SOURCES
the biweekly grants funding publication of the University of South FloridaVolume 20 Issue 3A
March 9, 2001
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DHHS/NIH
Extension of Current PHS 398, 2590 and Related Forms
The Application for a Public Health Service Grant (PHS
398) and Application for Continuation of a Public Health Service Grant
(PHS 2590) currently in use were revised February 28, 1998 and approved
for use through February 28, 2001. The forms have again been revised
and action has been taken for submission to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB). In the interim, until approval is granted from the
OMB and until further notice, the current versions of the PHS 398
and 2590 should be used.
DHHS/NIH
Grants Policy Statement (03/01/2001)
Effective for
all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning
on or after March 1, 2001. The new grants policy statement is available
in HTML
format and Adobe
PDF format. (Copies of the revised policy statement will not be
printed or mailed by NIH.)
DHHS/NIH
Notice of Suspension of PHS Policy
PHS
Policy on Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research: On December
7, 2000, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), in collaboration
with each of the Public Health Service (PHS) Operating Divisions,
announced in the Federal Register the issuance of a Final Policy on
Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research. 65 FR 76647. A
Draft PHS Policy on Instruction in the Responsible Conduct of Research
was announced in the Federal Register on July 21, 2000, and made available
for public comment until September 21, 2000. In response to the public
comment, ORI and the PHS agencies made substantial revisions to the
draft policy before its issuance in final form. Consistent with the
President's January 20, 2001, Regulatory Review Plan, on behalf of
PHS, ORI hereby suspends implementation of the "PHS Policy on Instruction
in the Responsible Conduct of Research" to permit additional review
both of the substance of the policy and the process for adoption.
Pending completion of that review, institutions that might otherwise
be subject to the RCR policy are under no obligation to implement
the policy unless further public notice is issued in the Federal Register.
Any future PHS action taken to implement the RCR policy would provide
extended implementation time frames that take into consideration this
suspension.
NIH Financial Status Reports: Reminder and Information on Timeliness and Accuracy Requirements
NIH Publication of the Revised National Institutes of Health Grants Policy Statement
NINDS Functional Microstimulation of the Lumbosacral Spinal Cord
NSF
Graduate Research Fellowships: A Directory of Coordinating Officials
This
directory was compiled to assist National Science Foundation Graduate
Research Fellows in contacting the Coordinating Official appointed
by the President of each institution to handle all NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship matters. It consists of all institutions who have recently
had fellows studying on their campuses.
3A.01 DOD
Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program
DoD began accepting
proposals: March 1, 2001: Deadline for receipt of proposals at the DOD
Components: by 3:00 p.m. local time, April 11, 2001. The Army, Navy, Air
Force, and Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), hereafter referred
to as DoD Components, invite small business firms and research institutions
to jointly submit proposals under this solicitation for the Small Business
Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The STTR Program is a pilot program
under which awards are made to small business concerns for cooperative
research and development, conducted jointly by a small business and a
research institution, through a uniform process having three phases. STTR,
although modeled substantially on the Small Business Innovation Research
(SBIR) Program, is a separate program and is separately financed. Subject
to availability of funds, DoD Components will support high quality cooperative
research and development proposals of innovative concepts to solve the
listed defense-related scientific or engineering problems, especially
those concepts that also have high potential for commercialization in
the private sector. The STTR Program is designed to provide a strong incentive
for small companies and researchers at research institutions, i.e., non-profit
research institutions, contractor-operated federally funded research and
development centers (FFRDCs), and universities, to work together as a
team to move ideas from the research institution to the marketplace, to
foster high-tech economic development, and to address the technological
needs of our armed forces.
3A.02 DOT
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 2001 Program
Closing Date: May
1, 2001. The purpose of this solicitation is to invite small businesses
with their valuable resources and creative capabilities to submit innovative
research proposals that address high priority requirements of the Department.
The DOT SBIR Program is a three-phase process. This solicitation is
for Phase I Proposals only. Phase I is for the conduct of feasibility-related
experimental or theoretical research or Research & Development (R&D) efforts
on research topics as described herein. The dollar value of the proposal
may be up to $100,000 unless otherwise noted and the period of performance
may be up to six months.
3A.03 EPA
FY 2001 Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention Grant Funds
All applications must
be received by the EPA contractor, Eastern Research Group (ERG), on or
before 5 p.m., e.s.t., April 20, 2001. EPA is soliciting grant proposals
under the Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention (EJP2) grant
program. Since 1995, the EJP2 grant program has funded projects which
have sought to encourage innovative, non-regulatory pollution prevention
techniques in environmental justice communities. Over the last 5 years
of the program, eligible grant recipients have experimented with a variety
of different approaches. With experience, the EPA is better able to assess
the types of projects and techniques that might be replicated in other
affected communities, and the types of projects that should be deferred.
The EPA anticipate having less money than in previous years, and applicants
can make better use of their time and energy if all eligibility requirements
are followed. This grant program is designed specifically to fund only
those projects that directly benefit minority and low-income communities
by applying pollution prevention approaches. EPA will not award EJP2 funds
to proposals for cleanup and disposal activities, trash collection, recycling,
and/or pest removal, and/or other initiatives that are aimed at avoiding
the generation of pollution. This program promotes pollution prevention
approaches that address environmental justice concerns in affected communities.
Eligible recipients of the grant funds include incorporated non-profit
environmental organizations, environmental justice organizations, community
grassroots organizations, including religious and civic groups, local
governments, and federally recognized tribal governments.
3A.04 EPA/NSF
2001 Technology for a Sustainable Environment: NSF/EPA Partnership for
Environmental Research
Deadline: May 21,
2001. This competition is designed to address pollution avoidance/prevention
processes and methodologies, and to support scientific and technological
research with long-term impact on industrial applications. Research proposals
are invited that advance the discovery, development, and use of innovative
technologies and approaches to avoid or minimize the generation of pollutants
at the source. NSF and EPA are providing funds for fundamental and applied
research in the physical sciences and engineering that will lead to environmentally
benign methods for industrial processing and manufacturing. The competition
addresses technological environmental issues of design, synthesis, processing,
and the production, use, and ultimate disposition of products in continuous
and discrete manufacturing industries. Projects with fresh ideas that
are "on the cutting edge" or are "high-risk/high-payoff" are encouraged.
Projects also will be considered that show the potential to change research
infrastructure by developing teams, using systems approaches, and/or introducing
new ways of conducting research. Interested faculty members are encouraged
to contact Rebecca Puig, Electronic Research Administration Specialist,
at 974-5465 rpuig@research.usf.edu
for assistance with NSF FastLane proposal submission.
3A.05 EPA/ORD/NCER
Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program: Market Mechanisms and Incentives
for Environmental Management
The deadline for receipt of the application
by NCER is no later than 4:00 p.m. ET, May 14, 2001. The EPA Office of
Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Research (NCER),
announces an extramural grants competition supporting research in the
area of market-based mechanisms and other incentives for environmental
management (MM&I). The MM&I competition encourages research that will
contribute to the development of practical, credible approaches for designing
environmental programs that will meet the Nation's environmental goals
cost-effectively. The terms "market mechanisms" and "incentives" refer
to approaches that are alternatives or complements to traditional environmental
regulation and that rely on market forces, financial mechanisms, information,
or other instruments to encourage regulated entities to reduce emissions,
discharges and waste generation, or generally improve environmental performance.
EPA is not soliciting proposals that address market or incentive approaches
to natural resource management issues that are not within the scope of
the Agency's mission. Such issues would include water supply, forestry
or agriculture, except to the extent that these affect or are affected
by environmental quality, e.g., logging impacts on water quality, or impacts
of air pollution on agriculture. The U.S. experience with MM&I applications
is still limited. The various potential applications of MM&I mechanisms,
as well as their efficiency advantages and disadvantages and their distributional
effects need to be better understood. The competition encourages proposals
from researchers from all behavioral, social, and economic sciences. It
encourages collaborations with nonsocial science disciplines when needed
to answer social science-based questions. It supports both research conducted
within a single disciplinary tradition, as well as novel, collaborative,
and interdisciplinary scientific efforts.
3A.06 NIAAA
Adoption of Alcohol Research Findings in Clinical Practice
Applications are to
be submitted on the grant application form PHS 398 (rev. 4/98) and will
be accepted at the standard
application deadlines as indicated in the application kit. The National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) invites applications
to support studies of the adoption in clinical practice of scientific
advances in the treatment of alcohol dependence and abuse. It is hoped
that a better understanding of these adoption processes will strengthen
effective communication between researchers and providers, thereby facilitating
the adoption of emergent research-based advances. Specific areas of research
encouraged herein include: studies that prepare findings from efficacy
trials for real-world clinical adoption, studies of communication channels
between the scientific community and the provider community, studies of
adoption trials, naturalistic studies of knowledge adoption, contributions
toward the theory of the adoption process, studies of organizational change,
and studies of the resources required for the adoption of treatment improvements.
3A.07 NIH/NIJ/OJP/OJJPD/ACYF-Children's
Bureau/DOE-OSE Research on Child Neglect
Applications are to
be submitted on the grant application form PHS 398 (rev. 4/98) and will
be accepted at the standard
application deadlines as indicated in the application kit. The above
sponsoring Institutes invite applications in response to this Program
Announcement (PA) that will enhance our understanding of the etiology,
extent, services, treatment, management, and prevention of child neglect.
This PA is a follow-up to a 1999 Request for Applications designed to
stimulate the development of programs of child neglect research at institutions
that currently have strong research programs in related areas, and to
bring the expertise of researchers from the child health, education, and
juvenile justice fields into the child neglect research field. The PA
is intended to foster ongoing programs of research on child neglect throughout
NIH, the DOJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the
Children's Bureau, and the ED Office of Special Education Programs, in
order to encourage the continuation of the kind of research stimulated
by the 1999 RFA. (The Office of Child Abuse and Neglect, in the Children's
Bureau, will participate pending the reauthorization of the Child Abuse
Prevention and Treatment Act and the availability of funds.)
3A.08 NIMH/NINR/NIDA
Community Implementation of HIV Prevention Interventions
Letter of Intent Receipt
Date: April 13, 2001. Application Receipt Date: May 11, 2001. The National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Nursing Research
(NINR) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) invite research
grant applications that target research on the translation and adoption
of empirically tested and proven Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) research-based
prevention interventions into community-based public health settings.
This initiative is intended to foster partnerships among researchers and
community-based organizations in the process of adapting and adopting
proven interventions. Areas of research appropriate to this RFA include:
studies of implementation approaches and organizational and environmental
characteristics that impede or foster implementation; cost- effectiveness
of efficacious strategies; identification of characteristics of community
organizations most prepared to implement research-based interventions;
and studies of the impact of efficacious interventions in community settings.
Research on characteristics of interventions and of community settings
that contribute to the likelihood of sustaining an intervention over time
are also of interest. Multidisciplinary teams and collaborative alliances
are strongly encouraged. This effort is being initiated in consultation
with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
3A.09 NSF
Assessment of Student Achievement in Undergraduate Education (ASA)
Letter
of Intent Due Date (optional): April 30, 2001. Full Proposal Deadline:
June 7, 2001. This program supports the development and dissemination
of assessment practices, materials (tools), and measures to guide efforts
that improve the effectiveness of courses, curricula, programs of study,
and academic institutions in promoting student learning in science, mathematics,
engineering, and technology (SMET). The program also promotes the full
integration of assessment with these educational efforts. Interested
faculty members are encouraged to contact Rebecca Puig, Electronic Research
Administration Specialist, at 974-5465 rpuig@research.usf.edu
for assistance with NSF FastLane proposal submission.
3A.10 NSF
Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
Letter of Intent (optional)
due: March 30, 2001. Full Proposal Deadline: May 30, 2001. The goals of
the Partnerships for Innovation Program are to: stimulate the transformation
of knowledge created by the national research and education enterprise
into innovations that create new wealth, build strong local, regional
and national economies and improve the national well-being; broaden the
participation of all types of academic institutions and all citizens in
NSF activities to more fully meet the broad workforce needs of the national
innovation enterprise; and create or enhance enabling infrastructure necessary
to foster and sustain innovation in the long-term. To develop a set of
ideas for pursuing these goals, this competition will support 10-15 promising
partnerships among academe, government and the private sector; partnerships
that will explore new approaches to support and sustain innovation. Interested
faculty members are encouraged to contact Rebecca Puig, Electronic Research
Administration Specialist, at 974-5465 rpuig@research.usf.edu
for assistance with NSF FastLane proposal submission.
3A.11 Field
Museum of Natural History Visiting Scholar Funds
The deadlines for
receiving applications are May 1 and November 1 of each year. The Field
Museum houses some of the world's finest collections in anthropology,
botany, geology and zoology. Curators and associates in the scientific
departments have pursued research programs in over 50 countries throughout
the world. The Field Museum recognizes the need to support basic research
on our collections by interested students and scholars throughout the
world. To this end, the Museum offers a modest number of grants and fellowships
to visiting scientists and students for research and training on our scientific
and library collections. Grants are open on a competitive basis to all
individuals in the national and international scholarly community working
on problems related to natural history. Visiting Scholar Funds are mainly
to provide research opportunities for scientists who wish to use the research
collections at The Field Museum. Both professionals and graduate students
may apply.
3A.12 Intellectual
Property Owners Foundation Inventor of the Year Award
Deadline for nominations
is April 9, 2001. Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) is a nonprofit association
representing owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
This award recognizes America's most outstanding recent inventors. Its
purpose is to increase public awareness of current inventors and how they
benefit the nation's economy and quality of life. The Inventor of the
Year Award includes a plaque and a $5,000 cash grant. Runners-up are honored
with Distinguished Inventor awards. An inventor is eligible for the 2000
award if the invention: 1) was invented in the U.S.; 2) is covered by
a U.S. patent; and 3) was either patented or first made commercially available
since the beginning of 1996. (Nominations from earlier years may be resubmitted
if still eligible.) Nominations are solicited from independent inventors
and from inventors employed in industry, universities, and government.
Nominees should epitomize the American traditions of technological leadership
and "Yankee ingenuity."
3A.13
March of Dimes
Birth Defects Foundation Research Grants Year 2002 RFP
Potential
applicants should submit a Letter of Intent on or before April 30, 2001
(postmark date). The Letters of Intent will be evaluated by a scientific
advisory committee and applications will be invited from those whom the
committee recommends. Those selected will receive the application forms
from March of Dimes on or before July 16, 2001. The completed applications
should be returned to March of Dimes on or before September 30, 2001.
The March of Dimes invites all qualified scientists with faculty appointments
or the equivalent, at universities, hospitals and research institutions,
to submit applications for research grants directed at the prevention
of birth defects. Research subjects appropriate for support 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.
3A.14 Northwestern
University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research Research
Development Grants Program Domestic Poverty and Policy: Census-Funded
Grants
Applications are due
May 1, 2001. The Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center
for Poverty Research seeks research proposals for research development
grants for the 2001-2002 academic year. Funding by the U.S. Census Bureau
supports two grants programs: one to support research using the Survey
of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the other to support research
using the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD). Topics of specific interest
are: the changing labor market; the well-being of children and families;
concentrated urban poverty; effects of recent policy changes, particularly
on special populations such as (but not limited to) immigrants, low-skilled
workers, persons with disabilities, and persons with substance abuse problems;
and teen-age and non marital childbearing. Other topics will also be considered.
3A.15 Northwestern
University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research Research
Development Grants Program Domestic Poverty and Policy: HHS-Funded Grants
Applications are due
May 1, 2001. The Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center
for Poverty Research seeks research proposals for research development
grants for the 2001-2002 academic year. Grants funded by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services support research on the causes and consequences
of poverty and policies aimed at alleviating the effects of poverty and
inequality in the United States. Topics of specific interest are: the
changing labor market; the well-being of children and families; concentrated
urban poverty; effects of recent policy changes, particularly on special
populations such as (but not limited to) immigrants, low-skilled workers,
persons with disabilities, and persons with substance abuse problems;
and teen-age and non-marital childbearing. Other topics will also be considered.
3A.16 Northwestern
University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research Research
Development Grants Program Food Assistance Research
Applications are due
May 1, 2001. The Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center
for Poverty Research announces its 2001-2002 Research Development Grants
program for social science scholars interested in food assistance research.
Grants will be awarded in amounts up to $40,000, including indirect costs.
Start-up projects and projects by young and less experienced scholars
will be offered grants of up to $20,000. Awards will be made to scholars
who propose research including, but not limited to interactions between
food assistance programs and other welfare programs with respect to participation,
administration, budget exposure, and the role of food assistance as a
personal and fiscal stabilizer; the effects of the macroeconomic environment
on the need for food assistance, level of participation, and food assistance
program costs; and the well-being of current and former food assistance
recipients. Other topics related to welfare reform and macroeconomic interactions
with food assistance will be considered. This program is designed to encourage:
experienced researchers in other areas to start projects in the area of
food assistance; research on food assistance using innovative approaches
and research methods; smaller, start-up projects with the potential to
make a significant contribution to food assistance research; and younger
and junior scholars to develop research agendas in the area of food assistance.
3A.17 U.S.
Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) 2001 Cooperative Grants
Program
Proposals will be
due on May 18, 2001. The U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation
(CRDF) is pleased to announce a new competition for its Cooperative Grants
Program. This program allows joint teams of U.S. and former Soviet Union
(FSU) scientists and engineers to apply for one- to two-year support for
cooperation in any area of civilian research and development in the natural
sciences, mathematics, engineering, and biomedical and behavioral sciences.
Each proposal must be submitted electronically through the CRDF website.
3A.18 National
Endowment for the Arts Grants to Organizations Arts Learning
Application Postmark Deadline: May 14, 2001. The National
Endowment for the Arts recognizes, encourages, and supports the excellence
and diversity of our nation's artistic creativity and accomplishments.
Funding opportunities are available that align with five of the Arts Endowment's
goals: Creativity, Organizational Capacity, Access Heritage/Preservation,
and Arts Learning (formerly Education). Implicit in all of the Arts Endowment's
goals is its commitment to artistic excellence. The Arts Learning goal
concerns children and youth learning in and through the arts. Arts Learning
is designed to encourage efforts that will identify, support, and/or replicate
best practices; expand opportunities; demonstrate the benefits of strong
arts and learning partnerships; and improve the quality of learning in
and through the arts for our nation's children and youth (generally early
childhood through age 18). The Arts Endowment will support quality arts
learning projects in both the pre-K through 12 and youth arts areas. Projects
that are based at higher education institutions are eligible if the focus
is directly on children and youth. Arts Learning projects may take place
in, after, or out of school.
3A.19 National
Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grants
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2001. Challenge
grants help institutions and organizations secure long-term support for,
and improvements in, their humanities programs and resources. Awards are
made to museums, public libraries, colleges, historical societies, public
television and radio stations, universities, scholarly associations, and
other nonprofit entities to improve their financial stability and the
quality of their humanities activities. Through these awards, many are
able to shift programs from dependence on term funding to more secure
support from an endowment. Many endow staff positions in the humanities
and build new resources for financial support through increased attendance,
membership, and enrollment. In special circumstances challenge grants
can also help with limited direct costs, such as acquisitions, the purchase
of capital equipment, construction and renovation, and even debt retirement.
Because of the matching requirements, these NEH awards also strengthen
the humanities by encouraging nonfederal sources of support. Challenge
grants are offered only when NEH funds will make a significant improvement
or prevent significant losses in humanities programs, help institutions
carry out long-term plans for strengthening their basic resources and
activities in the humanities, and enhance financial stability through
increased nonfederal support.
3A.20 National
Endowment for the Humanities Research Programs Fellowships and Summer
Stipends
Fellowships applications must be received between
March 1 and the deadline of May 1. Summer Stipends applications must be
received between August 1 and the deadline of October 1. LIMITED SUBMISSION:
Each college and university in the United States and its jurisdictions
may nominate two members of its faculty for the Summer Stipends competition.
Fellowships and Summer Stipends are opportunities for individuals to pursue
advanced work in the humanities. Applicants may be faculty or staff members
of colleges or universities, or of primary or secondary schools, and scholars
and writers. Projects may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the
general public's understanding of the humanities. Recipients might eventually
produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book
on a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition,
or other scholarly tools. Fellowships and Summer Stipends support projects
that can be completed during the tenure of an award or those that are
part of a long-term endeavor.
3A.21 Arts
International Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibits
Annual Deadlines 2001 and 2002: January 16, May 2,
September 5. The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and
Exhibits makes grants to individual performing artists and to organizations
that have been invited to participate in international festivals outside
the United States. The Fund also helps support the creative and professional
development of U.S. artists through the presentation of their work at
significant international festivals worldwide. The Fund is particularly
interested in supporting applicants invited to festivals in areas of the
world where U.S. work is not frequently seen such as Africa, Asia and
Latin America. Although activities such as master classes, lecture demonstrations
or workshops are not required, the Fund encourages such exchange when
possible.
3A.22 Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowships in American Civilization
Applications are reviewed and fellowships awarded twice
a year, December 1, and May 1. All applications and support materials
must be received by the date immediately preceding the term of the proposed
fellowship. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History invites applications
for fellowships in American Civilization, in two categories: research
fellowships, for post-doctoral scholars at every faculty rank; and dissertation
fellowships, for doctoral candidates in their final year before submission.
The Gilder Lehrman fellowships support work in one of three archives in
New York City: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the Pierpont
Morgan Library; The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Collection;
and The Library of the New-York Historical Society. Please specify only
one institution in the application. The fellowships are open to scholars
who have a demonstrated record of scholarly excellence in American history,
American literature or a related field.
3A.23 Hambidge
Center for Creative Arts and Sciences Resident Fellowships
There are two application review periods each year.
For residencies taking place March through August, the annual deadline
is November 1. For residencies between the months of September and February,
the deadline is May 1 each year. The Center's objective is to provide
an environment for mature and emerging professional artists to engage
in creative work and/or research. The Center is open for Fellowship Residencies
for periods of from two weeks to six weeks.
3A.24 Program
for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture,
and Sports and United States’ Universities
The deadline for the receipt
of applications is April 1, 2001. The program is designed to promote closer
ties between scholarly Hispanicism in the US in the areas of humanities,
social sciences, and the cultural and academic developments of Spain.
Projects oriented toward the dissemination of Spanish culture throughout
the academic systems of the US are reviewed for subsidy. Priority is given
to those proposals of high scholarly quality which will have an important
impact upon the field of Hispanicism, both regionally and nationwide.
Since its conception, the program has granted a considerable amount of
subsidies supporting a variety of events. Proposals encompass visiting
professorships; the publication of scholarly journals, translations, and
literary texts; symposia, film series, and exhibitions; and dissertation
scholarships. More than 300 US academic institutions have benefited from
these subsidies. Funding is available for: visiting professors, individual
research, publications, dissemination and study of Spanish cinema, symposia
and seminars, subsidies for professional associations, and dissemination
of Spanish culture through the arts.
3A.25
USDE High School Equivalency
Program (HEP) and the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP)
(CFDA#: 84.141A and 84.149A)
Closing Date: April 23, 2001. The High School Equivalency
Program (HEP) and the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) are designed
to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers complete high school and succeed
in postsecondary education. Eligible applicants for these programs are
Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs), or private, non-profit agencies
working in cooperation with IHEs. The programs are located at IHEs to
give migrant students exposure to cultural events, academic programs and
other educational activities usually not available to migrant and seasonal
farmworker youth. The HEP programs help students to complete the requirements
for a general education diploma (GED), and to enter postsecondary education
or other training programs, or to be placed in career positions or the
military. The CAMP programs provide outreach, recruitment, academic, supportive,
and financial assistance to migrant and seasonal farmworkers to help them
successfully complete the first academic year of college and to continue
in postsecondary education.
3A.26 USDE
Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) FY 2000
Phase I Solicitation Closing Date: April 18, 2001.
The U.S. Congress established the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Program to stimulate technological innovation, utilize small business
to meet federal research and development needs, and increase private sector
commercialization. There are ten (10) federal agencies which participate
in this program. The program is administered similarly by each of these
departments. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) issues one (1) annual
solicitation. The Phase I solicitation opens in late January and closes
in April. Awardees are notified in August; with a projected start date
for the beginning of September.
3A.27 University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign National Center for Supercomputing Applications
National Computational Science Alliance Alliance Allocations Board (AAB):
Supercomputer Time
Proposal must be submitted to NCSA by April 9, 2001
(June 2001 meeting), July 16, 2001 (September 2001 meeting) or October
8, 2001 (December 2001 meeting). The National Computational Science Alliance
(Alliance) is a partnership among computational scientists, computer scientists,
and professionals in education, outreach, and training at more than 50
U.S. universities and research institutions working to prototype the computational
and information infrastructure of the next century. At the Alliance there
are two peer-review committees to which an eligible Principal Investigator
(PI) can submit a proposal: Alliance Allocations Board (AAB) and National
Resource Allocations Committee (NRAC) (See IRIS entry 16398). The AAB
committee makes allocations for proposals requesting 10,001-100,000 SUs.
The allocations can be made on any of the Alliance partner computers:
1) Boston University (thirty-eight-processor SGI Power Challenge Array,
a one-hundred-ninety-two-processor SGI/Cray Origin 2000); 2) NCSA (NT
Supercluster; SGI Origin 2000); 3) University of New Mexico-Albuquerque
High Performance Computing Center; 4) University of New Mexico-Maui High
Performance Computing Center; 5) University of Kentucky (HP-Convex Exemplar
X-Class Scalable Supercomputer (SPP2200)); and University of Wisconsin
at Madison (Condor High Throughput Computing). Projects must be nonproprietary
and must meet the minimum level of resources for at least one of the platforms
requested. Each PI will be supported by only one award per year.
3A.28 AHRQ
Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity (BRIC) Program
Letter of Intent
Receipt Date: April 1, 2001. Application Receipt Date: April 24, 2001.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the Building
Research Infrastructure and Capacity (BRIC) Program. BRIC is a merit-based,
peer-reviewed program initiated in response to Congressional intent to
broaden geographic distribution of health services research funding by
enhancing the competitiveness for research funding among institutions
located in states in which the aggregate success rate for applications
to the AHRQ has historically been low. Primary goals of BRIC are to (1)
enhance the competitiveness of research institutions and organizations
in the BRIC eligible states (see below) for AHRQ-funded grants and (2)
increase the probability of long-term growth of AHRQ-competitive funding
to investigators at institutions from these eligible states. This Request
for Applications (RFA) describes a two-year development program to increase,
strengthen, and sustain the health services research competitiveness of
institutions within selected states. The BRIC program is designed to support
opportunities similar to the original exploratory, planning Institutional
Development Awards (IDeA), sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.
As such, the program is also similar in some aspects to the Experimental
Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) initiated by the National
Science Foundation (NSF).
3A.29 AHRQ
Clinical Informatics to Promote Patient Safety
Letter of Intent Receipt
Date: April 6, 2001. Application Receipt Date: April 23, 2001. The Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announces the availability
of Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18) on the use
of clinical informatics and information technology (IT) to reduce medical
errors and improve patient safety. Specifically, AHRQ seeks projects to
develop and test the use of innovative technologies, such as hand-held
electronic medication and specimen management systems, training simulators
for medical education, computerized bar-coding, patient bracelets, smart
cards, and automated medication dispensing systems in clinical settings.
The main objective of this RFA, Clinical Informatics to Promote Patient
Safety (CLIPS), is to assess the extent to which such innovations, when
applied in various health care settings, contribute to measurable and
sustainable improvements in patient safety and quality of care. Research
resulting from this RFA will help us to better understand the opportunities
and barriers to using IT to improve the process and outcomes of care for
patients and providers.
3A.30 AHRQ
Primary Care PBRNS: Competitive Continuations
Application Receipt
Date: April 13, 2001. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
announces the availability of one-year cooperative agreement research
grants to provide continuing support of primary care practice-based research
networks (PBRNs) and to assist PBRNs in addressing data-related issues.
Although grants will be awarded competitively, applicants are limited
to recipients of planning grants awarded by AHRQ in September, 2000, under
RFA-HS-00-004, Primary Care Practice-Based Research Networks. RFA-HS-
00-004 supported PBRN planning efforts to establish or augment electronic
collection and aggregation of practice-derived data, increase network
capacity to study the health care of racial and ethnic minority and/or
underserved populations, create systems to facilitate the implementation
of research findings by network clinicians, and identify potential sources
of ongoing network support. The current solicitation builds upon this
effort by helping PBRNs address specific data-related issues identified
through planning activities.
3A.31 EPA/ORD/NCER
Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program: Assessing the Consequences
of Global Change for Aquatic Ecosystems: Climate, Land Use, & UV Radiation
Closing Date: May 7, 2001. This Request for
Applications (RFA) solicits applications for research that will support
assessments of the consequences of global change for aquatic ecosystems
and water quality. Proposals to study the emissions of greenhouse gases,
the effects of greenhouse gases on climate, or the effects of global change
on forested, agricultural or grassland ecosystems will not be considered.
Terrestrial systems may be considered in terms of how they affect aquatic
ecosystems, but effects on crop productivity, carbon sequestration and
other endpoints related to the quality of terrestrial ecosystems are not
within the scope of this RFA. Finally, the EPA is interested in proposals
that address integrative effects on aquatic ecosystems and water quality,
thereby bringing together both human dimensions models and natural sciences
models. For example, a proposal that focused on the process of biogeochemical
cycling would not be considered, while a project that considered biogeochemical
cycling as a component of consequences to aquatic ecosystems and/or water
quality would be appropriate.
3A.32 EPA/ONR/NCER
Science
to Achieve Results (STAR) Program: Valuation
of Environmental Impacts on Human Health
The deadline for receipt of the application by NCER
is no later than 4:00 p.m. ET, May 14, 2001. The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental
Research (NCER), in cooperation with the EPA Office of Children’s Health
Protection (OCHP) announces the second year of an extramural grants competition
supporting research leading to improved valuation of environmental effects
on human health.
- Children’s Health Valuation: To promote research that would enhance economic valuation of reducing environmental risks to children’s health, EPA requests applications for research funding in two areas: parental and societal willingness to pay (WTP) for reductions in (1) morbidity and (2) mortality risks to children’s health. All proposals should clearly identify the environmental stressors and resulting health effects that will be investigated, as well as the attributes of children (as children and as future adults) that are altered by those effects. Examples of such attributes include intelligence, fertility, mobility, and life expectancy. Emphasis should be on development of empirical research and data.
- Valuation of Avoiding Delayed-Onset and Long-Term Health Risks: This solicitation requests proposals for both theoretical and empirical research that will improve researchers’ ability to identify and establish reliable values for avoiding immediate exposure to risks of delayed-onset morbidity and/or mortality, such as cancer. Research supported by this solicitation will address methods to value avoidance of future health risks in the present and will address the effects of one or more of the following influences on the valuation of avoided risks of cancer or similar diseases.
3A.33
Fogarty
International Center International Malaria Research Training Program
Award
Letter
of Intent Receipt Date: May 23, 2001. Application Receipt Date: June
28, 2001. The Fogarty International Center (FIC) currently supports
innovative, collaborative malaria research training programs that contribute
to the long-term goal of harnessing scientific knowledge and skills
to enhance efforts to prevent malaria-related morbidity and mortality
and to control malaria transmission in endemic developing countries
(http://www.nih.gov/fic/programs/malaria.html)
The International Malaria Research Training Program (IMRTP) request
for applications (RFA) is being issued a second time by FIC in conjunction
with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID)
RFA for research grants entitled “Malaria Vaccine Development: Understanding
Malarial Anemia” (AI-01-007). Applicants for this NIAID RFA are invited
to submit proposals to train or expand the capabilities of scientists
and health professionals from developing countries, in which malaria
is endemic, to engage in research relevant to the pathogenesis of severe
malarial anemia. In addition, institutions with current FIC IMRTP awards
are invited to apply for supplemental funds to expand their activities
to include training in this area.
3A.34 Fogarty
International Center/NIEHS/NIGMS/NSF/U.S. Geological Society Ecology of
Infectious Diseases
Letter of Intent Receipt Date: April 2, 2001.
Application Receipt Date: May 17, 2001. The National Institutes of Health
(NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS) (hereafter "the Government" or "the Participating Agencies") invite
applications for the establishment of research programs to elucidate the
underlying mechanisms that govern the relationships between anthropogenic
environmental changes and the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.
This Request for Applications (RFA) calls for the development of interdisciplinary
research programs on the ecology of infectious diseases in the context
of anthropogenic environmental changes such as biodiversity loss, habitat
transformation, environmental contamination, climate change and other
influences. The focus of this RFA is on discovery of basic ecological
and biological mechanisms and development of predictive models for the
emergence and transmission of diseases in humans and other animals, and
ultimately the development of strategies to prevent or control them. This
is the second RFA issued for this program. The most significant change
from the previous RFA is a more inclusive definition of relevant climate
change-disease projects.
3A.35 NCI
Cancer Prognosis and Prediction: SBIR/STTR Initiative
Letter of Intent Receipt Dates: May 9, 2001. Application
Receipt Dates: June 13, 2001. The Cancer Diagnosis Program of the National
Cancer Institute invites applications for research projects to evaluate
the utility and pilot the application of new strategies for determining
prognosis or predicting response to therapy. This will provide tools to
improve clinical decision-making in the care of cancer patients. This
program is intended to accelerate the translation of new discoveries into
clinical practice by enabling investigators to apply new diagnostic strategies
to clinical problems. The primary objective is to move research quickly
and directly from the promising exploratory stage through further assay
development into initial confirmatory testing in a clinical setting.
3A.36
NCI
Phased Application Awards in Cancer Prognosis and Prediction
Letter of Intent Date: May 9, 2001. Application Receipt
Date: June 13, 2001. The Cancer Diagnosis Program of the National Cancer
Institute invites applications for research projects to evaluate the utility
and pilot the application of new strategies for determining prognosis
or predicting response to therapy. This will provide tools to improve
clinical decision-making in the care of cancer patients. This Program
Announcement (PAR) provides support for a first phase (R21) for technical
development and a second phase (R33) for application and evaluation of
clinical utility. The first phase should produce data to demonstrate the
technical feasibility of the study design proposed for the second phase,
including the analytic performance of the assay or test system on samples
comparable to those that will be used in the second phase. The second
phase should be designed to test whether application of the strategy will
provide clinical benefit to a defined set of cancer patients.
3A.37 NCRR
Technology Development for Biomedical Applications: Phased Innovation
Award (R21/R33)
Application Receipt Dates: June 1, and October 1 annually.
The National Center for Research Resources invites innovative applications
for (1) the development of new and improved instruments or devices, (2)
the development of new methodologies, or (3) the development of software
to be used in biomedical research. Current technology development applications
to NCRR from individual investigators generally use either the R01 or
the R21 mechanisms. Investigators with substantial preliminary data for
a technology development application should continue to use the R01 mechanism.
This program announcement replaces PAR 98-047. PAR 98-047 used only the
R21 mechanism. Although this program announcement uses the R21/R33 phased
innovation mechanism, applications using only the R21 mechanism are welcome.
The proposed research may involve conceptualization, design, fabrication,
and/or testing of new instruments or devices. Applications to develop
new experimental techniques and protocols using existing instrumentation
as well as applications to develop software are invited. It is expected
that these technique development applications will have broad application
to biomedical research. The overall objective of these applications for
new instruments, techniques, or software is the development of more powerful
and more precise technology for biomedical research. Areas of emphasis
are biomedical engineering and technologies for the study of structure
and function of biological systems at all levels of complexity.
3A.38
NIAID Acute Infection and Early Disease Research Program
Letter of Intent Receipt Date: August 16, 2001. Application
Receipt Date: October 10, 2001. The Division of AIDS (DAIDS), National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), solicits applications
for the competitive continuation of a program to study the pathogenesis
of acute/early HIV infection in adult humans, and to develop and evaluate
the impact of therapeutic interventions at this early stage of HIV disease.
This program was initiated under PAR-96-060, Acute Infection and Early
Disease Research Network. There are seven current cooperative agreement
(U01) awardees; six clinical units and a coordinating center. The goal
of this initiative is to maintain a program of five to seven HIV Acute
Infection and Early Disease Research Units and one Statistical and Coordinating
Center, through cooperative agreements (U01). Each awarded unit will perform
innovative, integrated, investigator-initiated pathogenesis and clinical
research on acute and early HIV infection and will place emphasis on performing
collaborative multi-unit research projects as part of the Acute Infection
and Early Disease Research Program (AIEDRP). The multi-unit structure
is required in order to enroll sufficient numbers of these difficult-to-identify
acutely HIV- infected subjects for study.
3A.39 NIAID/NIDCR
New Technologies for HIV and HIV Vaccine Related Research
Application Receipt Date: Standards
AIDS Receipt Dates. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), invites applications
to conduct novel and innovative research in three target areas: 1) development
of improved technologies for detecting HIV; 2) utilization of novel technologies
to evaluate immune responses to HIV vaccines, as well as expansion of
the range and scope of immune functions currently measured in HIV vaccine
trials; and 3) utilization of novel technologies to measure and correlate
immune responses that are responsible for/associated with the efficacy
of non-HIV licensed vaccines. This program announcement (PA) is an expansion
of a previously advertised PA entitled “Laboratory Methods to Assess Responses
to HIV Vaccine Candidates” (PA-99-044). This PA intends to complement
the work conducted by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) and other
programs supporting vaccine trials, as well as those conducting studies
of animals receiving experimental HIV/SIV vaccines in prophylactic and/or
therapeutic trials funded through programs in NIAID.
3A.40 NICHD/NIDDK
Cooperative Multicenter Research Network to Test Glucose Sensors in Children
with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Letter of Intent Receipt Date: March 27, 2001. Application
Receipt Date: May 11, 2001. The National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) invite cooperative agreement applications
for participation in a collaborative research consortium that will utilize
new continuous glucose monitoring devices to: (1) evaluate glycemic control
and the incidence, magnitude, and duration of hypoglycemia in a contemporaneous
population of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus; and (2) to evaluate
glucose homeostasis in children without diabetes. This research consortium
may also evaluate the value of providing data from these devices to health
care professionals with regard to achieving glycemic control and minimizing
hypoglycemia in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. In addition to
applications for Clinical Centers (CC), which will recruit subjects, and
develop and implement a common protocol, separate applications are invited
for support of a Data Coordinating Center (DCC). The DCC will have primary
responsibility for Clinical Center coordination, and the biostatistical
analyses and data management aspects of the clinical trials.
3A.41 NIDDK
Diabetes Research Centers
Letter of Intent Receipt Date: May 10, 2001. Application
Receipt Date: June 12, 2001. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) invites applications for Diabetes Research
Center Grants to support research on diabetes mellitus and its complications,
and related areas of endocrinology and metabolism. The NIDDK anticipates
the award of two Diabetes Endocrinology Research Centers (DERCs) and one
Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) from applications submitted
in response to this solicitation. Both DERCs and DRTCs are intended to
facilitate progress in research with the goal of developing new methods
to treat, prevent and ultimately cure diabetes mellitus and its complications.
Both DERCs and DTRCs support research cores that provide shared resources
to enhance the efficiency of biomedical research and foster collaborations
within and among institutions with established, comprehensive bases of
research relevant to diabetes mellitus. Both types of center also support
a Pilot and Feasibility Program and an Enrichment Program.
3A.42 NIDDK
Small Clinical Research Grants in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
The PHS 398 grant application form (rev. 4/98) is to be
used to submit the R03 grant at the standard
application deadlines indicated in the application kit. The
Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition (DDDN) of the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) encourages applications
using the small grant (R03) mechanism in an attempt to encourage innovative
clinical and epidemiological research into new therapies or means of prevention
of digestive diseases and nutritional disorders. The DDDN began using
the R03 mechanism in 1995 to support short-term clinical studies and help
stimulate the translation of promising and potentially relevant new developments
from the laboratory into the clinical setting. The current program announcement
(PA) supersedes and expands upon the PAR-98-071, which was published in
the NIH Guide, May 15, 1998. This PAR specifically encourages the submission
of applications for pilot studies leading to full- scale clinical trials
and epidemiological studies relating to digestive diseases and nutritional
disorders. These R03 projects should focus on research that is particularly
innovative and/or potentially of high impact. High impact research involves
feasibility studies in which the technological, methodological, or theoretical
approach to a problem lacks an historical precedent or sufficient preliminary
data, but whose successful outcome would have a major effect on a scientific
area. The goal of this small grants program is to provide flexibility
for initiating preliminary, short-term studies, thus allowing new ideas
to be investigated in a more expeditious manner without stringent requirements
for preliminary data. Such support is needed to encourage experienced
investigators as well as new investigators to pursue new approaches, underdeveloped
topics, or more risky avenues of research. If successful, these awards
should lead to significant scientific advances in digestive disease and
nutrition research.
3A.43 NIGMS
Large-Scale Collaborative Project Awards
Phase
I Application Receipt Date: June 18, 2001. Phase II Application Receipt
Date: January 16, 2002. The purpose of this RFA is to reannounce the National
Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) program of “Large-Scale
Collaborative Project Awards”, (commonly called large Glue Grants) first
issued as GM-99-007 in May 1999, and subsequently reissued in December
1999 as Notice GM-00-001. This new announcement includes updates and modifications,
and should be used in lieu of the previous announcements. The purpose
of this program is to enable the solution of major problems in biomedical
research and to facilitate the next evolutionary stage of integrative
biomedical science. The intention is to make resources available for independently
funded scientists to form research teams to solve a complex biological
problem that would be beyond the means of any one research group, and
that is of central importance to biomedical science and to the mission
of the NIGMS. It is expected that the participating investigators will
already hold externally peer reviewed and funded research grants in the
area of the proposal, and in general, support of new individual research
projects will not be a part of these large scale project awards. A high
level of resources may be requested to allow participating investigators
to extend their research efforts to form a consortium to approach a research
problem of overarching importance in a comprehensive and highly integrated
fashion.
3A.44 NINDS
Parkinson Disease Neuroprotection Clinical Trial: Coordinating and Statistical
Centers
Letter
of Intent Receipt Date: March 30, 2001. Application Receipt Date: May
15, 2001. The Neurodegeneration and Clinical Trial Groups of the National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) request applications
for centers to collaborate in the performance of a large, double-blind
randomized trial of two or more potential neuroprotective agents in patients
early in the course of Parkinson’s disease. Two types of applications
are requested: for (1) a Coordinating Center, and (2) a Statistical Center.
Applications for multiple Clinical Centers will be sought in a separate
solicitation. The trial was called for in the NIH
Parkinson Research Agenda. The neuroprotectants to be tested in the
trial have not yet been chosen and will be selected from among those proposed
by the applicants who respond to this Request for Applications (RFA) as
well as from those suggested by others, including NINDS grantees, pharmaceutical
companies, patients, and patient advocates.
3A.45 NOAA
Community-Based Restoration Project Grants
Restoration
Project Proposals are due May 2, 2001. The program invites the public
to submit proposals for available funding to implement grass-roots habitat
restoration projects that will benefit living marine resources, including
anadromous fish, under the NOAA Community-Based Restoration Program. The
CRP, a financial and technical Federal assistance program, promotes strong
partnerships at the national, regional and local level to fund grass-roots,
community-based ctivities that restore living marine resources and their
habitats and promote stewardship and a conservation ethic for NOAA trust
resources. NOAA trust resources are living marine resources that include
commercial and recreational fishery resources (marine fish and shellfish
and their habitats); anadromous species (fish, such as salmon and striped
bass, that spawn in freshwater and then migrate to the sea); endangered
and threatened marine species and their habitats; marine mammals, turtles,
and their habitats; marshes, mangroves, seagrass beds, coral reefs, and
other coastal habitats; and resources associated with National Marine
Sanctuaries and National Estuarine Research Reserves. The CRP's objective
is to bring together citizen groups, public and nonprofit organizations,
watershed groups, industry, corporations and businesses, youth conservation
corps, students, landowners, and local government, state, and Federal
agencies to cooperatively implement habitat restoration projects. Partnerships
developed at national, regional and local levels contribute funding, land,
technical assistance, workforce support or other in-kind services to promote
citizen participation in the improvement of locally-important living marine
resources, as well as develop local stewardship and monitoring activities
to sustain and evaluate the success of the restoration.
3A.46 NOAA
National Undersea Research Program Caribbean Marine Research Center Undersea
Research on Tropical and Subtropical Marine Ecosystems
Pre-proposals
are required and must be submitted by email by May 18, 2001 unless prior
arrangements have been made. On the basis of the pre-proposals, requests
for final proposals will be issued, together with final submission guidelines
(see preliminary guidelines at www.cmrc.org).
Final proposals are due at CMRC by August 3, 2001. As one of six National
Undersea Research Centers under the auspices of NOAA’s National
Undersea Research Program (NURP) the Caribbean
Marine Research Center (CMRC) is presently soliciting proposals for
undersea research in the Caribbean region for FY2002. While funding levels
are tentative, there are proposed plans for NOAA to commit significant
new resources to in situ ocean research, exploration and education. The
present announcement is soliciting pre-proposals for two specific funding
opportunities: 1) CMRC-NURC funds for two year projects focusing on NOAA/NURP
research priorities under the research theme of Examinations of the effectiveness
of ‘no-take’ marine protected areas to be initiated in 2002; 2) Caribbean
ocean exploration and research projects requiring advanced undersea technologies
(submersibles, ROVs, technical diving, ocean observatories, etc.) and
targeting the NOAA/NURP’s national competitions or Ocean Exploration Initiative.
3A.47 NSF
Antarctic Research
Full Proposal Deadline:
June 1, 2001. The National Science Foundation funds and manages the United
States Antarctic Program and invites scientists at U.S. institutions to
submit proposals: to perform research in Antarctica; to perform related
research and data analysis in the United States; for field work in the
Antarctic, successful candidates will be provided laboratory support and
operational support in addition to award of funding through home institutions.
Scientific research, and operational support of that research, are the
principal activities supported by the United States Government in Antarctica.
The goals are to expand fundamental knowledge of the region, to foster
research on global and regional problems of current scientific importance,
and to utilize the region as a platform from which to support research.
The U.S. Antarctic Program supports only that research that can be done
exclusively in Antarctica or that can be done best from Antarctica. The
research is performed by investigators from universities and, to a lesser
extent, from Federal agencies and other organizations.
3A.48 NSF
Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Phase II Field Project
Full Proposal
Deadline: May 30, 2001. The SBI project focuses on shelf, shelf break
and upper slope water-mass and ecosystem modifications, material fluxes
and biogeochemical cycles. The geographical focus is on the Chukchi and
Beaufort seas and adjacent upper slopes and the ultimate generalization
of these results into Pan-Arctic and global models. An accumulated body
of research indicates that climate change will significantly impact the
physical and biological linkages between the Arctic shelves and adjacent
ocean basins. SBI will therefore focus on the outer shelf, shelf break
and upper slope, where it is believed that key processes control water
mass exchange and biogeochemical cycles, and where the greatest responses
to climate change are expected. The SBI project is progressing in three
phases over a 10-year period. Phase I (1998-2001) is in progress and involves
analyses and syntheses of historical data, opportunistic field investigations,
and limited regional surveys. This Solicitation calls for proposals for
work under SBI Phase II. This phase will constitute the core field program,
which is to take place in the Bering Strait region and over the outer
shelf, shelf break and upper slope of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Interested
faculty members are encouraged to contact Rebecca Puig, Electronic Research
Administration Specialist, at 974-5465 rpuig@research.usf.edu
for assistance with NSF FastLane proposal submission.
3A.49 USDA/CSREES
Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate Fellowships Grants
Program
All proposals
for Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate Fellowship
Grants must be received on or before July 10, 2001. The Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) announces the availability
of grant funds and requests proposals for the Food and Agricultural Sciences
National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grants Program for Fiscal Years (FYs)
2001 and 2002, and for 2001 Supplemental Grants for Special International
Study or Thesis/Dissertation Research Travel Allowances. This program
seeks to award grants for training students for a doctoral degree at colleges
and universities which have demonstrable teaching and research competencies
in the food and agricultural sciences. The grants are specifically intended
to support fellowship programs that encourage outstanding students to
pursue and complete their degree at such institutions in an area of the
food and agricultural sciences for which there is a national need for
the development of scientific and professional expertise. Food and agricultural
science areas appropriate for fellowship grant applications are those
which are directly related to one of the following: (1) Animal, microbial,
or plant molecular biology including genomics or bioinformatics; (2) natural
resources and environment; (3) agricultural systems or natural resource
engineering; (4) marketing or management; (5) food science or human nutrition;
or (6) human sciences. A proposal is restricted to one national need area.
3A.50
USDA/CSREES Initiative for Future Agriculture
and Food Systems FY 2001
For
the FY 2001 competition, a Letter of Intent is requested and is due by
March 23, 2001. Project proposals and proposals for Multidisciplinary
Graduate Education Traineeship Grants (MGET) must be received by COB April
23, 2001. Proposals received after this date will not be considered for
funding. Critical or Emerging Issues proposals must be received by COB
on June 1, 2001. The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension
Service (CSREES) announces the availability of grant funds and requests
proposals for the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems Program
(IFAFS) for fiscal year (FY) 2001 to support competitively awarded research,
extension and education grants addressing key issues of national and regional
importance to agriculture, forestry, and related topics.
3A.51 American
Astronomical Society Small Research Grant Program
Proposals
are due in the AAS Executive Office by May 4, 2001 for the Summer 2001
meeting and by December 7, 2001 for the Winter 2002 meeting. This program
is funded by a grant from NASA, by income from the AAS operating reserve
fund, and by the Cecilia Payne and Sergei Gaposchkin Memorial Fund. The
purpose of this program is to cover the costs associated with any type
of astronomical research.
3A.52 American
Water Works Association (AWWA) Research Foundation Solicited Research
Proposals (RFPs)
Proposals
submitted in response to RFPs must be postmarked by May 7 for projects
with budgets up to $250,000 in AwwaRF funds. Proposals for RFPs with budgets
of $250,000 or more in AwwaRF funds must be postmarked by July 16. The
AWWA Research Foundation (AWWARF), a non-profit organization dedicated
to advancing the science of water, announces the selection of 48 new research
projects approved for funding in 2001. AWWARF sponsors practical, applied
research for the drinking water community and, since 1986, has managed
research projects worth over $180 million. Requests for proposals (RFPs)
for 30 projects will be available on the AWWARF
web site in mid-March.
3A.53 Bristol-Myers
Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Diseases Research
The
nomination and supporting documents must be received no later than May
4, 2001. The Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement
in Infectious Disease Research is an annual award of US $50,000 and a
silver commemorative medallion presented to a scientist who has made an
outstanding contribution to progress in infectious disease research either
in laboratory or clinical studies. A nomination may be made by an officer
of a medical school, hospital or institution active in infectious disease
research.
3A.54
Bristol-Myers
Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutritional Research
The
deadline for receiving nominations and supporting documents is April 24,
2001. The Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Award for Distinguished Achievement
in Nutrition Research is an annual award of US $50,000 given to a scientist
who has made an outstanding contribution to progress in human nutrition
research. A nomination may be made by an officer of a medical school,
hospital or nutrition research center.
3A.55 Burroughs
Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface
Application Deadline:
May 1, 2001. The complexity inherent in biological research has always
provided a fertile field for the development of new mathematical and physical
approaches to biological problems. But now, with advances in genomics,
quantitative structural biology, and modeling of complex systems, the
possibilities for an exciting research career at the interface between
the physical/computational sciences and the biological sciences have never
been greater. Tackling key problems in biology will require scientists
trained in areas such as chemistry, physics, applied mathematics, computer
science, and engineering. In recognition of the vital role such cross-trained
scientists will play in furthering biomedical science, the Burroughs Wellcome
Fund announces a new award program, Career Awards at the Scientific Interface.
These awards are intended to foster the early career development of researchers
with backgrounds in the physical/computational sciences whose work addresses
biological questions and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic
research. Career Awards at the Scientific Interface provide up to $538,000
over five years to support up to two years of advanced postdoctoral training
and the first three years of a faculty appointment. During both the postdoctoral
and the faculty periods, awards must be taken at degree-granting institutions
in the United States or Canada.
3A.56 FRAXA
Research Foundation Medical Research Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships
New applications are
considered twice each year; the deadlines for applications each year are
on May 1 and December 1. Potential applicants are encouraged to submit
a brief letter of inquiry describing the proposed project before writing
a full application. No specific application format is required, but an
NIH R01 proposal is acceptible. The FRAXA Research Foundation offers a
grants and fellowships program designed to encourage research aimed at
finding a specific treatment for fragile X syndrome. The purpose of this
grant program is to promote research aimed at finding a specific treatment
for fragile X syndrome. FRAXA's goal is to bring practical treatment into
current medical practice as quickly as possible; therefore, preference
will be given to research projects that have a clear practical application
and the results of which will be shared with other qualified researchers
in a timely fashion.
3A.57
National Kidney
Foundation of Florida Research Fellowship 2001-2002
Completed
applications are due April 30, 2001. The National Kidney Foundation (NKF)
of Florida's Medical Advisory Board is pleased to continue awarding grants
for kidney-related research. The purpose of these grants is to foster
training of new investigators with the potential of making valuable contributions
to the understanding, treatment, and cure of kidney diseases and to encourage
high quality applicants who want to amke a career change into academic
nephrology.
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Pfizer
Scholars Grants for Faculty Development in Clinical Epidemiology
Application
Deadline: April 6, 2001. Pfizer, U.S. Pharmaceuticals, is pleased to announce
its first annual competition in the Pfizer Scholars Grants for Faculty
Development in Clinical Epidemiology. This grant reflects Pfizer's response
to the burgeoning need for research bridging the basic science of epidemiology
with clinical medicine, in order to improve both the quality of clinical
research and the quality of patient care. For the purpose of this grant
program, Clinical Epidemiology will be defined broadly including, for
example, studies such as the burden of disease, costs of disease, diagnosis
of disease, etiology of disease, prognosis of disease, or treatment of
disease. This initiative reflects Pfizer's ongoing commitment to the advancement
of medical research in academia through numerous grants and awards programs.
Through the Scholars Grants for Faculty Development in Clinical Epidemiology,
Pfizer is pleased to extend this commitment to the scientific and academic
development of physicians or other clinical medical school faculty members
interested in advancing the science of clinical epidemiology.
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Pfizer Visiting
Professorship Program in Diabetes
Deadline:
May 2, 2001. The Pfizer Visiting Professorship Program in Diabetes is
designed to provide clinical, educational, and research benefits to U.S.
medical schools and teaching hospitals. Specifically, awarded institutions
may select and invite prominent "scholar-scientists" for three days of
teaching and professional exchange with the faculty, students, research
fellows, and physicians involved in diabetes care and research at the
medical center. During the program, the Visiting Professor may give lectures,
participate in rounds, seminars, and conferences. The objective of the
program is to offer the host institution the opportunity for interaction
with a distinguished visitor uniquely suited to provide clinical and educational
benefits. Visit dates can be anytime during the 2001-2002 academic year.
Pfizer Visiting Professorships must consist of three full days of Pfizer-supported
professional proceedings. Visits are not to be conducted as an adjunct
to other planned meetings or events.
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Research Corporation
Research Innovation Awards
The
annual deadline is May 1 for consideration at the fall meeting of the
Program Advisory Committee. One of Research Corporation's unique philanthropic
missions is "to provide means for the advancement and extension of technical
and scientific investigation, research and experimentation" at scholarly
institutions. The Research Innovation Awards program encourages innovation
by scientists early in their academic careers. Awards are made for research
that offers promise for significant discoveries. Faculty members in Ph.D.-
granting departments of astronomy, chemistry, or physics at research universities
in the U.S. and Canada may apply.
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Research Corporation
Research Opportunity Awards
Nomination
deadlines are May 1 and October 1 for consideration at the fall or spring
Program Advisory Committee meetings. One of Research Corporation's unique
philanthropic missions is "to provide means for the advancement and extension
of technical and scientific investigation, research and experimentation"
at scholarly institutions. Research Opportunity Awards are for scientists
of demonstrated productivity seeking to explore new research. he chair
of a Ph.D.-granting astronomy, chemistry or physics department may annually
nominate up to two tenured faculty who are without major research funding.
Candidates must be faculty members in Ph.D.-granting chemistry, physics,
or astronomy departments in the United States or Canada.
3A.62 NSF
The Children's Research Initiative: Integrative Approaches (CRI)
Full Proposal Deadline: June 4, 2001. The National Science
Foundation is announcing a grants competition in the areas of children’s
research. Child development research needs to become more integrated in
focus and draw relevant fields together for interdisciplinary collaborations
(see Investing in our Future: A National Research Initiative for America’s
Children for the 21st Century. Executive Office of the President, OSTP,
April 1997). The purpose of this solicitation is to inform the research
community that support for developmental science will now receive added
emphasis at the National Science Foundation via funding through the Children’s
Research Initiative (CRI) to support research centers and collaborations.
This solicitation will also enable scientists to form research partnerships
through planning or incubation grants, workshops, and small conferences
in the areas of human sciences. It is important to expand research foci
so that scientists can work together on problems that require larger-scale
science from multiple perspectives. In recognition that some areas of
human science need to be pursued on the smaller scale of individual research
projects, however, NSF will also support individual investigator projects
under this solicitation. Interested
faculty members are encouraged to contact Rebecca Puig, Electronic Research
Administration Specialist, at 974-5465 rpuig@research.usf.edu
for assistance with NSF FastLane proposal submission.
June 2001
Deadlines Calendar
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2001 Deadlines Calendar
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