MULTIDISCIPLINARY   ~   HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES   ~    HEALTH SCIENCES   ~   SCIENCE & ENGINEERING    ~   CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT   ~   INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES   ~    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Balzan (Premio E.), Fondazione Internazionale
     Mar. 15. Balzan Prizes.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund
     Mar. 13 (Duke internal deadline). Career Awards at the Scientific Interface. (May 1 - BWF deadline). Contact Ken Macdonald, Duke ORS, 681-5988 or kwmac@duke.edu.

National Institutes of Health
     Mar. 15 (concept approval letter). Nanomedicine Development Centers (PN2) (June 23 application).
     Mar. 21 (LOI). Preapplication for Interdisciplinary Research Consortium (Apr. 18 application).

Triangle Community Foundation
     Mar. 15. GlaxoSmithKline Opportunity Scholarship (graduate study, residents of Durham, Orange, Chatham, or Wake Counties).

HUMANITIES  & SOCIAL SCIENCES

Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Center for
     Mar. 21. Paired Fellowship for Research in Conservation; Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowships.

American Institute for Economic Research
     Mar. 31. Fellowships.

American Jewish Archives, Jacob Rader Marcus Center
     Mar. 18. Fellowship Program.

Austrian Broadcasting Company
     Mar. 11. The Next Idea - Art and Technology Grant.

Cintas Foundation
     Mar. 17. Cintas Fellowships in Architecture.

Crane-Rogers Foundation Institute of Current World Affairs
     Mar. 30. Target of Opportunity Fellowships (full proposals; LOI and CV due Feb. 28).

French Embassy -- USA French Cultural Services
     Mar. 10. Hemingway Translation Grants.

Ford (Gerald R.) Foundation
     Mar. 15. Ford Library Research Travel Grants.

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
     Mar. 15. Carter Manny Award for Dissertation Research (Architecture and Related Arts).

Hagley Museum and Library
     Mar. 31. Grants-in-Aid and Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship.

Institute of Museum and Library Services
     Mar. 15. 21st Century Museum Professionals.

Kennedy (John F. ) Library and Foundation
     Mar. 15. Marjorie Kovler, Abba Schwartz, and Theodore C. Sorensen Fellowships; and Hemingway and Kennedy Research Grants.

Lemmermann Foundation
     Mar. 15. Scholarship Awards.

National Endowment for the Humanities
     Mar. 20. Television Projects: Consultation Grants, Radio Projects: Consultation Grants, Radio Projects: Production Grants, Radio Projects: Development Grants.

National Gallery of Art
     Mar. 21. Visiting Senior Fellowships and Paired Fellowship for Research in Conservation and the History of Art and Archaeology.

National Science Foundation
     Mar. 24. Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (NSF 06-524).

North Carolina Humanities Council
     Mar. 20. Large Grant Program (draft proposals; final proposal due Apr. 20).

Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention
     Mar. 21. Research on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth.

Open Society Institute
     Mar. 31. Katrina Media Fellowships.

State Farm Companies Foundation
     Mar. 31. State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Awards (Insurance or Business).

US Civilian Research and Development Foundation
     Mar. 15. Next Steps to the Market Program.

Women's Studio Workshop
     Mar. 15. Fellowship Grants.

HEALTH SCIENCES

Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy
     Mar. 16. Investigator Awards.

American Association for Clinical Chemistry
     Mar. 15. AACC Van Slyke Foundation Critical and Point-of-Care Testing Research Grant.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
     Mar. 15. Emerging Infections Sentinel Networks.
     Mar. 17. Development and Testing of New Medications for Treatment of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
     Mar. 19. Using Technology to Augment the Effectiveness of Parenting Programs in the Prevention of Child Maltreatment (application; LOI due Feb. 19).

Cooley's Anemia Foundation
     Mar. 17. Research Fellowships.

Defense, Department of
     Mar. 14 (letter of intent). Neurofibromatosis Cancer Research Program: Investigator-Initiated Research Award.
     Mar. 21 (letter of intent). Ovarian Cancer Research Program: Concept Awards.

Education, Department of
     Mar. 22. Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses.

Epilepsy Research Foundation
     Mar. 15. New Therapy Grants.

International Foundation for Ethical Research
     Mar. 15. Graduate Fellowships in Animal Welfare.

McDonnell (James S) Foundation
     Mar. 13. 21st Century Scientist Awards: Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior; Studying Complex Systems; Brain Cancer Research.

National Institutes of Health
Consult the NIH Guide for a complete listing of active NIH Program Announcements and Requests for Application, and for information on the following RFAs and Pas.
     Mar. 10. Community-Responsive Interventions to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk in American Indians and Alaska Natives (RFA-HL-06-002); NHLBI Exploratory Program in Systems Biology (RFA-HL-06-004); Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network. (RFA-HL-06-001).
     Mar. 13. Training in Neuroimaging: Integrating First Principles and Applications (RFA-DA-06-011); Training in Computational Neuroscience: From Biology to Model and Back Again (RFA-DA-06-010).
     Mar. 15. Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grants. (RFA-ES-05-008).
     Mar. 17 (LOI). Prevention of Airborne Infections in Occupational Settings (RFA-OH-06-002).
     Mar. 20. Using Technology to Augment the Effectiveness of Parenting Programs in the Prevention of Child Maltreatment (CDC-RFA-CE06-006).
     Mar. 27. Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award (RFA-RM-06-002).
     Mar. 27. Planning Grants for Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards (RFA-RM-06-001).
     Mar. 28. Alcohol Metabolism and Epigenetic Effects on Tissue Injury (R01) (RFA-AA-06-004).

National Parkinson Foundation
     Mar. 13. Investigator-Initiated Grants Program.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
     Mar. 16. Call for Proposals -- Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change.
     Mar. 20. Medical Faculty Development Program.
     Mar. 29 (letter of intent). Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research.

Runyon (Damon) Cancer Research Foundation
     Mar. 15. Cancer Research Fund: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for Basic and Physician Scientists.

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Department of Agriculture
     Mar. 20. Conservation Innovation Grants.

American Museum of Natural History
     Mar. 15. Lerner-Gray Grants for Marine Research.

American Philosophical Society
     Mar. 15. Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research.

Bureau of Reclamation
     Mar. 24. Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program.
     Mar. 31. Water Conservation Program Yuma Area Office.

Cognitive Science Society
     Mar. 15. David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition.

Department of Defense
     Mar. 14. DARPA - Transfer Learning.
     Mar. 16. DARPA - Global Autonomous Language Exploitation.

Dreyfus (Camille & Henry) Foundation
     Mar. 20. (Duke internal deadline). New Faculty Awards. (May 11 - Dreyfus deadline). Contact Ken Macdonald, Duke ORS, 681-5988 or kwmac@duke.edu.

Energy, Department of
     Mar. 16. FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program; Area of Interest 1: Advanced Start-of-Combustion; Area of Interest 2: Fuels, Fuel Additives, and Lubricant Formulations.
     Mar. 21. Area of Interest 1: Electronics.
     Mar. 31. Area of Interest 2: Drilling Technologies.

Environmental Protection Agency
     Mar. 15. Source Reduction Assistance Grants Program.
     Mar. 15 (pre-proposal). Water Quality Protection Program for Southeast Florida. (Apr. 28 full proposal).
     Mar. 21. Biotechnology: Potential Allergenicity of Genetically Engineered Foods.
     Mar. 24. Indoor Air Quality Projects in EPA Region 10.

Fondation Fyssen
     Mar. 31. Postdoctoral Study Grants.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
     Mar. 15. Earth System Science Fellowship/06 Renewal.
     Mar. 16. Chandra X-ray Observatory - Cycle 8 Call for Proposals.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences – 2006.
     Mar. 9. (Notice of intent). Planetary Geology and Geophysics (May 5, proposal).
     Mar. 10. (Notice of intent). Discovery Data Analysis (Apr. 28, proposal).
     Mar. 15. (Notice of intent). International Polar Year (May 1, proposal).
     Mar. 17. (Notice of intent). Heliophysics Guest Investigators (May 15, proposal).
     Mar. 24. (Notice of intent). Cosmochemistry (May 19, proposal).

National Science Foundation
Also see listings in HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES and CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT.
     Mar. 13. Collaborative Research in Chemistry (NSF 05-606); Instructional Materials Development (NSF 05-612); Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society (NSF 06-518).
     March 15. Carbon and Water in the Earth System (NSF 06-514); National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (letter of intent) (NSF 06-533); NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (letter of intent) (NSF 06-527); NSF/FDA Scholar-In-Residence at FDA (NSF 03-525).
     Mar. 20. Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation: Special Competition: Astronomical Applications with the Advanced Electro-Optical System of the United States Air Force (NSF 06-519).
     Mar. 21. Informal Science Education (preliminary proposal) (NSF 06-520); Undergraduate Research Collaboratives (NSF 06-521).
     Mar. 24. Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (NSF 06-524); Synthesis of Arctic System Science (NSF 06-523).
     Mar. 27. Assembling the Tree of Life (NSF 05-523); Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (preliminary proposal) (NSF 06-525).
     Mar. 28. I/UCRC Supplemental Funding Requests for Fundamental Research (supplement) (NSF 06-530). Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) (letter of intent) (NSF 06-537).

Sigma Xi
     Mar. 15. Grants-in-Aid of Research (graduate and undergraduate).

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Department of Education
     Mar. 8 (LOI). Congressional Academies for Students of American History and Civics Education (Apr. 7 application).
     Mar. 24. Principal Leadership Professional Development Center to Support School Improvement to Ensure Access to, and Participation and Progress in the General Education Curriculum in the Least Restrictive Environment.

Department of State
     Mar. 31. US Summer Institutes for Pakistani Undergraduate Students.

National Institutes of Health
     Mar. 20 (LOI). Child Health Research Career Development Award (K12). (Apr. 19 application). (RFA-HD-06-011).

INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

Education, Department of
     Mar. 10. Tinker & Mellon Graduate Student Research Awards.

Institute of Turkish Studies
     Mar. 10. Research and Travel Grants.

State Department
     Mar. 17. Summer Institute for German Student Leaders in Education.
     Mar. 23. Two Summer Institutes for European Student Leaders.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Administration for Children and Families
     Mar. 27. Community-Based Abstinence Education Program.

Balance Bar Food Company
     Mar. 15. Individual/Team Grants and Community Grants.

Environmental Protection Agency
     Mar. 31. Environmental Justice Small Grants Program.
     Mar. 31. Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem-Solving Cooperative Agreement Program.

Federal Highway Administration
     Mar. 17. National Bicycle and Pedestrian Clearinghouse.

Institute of Museum and Library Services
     Mar. 15. 21st Century Museum Professionals.

MTV: Music Television and Youth Venture
     Mar. 17. Hope Venture Grants for Programs to Aid Hurricane Victims.

National 4-H Council
     Mar. 17. 4-H Literacy Education Mini-Grants.

National Safe Boating Council
     Mar. 15. Take 'Em Boating Grant Program.

Triangle Community Foundation
     Mar. 15. Kathryn H. Wallace Award for Artists in Community Service.

United Methodist Committee on Relief
     Mar. 10. Request for Proposals for Katrina Aid Today.