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October 1, 1999 (Vol. 8, No. 35)
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General
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The Environmental Protection Agency is soliciting grant proposals to support
environmental education projects. Support is provided for projects which
design, demonstrate, or disseminate environmental education practices,
methods, or techniques, including assessing environmental and ecological
conditions or specific environmental issues or problems. This program is
geared toward providing seed money to initiate new projects or to advance
existing projects that are new in some way, such as reaching new audiences
or new locations. (FR 09/22/99)
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Deadline: 11/22/99
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The National Science Foundation is announcing a new program, Information
Technology Research (ITR) which will fund fundamental research in information
technology, encouraging in particular research spanning information technology
and scientific applications, and in the area of social, ethical and workforce
issues. NSF encourages multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional proposals
as well as proposals with international cooperation. NSF expects that proposals
will address and include one or more community-extending concepts such
as undergraduate education or links to minority serving institutions, or
institutions in EPSCoR states. John Murray, Interim Associate Vice Provost
for Research, will be happy to assist in proposal coordination. (NSF 99-167)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/15/99; Preproposals 1/5/00; Full
Proposals 4/17/00
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The Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education (POWRE)
Program supports activities that promote the development of scholarly and
institutional leaders in research and education. POWRE is a Foundation-wide
program designed to increase the prominence of women in science and engineering
and to enhance their professional advancement by providing them with funding
opportunities that are not ordinarily available through regular research
and education grant programs. POWRE activities are expected to be substantively
different from those that a Principal Investigator would consider developing
for a regular proposal submitted to a disciplinary program or to other
NSF competitions. (NSF 99-164)
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Deadline: 12/9/99
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The National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program
(MRI) is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment
for research and research training in academic institutions. The MRI Program
assists in the acquisition or development of major research instrumentation
by institutions that is, in general, too costly for support through other
NSF programs. Proposals may be for a single instrument, a large system
of instruments, or multiple instruments that share a common or specific
research focus. An institution may submit up to three proposals: two proposals
for instrument acquisition or development, plus a third solely for instrument
development. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for the MRI
competition, please send to John Murray, Interim Associate Vice Provost
for Research, by November 1, 1999, a short description of the instrumentation,
whether is is to be purchased or developed, and approximate cost. Dr. Murray
will coordinate selection of proposals to be submitted. (NSF 99-168)
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Deadline: KSU 11/1/99, NSF 1/18/00
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The Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation announces
a research initiative on Scalable Enterprise Systems. The primary objective
of this initiative is to foster the development of a science base for enterprise-wide
business automation. While the underlying concepts for this topic originated
in the context of manufacturing systems, the application scope of the research
is meant to address not only the manufacturing systems part of the enterprise
but also in a coupled fashion the financial management, human resource
management, sales and marketing aspects. Because the Internet looms large
as a deployment environment, issues of scalability will be crucial in the
development of this science base. (NSF 99-149)
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Deadline: 12/15/99
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Agriculture
35-6 Swine Health Studies (USDA)
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USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is soliciting
collaborative research opportunities to take advantage of the National
Animal Health Monitoring System's (NAHMS) national swine study scheduled
to begin in summer of 2000. Ways to collaborate with the NAHMS Swine 2000
study include: conducting research as a component of the Swine 2000 national
study; requesting biological samples or other measurements be collected
on selected farms; designing an add-on project to be conducted in one or
more states as a subgroup of the Swine 2000 study; designing a follow-up
study for selected case herds; creating questions or other data collection
tools to be used in the Swine 2000 study.
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10/29/99
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Arts & Humanities
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The Gunk Foundation is interested in supporting art projects that make
it out of museum, gallery, and alternative spaces, which are visited by
those already supportive of art, and into the spaces of daily life. For
example, Gunk supports work that is shown in the spaces of public transportation,
city streets, or work places and is seen by people outside of the art and
academic worlds. They are looking for non-traditional public works that
are site specific: i.e., the context in which it is seen is essential to
its meaning.
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Deadline: 10/31/99
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Education
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The Department of Education is inviting applications for the Training Program
for Federal TRIO Programs. The purpose of the Training Program is to provide
grants to train staff and leadership personnel employed in, or preparing
for employment in, projects funded under the Federal TRIO Programs to improve
the operation of those programs and projects. Priorities are: 1) General
project management for new directors; 2) Legislative and regulatory requirements
for the operation of the Federal TRIO Programs; 3) Student financial aid;
4) The design and operation of model TRIO projects; 5) Use of educational
technology; 6) Retention and graduation strategies; 7) Counseling; 8) Reporting
student and project performance; and 9) Coordinating project activities
with other available resources and activities. CFDA 84.103A (FR 09/21/99)
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Deadline: 12/10/99
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
35-9 Indoor Air Research Grants (CIAR)
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The Center for Indoor Air Research funds postdoctoral fellowships for scientific
and technical research on the sources, transformation, and fate of constituents
affecting indoor air quality; on factors governing human exposure to and
retention of those constituents; on the effects of those constituents on
health, including exposure-response relationships; and on methods of preventing
or abating indoor air contaminant concentrations. Sponsorship of the fellow
by an established investigator is required.
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Deadline: 10/31/99
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Technology Center (DOE/FETC),
intends to issue a program solicitation entitled Research and Development
of Technologies for the Management of Greenhouse Gases. The DOE/FETC invites
competitive applications for cooperative agreements for the conduct of
research and development that addresses any of the following six elements
of the FETC sequestration program: 1) Separation and Capture; 2) Sequestration
of CO2 in Geological Formations; 3) Ocean Sequestration; 4) Sequestration
in Terrestrial Ecosystems; 5) Advanced Concepts; and 6) Modeling and Assessments.
SOL DE-PS26-99FT40613 (CBD 07/15/99)
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Deadline: 8/1/00
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The objective of the Interdisciplinary Grants in the Mathematical Sciences
(IGMS) is to enable mathematical scientists to undertake research and study
in another discipline so as to: expand their skills and knowledge in areas
other than the mathematical sciences; subsequently apply this knowledge
in their research; and enrich the educational experiences and broaden the
career options of their students. Recipients of an IGMS award are expected
to spend eleven months full time in a twelve-month period either in an
non-mathematical academic science department or in an industrial, commercial
or financial institution. The expected outcome is sufficient familiarity
with another discipline so as to open opportunities for effective collaboration
by the mathematical scientist with researchers in another discipline. (NSF
99-157)
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Deadline: 12/10/99
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Health & Life Sciences
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The purpose of this RFA is to make comprehensive gene expression technologies
widely available to researchers working in areas supported by NIDDK. This
RFA seeks to establish Biotechnology Centers that will provide genomic
profiling resources to investigators working in research areas within the
NIDDK's mission. This RFA will allow the formation of support facilities
that may include, but are not limited to: cDNA Microarrays; Oligonucleotide
chips; and Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE). Creation and maintenance
of these technologies may require the collaboration of investigators with
expertise in many fields, such as molecular biology, robotics, bioinformatics,
genomics, and statistics. DK-00-002 (NIHG 09/23/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/14/00; Applications 2/16/00
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The objective of this Request for Applications is to stimulate research
on the relative roles of environmental, endogenous neurochemical and modifying
genetic factors in the cause of Parkinson's disease. Recent evidence from
twin studies has shown that genetics play less of a role and environmental
factors a potentially greater role than previously thought in the development
of late-onset Parkinson's disease. In response to this finding, the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke invite scientists to submit research grant applications
for research aimed at elucidating the role of the environment in the development
of Parkinson's disease. ES-00-002 (NIHG 09/21/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/5/99, Applications 1/11/00
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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism invites applications
to identify peptides and their receptors that regulate alcohol consumption,
ultimately leading to an understanding of their mechanism(s) of action.
Although not exclusive, several areas have potential for further investigation
including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, opioid peptides, the
renin-angiotensin system, plus the group of peptides regulating food intake
and energy balance, exemplified by leptin and neuropeptide Y. The goal
of this initiative is to elucidate the role of peptides in pathological
alcohol consumption, suggesting novel pharmacotherapeutic approaches for
alcoholism. PAS-99-156 (NIHG 08/23/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 11/24/99, Applications 12/22/99
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Social Sciences
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The Social Science Research Council's Sexuality Research Fellowship Program
provides dissertation and postdoctoral support for social and behavioral
research on sexuality. The program seeks to contribute to a more thorough
understanding of human sexuality by encouraging researchers to formulate
new research questions, generate new theories and apply new methods in
sexuality research. Projects in which researchers from different social
science disciplines will participate and those that address community needs
and/or are relevant to policy development and implementation are particularly
welcome.
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Deadline: 12/15/99
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Grants for amounts up to $20,000 are available for basic research in all
branches of anthropology. Grants are made to seed innovative approaches
and ideas, to cover specific expenses or phases of a project, and/or to
encourage aid from other funding agencies. The Foundation particularly
invites projects employing comparative perspectives or integrating two
or more subfields of anthropology. A small number of awards is available
for projects designed to develop resources for anthropological research
and scholarly exchange.
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Deadline: 11/1/99, 5/1/00
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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
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