999 EJP2 grant program supports the
use of pollution prevention approaches to address the environmental problems
of minority and low-income communities and Federally recognized tribes.
This grant program is designed to fund projects that have a direct impact
on affected communities. (FR 06/09/99)
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Deadline: 8/12/99
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is inviting cooperative
agreement applications for collaborative research between academic and
NOAA scientists to improve weather forecast and warning capabilities. Priorities
include quantitative precipitation estimation and forecasting; flash flood
and probabilistic river predication; prediction of seasonal-to-interannual
and decadal climate variability; prediction of tropical cyclones near landfall;
prediction of marine conditions; the effect of topography on local weather
regimes; locally hazardous weather; and conditions conducive for the rapid
development of wildfires.
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Deadline: 10/1/99
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Social Sciences
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The National Institute of Justice is inviting proposals to conduct research
on violence-against-women issues among Native American women. Proposed
study areas include development of culturally appropriate instruments for
measuring prevalence and incidence of violence against American Indian
women; enforcing provisions of the Violence Against Women Act in tribal
courts; factors affecting the safety of Indian women in P.L. 280 states;
effectiveness of batterer re-education; level of shelter services provided;
patterns of abuse; and the impact of domestic violence training on tribal
response to violence. SL000359 (FR 06/10/99)
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Deadline: 7/9/99
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The Health and Human Services Department's Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Evaluation is inviting applications for short-term policy
research related to outcomes of welfare reform initiatives. Research issues
include participation decisions; the effects of business cycles on the
regional level on entry and exit from temporary assistance; different impacts
of participation or non-participation on individual and family well-being;
how quickly welfare recipients may become self-sufficient; and what happens
to the individuals who leave the rolls. (FR 06/11/99)
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Deadline: 7/26/99
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is inviting
cooperative agreement applications for a collaborative study of homeless
women with psychiatric, substance abuse or co-occurring disorders and their
dependent children. This study is intended to provide knowledge for policy
and practice, to provide services. It will be a time-limited, multifaceted
two-phased intervention. (FR 06/07/99)
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Deadline: 8/11/99
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Students
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The Merrill Lynch Forum is sponsoring its Innovation Grants Competition
for a second year. Grants are awarded to Ph.D. students in the liberal
arts, the physical, natural and social sciences and engineering, who can
best explain the commercial application of their dissertation topic. This
program is an effort to encourage and reward creative entrepreneurial thinking.
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Deadline: 9/15/99
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA) provide National Research Service Awards (NRSAs) to individuals
for research training in specified area of biomedical and behavioral research
to help ensure that highly trained scientists will be available to adequate
numbers and in appropriate research areas and fields to meet the nation's
mental health, drug abuse, alcohol abuse and alcoholism research needs.
As such, this program is intended to provide a mechanism to train future
generations of outstanding scientists committed to pursuing a career in
mental health, drug abuse, and/or alcohol abuse and alcoholism research.
Applicants must have received, as of the activation date or the award,
a baccalaureate degree and must be enrolled in a program leading to a research
doctorate such as the Ph.S. or D.Sc., or a combined clinical and research
degree such as M.D./Ph.D., by the proposed fellowship activation date.
Research training applied toward preparation of a dissertation is permitted.
PA-99-017 (NIHG 11/19/98)
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Deadline: 8/5/99, 12/5/99
Last Modified: 11:15am , June 21, 1999
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R. W. Trewyn, 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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