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MULTIDISCIPLINARY

American Association of University Women
     Feb. 10. Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars.

Duke University
     Feb. 10. Graduate School Awards for International Research (Dissertation/Dissertation Travel Awards.
     Feb. 24. Graduate School Aleane Webb Dissertation research Award; Graduate School Library Internships.
     Feb. 24. Provost's Common Fund Competition.

National Research Council
     Feb. 1. Research Associateship Program.

National Science Foundation
     Feb. 10. Ecology of Infectious Diseases (NSF 06-506).
     Feb. 19. Interdisciplinary Grants in the Mathematical Sciences (NSF 04-518).

Oak Ridge Associated Universities
     Feb. 3. Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards. (Duke internal deadline Jan. 5). Contact Ken Macdonald, Duke ORS, 681-8693, kwmac@duke.edu.

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
     Feb.1 to Feb. 25. Various Internships at Federal Agencies, Departments and Laboratories.


HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES

American Music Center
     Feb. 1. Composer Assistance Program.

Asian Cultural Council
     Feb. 1. Grants & Fellowships.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
     Feb. 28. Residency Program in Visual Arts.

Chamber Music America
     Feb. 28. Jazz Ensemble Grants.

Cintas Foundation
     Feb. 17. Fellowships for Artists of Cuban lineage.

Dirksen Congressional Center
     Feb. 1. Congressional Research Awards.

Duke University
     Feb. 15. Kenan Dissertation Fellowship in Ethics.

Education, Department of
     Feb. 3. Teaching American History Grant Program (letter of intent Jan. 6).

Educational Testing Service
     Feb. 1. Fellowships.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
     Feb. 1. Visual Arts Fellowships.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
     Feb. 15. Library Grants in Aid.

Fund for Theological Education
     Feb. 1. Dissertation Fellowships for African American students.

Guggenheim (Harry Frank) Foundation
     Feb. 1. Dissertation Fellowships (Violence, Aggression and Dominance).

Institute of Museum and Library Services
     Feb. 1. National Leadership Grants for Libraries and Museums.
     Feb. 15. Museum Assessment Program.

International Education Research Foundation
     Feb. 1. Grants.

Kazanjian Foundation
     Feb. 15. Economic Literacy Grants.

Law School Admission Council
     Feb. 1. LSAC Research Grant Program.

Louisville Institute
     Feb. 1. General Grant Program.
     Feb. 15. First Book Grant Program for Minority Scholars.

Medieval Academy of America
     Feb. 15. Dissertation Grants.

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
     Feb. 15. 2006 Title VIII National Research Competition: Research Contracts.

National Endowment for Financial Education
     Feb. 7 . Grants.

National Endowment for the Humanities
     Feb. 6. Implementation Grants.

National Film Preservation Foundation
     Feb. 3 (registration). Basic Preservaton Grants, Matching Grants, Access Grants (application Mar. 10), Avant-Garde Masters Grants (application Apr. 1).

National Institute of Justice
     Feb. 1. DuBois Fellowship Program.
     Feb. 9 . Research and Evaluation on Community Corrections.
     Feb. 15. Public Safety Interventions.
     Feb. 24. Outcome Evaluations of Violence Prevention Programs.

National Institutes of Health
     Feb. 1. All new Research Grant, Conference, FIRST, and Career Development Award applications from Program Announcements.
     Feb. 1. Design, Measurement, and Statistics in Community MH Research (PA-04-150); Drug Abuse Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Other Infections (PA-04-007); Drug Abuse Dissertation Research: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, Services, and Women and Sex/Gender Differences (letter of intent Jan. 1) (PAR-05-083); Drug Abuse as a Cause, Correlate, or Consequence of Criminal Justice Related Health Disparities among African Americans (R01) (PA-06-068).
     ELSI Regular Research Program (R01) (PA-04-050); Economics of Prevention and Treatment Services for Drug and Alcohol Abuse (PA-05-111); Educational Programs for Population Research (PAR-05-134);. Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery (PA-05-006); Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (PA-04-100); Frailty in Old Age: Pathophysiology and Interventions (PAS-03-122); Functional Assessment of People With Mental Disorders (PA-05-037); Functional Links between the Immune System, Brain Function, and Behavior (PA-05-054); Genetics, Behavior, and Aging (PAS-03-128).
     Health Behavior Change in People With Mental Disorders (PA-05-019); Improving Care for Dying Children and Their Families (PA-04-057); Mental Health Consequences of Violence and Trauma (PA-04-075); Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (PA-05-090); NINDS Cooperative Program in Translational Research (PAR-05-158); NINDS Exploratory/Developmental Projects in Translational Research (PAR-05-157); NINDS Mentored Research and Clinical Scientist Development Awards in Translational Research (PAR-05-160); Non-injection Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS (PAS-06-054); Prescription Drug Abuse (PA-04-110).
     Reducing Mental Illness Stigma and Discrimination (PAR-04-112); Research on the Reduction and Prevention of Suicidality (PA-03-161); Research Education Grants in Drug Abuse and Addiction (PAR-04-054); Research on Adherence to Interventions for Mental Disorders (PA-03-111); Research on Clinical Decision Making in Life-Threatening Illness (PA-06-077); Research on Community Reintegration for People with Psychiatric Disabilities (PA-03-144); Research on Ethical Issues in Human Studies (PA-02-103); Research on Mental Health Economics (PA-05-008); Research on Mind-Body Interactions and Health (PA-05-027); Research on Psychopathology in Intellectual Disabilities (Mental Retardation) (PA-04-044); Research on Rural Mental Health and Drug Abuse Disorders (PA-04-061).
     Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health (PA-05-029); Social and Demographic Studies of Race and Ethnicity in the US (PA-03-057); Sociobehavioral Data Analysis and Archiving in Aging (PA-04-123); Women, Gender Differences, and Drug Abuse (PA-03-139); Women's Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research (PA-03-143);. Women's Mental Health in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (PA-03-135).
     Feb. 23. Social Neuroscience (letter of intent Jan. 23) (RFA-DA-06-004).
     Feb. 28. Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Centers for Mental Health: Formative Centers (P20) (PAR-06-062); Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Centers for Mental Health: Mature Centers (P50) (PAR-06-053).

National Science Foundation
     Feb. 1. Cultural Anthropology Research Experience for Graduates Supplements (NSF 03-531); SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Science and Technology Studies, Societal Dimension of Engineering Science and Technology (NSF 05-574); Science and Society (NSF 05-588).
     Feb. 2. Innovation and Organizational Change (NSF 05-628).
     Feb. 9. SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Physical Anthropology (NSF 05-574).
     Feb. 13. Research in Disabilities Education (optional letter of intent Jan. 16) (NSF 05-623).
     Feb. 14. Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2006: Exploratory Research Proposals, HSD Research Community Development Proposals (NSF 06-509).
     Feb. 15. Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (NSF 05-597); SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Geography & Regional Science, Sociology (NSF 05-574); Sociology (PD 98-1331).
     Feb. 17. Developmental and Learning Sciences (NSF 06-511).
     Feb. 21. Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2006: Full Research Proposals (NSF 06-509).
     Feb. 24. Research on Gender in Science and Engineering FY 2006 (NSF 05-614).

National Women's Studies Association
     Feb. 15. Graduate Scholarship Award.

Naval Historical Center
     Feb. 28. Hayes Predoctoral Fellowship; Hooper Research Grants.

New Voices
     Feb. 13. National Capacity-Building and Leadership Development Fellowship Program.

Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
     Feb. 15. William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fellowship for
Minority Students
.

Retirement Research Foundation
     Feb. 1. Grants.

Rockefeller Foundation
     Feb. 1. Rockefeller Resident Fellowships in the Humanities: Latino Chicago : A Model for Emerging Latinidades?.
     Feb. 10. Multi-Arts Production Fund.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
     Feb. 1. Residency Program for Advanced Visual Artists.

Scoville Jr. (Herbert) Peace Fellowship Program
     Feb. 1. Peace Fellowships.

Society for the Arts in Health Care
     Feb. 10. Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Competition.

Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
     Feb. 1. Student Research Grants.

State Justice Institute
     Feb. 13. Grants.

Truman (Harry S.) Library Institute
     Feb. 1. Dissertation Fellowships.

Udall (Morris K.) Foundation
     Feb. 3. Udall Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowships.

UCLA Center for 17th & 18th-Century Studies
     Feb. 1. Fellowships.

Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
     Feb. 28. Grants.

White House
     Feb. 1. Fellows Program.


HEALTH SCIENCES

Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation
     Feb. 1. Grants.

Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
     Feb. 1. North Carolina Schweitzer Fellowships for Graduate Students in Health Professions.

Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation
     Feb. 15. Grants Related to Learning and Use of Spoken Language in Children with Developmental Language Disorders.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
     Feb. 27. Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research.

Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation
     Feb. 28. Grants.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
     Feb. 1. Grants for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research: Youth Violence, Suicidal Behavior, Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence. Jan. 3 (letter of intent) (RFA-CE06-004); Evaluation of Community-based approaches to increasing seat belt use among adolescent drivers and their passengers. Jan. 3 (letter of intent) (RFA-CE06-007); Research Grants to Describe Traumatic Brain Injury Consequences. Jan. 3 (letter of intent) (RFA-CE06-003).
     Feb. 3 Dissertation Grant Awards for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research in Minority Communities. Jan. 3 (letter of intent) (RFA-CE06-002); Public Health Conference Support Program (letter of intent) (PA-05031-A); Research Grants for the Care of the Acutely Injured. Jan. 3 (letter of intent) (RFA-CE06-005); Research Grants to Prevent Unintentional Injuries. Jan. 3 (letter of intent) (RFA-CE06-001).
     Feb. 15. Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention. Jan. 15 (letter of intent) (PAR-06-057).

Hereditary Disease Foundation
     Feb. 15. Research Grants.

Johnson (Robert Wood) Foundation
     Feb. 1. Executive Nurse Fellows Program.
     Feb. 15. Clinical Scholars Program.

Leukemia Research Foundation
     Feb. 10. Grants.

National Hemophilia Society
     Feb. 1. Career Development Award.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society
     Feb. 1. Grants and Fellowships.
     Feb. 13. Daniel Haughton Senior Faculty Awards.

National Institutes of Health
     Feb. 1. All new Research Grant, Conference, FIRST, and Career Development Award applications from Program Announcements.
     Feb. 1. Acute Coronary Syndromes in Old Age (PA-04-026); Advances in Polycystic Kidney Diseases (PA-03-073); Age-Related Changes in Tissue Function: Underlying Biological Mechanisms (PA-03-147); Aging Musculoskeletal and Skin Extracellular Matrix (PA-03-167); Alcohol Abuse and HIV/AIDS in Resource-Poor Societies (PA-04-048); Alcohol Education Project Grants (R25) (PAR-04-129); Alternative Test Models for Assessing Genital Irritation of Microbicidal/Spermicidal Products (PAS-03-081); Ancillary Studies of Kidney Disease Accessing Information From Clinical Trials, Epidemiological Studies, and Databases (PA-03-091); Ancillary Studies to the AD Neuroimaging Initiative (PA-04-158); Ancillary Studies to Major Ongoing NIDDK Clinical Research Studies (PAR-04-078); Animal Models of NIDDK-Relevant Diseases (PA-05-049); Axonal Damage in Multiple Sclerosis: Strategies for Protection and Repair (PAS-05-002).
     Feb. 1. Basic and Clinical Research on Rett Syndrome and MeCP2 (PAS-05-024); Basic and Clinical Studies of Congenital Urinary Tract Obstruction (PA-03-076); Basic and Translational Research in Emotion (PA-03-169); Behavioral Therapies Development Program (PA-03-126); Biobehavioral Methods to Improve Outcomes Research (PA-05-142); Biobehavioral Pain Research (PA-03-152); Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research Opportunities (PA-04-119); Biological Basis of Hutchinson-Gilford Syndrome (HGS): Relationship to Mutations in the Lamin A/C Gene and to Other Known Laminopathies (PA-03-069).
     Feb. 1. Calcium Oxalate Stone Diseases (PA-03-065); Career Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research (PAR-05-071); Cell Lineage and Developmental Studies in Hearing and Balance (PA-04-118); Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science: P20 Development Center (letter of intent Jan.1) (PAR-05-163); Central Processing of Taste Information (PA-03-115); Characterization, Behavior, and Plasticity of Pluripotent Stem Cells (PA-04-101); Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Pathophysiology and Treatment (PA-05-030); Chronic Illness Self-Management in Children (PA-03-159); Circulating Cells in Cancer Detection (PA-04-035); Clinical Cancer Therapy and Prevention Research (PA-04-046); CNS Therapy Development for Lysosomal Storage Disorders. (PAS-04-120); Co-Occurring Mental Illness, Alcohol or Drug Abuse, and Medical Conditions (PA-05-007); Collaborative Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Science Award (PAR-04-003); Collaborative Awards in Epilepsy Research for Junior Investigators (PA-05-095); Collaborative Multisite Research in Addiction (PA-05-067); Collaborative Research for Molecular and Genomic Studies of Basic Behavior in Animal Models (PA-06-038); Collaborative Research in Stem Cell Biology (PAS-04-130); Complementary and Alternative Medicine Career Transition Award (PAR-05-129); Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Substance and Alcohol-Related Disorders (PA-05-097); Cross-Disciplinary Translational Research at NIH (PA-04-109).
     Feb. 1. Decision Making in Health: Behavior Maintenance (PA-05-016); Deep Sequencing and Haplotype Profiling of Mental Disorders. (PA-05-106); Design, Measurement, and Statistics in Community MH Research (PA-04-150); Development and Application of PET and SPECT Ligands for Brain Imaging Studies (Phased Innovation Award) (PA-03-112); Development of Assays for High Throughput Drug Screening (PA-04-068); Development of Disease Biomarkers (PA-05-098); Developmental Mechanisms of Human Structural Birth Defects (PA-04-052); Developmental Psychopharmacology (PA-03-113); Diet Composition and Energy Balance (PA-04-033); Directed Stem Cell Differentiation for Cell-Based Therapies for Heart, Lung, and Blood and Aging Diseases (R21) (PA-05-043); Drug Abuse Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Other Infections (PA-04-007); Drug Abuse Dissertation Research: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, Services, and Women and Sex/Gender Differences (PAR-05-083); Drug Abuse as a Cause, Correlate, or Consequence of Criminal Justice Related Health Disparities among African Americans (R01) (PA-06-068).
     Feb. 1. ELSI Regular Research Program (R01) (PA-04-050); Economics of Prevention and Treatment Services for Drug and Alcohol Abuse (PA-05-111); Educational Programs for Population Research (PAR-05-134); Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery (PA-05-006); Effectiveness, Practice, and Implementation in CMHS' Children's Service Sites (PA-04-019); Emerging Technologies for the Study of Reproductive Neuroendocrinology (PA-03-079); Endometrial Cell Function (PA-04-056); Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (PA-04-100); Erythroid Lineage Molecular Toolbox (PA-03-150); Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (R01 and R21) (PA-05-137); Evolutionary Mechanisms in Infectious Disease (PA-05-079); Exploratory Grant Program in Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism (PA-04-137); Exploratory and Developmental Research Grants for Investigations in Rare Diseases (R21) (PA-03-171).
     Feb. 1. Finding Genes for Alcohol-Related Behaviors and Risk for Alcoholism (PA-03-162); Frailty in Old Age: Pathophysiology and Interventions (PAS-03-122); From Intervention Development to Services: Exploratory Research Grants (R34) (PAR-03-078); Functional Assessment of People with Mental Disorders (PA-05-037); Functional Links between the Immune System, Brain Function, and Behavior (PA-05-054); Gene Discovery for Complex Neurological and Neurobehavioral Disorders (PAS-03-092); General Clinical Research Center Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Program (PAR-04-087); Genetics and Pathobiology of Vascular Cognitive Impairment (PAS-04-149); Genetics, Behavior, and Aging (PAS-03-128).
     Feb. 1. Health Behavior Change in People With Mental Disorders (PA-05-019); Health Disparities among Minority and Underserved Women (PA-04-153); Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS: Focus on African Americans (R01) (PA-06-069); Health Disparities in NIDDK Diseases (PA-04-074); Health Disparities in Rheumatic, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases (PA-03-054); Health Promotion among Racial and Ethnic Minority Males (PA-03-170); Heterogeneity of Fat Depots: Underlying Basis and Association with Morbidity (PA-04-098); Improving Care for Dying Children and Their Families (PA-04-057).
     Feb. 1. Inhalant Abuse: Supporting Broad-Based Research Approaches (PA-05-099); Innovative Therapies and Clinical Studies for Screenable Disorders (R01) (PAR-06-060); Innovative and Exploratory Research in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition (PA-04-108); Insulin Signaling and Receptor Crosstalk (PA-03-156); Integrative and Collaborative Approaches to Research (PA-03-127); Interactions between Stem and Progenitor Cells and the Microenvironment In Vivo (PAS-05-092); International Research Collaboration on Drug Addiction (R01) (PA-06-050); Interventions and Practice Research Infrastructure Program (PAR-04-015); Joint Degeneration: Mouse Models (PA-04-139); Long-Term Weight Maintenance: Basic and Clinical Studies (PA-04-092); Lung Response to Inhaled Highly Toxic Chemicals (PA-05-058).
     Feb. 1. MDMA: Research Areas Needing More Emphasis (PA-04-152); Mechanisms of Adverse Drug Effects in Children (PA-05-045); Mechanisms of Alcohol-Induced Tissue Injury (PA-05-074); Mechanisms of Alcoholic Pancreatitis (PA-04-005); Mechanisms of Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver (Steatosis) (PA-05-119); Mechanisms of Transmission and Dissemination of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (PA-05-096); Mental Health Consequences of Violence and Trauma (PA-04-075); Mentored Clinical Investigator Career Development Awards in Muscle Disease Research (PA-05-051); Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23) (PA-05-143); Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) (PA-06-001); Metagenomic Analyses of the Oral Microbiome (PA-04-131); Metals in Medicine (PA-05-001); Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (PA-05-090); Midcareer Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) (PA-04-107); Molecular Genetics of Drug Addiction Vulnerability (PA-03-155); Muscular Dystrophy: Pathogenesis and Therapies (PA-05-038).
     Feb. 1. NEI Career Transition Award (K22) (PAR-04-136); NEI Small Research Grants for Data Analysis (R03) (PAR-03-019); NEI Translational Research Program on Therapy for Visual Disorders (PAR-05-110); NHLBI Career Transition Award (K22) (PAR-02-154); NHLBI Innovative Research Grant Program (PA-03-015); NIAID International Research in Infectious Diseases R03 Program (PAS-04-111); NICHD Career Transition Award (K22) (PAR-06-078); NIDCD Patient-Oriented Research Grant Program (PA-06-040); NIDCR Small Research Grants for Data Analysis and Statistical Methodology (R03) (PAR-04-091); NIDDK Career Transition Award (K22) in Patient-Oriented Research (PAR-06-002); NIDDK Education Program Grants (R25) (PAR-04-148); NIDDK Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) (PAR-05-066); NIGMS Exploratory Studies for High-Impact/High-Risk Research (PA-03-100); NIH Small Research Grant Program (R03) (PA-03-108); NINDS Exploratory/Developmental Projects in Translational Research (PAR-05-157); NINDS Institutional Center Core Grants to Support Neuroscience Research (PAR-05-070); NINR Career Transition Award for Recent Nursing Doctorates (PAR-04-143); NINR Mentored Research Scientist Development Award for Underrepresented or Disadvantaged Investigators (PAR-05-135); NLM Early Career Development Award for Informatics (K22) (PA-03-090); NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (PAR-05-025); NLM Knowledge Management and Applied Informatics Grants (PAR-05-012); NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Bioinformatics (R01) (PA-04-141).
     Feb. 1. National Centers for Neurofibromatosis Research (PAR-04-018); Neurobiology of Persistent Pain Mediated by the Trigeminal Nerve (PAS-03-173); Neurodevelopment and Neuroendocrine Signaling in Adolescence: Relevance to Mental Health (PA-05-162); Neurologic Motor Speech Disorders and Speech Motor Control (PA-05-075); Neuroprotective CNS Barriers in Neurological Diseases (PAS-03-165); Neurotechnology Research, Development, and Enhancement (PA-04-006); Neurovascular Mechanisms of Brain Function and Disease (PAS-04-072); Non-Injection Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS (R01) (PAS-06-054); Non-invasive Methods for Diagnosis and Progression of Diabetes, Kidney, Urological, Hematological, and Digestive Diseases (PA-04-088); Novel Approaches to Enhance Animal Stem Cell Research (PA-04-125); Novel Approaches to Study Polymicrobial Diseases (PA-04-093); Nutrition and Diet in the Causation, Prevention, and Management of Heart Failure (PA-05-089).
     Feb. 1. Pathogenesis and Treatment of Lymphedema and Lymphatic Diseases (PA-04-071); Pilot and Feasibility Program Related to the Kidney. (PA-05-103); Pilot and Feasibility Program in Hematological Diseases (PA-04-144); Pilot and Feasibility Program in Urology (PA-04-146); Planning Grant for Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) (PAR-05-064); Precursor Cells in Skeletal Muscle Repair and Hypertrophy (PA-02-136); Prescription Drug Abuse (PA-04-110); Probiotics for Pediatric Illnesses (PA-05-035); Protein Interactions Governing Membrane Transport in Pulmonary Health and Disease (PA-06-076); Proteomics in Auditory Developmental and Disease Processes (PA-03-052); Proteomics in Diabetes and Other Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases (PA-03-151).
     Feb. 1. Race/Ethnic Disparities in the Incidence of Diabetes Complications (PA-02-165); Reducing Disparities in the Treatment of Epilepsy (PAS-03-164); Reducing Mental Illness Stigma and Discrimination (PAR-04-112); Reducing Preterm and Low Birth Weight in Minority Families (PA-04-027); Reducing Stroke Disparities through Risk Factor Self-Management (PAS-03-166); Relationship between Hypertension and Inflammation (PA-06-035); Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics (PA-04-049); Research Education Grants in Drug Abuse and Addiction (PAR-04-054); Research Grants for Studies of Hepatitis C in the Setting of Renal Disease (PA-04-043); Research on Adherence to Interventions for Mental Disorders (PA-03-111).
     Feb. 1. Research on Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders (PA-04-085); Research on Clinical Decision Making in Life-Threatening Illness (PA-06-077); Research on Co-Morbid Mental and Other Physical Disorders (PA-05-018); Research on Community Reintegration for People with Psychiatric Disabilities (PA-03-144); Research on Emergency Medical Services for Children (PA-05-081); Research on Ethical Issues in Human Studies (PA-02-103); Research on Mental Health Economics (PA-05-008); Research on Mind-Body Interactions and Health (PA-05-027); Research on Psychopathology in Intellectual Disabilities (Mental Retardation) (PA-04-044); Research on Rural Mental Health and Drug Abuse Disorders (PA-04-061); Research on Sleep and Sleep Disorders (PA-05-046); Research on Social Work Practice and Concepts in Health (R01) (PA-06-081); Research on the Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance (PA-05-009); Restless Legs Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PA-05-032); Retirement Economics (PA-05-036).
     Feb. 1. School-Based Interventions to Prevent Obesity (PA-04-145); Science and Ecology of Early Development (PA-04-113); Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award (PAR-05-105); Secondary Analyses in Obesity, Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (PA-05-094); Secondary Analysis of Existing Alcohol Epidemiology Data (PA-05-088); Secondary Data Analyses Based on the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (PA-05-093); Secretory Pattern of Senescent Cells (PA-05-155); Senior Scientist Award (K05) (PA-00-021); Shared Neurobiology of Fragile X Syndrome and Autism (PA-05-108); Sleep Disturbance in Parkinson's Disease and Parkinson-Like Conditions (PAS-03-131); Small Grant Program for NIDDK K08/K23 Recipients (PAR-04-070); Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health (PA-05-029); Social and Demographic Studies of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (PA-03-057); Sociobehavioral Data Analysis and Archiving in Aging (PA-04-123); Specialized Program of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (PAR-05-084); Structural Analyses of the Ligand-Binding Properties of Taste and Smell Receptors (PA-05-154).      Feb. 1. Test and Evaluation Grant for Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) (PAR-05-077); Testing Stem Cell Therapy in Mouse Models of Premature Aging (PA-05-136); Testing Tobacco Products Promoted to Reduce Harm (PA-04-103); Tools for Genetic and Genomic Studies in Emerging Model Organisms (PA-04-135); Translational Research for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (PA-02-153); Treatment of Adolescents with Alcohol Use Disorders (PA-03-088).
     Feb. 1. Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin-like Modifications Regulating Disease Processes (PA-03-145); Understanding Mechanisms of Health Risk Behavior Change in Children and Adolescents (PA-04-121); Understanding and Treating Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (PAS-05-085); Women, Gender Differences, and Drug Abuse (PA-03-139); Women's Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research (PA-03-143); Women's Mental Health in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (PA-03-135).
     Feb. 7. NIH Academy Fellowship Program for Graduate Students.
     Feb. 10 (letter of intent). Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network (RFA-HL-06-001).
     Feb. 15. NIDCD R24 Developmental Grant for Patient-Oriented Research (RFA-DC-07-001); NIDCD R21/R33 Phased Infrastructure Grant for Patient-Oriented Research (RFA-DC-07-002).
     Feb. 16. Course Development in the Neurobiology of Disease (R25) (RFA-MH-06-006); International Research Scientist Development Award (PAR-04-058); Obese and Diabetic Intrauterine Environment: Long-term Metabolic or Cardiovascular Consequences in the Offspring (letter of intent) (RFA-DK-05-014).
     Feb. 17. AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation (PAR-04-039); Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Centers for Mental Health (PAR-04-004).
     Feb. 18. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine (PAR-03-045).
     Feb. 21. Exploratory Grants (P20) for NIBIB Quantum Projects (RFA-EB-06-001); Human Temporal Bone Consortium for Research Resource Enhancement (RFA-DC-06-001).
     Feb. 22. Training in Translational Research in Neurobiology of Disease (RFA-DA-06-008).
     Feb. 23. Centers of Excellence for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (PAR-06-047); Developmental Centers for Translational Research on the Clinical Neurobiology of Drug Addiction (RFA-DA-06-006); Prescription Opioid Use and Abuse in the Treatment of Pain (R01, R03, R21, R25) (RFA-DA-06-005); Social Neuroscience (RFA-DA-06-004).
     Feb. 26. Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology Initiative (Jan. 24 letter of intent) (PAR-03-106).
     Feb. 28. NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (BAA-07-20).

Sandler Program for Asthma Research
     Feb. 10. Grants.


SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Agriculture, Department of
Fiscal Year 2006 National Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grants Program.
     Feb. 1. Rural Development.
     Feb. 7 . Developmental Processes of Agricultural Plants; Agricultural Plant Biochemistry .
     Feb. 15. Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems; Plant Genome.

Agriculture, Department of
     Feb. 1. Special Research Grants Program: Pest Management Alternatives Program.
     Feb. 13. Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants-Integrated Pest Management.
     Feb. 20. Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program - Methyl Bromide Transitions.
     Feb. 23. Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy: A Joint USDA, DOE Research Program Announcement to DOE National Laboratories LAB 06-03.

American Museum of Natural History
     Feb. 15. Roosevelt Grants (North American fauna).

American Orchid Society
Feb. 1. Graduate Fellowships.

American Ornithologists Union
     Feb. 1. Research Awards.

American Society of Civil Engineers
     Feb. 9. Freeman Fellowship; Tuttle Memorial Scholarship.
     Feb. 16. Research Fellowship in Structural Engineering

American Society of Naval Engineers
     Feb. 17. Graduate Scholarship Program.

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association
     Feb. 1. Graduate Fellowships.

Association for Women in Mathematics
     Feb. 1. Mentoring Travel Grants for Women.

Bureau of Reclamation
     Feb. 3. Water Conservation Field Service Program.
     Feb. 28. Activities to Avoid Jeopardy.

Defense, Department of
     Feb. 7. Naval Air System – Integration and Demonstration of Intelligent Autonomy for Naval Unmanned Vehicles.
     Feb. 15. Department of Army ( RTP, NC ) – 2006 Pathogen and Toxic Concentration System for Water Monitoring; US Special Operations Command – Biometric Identification Targeting Exploitation.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
     Feb. 1. Underwater Express Program.
     Feb. 6. Large Area Coverage Optical Search-while-Track and Engage.
     Feb. 7 . Defense Sciences Research and Technology.
     Feb. 16. Innovative Tactical Technology.
     Feb. 24. Very High Efficiency Solar Cell.

Education, Department of
     Feb. 6. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)--Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project and Centers Program--Field Initiated (FI) Projects.

Engineering Information Foundation
     Feb. 28. Grants.

Environmental Protection Agency
     Feb. 2. Scientific and Technological Achievement Award Nominations.

Geological Society of America
     Feb. 1. Graduate, Postdoctoral and Undergraduate Research Grants.

Homeland Security, Department of
     Feb. 24. (proposals). Institute for Discrete Sciences University Affiliate Centers. (White papers due Dec. 9).

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
     Feb. 1. Graduate Student Researchers Program.
     Feb. 16. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Cycle 3 Call for Proposals.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
     Feb. 1. National Estuarine Research Reserve Land Acquisition and Construction Program FY06.
     Feb. 6. Research Support for Study on Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks.
     Feb. 10. Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Programs: Marine Resource Economics; Population Dynamics; Sea Grant - Industry Fellowship Program.

National Science Foundation
     Feb. 1. SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Science and Technology Studies, Societal Dimension of Engineering Science and Technology) (NSF 05-574); Science and Society: S&S Scholar Awards, Standard Research Grants, Grants for Collaborative Research, S&S Postodoctoral Fellowships, S&S Professional Development Fellowships, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, Conference and Workshop Awards (NSF 05-588).
     Feb. 2 . SBE: Innovation and Organizational Change (NSF 05-628).
     Feb. 3. High End Computing University Research Activity (NSF 06-503).
     Feb. 6 . CEDAR, GEM, and SHINE Postdoctoral Research (NSF 04-573).
     Feb. 7. Control, Networks & Computational Intelligence (PD 05-1518); Electronics, Photonics & Device Technologies (PD 05-1517); Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (NSF 05-626); Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems (PD 05-7564).
     Feb. 8. Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (NSF 05-587).
     Feb. 9. SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Physical Anthropology) (NSF 05-574); Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (Jan. 5 letter of intent) (NSF 06-502).
     Feb. 10. Ecology of Infectious Diseases (NSF 06-506).
     Feb. 15. Biological Oceanography (PD 98-1650); Chemical Oceanography (PD 98-1670); Developing Global Scientists and Engineers (NSF 04-036); Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (NSF 05-597); Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Geography and Regional Science (PD 98-1352); Marine Geology and Geophysics (PD 98-1620); Ocean Drilling Program (PD 05-5720); Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (PD 98-1680); Physical Oceanography (PD 98-1610); SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Sociology (NSF 05-574); Sociology (PD 98-1331).
     Feb. 17. Developmental and Learning Sciences (NSF 06-511).
     Feb. 19. Interdisciplinary Grants in the Mathematical Sciences (NSF 04-518).
     Feb. 21. Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2006: Full Research Proposals (NSF 06-509).
     Feb. 24. Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (NSF 05-621); Research on Gender in Science and Engineering FY 2006 (NSF 05-614).

North Carolina Biotechnology Center
     Feb. 10. Collaborative Funding Assistance Program.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities
     Feb. 3. Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards. (Duke internal deadline Jan. 5). Contact Ken Macdonald, Duke ORS, 681-8693, kwmac@duke.edu .

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
     Feb.1 to Feb. 25. Various Internships at Federal Agencies, Departments and Laboratories.

PADI Foundation
     Feb. 15. Grants for Aquatic Environmental Research.

Resources for the Future
     Feb. 28. Fellowships in Environmental Regulatory Implementation.

Semiconductor Research Corporation
     Feb. 15. Graduate Fellowships.

Society for Biomolecular Screening
     Feb. 17. 2006 Small Grant Program.

Society of Women Engineers
     Feb. 1. Graduate and Re-Entry Scholarship.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers
     Feb. 1. Scholarships.

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
     Feb. 1. Graduate Scholarships.

Transportation, Department of
     Feb. 17. Eisenhower Fellowships.

Welch Foundation
     Feb. 1. Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
     Feb. 15. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowships.


CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Department of Agriculture: Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
     Feb. 2. Higher Education Challenge Grants Program.

National Institutes of Health
     Feb. 1. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Education Program Grants (R25) (PAR-04-148).

National Institute of Standards and Technology
     Feb. 15. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

National Science Foundation
     Feb. 1. Cultural Anthropology Research Experience for Graduates Supplement-Dear Colleague Letter (Supplement) (NSF 03-531); Science and Society (NSF 05-588).
     Feb. 3. High End Computing University Research Activity (NSF 06-503).
     Feb. 9. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (NSF 06-502).
     Feb. 15. Developing Global Scientists and Engineers (NSF 04-036).
     Feb. 17. Developmental and Learning Sciences (NSF 06-511).
     Feb. 24. Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (NSF 05-621); Research on Gender in Science and Engineering FY 2006 (NSF 05-614).


INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
     Feb. 1. Ford Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships. Other graduate funding competitions administered by the Duke Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies have March, 2006 deadlines: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) -- Summer and Academic Year Fellowships.

Association for Asian Studies
     Feb. 1. Grants and Fellowships.

Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs
     Feb. 9. Request for Grant Proposals: Open Competition Seeking Professional Exchanges Programs in Africa, East Asia, Eurasia, Europe, the Near East, North Africa, South Asia, and the Western Hemisphere.

Center for International Security and Cooperation
     Feb. 1. Science Fellows Program.

Crane-Rogers Foundation Institute of Current World Affairs
     Feb. 28. Target of Opportunity Fellowships.

International Research and Exchanges Board
     Feb. 1. Short-Term Travel Grants (Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Mongolia).

Korea Society
     Feb. 1. Spring Fellowship in Korean Studies.
     Feb. 14. Summer Fellowship in Korean Studies.

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
     Feb. 15. National Research Competition; NEH Collaborative Humanities Research Fellowship.

National Institutes of Health
     Feb. 1. International Research Collaboration on Drug Addiction (R01) (PA-06-050); NIAID International Research in Infectious Diseases R03 Program (PAS-04-111).
     Feb. 16. International Research Scientist Development Award.

National Science Foundation
     Feb. 15. Developing Global Scientists and Engineers (NSF 04-036).
     Feb. 20. International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops (NSF 04-035).

Sweden, Consulate General of
     Feb. 3. Bicentennial Swedish-American Exchange Fund for Professional Research in Sweden.

Trust for Mutual Understanding
     Feb. 1. Grants.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

American Legacy Foundation
     Feb. 15. (letter of intent). Small Innovative Grants Program to Reduce US Tobacco Usage.

Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation
     Feb. 13. Christopher Columbus Awards Program for Middle-School Students: Science and Technology Solve Community Problems.

Corporation for National and Community Service
     Feb. 14. 2006 AmeriCorps* State and National Grant Programs.
     Feb. 24. 2006 CiviConnections Grants for Service-Learning Projects.
     Feb. 28. 2006 Learn and Serve America Higher Education Grant Program.

Council on Library and Information Resources
     Feb. 28. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Access to Learning Award.

Education, Department of
     Feb. 3. Teaching American History Grant Program (letter of intent Jan. 6).

General Mills Foundation
     Feb. 1. Champions for Healthy Kids Nutrition and Fitness Grants.

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
     Feb. 8. New Voices Community News Ventures Program.

Reynolds (Z. Smith) Foundation
     Feb. 1. Sabbatical Program.

Thomson Gale and School Library Journal
     Feb. 15. Giant Step Award Program.

Last updated, December 9, 2005.