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Use the Links at the Right to navigate amongst the various sections of this archived Funding Alert newsletter. Download Issue: Sounds of Learning Music Research Grants The International Foundation for Music Research invites proposals for the Sounds of Learning initiative. A major goal of the project is to examine music education's influence on achievement and success in school, all aspects of a child's growth and development, the uses and functions of music in daily life; and home, school, and community environments. The initiative will look to these research outcomes along with other research to fuel ongoing policy debates about what constitutes a meaningful and quality education for American children. Deadline: Nov. 1. WEB LINK. The Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion The Metanexus Institute invites applications for the Templeton Research Lectures on the Constructive Engagement of Science and Religion. The goal is to promote the constructive engagement and original research between the physical, biological, and human sciences and those modes of inquiry and understanding generally found within the domains of theology, religious studies, and philosophy. This project is designed as a catalyst for original research and progress. The program seeks to create long-term networks for vibrant and broadly significant scholarly exchange and continuing interdisciplinary endeavors. The Templeton Research Lectures is a three-year program, (with the possibility of a fourth-year extension) that provides $90,000 to $130,000 per year in funding for scholars who want to develop ongoing, interdisciplinary programs within their universities consistent with the aim of the program. The grant offers an honorarium of $50,000 or more for an individual scholar selected each year of the program to give the annual Templeton Research Lectures at the host institution. This is an opportunity to bring a distinguished scholar from another institution for sustained interaction or possibly in specialized situations the elevation of an internal faculty to give the annual lectures. These lectures must result in a book-length publication whose target audience is either the academic community or the educated layperson. Applications for the grant should be submitted by an interdisciplinary committee of scholars employed by their host university and forming the core of a governing committee to oversee the program. Two grants will be awarded in each year of the program on the basis of merit as evaluated by an independent panel of distinguished judges. Deadline: Jan. 1, 2006. WEB LINK. The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program Grants The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program, an annual funding program of the American Music Center, provides Grants to document and provide wider exposure for the music of contemporary American composers; develop audiences for contemporary American music through record distribution and other retail markets; and support the release and dissemination of recordings of previously unreleased contemporary American music and the reissuance of recordings that are no longer available. Grant amounts range from $2,000 to $20,000. Grants for the recording of orchestral works may cover up to a maximum of 50% of total project costs. Deadline: Jan. 16, 2006. WEB LINK. The Also see this listing:
Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarships The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) welcomes applications for the 2005 Scholarships. HSF offers different scholarship programs for Hispanic American students enrolled full-time in a degree-seeking program at a US accredited Title-IV eligible institution in the US, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands or Guam. Scholarships are available to graduating high school seniors with plans to enroll in a college or university in the Fall 2006. Deadlines: vary. Surdna Foundation Arts Teachers Fellowship Program The Surdna Foundation welcomes applications to its Arts Teachers Fellowship Program, a national initiative to support the artistic revitalization of outstanding arts teachers in specialized, public arts high schools. Through the program, fellows design individualized courses of study that provide both immersion in their own creative work and the opportunity to interact with other professional artists in their fields. Twenty awards of up to $5,000 each, with a complementary grant of $1,500 to the fellow's school to support post-fellowship activities, will be made. The award may be used to defray the costs of tuition and other fees, room and board, travel, purchase of materials and/or equipment for personal art-making, childcare, and other relevant expenses. Deadline: Nov. 18. WEB LINK. The 2006 AmeriCorps*State and National Grant Programs The Corporation for National & Community Service invites applications for the 2006 Access to Learning Award The Council on Library and Information Resources welcomes applications for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Access to Learning Award. The program annually provides an award of up to one million dollars to a public library or similar organization outside the
NIBIB-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes Program: A Joint Program for Multidisciplinary Research Training and Education The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) invite applications for the NIBIB-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes Program. NIBIB and NSF have identified bioengineering and bioinformatics as essential interdisciplinary disciplines for physical and life sciences. The purpose of this program is to provide undergraduate and early-stage graduate students majoring in the biological sciences, computer sciences, engineering, mathematics, and physical sciences with well-planned, interdisciplinary bioengineering or bioinformatics research and education experiences in active 'Summer Institutes', thereby increasing the number of individuals pursuing careers in bioengineering and bioinformatics at the graduate level and beyond. It is anticipated that 12 to 15 awards will be made in FY 2006 for programs to begin in the summer of 2006. Each BBSI may receive NIBIB-NSF support of up to $150,000 in total costs per year for up to four years. Each BBSI will support a combined total of approximately 15 undergraduate and graduate students. If you are interested in this institutionally limited opportunity, please contact Ken Macdonald, Duke ORS, 681-5988 or kwmac@duke.edu. Deadline: Oct. 11 (Duke internal). WEB LINK. NIH Guide, Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks applications for Research in Disabilities Education (RDE). The RDE program supports efforts to increase the participation and achievement of persons with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. Meritorious projects from a diversity of institutions are supported via the RDE Demonstration, Enrichment, and Information Dissemination (RDE-DEI) program track. Promising research efforts are also developed further via awards under the Focused-Research Initiatives (RDE-FRI) program track. In the third program track, broadly applicable methods and products are disseminated for widespread use, commercialization, or inclusion in the activities of program-sponsored Regional Alliances for persons with disabilities in STEM education (RDE-RAD). RDE Alliances serve to inform the public, government, and industry about proven-good practices in the classroom, promote broader awareness of disabilities issues, and define specific areas of accessibility and human learning in need of further attention by educators and the research community. Deadlines: Jan. 16, 2006 (letter of intent), Feb. 13, 2006 (application). Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT) The National Science Foundation seeks applications for Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT). The EMT program seeks to advance the fundamental capabilities of computer and information sciences and engineering by capitalizing on advances and insights from areas such as biological systems, quantum phenomena, nanoscale science and engineering, and other novel computing concepts. To bring fundamental changes to software, hardware and architectural design aspects of future computing models, collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, biologists and other disciplinary scientists are imperative. The EMT program supports cross- and inter-disciplinary research and education projects that explore ideas, theory and experiments which go beyond conventional wisdom and venture into a range of uncharted territories in order to advance computing capabilities, and/or that produce innovative curricula or educational materials to help advance the training of new experts in emerging computing models and technologies. The number of estimated awards is 35-45 with an average award of $125,000/yr for 3 years. Deadline: Feb. 7, 2006. High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering The National Science Foundation invites applications for the High Performance Computing (HPC) System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering. The purpose of this solicitation is to generate proposals from Resource Provider organizations who are committed to the acquisition and deployment of balanced HPC systems that will contribute to the development of the HPC environment. In future competitions, these systems will be upgraded or complemented by the acquisition of additional HPC systems that may be optimized for particular classes of science and engineering research problems. However, this competition emphasizes the provision of one or two well-balanced systems that deliver high levels of performance for many different types of science and engineering applications. For the purposes of this solicitation, an acquisition may include: computing hardware, including processors, caches (if present) and main memory, inter-connects, I/O sub-system(s); local on-line storage of sufficient size to support science and engineering research applications that use the full extent of the computing hardware; archival storage of a size appropriate to a system of the scale proposed; a wide-area network connection; any other hardware typical of a modern supercomputing system; system software including, one or more operating systems, one or more file systems, a set of compilers and run-time libraries that, at a minimum include a Fortran, C and C++ compiler and support the OpenMP API, software libraries that support access to the full memory model of the system proposed including one that offers a standard MPI interface, standard operating system and mathematical libraries, debugging and program development tools, system administration and job scheduling software, user accounting software, any other software typical of a modern supercomputing system; either dedicated nodes or small satellite systems that provide for interactive access, job preparation and staging, and system management. The system(s) deployed as a result of this solicitation will become part of the portfolio of resources supported by NSF for shared use by the broad science and engineering research and education community. Accordingly, the system(s) will complement the capabilities currently provided by existing NSF Resource Provider sites. Allocations for use of the system(s) will be made through the Large and Medium Resource Allocation Committees (LRAC and MRAC) or their successors. It is anticipated that the system(s) deployed will be made available to users as part of the TeraGrid (www.teragrid.org).NSF expects to hold HPC acquisition competitions annually. Deadlines:
Phosphorus and Sediment Impact/Cayuga The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 is soliciting proposals that will assess the Impact of Phosphorus and Sediment in the northern end of WEB LINK. FedGrants, 2005 Long Island Sound Research Grant Program Request for Initial Proposals The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) welcomes applications for research in support of the Long Island Sound Study, a regional, community-based partnership to restore and protect Long Island Sound. This announcement has special emphasis on scientific research in support of living resource and habitat management efforts in Long Island Sound. Awards made under this announcement may involve geospatial information. Three awards are expected with a total program funding of $400,000. Deadline: Nov. 15. WEB LINK. FedGrants, 2010 Project The National Science Foundation (NSF) requests proposals for the 2010 Project, a program to continue support of research to determine the function of all genes in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana by the year 2010. Individual investigators or groups of investigators will be supported to conduct creative and innovative, genome-wide or systems-level research designed to determine, using all available means, the functions of Arabidopsis genes. This year, the program will focus on:
National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) On behalf of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) seeks proposals for new projects under Education and Outreach, and Collaboration.
Two awards are expected for BAA 06-026. The estimated total program funding is $3,275,000. Deadline: Jan. 24, 2006. WEB LINK. FedGrants, September, 15, 2005. The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites applications for the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) The NSF provides support for participation and drilling-related research performed by US scientists. Proposed projects should be clearly relevant to the drilling plans of the international drilling community and focus on predrilling or drilling concurrent activities. Deadlines: Also see these listings:
Notice of Weight Loss in Obese Adults with Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Clinical Interventions The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) plans to issue a Request for Applications (RFA) in the fall of 2005 to fund five-year randomized controlled trials to test the effectiveness of interventions delivered in routine clinical practice on achieving weight loss in obese patients who have other cardiovascular risk factors. The receipt date for applications would be in the late winter of 2006. Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies (CRES) 2006 -- Change in Due Date The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announces a change in due date for the Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies (CRES) 2006. The original due date of Sep. 1 is changed to Oct. 12. WEB LINK. FedGrants, September 28, 2005. Support for Programs Designed to Reduce the Impact of HIV in The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces a change in due date for the Support for Programs Designed to Reduce the Impact of HIV in WEB LINK. FedGrants, September 28, 2005. SPO Office Wide BAA -- Change in Due Date The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Special Projects Office (DARPA/SPO) researches, develops, demonstrates and transitions technologies focused on addressing present and emerging national challenges. SPO investments range from the development of enabling technologies to the demonstration of large prototype systems. The DARPA/SPO announces a change in due date for the SPO Office Wide BAA. The original due date of Sep. 15 is changed to Nov. 15 (white papers). WEB LINK. FedBizOpps, September 15, 2005. ROSES Amendment 28: Change in Due Date for the Decision Support through Earth-Sun Science Research Results Program With Amendment 28 to ROSES-2005, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a new due date for Step-2 proposals to the Decision Support through Earth-Sun Science Research Results program. ROSES 2005 Amendment 28 is posted at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ (select "Solicitations" then "Open Solicitations" then "NNH05ZDA001N"). The original due date of Oct. 13 is changed to Nov. 22. ROSES Amendment 29: New Proposal With Amendment 29 to ROSES-2005, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a new proposal opportunity, Living With a Star Targeted Research and Technology: NASA/NSF Partnership for Collaborative Space Weather Modeling. This new program element solicits proposals in support of the National Space Weather Program goal to achieve timely, accurate, and reliable space environment observations, specifications, and forecasts. In addition to basic research, this proposal competition also emphasizes the development of space weather models for specification and forecast of conditions throughout the space environment. The total award size for any proposal will not exceed $500K/yr for five years. ROSES 2005 Amendment 29 is posted at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ (select "Solicitations" then "Open Solicitations" then "NNH05ZDA001N"). Deadlines: Oct. 14 (notice of intent), Dec. 2 (proposal). Potential Privatization of the Journal "Environmental Health Perspectives"; Request for Comment The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has published Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a leading biomedical publication in the field of environmental health science, to provide a forum for research in environmental health science. NIEHS is now considering web-based and other methods to inform scientists, clinicians, patients, families, and the general public about environmental health research findings. NIEHS has determined that it is now appropriate to consider phasing out Institute sponsorship of this journal. NIEHS has not reached a final decision about potential privatization of EHP nor has an implementation plan for carrying out such a decision been developed. NIEHS invites public input on the issue of potential privatization of EHP. Deadline: Oct. 28. New Report Discussses Future of US Community Foundation A new report on the field of community philanthropy, On the Brink of New Promise - The Future of U.S. Community Foundation, surveys the landscape for community foundations and other community philanthropies. The report takes a look back at how community philanthropy has evolved over the decades and highlights a number of recommendations for how community foundations will need to adapt to an increasingly crowded field of commercial vendors and community organizations. The report was funded by the Mott and Ford foundations. Homeland Security Web Site Lists Federal Help for Katrina Recovery The Office of Homeland Security web site, Katrina Recovery, lists available federal help for people affected by Hurricane Katrina. The web site also gives assistance information for students, faculty and staff displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS) is now offering a List of Funding Opportunities and Notices Related to Hurricane Katrina. IRIS will update the list on a daily basis.
Writing for the Reader Faculty Workshop The Office of Research Support presents an intensive, interactive Writing for the Reader Faculty Workshop with Dr. George Gopen. Dr. George Gopen holds both a J.D. and a Ph.D. from Harvard, and has taught writing for the past 30 years. Since 1978 he has acted as a writing consultant to major corporations, law firms, and government agencies, specializing in both legal and scientific prose. His faculty workshops have changed participants' writing habits permanently, often resulting in improved grant writing success. These sessions are not single events; it is one connected, 13.5-hour workshop. Registrants are encouraged to attend all of the sessions as each session builds upon the previous one. Dates/Times
Location: The sessions will be held in Griffith Film Theater, Registration: Deadline is Wednesday, October 12. The workshop is open to all Sally Ride Science Festival for The Pratt School of Engineering at The festival features:
SPSSI Special Applications for Relevant Work that Responds to Hurricane Katrina or Work Disrupted by Katrina The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) will accept Special Applications to four of its award funds, Clara Mayo, Grants-in-Aid, Applied Social Issues Internship, and Social Action Grants for Experienced Scholars (SAGES), outside of the usual deadlines, for relevant work that responds to Hurricane Katrina or has been disrupted by Katrina. For example, someone might apply to do an Applied Social Issues internship with an agency helping with recovery efforts or to the Clara Mayo Award Committee for a master's thesis on the differential impact of Katrina by race. Someone could apply for Grants-in-Aid or SAGES funds to conduct a project on the effects of Katrina or recovery from it, or for funds to top up a research project disrupted by the flood. Note that these are small awards, ranging from a maximum of $1,000 for Clara Mayo, to $7,000 over two years for SAGES. Apply any time this fall for a quick decision. Deadline: Dec. 1, 2005.
Notice of Intent to Publish a Request for Applications titled: Developmental Centers for Translational Research on the Clinical Neurobiology of Drug Addiction The National Institute on Drug Abuse, with other possible participating NIH Institutes and Centers, intend to reissue a Request for Applications (RFA) soliciting applications for the establishment of Developmental Centers for Translational Research on the Clinical Neurobiology of Drug Addiction. The RFA is expected to be published in October 2005. Specifically, for this RFA, the concept of a "translational research center on the neurobiology of drug abuse" is an entity with a primary clinical/human neurobiology focus in which preclinical research directly informs or provides a mechanistic foundation for the clinical research and the preclinical science is, itself, informed and modified by the outcomes of the clinical research. The primary aim of this RFA is to support early stage development of interdisciplinary teams of investigators dedicated to the integrated study of the impact of drug exposure, abuse, and addiction on the human brain and to position these teams to compete successfully for Centers for Translational Research on the Clinical Neurobiology of Drug Addiction that will be established in a future initiative. Successful applications will demonstrate a strategy for the establishment of a Developmental Center that will provide a structure for the support of the team's goals that must clearly integrate animal studies in the context of an overall clinical neurobiologic study, a strong scientific rationale for both the composition of the team and the role of the team members, a demonstrated institutional commitment to the Center, and a clear exposition of a plan for the continuation of the program. WEB LINK. NIH Guide, Notice of the NHLBI Program on Mechanisms Linking Short Sleep Duration and Risk of Obesity or Overweight The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) announces a notice, Program on Mechanisms Linking Short Sleep Duration and Risk of Obesity or Overweight. The notice announces the intention to issue a Request for Applications (RFA) in the fall of 2005 aimed at elucidating mechanisms and cause-and-effect relationships underlying the association between short sleep duration and the increased risk of obesity or overweight due to altered metabolism, appetite, or inflammation. The receipt date for applications would be in winter 2005. WEB LINK. NIH Guide, AACR Research Fellowships The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) welcomes applications for the AACR Research Fellowships. The fellowships foster basic, translational, and clinical research by scientists at the beginning of their careers in the cancer field. Candidates must hold the title of Postdoctoral Fellow or Clinical Research Fellow at an academic facility, teaching hospital, or research institution and continue to hold this title at the start of the grant term on
Health Behavior Change in Mental Disorders Modeled from HIV Interventions The National Institute of Mental Health seeks applications for Health Behavior Change in Mental Disorders Modeled from HIV Interventions. Some of the strategies developed from HIV behavioral research such as targeting multiple risk factors, integrating behavioral interventions with medical treatment delivery, and intervening at multiple system levels (e.g., individual, community, organization, socio-cultural) could inform research to develop efficacious health behavior interventions for people with mental disorders. Although HIV has a clearly defined etiology while mental disorder etiologies are complex and less well understood, behavioral interventions for HIV could serve as a model to stimulate health behavior intervention research related to the function, disability, morbidity, and mortality of people with mental disorders. The purpose of this request for applications is to encourage innovative research in health behavior change among those with mental disorders that is informed by research from behavioral interventions for HIV/AIDS. Total amount to be awarded is $1.5 million; anticipated number of awards is 4-5. Deadlines: Nov. 21 (letter of intent), Dec 19 (application). WEB LINK. FedGrants, Antidepressant Treatment and Suicidality The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) requests research applications to study the relationship between use of antidepressant medications, especially the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and suicidality (including suicidal ideation, suicidal attempts, and suicide deaths). This RFA is designed to encourage innovative, multi-disciplinary, multi-method efforts to explore the pharmacological, psychological and social mechanisms that potentially put some individuals at greater risk for suicidality when prescribed antidepressants. The NIMH intends to commit approximately $1.5 million in FY 2006; the anticipated number of awards is 4-6. Deadlines: Nov. 21 (letter of intent), Dec 20 (application). WEB LINK. FedGrants, Cancer Genetics Network The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is seeking a WEB LINK. FedBizOpps, Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Awards The American Geriatrics Society invites applications for the Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Awards. The program offers two-year career development awards to support junior faculty in the specialties of anesthesiology, emergency medicine, general surgery, gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, thoracic surgery, and urology. The award is intended to enable individuals to initiate and ultimately sustain a career in research and education in the geriatrics aspects of their disciplines. The grant will provide $65,000/yr to junior faculty members who intend to conduct this type of research in older adults and have expertise and interest in the field. Deadline: Dec. 6. WEB LINK. The Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Xenopus The National Institute of Health seeks applications for Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Xenopus. The program encourages investigator-initiated applications designed to exploit the power of Xenopus as a vertebrate model for biomedical research. Applications are welcome proposing to develop new tools or genetic or genomic resources of high priority to the Xenopus community that will advance the detection and characterization of genes, pathways, and phenotypes of interest in development, organogenesis, and in cell biological processes, such as cell division, signaling and migration. Deadlines: Dec. 19, 2005, 2006, 2007 (letters of intent), Jan.18, 2006, 2007, 2008 (applications). WEB LINK. NIH Guide, Intervention and Practice Research for Combat Related Mental Disorders and Stress Reactions The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA), Department of Defense (DOD) seeks applications for Intervention and Practice Research for Combat Related Mental Disorders and Stress Reactions. The sponsoring agencies jointly issue this RFA to enhance and accelerate research on the identification, prevention and treatment of combat related posttraumatic psychopathology and similar adjustment problems. This RFA targets studies involving active-duty or recently separated National Guard and Reserve troops involved in current and recent military operations (e.g., WEB LINK. FedGrants, McKnight Scholar Awards The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience invites applications for the 2006 McKnight Scholar Awards. These awards were established to encourage neuroscientists to focus on disorders of learning and memory. Applicants must demonstrate interest in solving important problems in relevant areas of neuroscience, including the translation of basic research to clinical neuroscience. Each McKnight Scholar will receive $75,000 annually in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Up to six McKnight Scholars each will receive three years of support. Traditionally, successful candidates have held faculty positions for at least one year. Deadline: Obese and Diabetic Intrauterine Environment: Long-term Metabolic or Cardiovascular Consequences in the Offspring The National Institute of Health seeks applications for Obese and Diabetic Intrauterine Environment: Long-term Metabolic or Cardiovascular Consequences in the Offspring. The purpose of this RFA is to solicit applications investigating the effect of maternal obesity and diabetes on mechanisms that could potentially contribute to obesity, cancer, cardiovascular or metabolic disease in the offspring. The objectives are: to elucidate, if and how, maternal overnutrition can elicit permanent metabolic or cardiovascular disease in the fetus and to provide the scientific basis whereby future prevention and intervention studies in humans can be developed. The participating institutes plan on contributing $3.75 million in FY2006 to fund 12-14 awards with project periods of 2-4 years. Deadlines: WEB LINK. NIH Guide, Also see these listings:
The American Australian Association's Education Fund (AAAEF) makes annual awards available to US fellows to pursue studies in The Japan Foundation invites applications for the following grant programs:
Deadline: Nov. 1. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) welcomes applications for the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for US Graduate Students (EAPSI) Program. The primary goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to WEB LINK. FedGrants, September 15, 2005.
Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental Health Sciences The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) seeks applications for Interdisciplinary Partnerships in Environmental Health Sciences. The objective of this initiative is to foster scientific collaboration between clinical and basic investigators to accelerate the application of basic research results into the clinical setting to improve human health in those areas where environmental factors are known or expected to influence the development or progression of human disease. Scientific knowledge achieved through this research program is expected to move the field of environmental health sciences into new directions and approaches for the identification, treatment, and prevention of environmentally-related diseases or disorders. Through this initiative, the NIEHS will support both the development of new collaborations between researchers with basic and clinical expertise and the continued efforts of existing collaborations. Both activities must directly support the integration of clinical and basic science research. A total of $2,500,000 will be available in each of three years. Eight to ten new R21 and R01 awards are anticipated in each of the three years. Deadlines: WEB LINK. NIH Guide, September 20, 2005. Also see these listings:
Physical Sciences & Engineering Request for Information: Advanced Track Illuminator Laser; Cryo Yb:YAG The Department of Defense (DoD) requests input for a high average power diode-pumped solid-state laser development program. DoD requests information on the Advanced Track Illuminator Laser; Cryo Yb:YAG. Phase 1 will cover a system performance trade assessment of the BAA technical requirements, preliminary laser system modeling and simulation, risk reduction experiments, a compelling sub-scale laboratory breadboard demonstration of the proposed laser technology/architecture approach at the contractor's facility, and an Advanced Track Illuminator Laser (ATILL) brassboard preliminary design review. Phase 2 will cover laser system modeling and simulation, a laboratory breadboard demonstration at the contractor's facility of the full ATILL output performance requirements, and an ATILL brassboard critical design review. Deadline: Oct. 21. WEB LINK. FedBizOpps, Integrated Sensor Is Structure (ISIS) Critical Technology Development ( The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is developing critical technologies necessary to make WEB LINK. FedGrants, Science and Technology Infrastructure and Capability: Sources Sought The US Coast Guard Research & Development Center (USCG) is seeking information on academic institutions that have organic capability in the following types and areas of science and technology:
The sole purpose of the announcement is to request information. Deadline: Oct. 28. WEB LINK. FedBizOpps, Novel Satellite Communications (NSC) Workshop: Presolicitation Notice The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Special Projects Office (SPO) anticipates releasing a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) during late spring 2006 for Phases III and IV of the Novel Satellite Communications (NSC) Program. The goal of the NSC Program is to develop technologies that enable a satellite communications system to receive signals from a ground-based user located close to multiple ground-based jammers. Phase I of the Program is complete. Phase II of the program is underway and involves development of the necessary algorithms and coding schemes; simulation of their performance; determination of the signal processing hardware required; and identification of the critical technology development necessary to enable the Program goal. Phase III will develop these technologies, build/integrate a real-time NSC demonstration system, and perform the test planning for the NSC tests and demonstrations that will occur in Phase IV. The Phase III and IV BAA is not a down-select from the current Phase II; it is a new competition open to all qualified proposers. To help potential proposers understand the technologies being developed, DARPA intends to hold an NSC Workshop on November 15-16 in WEB LINK. FedBizOpps, The Harvey Prize Council invites nominations for Harvey Prize Awards in the field of Science and Technology, and in the field of Human Health. The Harvey Prize is intended, in principle, to recognize recent breakthroughs; however, work done in the past may be selected for the award if its significance has recently been appreciated. Awards of $75,000 each are made annually. Prospective candidates for the Harvey Prize must be outstanding personalities in the field of Science and Technology. They are persons whose achievements have served as a source of inspiration to many others. Deadline: Nov. 1. High Energy Physics Outstanding Junior Investigator Program The US Department of Energy requests applications for support under its Outstanding Junior Investigator (OJI) Program. Applications should be from tenure-track faculty investigators who Are currently involved in experimental or theoretical high energy physics or accelerator physics research, and should be submitted through a WEB LINK. FedGrants, AFOSR Research Opportunities in Information Science and Technology The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) accepts proposals for a fiscal year 2005 competition for Research in Information Science and Technology, specifically basic research that advances network-enabled systems and the teams that employ them. The goal of this competition is to fund innovative, forward thinking research in team-driven, network-enabled IS&T within universities, industry, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Targeted research areas break into four concentrations: Networks & Communications, Software & Security, Information Management & Process Integration, and Human-System Interactions. More information is available at http://www.afosr.af.mil/pdfs/BAA2005-4.pdf. Deadline: Dec. 2. WEB LINK. Fed Biz Opps, Basic Research for Chemical Imaging The US Department of Energy (DOE) requests grant applications for projects on basic research needed to advance chemical imaging. DOE is interested in forefront advances of imaging techniques with spatial resolution on the molecular scale relevant to the basic science of chemical and physical transformations. Of particular interest are applications that combine molecular-scale spatial resolution and ultra fast temporal resolution to explore energy flow, molecular dynamics, breakage or formation of chemical bonds, or conformational changes I nanoscale systems. Deadline: Mar. 15, 2006. WEB LINK. FedGrants, Also see these listings:
Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics The Greenwall Foundation invites US universities and non-profit research institutes to nominate candidates for its Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. This program offers career development awards to support original research that will help resolve important policy and clinical dilemmas at the intersection of ethics and life sciences. Since Governor Hugh L. Carey Fellowship in Governmental Finance The New York State Division of the Budget requests nominations for the Governor Hugh L. Carey Fellowship in Governmental Finance. The fellowship program is designed to give exceptional individuals possessing a strong interest in public policy, governmental economics, budgeting and finance with an opportunity to participate in the development and implementation of state fiscal policy. Candidates must possess at least a master's degree and must be eligible to be employed on a full-time basis in the Also see these listings:
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