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December 10, 1999 (Vol. 8, No. 44)
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Happy Holidays
The Funding Bulletin will not
be published during the Holiday break. The next issue will be published
January 7, 2000. All of us in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
wish you a safe and happy holiday season.
General
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This special competition is the second year of a multi-year effort to enhance
our understanding of the nature and dynamics of biocomplexity in the environment.
Specifically, this special competition will support integrated research
to better understand and model complexity that arises from the interaction
of biological, physical, and social systems. This special competition will
specifically support Research Projects which directly explore nonlinearities,
chaotic behavior, emergent phenomena or feedbacks within and between systems
and/or integrate across multiple components or scales of time and space
in order to better understand and predict the dynamic behavior of systems.
(NSF 00-22)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/31/00, Proposals 3/1/00
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The Energy Department is inviting collaborative research applications involving
the use of molecular biological and biogeochemical techniques to understand
the links between carbon and nitrogen cycles in ocean margins. Research
applications must include a mutually collaborative partnership between
institutions that have a strong tradition of research in the marine sciences
and participation of institutions with a high proportion of groups underrepresented
in the sciences. Program Notice 00-04 (FR 11/22/99)
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Deadline: 2/10/00
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Participating Institutions and Centers of the National Institutes of Health
invite applications for R01 awards to support Bioengineering Research Partnerships
(BRPs) for basic bioengineering research addressing important biological
or medical research problems. A BRP is a multidisciplinary research team
applying an integrative, systems approach to develop knowledge and/or methods
to prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and understand health and
behavior. The partnership must include bioengineering expertise in combination
with basic and/or clinical investigators. PAS-00-006 (NIHG 11/30/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 12/15/99, 6/30/00, Applications
1/7/00, 8/10/00
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting
proposals under a single Advanced Technology Program (ATP) which is open
to all technology areas. ATP encourages proposals from the many technical
teams that have identified synergy between industry needs and ATP funding
opportunities, accelerating the pursuit of critical elements of research
which were identified in focused program plans: advanced materials, biotechnology,
electronics, information technology, etc. 00-01 (FR 12/06/99)
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Deadline: 3/8/00
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Agriculture
44-5 Energy from Biomass (CPBR)
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The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc. has issued a call
for preproposals for research that 1) involves plant biotechnology and
2) addresses industrial problems and opportunities related to energy from
biomass. Topic areas are: Agrochemicals; Biomass Conversion; Energy Crop
Production; Enabling Biotechnologies; Environmental Issues; Forest Products;
Process Applications; and Seeds. Preproposals will be reviewed by CPBR's
member companies for industrial relevance.
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Deadline: 1/25/00
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Arts& Humanities
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The John Carter Brown Library, an independently fund and administered institution
for advanced research in history and the humanities located on the campus
of Brown University, will award Research Fellowships for the year June
1, 2000 - May 31, 2000. Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown
Library is reserved for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial
history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the
European, African, and Native American involvement.
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Deadline: 1/15/00
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a unit of the New York
Public Library's Research Libraries, announces its Scholars-in-Residence
Program which assists scholars and professionals whose research in the
black experience can benefit from extended access to the Center's collections.
Seminars, colloquia, forums and symposia will complement the residency
program.
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Deadline: 1/15/00
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The American Antiquarian Society awards short and long-term visiting research
fellowships. In addition, through an arrangement with The Newberry Library,
AAS encourages applications for joint short-term fellowship tenure in both
Chicago and Worcester. The American Antiquarian Society is an independent
research library focusing on American history, literature and culture through
1876.
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Deadline: 1/15/00
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Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Office of Space Science
is releasing an announcement of opportunity for the next missions in the
Small Explorer (SMEX) Program. Selections of proposals through the final
AO are intended to provide two mission launches by September 2004. Missions
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, the Sun-Earth Connection,
and the Structure and Evolution of the Universe. The Structure and Evolution
of the Universe theme should be understood also to include tests of the
fundamental laws of physics as they might be relevant to astrophysics and
cosmology. SOL AO-99-OSS-05 (CBD 11/08/99)
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Deadline: 2/17/00
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The goal of ESH is to encourage research to understand the natural variability
of the Earth system through records preserved in geo-biologic archives
and to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of climate change with
annual to millennial resolution, including the forcing mechanisms, interactions
and feedbacks among its components. The ESH Program invites proposals addressing
the following areas of special emphasis: Paleoclimate Variability at Annual-Decadal
Resolution; Rapid Climate Change; Extreme Warm Condition; Spatial Patterns
and Continuous Records of Climate Change; Arctic Paleoclimate Studies;
and Modeling of Past Change. (NSF 00-11)
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Deadline: 2/14/00, 2/14/01
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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund provides support for institutions to bring
in distinguished researchers in Basic Medical Sciences and in the Microbiological
Sciences to lecture and teach. An institution may nominate only one candidate
for the Visiting Professorship in Basic Medical Sciences and one in the
Microbiological Sciences. Please contact John Murray, Interim Associate
Vice Provost for Research, jpm@ksu.edu, 532-6195, by January 15, 2000 if
you are interested in nominating a professor for either position.
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Deadline: Internal 1/15/00; BWF 3/1/00
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The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in
partnership with the American Digestive Health Foundation invites experienced
and new investigators to submit research grant applications to pursue basic
and clinical investigations to further the understanding of foodborne illnesses
and especially the gastrointestinal disease and renal injury of E. coli
015:H7-induced hemolytic uremic syndrome. The proposed studies should foster
and extend the understanding of the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of
foodborne disease, including: the mechanisms by which bacterial toxins
induce endothelial cell damage and renal injury; and the mechanisms by
which bacterial, viral, and fungal organisms and products cause gastrointestinal
and extra-gastrointestinal injury. Of prime importance is the development
of new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques that would lead to early medical
intervention and prevention of complications of foodborne illnesses. DK-00-005
(NIHG 11/30/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 2/23/00; Applications 3/23/00
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The goal of this program announcement is to encourage development of a
predictive science of infectious diseases by applying the perspectives,
theories, and methods from evolutionary biology to important issues of
disease emergence, prevention and the consequences of treatment. Research
projects involving interdisciplinary collaborations are an explicit goal
of this program. The focus is limited to discovery of fundamental biological
principles rather than on detailed knowledge or treatment of specific diseases.
PA-99-147 (NIHG 08/18/99)
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Deadline: 2/1/00, 6/1/00, 10/1/00
44-14 Starter Scholar Research Awards (March of Dimes)
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The Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award Program from the March
of Dimes is designed to support young scientists just embarking on their
independent research careers. Deans, Chairmen of Departments, or Directors
of Institutes/Centers should submit nominations for this award by February
15, 2000. Research subjects supported by the March of Dimes include basic
biological processes governing development, genetics, clinical studies,
studies of reproductive health, environmental toxicology, and social and
behavioral studies relevant to their mission.
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Deadline: Nominations 2/15/00, 5/31/00
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The National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Biological Sciences
(BIO) announces a competition to establish research activities by individual
investigators or teams of investigators to develop and conduct research
at a variety of sites dedicated to studies of microbial communities over
time and across environmental gradients. The long-term goal of the Microbial
Observatories activity is to discover previously unknown microbes and to
describe and characterize microbial diversity, phylogenetic relationships,
interactions, and other novel properties by developing a network of sites,
microbial observations. (NSF 00-21)
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Deadline: 3/6/00
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The purpose of this initiative is to improve our understanding of how intermittent
hypoxia contributes to the pathophysiology of cardiopulmonary, vascular,
hematological, and sleep disorders. Specific objectives are to determine
the basic molecular and genomic mechanisms involved in cellular responses
to brief intermittent hypoxic episodes including mechanisms responsible
for the detection and signaling of oxygen sensing, and gene expression.
HL-00-004 (NIHG 11/29/99)
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Deadline: Letters of Intent 1/24/00; Applications 2/23/00
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The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory is an independent non-profit
research institution. The Laboratory is the largest cold water research
facility in the Eastern U.S. and its unique site and complement of year-round
and summer investigators provide an outstanding environment for the study
of the physiology and cell biology of marine and freshwater fauna. Fellowships
are available for undergraduate students, and for new investigators at
all levels of professional development for periods of research from one
to three months.
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Deadline: New Investigators 1/15/00; Students 2/7/00
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Social Sciences
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The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) provides for high quality learning,
developing leadership skills among youth, and preparing both youth and
adults for entry into employment, re-employment (for those who have had
prior employment), further education or training, and long-term follow-up
services to promote employment retention and career advancement. The primary
focus under this solicitation will be to examine approaches that assure
that "high-risk" youth and adults are provided with quality workforce investment
services that address their unique needs through the WIA system. The announcement
consists of three sections: A) Capacity building grants to develop models
for use of States and local boards on how to increase the capacity to serve
high-risk individuals in their state or local areas; B) Direct service
grants to demonstrate how local, state, or national organization can provide
services specifically targeting the high-risk youth population to ensure
that the workforce development system provides services to this population
in their state or local area; and C) Direct service grants to demonstrate
how local, state, or national organizations can provide services specifically
targeting the high-risk adult population to ensure that the workforce development
system provides services to this population in their state or local area.
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Deadline: 2/4/00
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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
Carrie VonLeonrod, Secretary
Congressional Relations
Sue Peterson, R. W. Trewyn
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