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African Violet Society of America (AVSA). Boyce Edens Research Fund Grants. Grants from the Boyce Edens Research Fund of the African Violet Society of America (AVSA) may be used for underwriting the costs of research related to African Violets (genus Saintpaulia) such as, but not limited to: culture and care; diseases and pests; genetics and hybridization; and ecological study and conservation. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $4,000.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Various Grants. Available programs include Industry Centers, Higher Education as an Industry, and Recent History of Science and Engineering on the Web. Deadline: Continuous.

Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Horatio. Horatio Alger Award. The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans accepts nominations each year for the Horatio Alger Award, which bestows lifetime membership in the association on outstanding Americans whose lives have been characterized by great success, remarkable achievements accomplished through self-reliance and determination, an abiding concern for their nation and their communities, and an unwavering commitment to opening the doors of American opportunity to others. Association members personify the ideal of success through hard work and courage, serve as outstanding role models to the nation's youth, and join in the commitment to fulfill the organizational mission of encouraging and educating today's young people to carve their own paths to success. Members represent a wide range of professions including, but not limited to, business, government, sports, law, medicine, education, the arts, religion, and industry. Deadline: June 01, 2007.

Allstate Foundation. Program Funding. Supports national and local programs that fit within three focus areas: safe and vital communities, tolerance, inclusion, and diversity, and economic empowerment. Deadline: Continuous.

American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS Awards. To recognize scientists, journalists, and public servants for significant contributions to science and to the public's understanding of science, the Association administers a number of awards. Deadline: Varies across programs.

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS); Awards. Leaders Award. The Leaders Award began with the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) 75th anniversary in 1984 when it was established to identify and honor family and consumer sciences professionals who have made significant contributions to the field through their involvement with AAFCS. Deadline: January 16, 2007. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information on ISU internal deadlines.

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS); Awards. New Achievers Award. The New Achievers Award was introduced as a part of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences' (AAFCS') 75th Anniversary observance in 1984. The program was developed to recognize emerging professionals who have exhibited the potential to make significant contributions to family and consumer sciences. Deadline: January 16, 2007. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information on ISU internal deadlines.

American Association of University Women (AAUW); Educational Foundation; Fellowships and Grants. University Scholar-in-Residence Award. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation invites letters of intent from colleges and universities in the United States to fund a female scholar to conduct a research project on issues related to gender equity in education or economic security for women and girls. University Scholar-in-Residence Award funds may be used (1) to bring a qualified scholar to the institution for a fixed period, or (2) to designate a scholar currently at the institution to undertake research activities that would not occur without such support. Proposals must include research activities on gender and equity as well as a plan for dissemination of research findings. Successful proposals should strive to achieve impact nationally, rather than within a single university, department, or program. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Association of University Women. Fellowships and Grants. AAUW invites graduate women to submit applications for fellowships and grants in the computer or information sciences, engineering, mathematics or statistics, natural sciences and other fields. Deadline: Varies across programs.

American Federation for Aging Research. Grants Deadline: Varies across programs.

American Library Association (ALA); Library Research Round Table (LRRT). Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research. The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) announces the Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research for 2007. All entries must be research articles published in English during the 2006 calendar year. Nominated articles must relate in at least a general way to library and information studies. Any research method is acceptable. Articles by joint investigators are eligible, as are articles generated as a result of a research grant or other source of funding. Amount: $500. Deadline: January 31, 2007.

American Political Science Association (APSA). Minority Fellows Program. The American Political Science Association (APSA) Minority Fellows Program, which was established in 1969 as an effort to increase the number of minority scholars in the discipline, has designated more than 300 fellows and contributed to the successful completion of doctoral political science programs for over 70 individuals. This year, the association has refocused and increased its efforts to assist minority students in completing their doctorates by concentrating not only on the recruitment of minorities, but also on the retention of these groups within the profession. Awards are based on students' undergraduate course work, GPA, extracurricular activities, GRE scores, and recommendations from faculty. Amount: $4,000. Deadline: October 25, 2006.

American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA). R. Marlin Perkins Award for Professional Excellence. The R. Marlin Perkins Award for Professional Excellence is the American Zoo and Aquarium Association's (AZA's) highest award for professional excellence, given to an individual who - is strongly committed to education, conservation, science, recreation, and the welfare of animals, and actively involved in furthering these causes within the zoo and aquarium profession; and - has made outstanding contributions to the zoo and aquarium profession and its science or technology, as represented by scholarly publications and presentations, institutional and association leadership, or other tangible and measurable achievements. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI). Global Grassroots Bat Conservation Fund.Bat Conservation International (BCI) is committed to supporting high quality, grassroots bat conservation efforts around the world. The Global Grassroots Bat Conservation Fund is a special program through which BCI provides training, materials, and small grants to local conservationists protecting bats and their habitats around the world. Priority will be given to new projects in geographic regions not covered during the previous year. In general, BCI looks for (1) habitat protection projects with significant ecological or economic value; (2) research projects that produce data directly applicable to conservation activities; and (3) educational projects that teach local citizens the value of protecting bats. BCI prefers to support projects that are coordinated by people in the region, though BCI does occasionally support travel to assist or participate in training, and use grant money primarily for in-country activities or equipment directly associated with the project (e.g., BCI avoids providing large sums of money for equipment such as computers unless the equipment is part of a facility dedicated to bat conservation). BCI especially look for projects that have collaborative support and matching funds. Projects must demonstrate results in sustainable bat conservation.
Those projects requiring immediate action will be reviewed sooner than others. BCI prefers that projects include at least two of the following components: education, conservation, and research. Projects capable of conserving entire ecosystems may be given preference over those that benefit a single population. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: Varies.

Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI). North American Bat Conservation Partnership (NABCP) Conservation Fund.Bat Conservation International's (BCI's) North American Bat Conservation Partnership (NABCP) Conservation Fund is available to support projects that most effectively help North American bats. Each proposal is ranked in the following eight areas: 1. Support of the priorities of the North American Bat Conservation Plan; 2. Project feasibility, based on stated methodology, budget, personnel, and completion schedule; 3. Appropriateness of approach to solving the stated problem; 4. Impact in protecting large numbers of bats or populations that are especially important to endangered or rapidly declining species; 5. Probability that this action will benefit additional fauna or flora beyond bats; 6. Project contribution to population recovery, improved management policies, or site protection without ongoing resource commitment; 7. Project urgency; 8. Amount of cooperation and support from partners and volunteers. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

Bayport Foundation of Andersen Corporation. Education and Enrichment Grants. The mission of the Bayport Foundation of Andersen Corporation is to better people's lives and to strengthen communities, focusing primarily where Andersen employees live and work. In the education and enrichment focus area, the Bayport Foundation supports organizations that offer intellectual and social opportunities with a focus primarily on young people, senior citizens, and people with disabilities. General operating funding is preferred; requests for projects and capital are considered. Deadline: April 15, 2006; July 15, 2006; October 15, 2006; December 15, 2006.

Bayport Foundation of Andersen Corporation. Health and Safety Grants. The mission of the Bayport Foundation of Andersen Corporation is to better people's lives and to strengthen communities, focusing primarily where Andersen employees live and work. In the health and safety focus area, the Bayport Foundation supports organizations that promote safe and healthy environments, as well as organizations that seek to improve health through prevention and education programs, primarily for young people, senior citizens, and people in vulnerable situations. This focus area concentrates on (1) disease prevention; (2) recreational programs; and (3) programs and services that promote mental health, wellness, and safety. General operating funding is preferred; requests for projects and capital are considered. Deadline: April 15, 2006; July 15, 2006; October 15, 2006; December 15, 2006.

Carthage Foundation. Grants. The Carthage Foundation confines most of its grant awards to programs that will address public policy questions concerned with national and international issues. Deadline: Continuous.

Catching the Dream (CTD). Math, Engineering, Science, Business, Education and Computers (MESBEC) Scholarships. Catching the Dream provides scholarship assistance for students who demonstrate academic achievement, clearly defined goals, leadership, the determination to succeed, and the desire to return to their communities and help others realize their dreams. The Math, Engineering, Science, Business, Education and Computers scholarship program is the oldest of Catching the Dream's programs. The six priority fields of study are - math, - engineering, - science; - business, - education, and - computers. Science includes all the medical fields. These fields are the ones in which tribes need graduates the most, and the fields in which there are the fewest Indian graduates. Students should have clear goals about what they want to accomplish in life, and should have begun preparing for this work. Their goals must be related to the betterment of an Indian tribe or community. Progress toward accomplishing a goal may be demonstrated by study, work, volunteerism, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, and letters of recommendation. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: March 15, 2007; April 15, 2007; September 15, 2007.

Catching the Dream (CTD). Native American Leadership Education (NALE) Scholarships. Catching the Dream provides scholarship assistance for students who demonstrate academic achievement, clearly defined goals, leadership, the determination to succeed, and the desire to return to their communities and help others realize their dreams. The Native American Leadership Education program is for Native students who are paraprofessionals in Indian schools, and who plan to complete their degree in education, counseling, or school administration. Since only seven percent of teachers in reservation schools are Indians, the need for more Indian teachers is huge. Students should have clear goals about what they want to accomplish in life, and should have begun preparing for this work. Their goals must be related to the betterment of an Indian tribe or community. Progress toward accomplishing a goal may be demonstrated by study, work, volunteerism, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, and letters of recommendation. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: March 15, 2007; April 15, 2007; September 15, 2007.

Catching the Dream (CTD). Tribal Business Management (TBM) Scholarships. Catching the Dream provides scholarship assistance for students who demonstrate academic achievement, clearly defined goals, leadership, the determination to succeed, and the desire to return to their communities and help others realize their dreams. The Tribal Business Management program is for students in - business, - finance, - management, - economics, - banking, - hotel management, and - related fields who plan to work in economic development for tribes. Students should have clear goals about what they want to accomplish in life, and should have begun preparing for this work. Their goals must be related to the betterment of an Indian tribe or community. Progress toward accomplishing a goal may be demonstrated by study, work, volunteerism, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, and letters of recommendation. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: March 15, 2007; April 15, 2007; September 15, 2007.

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Postdoctoral Residential Fellowships. The Center awards up to fifty residential postdoctoral fellowships each year to scientists and scholar in fields such as anthropology, art history, biology, history, law, linguistics, political science, musicology, and education. Deadline: Continuous

City University of New York (CUNY); Graduate School and University Center; Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS). Martin Duberman Fellowship. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) promotes scholarship that examines sexualities and genders. Dedicated to challenging homophobia and oppression, CLAGS forges strong, ongoing relationships among students and scholars, activists, artists, writers, journalists, public figures, and intellectuals who are committed to broadening the national understanding of gay, lesbian, and queer issues. This fellowship is for research on the Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual, or Queer (LGTBQ) experience. Amount: $7,500. Upper Amount: $70,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006; March 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

Claremont Graduate University. Kate Tufts Discovery Award.Established in 1993, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award is presented for a first or very early work by a poet of genuine promise. Poets must agree at the outset to grant permission to reproduce portions of the work honored in publicizing the award, and attend the awards presentation. Amount: $10,000. Upper Amount: $50,000. Deadline: September 15, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

Claremont Graduate University. Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.Established in 1992 by Kate Tufts to honor her late husband, poet and writer Kingsley Tufts. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is presented annually for a work by an emerging poet, one who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career. While some poetry prizes discover and honor new voices and others crown an indisputably major body of work, this award at Claremont Graduate University aims to sustain a poet who is laboring in the difficult middle between these extremes. Amount: $100,000. Upper Amount: $60,000. Deadline: September 15, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB); Public Television. Program Challenge Fund. The Program Challenge Fund was created in 1987 to support high profile, primetime limited series and specials for the national public television schedule. The Challenge Fund is jointly managed by CPB and PBS, which make funding decisions based on mutually established programming goals and objectives. In the past, the Challenge Fund has been responsible for programs, such as Colonial House, that gave viewers a chance to experience colonial life in the New World, and Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State, that examined the site of the largest mass murder in history. In addition to supporting limited series and specials, the Challenge Fund will also consider proposals to launch new continuing series (the fund, however, will not sustain series beyond their first year of broadcast). To address industry-wide goals for development of digital content, PBS and CPB will dedicate Program Challenge Fund dollars to high-definition or standard-definition widescreen programs only. Deadline: December 07, 2006; April 05, 2007; August 09, 2007; December 06, 2007.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21). This announcement redefines the National Institutes of Health (NIH) exploratory/developmental research grant award (R21) mechanism, and extends its use as an investigator-initiated mechanism to the participating institutes and centers (ICs). The R21 is intended to encourage exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early and conceptual stages of these projects. Upper Amount: $275,000. Deadline: February 16, 2007; June 16, 2007; October 16, 2007.

Draper Richards Foundation. Fellowships. The Draper Richards Foundation Fellowships provide support for entrepreneurs starting new nonprofit organizations. Projects supported will demonstrate innovative ways to solve existing social problems. The foundation will accept proposals for a variety of public service areas, including, but not limited to, education, youth and families, the environment, arts, health, and community and economic development. The foundation seeks organizations that are or plan to be national or global in scope. The foundation does not fund research or scholarships, and does not fund local community-based organizations. Amount: $300,000.

Earthwatch Institute. Request for Proposals. International nonprofit organization that supports scholarly field research worldwide in the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences. Areas of interest include folklore and oral history, watershed management, research in South Asia, and Caribbean studies. Deadline: Continuous (Submit proposal at least one year before field work).

Educational Foundation of America (EFA). Grants. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the environment, the crisis of human overpopulation and reproductive freedom, Native Americans, arts, education, medicine, and human services. Deadline: Continuous. Letters of inquiry are accepted year-round.

Ford Foundation. Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom. In response to the complexities of the contemporary world, the Knowledge, Creativity, and Freedom Program seeks to encourage palpable changes that improve people's lives, honor their aspirations, enrich the wider society and achieve lasting impact. To advance these goals, the program supports training, technical assistance, institution building, policy analysis, and constituency building at the local, national, and international levels. Brief letters of inquiry are recommended.

Ford Motor Company. Various Grants. Funding is available in the following areas: educational programs, civic affairs and community development, heath and social programs, arts and humanities, environment grants, and public policy grants. Deadline: Continuous.

Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda; Grants; Education Program. Gates Millenium Scholar Program. The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS), funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian or Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education, in all discipline areas and a graduate education for those students pursuing studies in mathematics, science, engineering, education, or library science. The goal of GMS is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for thousands of outstanding students with significant financial need to reach their fullest potential. Deadline: January 12, 2007.

General Motors. Grants. General Motors (GM) and the GM Foundation support a variety of activities in the communities where they operate and sell their products. The foundation's philanthropic and community relations mission is to ensure that they maintain their leadership position as a valued, responsible corporate citizen by enhancing the quality of life in the communities where they do business, consistent with their business goals and objectives. GM's target areas of focus are education, health and human services, civic and community relations, public policy, arts and culture, environment and energy, and diversity. Deadline: Continuous.

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.Humanities Program. Programs in the following areas are eligible: history; archaeology; literature; languages, both classical and modern; philosophy, ethics; comparative religion; the history, criticism, and theory of the arts; and those aspects of the social sciences which share the content and methods of humanistic disciplines. The Foundation welcomes projects that cross the boundaries between humanistic disciplines and explore the connection between the humanities and other areas of scholarship. Amount: $5,000-$141,000.

Global Fund for Women. Grants. The Global Fund for Women supports women's groups that advance the human rights of women and girls. It strengthens women's groups based outside the United States by providing small, flexible, and timely grants for operating and project expenses. The fund values local expertise and believe that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change. Amount: $500. Deadline: Continuous.

Google. Grants. The Google Grants program supports organizations holding a philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts. Google Grants is an in-kind advertising program that grants access to Google AdWords to non-profits seeking to inform and engage their constituents online. Google Grants has awarded AdWords advertising to hundreds of non-profit groups whose missions range from animal welfare to literacy, from supporting homeless children to promoting HIV education. Deadline: Continuous.

Greenwall Foundation. Interdisciplinary Program in Bioethics. Through its Interdisciplinary Program in Bioethics, The Greenwall Foundation provides funding for physicians, lawyers, philosophers, economists, theologians, and other professionals to address micro and macro issues in bioethics, providing guidance for those engaged in decision making at the bedside as well as those responsible for shaping institutional and public policy. The foundation is especially interested in supporting pilot projects and the work of junior investigators, and it is prepared to address issues regarded by some as sensitive or potentially controversial. Deadline: February 01, 2007; August 01, 2007.

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, John Simon. Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. The foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. The foundation selects its fellows on the basis of two separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin America and the Caribbean. Deadline: October 01, 2006; December 01, 2006.

Headwaters Foundation for Justice. Democracy! Fund Grants. The Democracy! Fund was created in the belief that nonprofit organizations play a critical role in developing and implementing public policy and advancing democracy. The fund is committed to a society that is deeply democratic, grounded in social justice, and in which all members have the capacity and opportunity to be active and full participants in civic life and governance. The fund has identified (but is not limited to) the following areas of interest in 2007-2008: 1. Electoral reform/voting rights 2. Political resources and tools 3. Political participation of youth 4. Connecting immigrant groups to political power 5. Voter engagement 6. Electoral organizing Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006; June 01, 2007.

Headwaters Foundation for Justice. Environmental Justice Fund Grants. The Environmental Justice Fund advances community activism that addresses the root cause of environmental concerns. The fund is designed to enhance community involvement and leadership, and supports efforts to change social, economic and political systems to improve health, boost inclusion in decision-making processes and increase enforcement of environmental laws. The fund has identified (but is not limited to) the following areas of interest in 2007-2008: 1. Toxic substances 2. Corporate accountability 3. Equitable development 4. Food production and preservation 5. Worker safety 6. Inequities of health and health-care system Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: August 01, 2007.

Health Effects Institute (HEI). Health Effects of Air Pollution. The Health Effects Institute's (HEI) request for preliminary applications provides an application mechanism for investigators whose area of interest falls outside the topics targeted in other current research requests, but is relevant to HEI's current priorities. Deadline: January 31, 2007; April 18, 2007.

Hewlett Foundation, William and Flora. Population Program Grants. The foundation has three primary goals in this area: to increase the involvement of the public and private sectors, the media, and educational institutions in population issues; to improve the delivery of family planning and related reproductive health services; and to evaluate and help replicate the impact of educational and economic development activities on fertility. U.S. population issues are also of concern but represent a smaller proportion of the foundation's annual program budget. Deadline: Continuous.

Hilton Foundation, Conrad N. Humanitarian Prize. The Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize is awarded annually to an organization making extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering anywhere in the world. Amount: $1,500,000. Deadline: November 06, 2006.

International Council for Science (ICSU); Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). SCAR Fellowship Programme. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is an interdisciplinary committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU) charged with the initiation, promotion, and coordination of scientific research in Antarctica. The SCAR Fellowship Programme is designed to encourage the active involvement of young scientists and engineers in Antarctic scientific research, and to strengthen international capacity and cooperation in Antarctic research. The fellowships are intended to allow researchers from one SCAR member country to undertake short term visits to major international laboratories, field facilities, or home institutions in or operated by other SCAR member countries, in order to become acquainted with recent advances in research or to develop long-term scientific links and partnerships. The work mustl be carried out in a research group of a SCAR nation different from that of the applicant's origin. Topics for support should make a contribution to the objectives of one or more of the five Scientific Research Programmes endorsed by SCAR: - Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) - Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments (SALE) - Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA) - Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS) - Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research (ICESTAR) Deadline: May 31, 2007.

James S. McDonnell Foundation. 21st Century Science Initiative - Collaborative Activity Awards. Offering Collaborative Activity Awards to initiate interdisciplinary discussions on problems or issues, to help launch interdisciplinary research networks, or to fund communities of researchers/practitioners dedicated to developing new methods, tools, and applications of basic research to applied problems. All proposed activities must involve multi-institutional collaboration. Deadline: Continuous

John P Murphy Foundation. Grants. The foundation distributes its grants for charitable, educational, scientific, literary, and religious purposes. Of major interest is education, principally at the college level. Generally about 40 percent of total distributions is made in grants to education. Deadline: Continuous

Kresge Foundation. Capital Challenge Grants. The Capital Challenge Grants program is a grant program that builds facilities and challenges private giving. The Kresge Foundation is known for making grants for capital projects. However, it believes a challenge grant toward an organization's capital project does more than just build a building or reward good programs. It presents an opportunity to build institutional capacity by helping an organization broaden and deepen its base of support from the private sector and by encouraging volunteer involvement in the fund raising effort and beyond. Amount: $150,000; Upper Amount: $600,000. Deadline: Continuous. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information.

Kroger Company Foundation. Grants. The Kroger Company Foundation's objective is to enhance the quality of life in communities with a concentration of Kroger customers and employees. The foundation believes that the most efficient vehicle for meeting its objectives is the United Way campaign in the local community, which provides assistance and services to Kroger customers and employees. In addition to United Way campaigns, the foundation supports human services and substance abuse programs. Support is also provided to appropriate educational, arts, and civic groups.

La Unidad Latina Foundation. Scholarships. La Unidad Latina Foundation funds educational scholarships that are awarded to Hispanic students on a competitive basis. Amount: $250. Upper Amount: $1,000. Deadline: February 15, 2007; October 15, 2007.

MacArthur Foundation. Media Grants. The goal of the foundation's media grantmaking is to improve the diversity of viewpoints and high-quality documentary content available in radio and television and to use media - especially television and radio production - to further the goals of the other foundation programs.

MacArthur Foundation. Intellectual Property and the Public Domain. Seeks to contribute to an intellectual property regime in the digital era that balances the legitimate needs of both creators and the public. Grants will support policy analysis, scholarly research, and participation in significant international forums where intellectual property policy is being made.

Maddie's Fund. Veterinary School Grants. Interested in receiving proposals from veterinary colleges in the following areas: Collaboration with animal shelters, Continuing education, Student education, Postdoctoral education, and Research programs.

Marketing Science Institute. Standard Grants, Doctoral and Special Top Competitions, and Non-Financial Support. To provide intellectual leadership in marketing and its allied fields, with the goal of improving and influencing business thinking and practice.

Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Grants for Women and Mathematics Projects. The Mathematics Association of America (MAA) plans to award grants for projects designed to encourage college and university women or high school and middle school girls to study mathematics. The Tensor Foundation, working through the MAA, is soliciting proposals for projects that may replicate existing successful projects, adapt components of such projects, or be innovative. Possible projects are to - organize a club for women interested in mathematics or mathematics and science; - provide release time to allow a faculty member to prepare a course on women and mathematics provided the host institution agrees to offer such a course; - create a network of women professional mentors who will direct mathematics projects for girls; - hold a conference for counselors to prepare them to encourage women and girls to continue to study mathematics; - conduct a summer mathematics program for high school women; - bring high school women onto a college campus for a Math Day with follow-up; - structure a program for high school or college women to mentor younger female mathematics students with math projects or math clubs; and- form partnerships with industry to acquaint women students with real-life applications of mathematics. The objectives of the MAA and Tensor Foundation Program are to encourage mathematics faculty to develop projects to increase participation of women in mathematics and to provide support to project directors. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: February 15, 2007.

Mayday Fund of New York. Grants. The Mayday Fund is dedicated to alleviating the incidence, degree, and consequence of human physical pain. The Mayday Fund's current grantmaking targets are projects that result in clinical interventions to reduce the toll of physical pain; pediatric pain; pain in nonverbal populations; and pain in the context of emergency medicine. Mayday will also continue to be proactive in its commitment to promote networking between veterinary and human medicine, especially in an effort to inform measurements of pain in nonverbal populations. Finally, the trustees of the Mayday Fund wish to be nimble enough to respond as special opportunities present themselves.

Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Diversity Scholarship Program. The purpose of the Diversity Scholarship is to recognize achievement in scholastics, leadership potential and initiative among minority students. Mercer Human Resource Consulting also seeks to make students aware of the potential for a rewarding career in the consulting industry and to encourage the pursuit of this career path. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: December 18, 2006.

National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Outstanding Advising Program Awards. Outstanding Advising Program Awards are presented for programs that can document innovative and exemplary practices resulting in the improvement of academic advising sevices. Categories may include, but are not limited to, programs serving specific populations of students (e.g., adult learners, at-risk students, undecided students, student athletes, and graduate students); and programs involving the administration and organization of advising (e.g., advising models, advisor training, use of technology, advisor evaluation, and program evaluation). Deadline: March 05, 2007. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information on ISU internal deadlines.

National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Outstanding Advisor Awards. Outstanding Advisor Awards are presented to individuals who have demonstrated qualities associated with outstanding academic advising of students or outstanding academic advising administration. Outstanding Advisor Awards will be awarded in the following categories: Academic Advising - Primary Role; Faculty Academic Advising; and Academic Advising Administrator. Deadline: March 05, 2007. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information on ISU internal deadlines.

National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Pacesetter Awards. The Pacesetter Awards are presented to recognize chief executive officers, provosts, and chief academic or student affairs officers who exemplify a commitment to advising and are true advocates for students and advisors. Deadline: March 05, 2007.

National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Academic Advising Summer Institute Scholarships. Academic Advising Summer Institute Scholarships are presented as a professional development experience to selected National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) members who demonstrate involvement in national, regional, state, or local advising organizations and exhibit the potential for national leadership roles. Deadline: March 05, 2007; May 01, 2007.

National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). Virginia N. Gordon Award for Excellence in the Field of Advising. The Virginia N. Gordon Award for Excellence in the Field of Advising is presented annually to a National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) member who has made significant contributions to the field of academic advising. Deadline: March 05, 2007.

National Academies; National Research Council (NRC) - USA. Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program. The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students in the analysis that informs the creation of science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government. As a result, students develop essential skills different from those attained in academia and make the transition from being a graduate student to a professional. During the program, interns engage in studies and activities throughout the National Academies. Some examples of projects interns conducted include developing an outline of themes of leading research in remote sensing applications, a workshop on how scientists in developing countries can take better advantage of the new wireless communication networks to gain access to the Internet, a background paper on the current state of knowledge about the demography of street-children, and on what is known about the cost and effectiveness of existing programs to help street-children and orphans in the United States and abroad. Each intern is assigned to a senior staff member who acts as his or her mentor. The mentor provides guidance and ensures that the intern's time is focused on substantive work and activities. Upper Amount: $6,300. Deadline: November 01, 2006; March 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

National Association of Animal Breeders (NAAB). Research Award. The National Association of Animal Breeders (NAAB) is accepting nominations for the NAAB Research Award. The award will be presented to an individual who has made significant contributions to the science of artificial insemination, physiology, or animal breeding in the United States. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: December 15, 2007.

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics. The Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics programs were developed by the NCA Committee on Women's Athletics and the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee. This program has been established to increase the pool of minority and female candidates and their opportunities in intercollegiate athletics through postgraduate scholarships. Amount: $6,000. Deadline: December 07, 2006.

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics. The Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics programs were developed by the NCA Committee on Women's Athletics and the NCAA Minority Opportunities and Interests Committee. This program has been established to increase the pool of minority and female candidates and their opportunities in intercollegiate athletics through postgraduate scholarships. Amount: $6,000. Deadline: December 07, 2006.

National Geographic Society. Field Research. Generally limited to the following disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, geography, geology, oceanography, palentology, and zoology.

National Institutes of Health (NIH). Interdisciplinary Research Consortium. The purpose of this program is to support interdisciplinary approaches to solving significant and complex biomedical problems, particularly those that have been resistant to traditional approaches. Upper Amount: $14,800,000. Deadline: December 19, 2006.

National Pork Board. Request for Proposals. The National Pork Board's Request for Proposals in the categories of Animal Welfare, Environment, Environment/Public Health, Pork Safety, and Swine Health are now available on the National Pork Board website. Upper Amount: $40,000 - $50,000. Deadline: November 28, 2006.

National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) - NSF 06-579. The Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. FIBR encourages investigators to identify major understudied or unanswered questions in biology and to use innovative approaches to address them by integrating the scientific concepts and research tools from across disciplines including biology, math, and the physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, and the information sciences. Deadline: Preliminary proposals due by September 22, 2006; Full proposals due February 16, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF). Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) - NSF 06-610. The Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) program supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, not-for-profits, voluntary organizations or interorganizational arrangements. IOC-funded research must be grounded in theory, relevant to an operational or applied context, and generalizable. It must advance our scientific understanding of innovation and organizations. Proposals that aim to implement or evaluate innovations or particular organizational changes rather than to advance fundamental, generalizable knowledge about innovation and organizations are not appropriate for IOC. Deadline: February 02, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Science of Design: Software-Intensive Systems: NSF 07-505. The Science of Design (SoD) Program at NSF solicits proposals for projects that will bring creative, scientific advances to the design of software artifacts and systems. Design is a topic of great interest in many fields; the goal of the SoD Program is to advance design research and education to meet the critical software design challenges of the 21st century. The objective of the program is to bring new paradigms, concepts, approaches, models, and theories into the development of a strong intellectual foundation for software design, which will ultimately improve the processes of constructing, evaluating, and modifying software-intensive systems. This body of knowledge needs to be intellectually rigorous, formalized where appropriate, supported by empirical evidence where possible, open to creative, artistic expression, and above all, teachable. Upper Amount: $900,000. Deadline: February 05, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE); Division of Computer and Network Systems. CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) - NSF 06-597. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) program supports the acquisition, development, enhancement, and operation of research infrastructure that enables discovery, learning, and innovation in all computing fields supported by CISE. Supported infrastructure includes instrumentation needed by a few research or research and education projects, major experimental facilities for an entire department or for multi-institutional projects, and testbeds or data archives for an entire subfield of CISE researchers.
One goal of the CISE CRI program is to provide infrastructure that enables high-quality computing research and education. A second goal is to extend the set of individuals and departments that are able to conduct such activities. The CRI program is committed to maintaining a broad portfolio that supports research and education across a diverse population and lessens the digital divide. The program encourages proposals that are from or that include minority-serving institutions.
The CRI program will support a variety of infrastructure needs, such as general or specialized research equipment, technical support, or software. CRI will also support the development of infrastructure that can be used by others, such as data archives or libraries of software tools. The primary criteria are that the infrastructure facilitates the conduct of high-quality research and related education, and that it cannot be acquired or developed without funding resources beyond those available from individual research and education grants and the host institution.
The CRI program will make three kinds of awards:
1. Infrastructure Acquisition 2) Community Resource Development 3) Planning
Additional contact: Rita Rodriguez; +1 (703) 292-8950; rrodrigu@nsf.gov Deadline: November 15, 2006; August 7, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR); Division of Human Resource Development (HRD). Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) - NSF 07-511. The Research in Disabilities Education (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. Upper Amount: $3,000,000. Deadline: February 12, 2007. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information on ISU internal deadlines.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE). SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants - NSF 06-605. The National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) and Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question. In an effort to improve the quality of dissertation research, many programs in the BCS and the SES accept doctoral dissertation improvement grant proposals. Items such as budget limitations, target dates or deadlines, page length restrictions, and review procedures vary widely across programs. Please consult the relevant program's webpage for specific information and contact the program director if necessary. The following programs support dissertation research: Archaeology; Cultural Anthropology; Geography and Regional Science; Linguistics; Perception, Action, and Cognition; Physical Anthropology; Decision, Risk, and Management Science; Economics; Law and Social Science; Political Science; Science and Technology Studies; Sociology; and Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology. Deadline: Varies by program.

National Science Foundation. Evaluative Research and Evaluation Capacity Building (EREC) and Research on Learning and Education (ROLE). The EREC program seeks proposals that offer unique approaches to evaluation practice in the generation of knowledge for the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education community and for broad policy making within the research and education enterprise. The ROLE program's focus on research complements the EREC focus on evaluation. ROLE seeks to capitalize on important developments across a wide range of fields related to human learning and to STEM education. It supports research across a continuum that includes the biological basis of human learning; behavioral, cognitive, affective, and social aspects of human learning. Deadline: May 15, annually, for EREC proposals and June 1 and December 10, annually, for ROLE proposals

National Science Foundation. Facilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities. The NSF encourages scientists and engineers with disabilities to participate fully in all of its programs. This announcement describes opportunities for physically disabled persons to facilitate their work by providing special equipment or assistance needed in conjunction with NSF-supported projects. This announcement covers all projects supported by NSF in science and engineering research or education, including fellowships. Deadline: Continuous.

National Science Foundation/CDA. Cross-Directorate Activities. CDA administers some programs directly and coordinates other programs aimed at Foundation-wide goals of increasing the participation of women, minorities, and the disabled in science and engineering; encouraging and rewarding promising new faculty; support of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral activities; and improving the infrastructure of the social and behavioral sciences. Deadline: continuous.

National Women's Studies Association (NWSA). Women of Color Caucus-Scott Powell Memorial Student Essay Award - Category Two. The NWSA Women of Color Caucus and Catherine Powell are pleased to offer a writing award that is open to students of any race, ethnicity or gender who meet both general and category-specific eligibility and submission requirements. The scholarly essays must provide critical theoretical discussions or analyses of issues or experiences of women and girls of African, Latina, Latino, Asian, Asian-American, Pacific-Islander, Native American, American Indian, Alaskan Native descent. Amount: $400. Deadline: February 15, 2007.

Novell.CYBERgrant Program.The mission of the applicant organization must focus on one of the following areas: 1. Homeless and hungry; 2. Arts and culture; 3. Education. Grant requests must include a strong technology component. Deadline: Continuous.

Office of University Partnerships. OUP Grant programs. The Office is responsible for running eight grant programs: 1) Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian Institutions Assisting Communities; 2) Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program; 3) Community Development Work Study Program; 4) Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program; 5) Early Doctoral Student Research Grant Program; 6) Historically Black Colleges and Universities Program; 7) Hispanic-Serving Institutions Assisting Communities Program; 8) Tribal Colleges and Universities Program. Deadlines vary across programs.

Packard Foundation, David and Lucille. Mobilization. The foundation supports organizations that inform the public and policymakers, in both industrialized and developing countries, about the significance of access to family planning choices for the millions of people whose reproductive options are severely limited. As part of this communication effort, the Population Program also supports the production of clear data describing scientifically demonstrated relationships between population growth and declines in natural resources, agricultural output, and environmental quality in particularly stressed regions of the world. Deadline: continuous.

Pennsylvania State University; College of Communications; Page Center, Arthur W. Page Legacy Scholars Grant. The Page Center will award grants to support scholars and professionals making important contributions to knowledge, practice or public understanding of ethics and responsibility in public communication or other principles of Arthur W. Page. The themes for this year's call for proposals arehow company credos and codes of ethics affect corporate behavior; ethics in public communication; the role of public relations in fostering corporate responsibility; curriculum development in and pedagogical approaches to ethics in public relations; and other areas of Page's legacy, including political communication, public opinion formation and attitude change, history of public relations, and international broadcasting. Proposals for studies or projects that have potential to directly impact or influence the practice of public relations are particularly welcome. Recipients of these grants will be designated either a Page Legacy Scholar or a Robert Wood Johnson Legacy Scholar. Amount: $5,000. Upper Amount: $25,000. Deadline: February 16, 2007.

Phi Alpha Theta. Faculty Advisor Research Grant. The Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor Award supports such activities as historical research, writing assistance, or travel for the advancement the recipient's career. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: June 30, 2007.

Ploughshares Fund. Grants The Ploughshares Fund supports organizations and individuals working to stop the spread of weapons and build regional security. There are no geographical limitations on grants.

Ploughshares Fund. Grants. The Ploughshares Fund makes grants to support initiatives aimed at preventing the spread and use of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and other weapons of war, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to the use of weapons of mass destruction. The Ploughshares Fund supports organizations and individuals who work to stop the spread of these weapons and build regional security. The Ploughshares Fund can make grants for direct lobbying programs. The Ploughshares Fund does not fund the production of films, videotapes or books. It also does not fund the research and writing of academic dissertations. Deadline: November 15, 2006; February 15, 2007.

Poverty & Race Research Action Council. Research and Advocacy Grants Program. The mission is to generate, gather and disseminate information and resources regarding the intersections of race and poverty in the United States, and to promote the development and implementation of policies and practices that alleviate conditions caused by the interaction of race and poverty.

PPG Industries Foundation. Grants. Funding requests for a variety of project proposals that advance the foundation's interests in education; human services; culture and arts; civic and community affairs; and health and safety are eligible for consideration. These may include capital projects, operating grants, and special projects. Deadline: Continuous.

President's Commission on White House Fellowships. White House Fellowships. Fellowships have offered outstanding young Americans the opportunity to participate in the day-to-day business of governing the nation. After a highly competitive selection process, 11 to 19 men and women are chosen to serve for a year as White House Fellows. The fellowship year runs from September 1 through the next August. Each Fellow works full time as a special assistant to a Cabinet member or senior presidential advisor and also participates in an education program designed to nurture his or her development as a leader. Amount: $91,000. Deadline: February 01, 2007.

President's Commission on White House Fellowships. White House Fellowships. Fellowships have offered outstanding young Americans the opportunity to participate in the day-to-day business of governing the nation. After a highly competitive selection process, 11 to 19 men and women are chosen to serve for a year as White House Fellows. The fellowship year runs from September 1 through the next August. Each Fellow works full time as a special assistant to a Cabinet member or senior presidential advisor and also participates in an education program designed to nurture his or her development as a leader. Amount: $91,000. Deadline: February 01, 2007.

RAND Corporation. RAND Postdoctoral Research Program in Population Studies and the Study of the Aging. The Postdoctoral Research Program in Population Studies and the Study of the Aging, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, enables outstanding junior scholars in demographic and aging research to sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate research results effectively, and develop a future research agenda. The program blends formal and informal training and extensive collaboration with distinguished researchers in a variety of disciplines. The RAND Fellows program is open to new scholars in the field of demographic and aging research, as well as individuals who already have research experience on these topics. Amount: $47,000. Upper Amount: $61,000. Deadline: January 15, 2007.

Rohm and Haas. Grants. Rohm and Haas Company supports organizations that are within the following categories: 1. Health and Human Services; 2. Education; 3. Civic and Community Improvement; 4. Culture and Arts. Deadline: Continuous.

Sage Foundation, Russell. Project Awards. The Sage Foundation's awards are restricted to support for basic social science research. The foundation mainly provides support for analyzing data and writing up results, but it occasionally considers larger awards for data acquisition projects highly relevant to the its program goals. Amount: Major awards range between $50,000 and $500,000. Deadline: August 15, 2006; March 15, 2007.

Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF). Grants. For the current midterm program period of 2000 through 2007, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) will support grant schemes and projects in the following areas: 1. Toward the Coexistence of Pluralistic Values 2. Fostering Human Security and Private Nonprofit Activities 3. Japan and Asia in the World

Scaife Foundation, Inc., Sarah. Grants. The foundation's grant program is directed primarily toward public policy programs that address major domestic and international issues. Funding is provided for general operating support, research grants, special programs support, internships, fellowships, centers, institutes, and publications. Deadline: Continuous.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.; Education and Careers in Science and Technology; Public Understanding of Science and Technology. Public Television. The general goal of the Public Understanding of Science and Technology program is to enhance people's lives by providing a better understanding of the increasingly scientific and technical world. The program aims to convey some of the challenges and rewards of the scientific and technological enterprise and of the lives of the men and women who udnertake it. The program employs books, television, radio, films, CD-ROM, the Internet, and other media to reach a non-specialist audience. The Public Television section of this program supports the production of documentaries that enlighten society about science and technology.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.; Education and Careers in Science and Technology; Public Understanding of Science and Technology. Radio. The general goal of the Public Understanding of Science and Technology program is to enhance people's lives by providing a better understanding of the increasingly scientific and technical world. The program aims to convey some of the challenges and rewards of the scientific and technological enterprise and of the lives of the men and women who undertake it. The program employs books, television, radio, films, CD-ROM, the Internet, and other media to reach a non-specialist audience. The Radio section of this program awards opportunities to use radio to inform people about scientific and technical aspects of the world.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.; Education and Careers in Science and Technology; Public Understanding of Science and Technology; Commercial Television and Films. Film Schools Program. The general goal of the Public Understanding of Science and Technology program is to enhance people's lives by providing a better understanding of the increasingly scientific and technical world. The program aims to convey some of the challenges and rewards of the scientific and technological enterprise and of the lives of the men and women who udnertake it. The program employs books, television, radio, films, CD-ROM, the Internet, and other media to reach a non-specialist audience. The Film Schools Program seeks to influence the next generation of film makers to create more realistic and dramatic stories about science and technology and to challenge existing stereotypes about scientists and engineers through visual media. Awards are given to film schools to stimulate their top students to write and produce new film and television shows about scientists and engineers.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.; Science and Technology; Direct Support of Research. The Known, Unknown, and Unknowable. The goal of this program is the exploration of what is known, unknown, and unknowable in a variety of fields. Research has been funded on limits to knowledge in a broad spectrum of academic areas. Grants have supported such studies in plant molecular biology and genetics, ecology, computational economics, history of science, and prehistoric linguistics.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.; Science and Technology; History of Science and Technology. Recent History of Science and Engineering on the Web. The goal of the Recent History of Science and Engineering on the Web program is to develop and diffuse a new way of creating, accessing, and preserving the historical record of recent major technical and scientific events by using the Internet. Use of the web allows the actual participants in important technical events, for example, the invention of the computer mouse, to volunteer their own recollections. Initial grants supported the creation of over 30 web sites by ten professional societies, six universities, and a museum, on a wide variety of topics ranging from the development of the artificial heart to the planning, construction, and early operation of the Trans-Alaska pipeline. The goal is to create interactive sites attracting contributions by participants in the actual scientific or technical development to which the site is devoted.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.; Selected National Issues. Bioterrorism. The goal of this program is to reduce the threat of bioterrorism. The current foundation plan emphasizes civilian defense, i.e., those things that citizens or businesses can do for themselves to defend against terrorism. A second focus area is the monitoring of dangerous research. In addition to these directions, the foundation will fund research into physical methods for removing pathogens from the air and will continue to look for unique opportunities in bioterrorism prevention, detection, and preparedness.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.; Standard of Living and Economic Performance; Industries. Globalization. The goal of this project is to provide a fact-based picture of globalization, primarily within specific industries. Grants have been made to study company location decisions and the effects of these decisions on jobs, wages, and the company's competitive position in a number of industries: computer flat display, auto, computer disk file, semiconductor manufacturing, personal computer, and computer software. International collaboration is encouraged. The Foundation's program at present is focused on the impacts of services offshoring on jobs and wages, although it continues to look for additional compelling research topics in globalization.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P.; Standard of Living and Economic Performance; Industries. Business Organizations. The Business Organizations program (formerly "Role of the Corporation") supports academic research and scholarship aimed at painting a realistic picture of how corporations and other business organizations function, with special emphasis on how the people in them actually behave, how they are motivated, and how they are rewarded. The foundation has sought to increase understanding of these organizations because of the enormous effect they have on the standard of living and quality of life for most people in the United States and around the world.
Much of the academic work concerned with the nature and purpose of business organizations has been carried out over the years by scholars in economics, corporate law, and business. The foundation has supported work in each of these areas, and plans to continue supporting innovative work in these fields as well as others, such as sociology, anthropology, political science and business history.

Sloan Foundation. Standard of Living and Economic Performance. Grants have been made to study company location decisions and the effects of these decisions on jobs, wages, and the company's competitive position.

Smithsonian Institution (SI); National Air and Space Museum. A. Verville Fellowship. The National Air and Space Museum has established the A. Verville Fellowship to honor the memory of Alfred V. Verville, a noted aircraft designer. A competitive nine- to twelve-month fellowship, the Verville is intended to assist scholars interested in the analysis of major trends, developments, and accomplishments in aviation or space studies. The Museum is most interested in attracting candidates for this fellowship who do not have great access to traditional research sources of funding. Upper Amount: $45,000. Deadline: January 15, 2007.

Smithsonian Institution. Fellowship Opportunities. Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution provide students and scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff. A wide variety of pre-doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior scholar fellowships are available.

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - USA; Eurasia Program. Eurasia Teaching Fellowship.At the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), postdoctoral research grants have allowed young faculty members to expand upon their research interests after having completed (and often published) their dissertation work. The SSRC Eurasia Program supports faculty in their classroom activities as well. The Eurasia Program's Teaching Fellowships encourage and support faculty members at all career levels in their efforts to impart their own knowledge and expertise to their students. These awards support the creation of original and innovative course curricula. Funds will support the rethinking and reframing of courses in the humanities and social sciences that directly relate to the whole or part of Eurasia. Courses must be wholly new, or substantial revisions of a course previously taught. The SSRC invites proposals that have an interdisciplinary or comparative outlook, encompass a diverse range of literatures or source media (including audio, video, and web content), and make appropriate use of various pedagogical approaches. Proposals that target unique and important student audiences, provide a substantial addition or significantly diversify existing departmental or university curricula, or that otherwise fill an important niche or fulfill an instructional gap are especially encouraged. Amount: $7,000. Deadline: November 14, 2006.

Soroptimist International of the Americas, Inc. Women's Opportunity Awards. The Women's Opportunity Awards program assists women who, as head of their households, must enter or return to the work force, or upgrade their employment status. This financial award program enables these women to gain the additional education and skills training they need to provide adequately for themselves and their families. The program begins on the club level, after which club award recipients become eligible for region-level awards. Amount: $3,000. Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Spencer Foundation. Various Programs. Both small and major research grants available. Deadline: Continuous (Preliminary proposals required for major research grants).

Sprint Foundation. Education, Arts and Culture, and Youth Development. Emphasis on education is targeted to math, science and technology programs relative to telecommunication careers. The foundation also supports visual and performing arts organizations, museums and other cultural organizations and activities which have effective outreach programs that broaden cultural experiences for the general public, particularly youth and non-traditional audiences, and youth organizations which will be targeted to drug and alcohol education, minority youth endeavors, broad-scale community youth activities focused on building leadership and social skills, and to programs that promote business and economic education for youth.

Starr Foundation. Grants. Areas of interest include education, medicine and healthcare, public policy, human needs, culture, and the environment.

State Justice Institute (SJI). Curriculum Adaptation and Training (CAT) Grants. The State Justice Institute (SJI) was established in 1984 by an Act of Congress for the purpose of providing financial support to projects designed to improve the administration of justice in the state courts. To accomplish this objective, the SJI is authorized to provide funds through grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to state courts and organizations that can assist in improving judicial administration in the state courts. CAT Grants are intended to: (1) Enable courts and regional or national court associations to modify and adapt model curricula, course modules, or conference programs to meet States' or local jurisdictions' educational needs; train instructors to present portions or all of the curricula; and pilot-test them to determine their appropriateness, quality, and effectiveness, or (2) conduct judicial branch education and training programs, led by either expert or in-house personnel, designed to prepare judges and court personnel for recently adopted innovations, reforms, and/or new technologies by grantee courts. Upper Amount: $20,000.

State Justice Institute (SJI). Project Grants. The State Justice Institute (SJI) was established in 1984 by an Act of Congress for the purpose of providing financial support to projects designed to improve the administration of justice in the state courts. To accomplish this objective, the SJI is authorized to provide funds through grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to state courts and organizations that can assist in improving judicial administration in the state courts. Project grants are awarded to support innovative education, research, demonstration, and technical assistance projects that can improve the administration of justice in state courts nationwide. Upper Amount: $300,000.

State Justice Institute (SJI). Technical Assistance Grants. The State Justice Institute (SJI) was established in 1984 by an Act of Congress for the purpose of providing financial support to projects designed to improve the administration of justice in the state courts. To accomplish this objective, the SJI is authorized to provide funds through grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to state courts and organizations that can assist in improving judicial administration in the state courts. Technical Assistance Grants are awarded to state and local courts for the purpose engaging outside experts to provide technical assistance to diagnose, develop, and implement a response to a jurisdiction's problems. Upper Amount: $30,000.

Supreme Court of the United States. Judicial Fellows Program. The Supreme Court of the United States, Judicial Fellows Commission seeks outstanding individuals who are interested in working in the District of Columbia within the federal judiciary. Fellows spend one calendar year at the Supreme Court, the Federal Judicial Center, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, or the United States Sentencing Commission working on various projects concerning the federal court system and the administration of justice. Amount: $114,688. Deadline: November 13, 2006.

Texas Instruments Foundation. Grants. The foundation supports civic, educational, research, charitable, health, welfare, and cultural organizations. Grants in higher education have an emphasis on engineering in particular. Deadline: Continuous

The Columbus Foundation. Request for Proposals. Proposals are invited in the following areas: education, health, social services, urban affairs, advancing philanthropy, arts, and conservation. Deadline: Ranging from February to October.

The Garden Club of America. Scholarships and Fellowships. For the study of landscape architecture, horticulture, medicinal botany, ornamental horticulture, tropical botany, endangered bird habitat, coastal wetlands, garden history and design, field botany, ecological restoration, and more.

UNCF/Merck Science Initiative. UNCF/Merck Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowships. The College Fund/United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the Merck Research Laboratories have collaborated to bring this initiative to colleges and universities across the country. This program is designed to increase the number of African Americans in the pipeline of biomedical science education and research. Upper Amount: $70,000. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

UNCF/Merck Science Initiative. UNCF/Merck Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowships. The College Fund/United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the Merck Research Laboratories have collaborated to bring this initiative to colleges and universities across the country. This program is designed to increase the number of African Americans in the pipeline of biomedical science education and research. Upper Amount: $70,000. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

United Engineering Foundation (UEF). Grants. The United Engineering Foundation (UEF) advances the engineering arts and sciences for the welfare of humanity. It supports engineering and education by, among other means, making grants. Grants should be consistent with advancing engineering. The UEF Board of Trustees evaluates and judges proposals in view of the UEF mission, the perceived ability of the proposal and proposer(s) to further that mission, and the available funding. While all proposals meeting established deadlines and page requirements will be considered, certain UEF preferences should be understood by proposers: - Broad-based, interdisciplinary proposals that further the engineering profession as a whole are preferred. - Multiple-year proposals are welcome, but funding is awarded for a single year only. Proposals for subsequent years follow procedures identical to that of single-year proposals. No commitment for funding of subsequent years of a multiple-year project should be inferred from funding of a prior year. - Projects that are outside "business as usual" of the proposing organization are preferred. - Technical research proposals and proposals by individuals are seldom accepted. Deadline: June 01, 2007.

United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). Collaborative Research Grants. The United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) supports cooperative research between Israeli and American scientists. Cooperation should involve joint planning of research and evaluation of results and may take the form of: joint research activities where interdependent projects of a single program are conducted in different laboratories and may involve shared funding or different sources of funding; provision of research facilities, materials, equipment ,or services to cooperating scientists; or exchange of personnel. Areas of research for this funding cycle include: physics, chemistry, mathematical sciences, atmospheric and earth sciences, oceanography and limnology, materials research, environmental research and ecology (systematic biology), energy research, economics, and sociology. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

United States Department of Commerce (DOC); International Trade Administration (ITA). Solicitation of Applications for United States Destination Web Site Research, Development, Implementation, and Marketing. The International Trade Administration's (ITA) Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI) announces the availability of funds for a cooperative agreement for the purpose of providing content and information, through a newly designed and implemented Web site, or by enhancing an existing Web site, on the United States as a premier destination to international inbound travelers from five key markets: United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and Germany. It is envisioned that the award recipient will use funding to conduct market research for each country on the site's international target audience. It is envisioned that this Web site will be the benchmark U.S. travel and tourism information portal for international travelers to the United States. The Web site will encompass information on all components of the U.S. travel and tourism industry, which include, but is not limited to, destinations, attractions, natural resources, dining and lodging facilities, and transportation companies. Amount: $3,600,000. Deadline: November 14, 2006.

United States Department of Commerce (DOC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Administration of NOAA's Graduate Sciences Program.NOAA's Office of Education, Educational Partnership Program announces the availability of Federal assistance to a not-for-profit organization for the administration of its EPP Graduate Sciences Program. The goal of the Graduate Sciences Program is to provide college graduates who have received at least a Bachelor's degree in mathematics, science, economics, law, and engineering, entry- level employment and hands-on research and work experience at NOAA. The program's objective is to increase the number of students who undertake course work and graduate with degrees in the targeted areas integral to NOAA's mission. This program provides for formal periods of work, study, and structured classroom training programs in meteorology, hydrology, cartography, oceanography, ecology, remote sensing technology, environmental science and planning, marine science, fisheries biology, computer science, and environmental law. GSP pays for tuition, books, lab fees, campus housing allowance, and travel expenses for an orientation program at NOAA Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the beginning of their appointment. NOAA scientists are assigned as mentors to graduate scientists during the training period. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $700,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Department of the Army; Army Research Office (ARO). Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). The Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program supports basic science and/or engineering research at U.S. institutions of higher education that is of critical importance to national defense. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts that intersect more than one traditional science and engineering discipline to address issues of critical concern to the DoD. Amount: $100,000. Upper Amount: $1,500,000. Deadline: November 13, 2006; March 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

United States Department of Education (ED); Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS); National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) Projects - 84.133P. Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) projects must provide research training and experience at an advanced level to individuals with doctorates or similar advanced degrees who have clinical or other relevant experience. ARRT projects train rehabilitation researchers, including individuals with disabilities, with particular attention to research areas that support the implementation and objectives of the Rehabilitation Act and that improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Act. Upper Amount: $750,000. Deadline: November 20, 2006.

United States Department of Education (ED); Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS); National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR); Disability Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRPs). Vocational Rehabilitation (VR): Transition Services That Lead to Competitive Employment Outcomes for Transition-Age Individuals With Blindness or Other Visual Impairments - 84.133A-4. The purpose of the Disability Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities, and to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. Under this particular priority, the Department of Education is seeking applications dealing with Vocational Rehabilitation (VR: Transition Services That Lead to Competitive Employment Outcomes for Transition-Age Individuals with Blindness or Other Visual Impairments. Amount: $450,000. Deadline: January 18, 2007.

United States Department of State (DOS); Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). Request for Grant Proposals: Study of the United States Institutes on American Civilization, Journalism and Media, and for Secondary Educators. The Branch for the Study of the United States, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, invites proposal submissions for the design and implementation of three Study of the United States Institutes to take place over the course of six weeks beginning in June 2007. These institutes should provide a multinational group of experienced educators with a deeper understanding of U.S. society, culture, values and institutions. Two of these institutes will be for groups of 18 university level faculty each, one with a focus on American Civilization, the other on Journalism and Media. The third institute will be a general survey course on the study of the United States, for a group of 30 secondary educators. Amount: $275,000. Upper Amount: $340,000. Deadline: December 08, 2006. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information on ISU internal deadlines.

United States Department of the Interior (DOI); U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Educational Component of the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (EDMAP). Applications are being solicited and will be accepted from colleges and universities with accredited master's and doctoral programs in geoscience or related departments. This program, referred to as EDMAP, is a component of the National Geologic Mapping Program that is designed to produce information on areas of scientific, social, or economic welfare in the United States. The funding is for supporting master's and doctoral students during geologic field mapping. Deadline: November 16, 2006.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Oswer Innovations Pilot Projects. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces the availability of funds and solicits creative proposals testing innovative and collaborative approaches to: restore contaminated properties to environmental and economic vitality; increase America's homeland security; promote stewardship and resource conservation consistent with the EPA's Resource Conservation Challenge; and encourage voluntary efforts to clean up sites. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: November 20, 2006.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Office of Research and Development (ORD); National Center for Environmental Research (NCER); Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program Grants. Sources, Composition, and Health Effects of Coarse Particulate Matter. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing studies of PM10-2.5 evaluating potential health effects, sources, composition, and variability. PM10-2.5 represents the subset of coarse particles that is inhaled into the lungs and penetrates into the thoracic region. Sources of PM10-2.5 include construction and demolition activities, mining and mineral processing, agricultural activities, sea spray, wind-blown dust, and resuspension of settled biological material from soil surfaces and roads. Information regarding the heterogeneity, composition, and sources of PM10-2.5 characteristic of specific locations and comparisons between locations, especially rural versus urban areas, that inform studies of health effects is needed. Upper Amount: $1,200,000. Deadline: November 30, 2006.

United States Postal Service (USPS). Rita Lloyd Moroney Awards for Scholarship on Postal History.Beginning in 2007, the United States Postal Service will sponsor two annual prizes for scholarship on the history of the American postal system, the Rita Lloyd Moroney Awards--one for junior scholars and the other for senior scholars. These prizes are designed to encourage scholarship on the history of the American postal system and to raise awareness about the significance of the postal system in American life. Amount: $1,000. Upper Amount: $2,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW). UFAW Research and Project Awards. Through its Research Awards, the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) aims to encourage high quality research that is likely to lead to substantial improvements in animal welfare. UFAW seeks to promote both fundamental research aimed at providing new insight into the subjective mental experiences of animals relevant to their welfare and at understanding their needs and preferences, and also to promote applied research aimed at developing practical solutions to animal welfare problems. UFAW also supports other (non-research) projects that promote animal welfare, such as preparation and publication of books.

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW). UFAW Small Project and Travel Awards. Through its Small Projects and Travel awards, the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) supports a variety of activities for the benefit of animal welfare. Applications may be made for the purchase of equipment; for the organization of (and sometimes to support attendance at) educational meetings, lectures, and courses; and for publication, translation, or transmission of information on animal welfare and for other small projects in support of UFAW's objectives. Deadline: Continuous.

University of Louisville. Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. The Grawemeyer Award For Ideas Improving World Order is presented annually to the winner of a competition designed to stimulate the recognition, dissemination, and critical analysis of outstanding proposals for improving world order. Submissions will be judged according to originality, feasibility and potential impact, not by the cumulative record of the nominee. They may address a wide range of global concerns including foreign policy and its formation; the conduct of international relations or world politics; global economic issues, such as world trade and investment; resolution of regional, ethnic, or racial conflicts; the proliferation of destructive technologies; global cooperation on environmental protection or other important issues; international law and organization; any combination or particular aspects of these, or any other suitable idea which could at least incrementally lead to a more just and peaceful world order. Amount: $200,000. Deadline: January 15, 2007.

US Bancorp Foundation. Program Support. Supports organizations and programs that advance economic opportunity, education, and cultural and artistic enrichment. Deadline: Varies; Application deadline information is available from the appropriate state contact.

US Department of Agriculture/CSREES. Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) Grants. Deadlines: Varies across programs.

US Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC). Various Research Programs. Military Infectious Diseases Research Program, Combat Casualty Care Research Program, Military Operational Medicine Research Program, Medical Biological Defense Research Program, Medical Chemical Defense Research Program, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Program, and Special Programs. Deadlines: Continuous.

US Department of Defense. Research and Development Grants. Broad Agency Announcement in Various Disciplines. See Web site for details of types of work solicited.

US Department of Defense. Personnel Security Thesis, Dissertation, and Instituational Research Awards. Broad research areas include vetting systems, continuing evaluation, automated systems for personal security, and trust betrayal. Deadline: Continuous until September 30, 2008.

US Department of Defense; Office of Naval Research. Young Investigator Program. Objectives are to attract to naval research outstanding new faculty members at institutions of higher education, to support their research, and to encourage their teaching and research careers.

US Institute of Peace. Solicited Grant Projects. Aims to expand the body of knowledge about the nature of international conflicts and their resolution, disseminate this knowledge to policymakers and pracitioners involved in active peacemaking, and help educate the public and promote public discourse on issues of international war and peace.

Volvo Environment Prize Foundation. Volvo Environment Prize. The Volvo Environment Prize was created to promote research and development across the environmental spectrum, by acknowledging people who have made an outstanding contribution to understanding or protecting the environment through scientific, socioeconomic, or technological innovation or discovery of global or regional importance. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Wells Fargo Foundation. Various Grants. Areas of interest include community development, human and social services, education, arts and culture.

Women's Sports Foundation. Various Programs. Promotes the involvement of women and girls in sports.

World Community Grid. Proposals to Accelerate Humanitarian Research Via the Internet. The goal is to support innovative efforts that will benefit most from this technology and deliver significant results on a variety of issues facing the global community. Areas of interest include new and existing infectious disease research, genomic and disease research, natural disasters and hunger, and environmental research. Deadline: Continuous.

Agriculture

African Violet Society of America (AVSA). Boyce Edens Research Fund Grants. Grants from the Boyce Edens Research Fund of the African Violet Society of America (AVSA) may be used for underwriting the costs of research related to African Violets (genus Saintpaulia) such as, but not limited to: culture and care; diseases and pests; genetics and hybridization; and ecological study and conservation. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $4,000.

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH). Various Awards. Awards include: Robert H. Gibbs, Jr. Memorial Award; Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology; Robert K. Johnson Award; and three student awards (Gaige Fund Award; Raney Fund Award; Stoye and Storer Awards). Deadlines: vary by award.

American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB). Various Awards. Deadline: varies by award.

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). Animal Disaster Relief and Response Fund. The American Veterinary Medical Foundation awards out-of-pocket reimbursements for costs incurred in the care of animal victims of current disasters. Upper Amount: $2,000. Deadline: Continuous.

Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI). Global Grassroots Bat Conservation Fund.Bat Conservation International (BCI) is committed to supporting high quality, grassroots bat conservation efforts around the world. The Global Grassroots Bat Conservation Fund is a special program through which BCI provides training, materials, and small grants to local conservationists protecting bats and their habitats around the world. Priority will be given to new projects in geographic regions not covered during the previous year. In general, BCI looks for (1) habitat protection projects with significant ecological or economic value; (2) research projects that produce data directly applicable to conservation activities; and (3) educational projects that teach local citizens the value of protecting bats. BCI prefers to support projects that are coordinated by people in the region, though BCI does occasionally support travel to assist or participate in training, and use grant money primarily for in-country activities or equipment directly associated with the project (e.g., BCI avoids providing large sums of money for equipment such as computers unless the equipment is part of a facility dedicated to bat conservation). BCI especially look for projects that have collaborative support and matching funds. Projects must demonstrate results in sustainable bat conservation.
Those projects requiring immediate action will be reviewed sooner than others. BCI prefers that projects include at least two of the following components: education, conservation, and research. Projects capable of conserving entire ecosystems may be given preference over those that benefit a single population. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: Varies.

BirdLife International, BP Conservation Programme. Various Awards. Deadline: Varies by award.

Captain Planet Foundation. Grants. The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to fund and support hands-on environmental projects for children and youths. The objective is to encourage innovative programs that empower children and youth around the world to work individually and collectively to solve environmental problems in their neighborhoods and communities. All projects must - promote understanding of environmental issues; - focus on hands-on involvement; - involve children and young adults 6 to 18 (elementary through high school); - promote interaction and cooperation within the group; - help young people develop planning and problem solving skills; - include adult supervision; and - commit to follow-up communication with the foundation. Amount: $250. Upper Amount: $2,500. Deadline: March 31, 2006; June 30, 2006; September 30, 2006; December 31, 2006.

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention (U50). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is interested in receiving Center (U50) cooperative agreement applications that address the etiology and prevention of injuries resulting from production agriculture/forestry/fishing. The purpose of this cooperative agreement program is to strengthen the occupational and public health infrastructure by building on more than a decade of agricultural center accomplishments aimed at integrating resources for occupational safety and health research and public health prevention programs at the state and local levels. Applications should address the risks from agriculture activities through research, prevention/intervention, and education projects that as a whole address problems in a synergistic manner resulting in a measurable impact on agriculture related injuries and diseases. Center activities should be designed to integrate research, education, and prevention projects that address unique problems of agriculture in the geographic region served as well as nationally. Deadline: November 30, 2006.

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Centers for Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education, and Prevention (U50). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is interested in receiving Center (U50) cooperative agreement applications that address the etiology and prevention of injuries resulting from production agriculture/forestry/fishing. The purpose of this cooperative agreement program is to strengthen the occupational and public health infrastructure by building on more than a decade of agricultural center accomplishments aimed at integrating resources for occupational safety and health research and public health prevention programs at the state and local levels. Applications should address the risks from agriculture activities through research, prevention/intervention, and education projects that as a whole address problems in a synergistic manner resulting in a measurable impact on agriculture related injuries and diseases. Center activities should be designed to integrate research, education, and prevention projects that address unique problems of agriculture in the geographic region served as well as nationally. Upper Amount: $1,200,000. Deadline: December 20, 2006.

Ducks Unlimited, Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research (IWWR). Unsecured Research Support (Unsolicited Applications for Research Support). The Unsecured Research Support category includes all proposals that IWWR would need to support with limited discretionary funds or, usually, with new funds raised by IWWR and the principal investigator after the project is approved in concept. IWWR will therefore receive and review research proposals from university graduate students and professors. Deadline: Continuous (October 31, preferred).

Ecological Society of America (ESA). Eugene P. Odum Award. The Eugene P. Odum Award is given annually for the best student oral presentation on ecological research at the annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

Environmental Law Institute (ELI). National Wetlands Awards. The National Wetlands Awards Program celebrates individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary dedication, innovation or excellence in wetlands conservation. Their work covers programs or projects on the regional, state, and local levels, and their efforts to educate the public and surrounding communities about the value of wetlands, the programs that are available to protect and restore wetlands, and the value of cooperation among grassroots organizations, educational organizations, private landowners, and government agencies lead to the successful protection of wetland resources. National Wetlands Awardees show how individuals can and do make a difference. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

Environmental Protection Agency. Pollution Prevention Grants. These grant dollars are targeted at technical assistance programs that address the reduction or elimination of pollution by businesses across air, water and land environments. Deadline: Varies across EPA regions.

Heller Charitable Foundation. Management of Resources Grants. The objective of this program is to protect and preserve the earth's limited resources by assisting programs that demonstrate how natural resources can be managed on a sustainable and an ecologically sound basis, consistent with amenable standards of living. Grants range from $5,000 to $600,000. Deadline: Continuous.

International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA). Research and Conservation Grants. The International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA) Research and Conservation Grants are made to help support bear conservation, education projects, and research on bears. Emphasis is given to projects that have a very good chance of significant positive effects for species, populations, and areas of the world with the highest needs. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $15,000. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM). International Visits and Exchanges Programme (Water Resources Management). The International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM) International Visits and Exchanges Programme provides an opportunity to industry, vocational education and training, and the tertiary education sector and research communities for increased engagement at an international level in the area of water resources management education. Participants on short to medium term visits and exchanges will be able to share skills, knowledge, and experiences that will benefit the individual, their home and host organisations, and ICE WaRM to enhance the field of water resources management. Deadline: January 26, 2007.

International Osprey Foundation (TIOF). Research Grant. The International Osprey Foundation (TIOF) awards a research grant as an assistance to persons involved in studies relating to ospreys, other raptors, or research in areas of environmental concern, as they relate to the survival of the birds and wildlife in general. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: January 31, 2007.

Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Governor's Iowa Environmental Excellence Awards. The following six award areas have been established: 1. Environmental Excellence Award2. Special Recognition Award in Water Quality3. Special Recognition Award in Waste Management4. Special Recognition Award in Energy Efficiency/Renewable Energy Development 5. Special Recognition Award in Air Quality 6. Special Recognition Award in Habitat Restoration/Enhancement Additionally, a special award has been established for individuals who have provided exemplary leadership in natural resource conservation. An organization can choose to apply for any or all of the award categories. Each application area will be judged on its own merits and will not be influenced by the number of awards for which an organization applies. Awards may not be presented in every category. Deadline: November 13, 2006.

Laird Norton Endowment Foundation. Grants. Laird Norton Foundation is interested in projects that genuinely seek to contribute to a heightened awareness of the ecological, social, and economic significance of watersheds. Deadline: September 08, 2006; February 02, 2007. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information.

National Association of Animal Breeders (NAAB). Research Award. The National Association of Animal Breeders (NAAB) is accepting nominations for the NAAB Research Award. The award will be presented to an individual who has made significant contributions to the science of artificial insemination, physiology, or animal breeding in the United States. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: December 15, 2007.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). Coral Reef Conservation. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is accepting proposals for projects that build public-private partnerships to reduce and prevent degradation of coral reefs and associated reef habitats (e.g., seagrass beds, mangroves, etc.). Projects may address causes of coral reef degradation wherever they occur, from coastal watersheds to the reefs and surrounding marine environment. Proposals should support partnerships that provide solutions to specific problems to help prevent coral reef degradation through one or more of the following activities: 1. Increase the effective management of coral reef and marine protected areas 2. Reducing impacts from pollution and sedimentation 3. Reducing impacts from over-exploitation of coral reef resources 4. Reducing impacts of tourism and boating 5. Promote recovery of reefs and associated habitats 6. Increasing community awareness through education and stewardship activities Deadline: January 31, 2007.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). WRIA 1 Community Salmon Fund. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) have established the WRIA 1 Community Salmon Fund to stimulate small-scale, voluntary action by landowners, community groups, and businesses to support salmon recovery on private property in WRIA 1. Grants will be jointly selected by NFWF and the Nooksack Lead Entity and administered by NFWF. The Fund will also support projects on public property that serve as a pilot for similar projects on private property. Proposals must specifically state how projects on public property will be used to encourage additional restoration work on private property. The goals of the WRIA 1 Community Salmon Fund are to fund habitat protection and restoration projects that have a substantial benefit to local salmonid populations and are consistent with the local salmon recovery strategy or salmon recovery plan (where applicable); and engage landowners, business owners, and community groups to carry out these projects and care for them in the long run; stimulate creativity and leadership to address restoration needs among various constituencies, including farmers, rural forest owners, suburban homeowners, local governments, tribes, and owners of businesses and industries. Upper Amount: $50,000. Deadline: November 10, 2006.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). Conservation Partnership Program. The Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation Board (JHOFF) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) have entered into a conservation program partnership to co-fund stream improvement and native trout conservation projects. All proposed projects must advance the Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's missions of conserving, protecting, and restoring native trout fisheries and their watersheds and must meet the specific criteria outlined below.
The Stream Improvement Program of the JHOFF/NFWF Conservation Partnership focuses on providing support for "on-the-ground-type" resource projects that improve habitat for native trout species; however, applied research projects may be considered if results could be used to inform natural resources management agencies. Eligible resource projects include the restoration, protection, conservation, and management of native trout fisheries and their habitats. Eligible research projects include the study of coldwater fisheries and habitats and can involve data collection, evaluation, and analysis. Applied research that deals with the causes of fisheries problems and the development of solutions is a particularly high priority. Amount: $25,000. Upper Amount: $275,000. Deadline: August 15, 2006; March 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). Acres for America. The Acres for America program was established to provide funding for projects large, landscape-level areas that are important habitat for fish, wildlife, and plants through acquisition of interest in real property. Deadline: September 01, 2006; April 01, 2007.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). Wildlife Links. Wildlife Links provides grants for cutting-edge research, management, and education projects that improve golf courses as habitat for wildlife, while also enhancing playing conditions for golfers. Upper Amount: $60,000. Deadline: September 01, 2006; April 01, 2007.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF); Unified Request for Proposals. Bring Back the Natives (BBN). The Bring Back the Natives (BBN) initiative funds on-the-ground efforts to restore native aquatic species to their historic range. Projects should involve partnerships between communities, agencies, private landowners, and organizations that seek to rehabilitate streamside and watershed habitats. Projects should focus on habitat needs of species such as fish, invertebrates, and amphibians that originally inhabited the waterways across the country. Special emphasis is placed on cutthroat trout restoration with specific preference given to projects that will protect or re-establish migration corridors between breeding populations such as Lahontan cutthroat trout and Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Other eligible species include bull trout, redband trout, Apache trout, steelhead trout, desert pupfish, Pacific tree frog, and several species of salamanders and salmon, that are keystone or indicator species of the health of aquatic communities. Preference will also be given to support projects that will keep sensitive or declining species off of the Endangered Species List, or for listed species that have a chance for recovery and de-listing within 5 to 10 years. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance. The Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has a requirement to establish multiple Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance to conduct prospective animal influenza surveillance, internationally and domestically, and/or research on pathogenesis and host response. Upper Amount: $2,500,000. Deadline: February 28, 2006.

National Science Foundation (NSF). Environmental Sustainability. The Environmental Sustainability program supports engineering research with the goal of promoting sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that also are compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems, which provide ecological services vital for human survival. The long-term viability of natural capital is critical for many areas of human endeavor, including agriculture, industry, and tourism. Research in Environmental Sustainability considers long time horizons and incorporates contributions from the social sciences and ethics. This program supports engineering research that seeks to balance societys need to provide ecological protection and maintain stable economic conditions. Research is encouraged to advance the next generation of water and wastewater treatment that will decrease material and energy use, consider new paradigms for delivery of services, and promote longer life for engineered systems. Other activities of interest include: - advancing engineering methods to promote smart growth strategies, - integrating economic development and protection of natural resources, - regenerating ecological functions of degraded environments, - understanding how large complex environmental systems behave, and - developing effective principles for adaptive management of such systems. Deadline: March 01, 2007; September 15, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). 2010 Project - NSF 06-612. The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) announces its intention to continue support of research to determine the functions 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, as in FY 2006, the Program will focus on: (1) projects that include genome-wide analyses for benchmarking the function of all genes in the genome; (2) projects that will develop experimental and computational methods, tools, and resources for enabling a broad community of scientists to conduct functional genomics research on Arabidopsis; and (3) research on exemplary networks that use high throughput methods and integrate modeling with experimental data to understand the gene circuitry underlying basic plant processes. Upper Amount: $5,000,000. Deadline: January 29, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Geosciences (GEO); Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE); Ocean Sciences Research Section (OSRS). Physical Oceanography. The Physical Oceanography program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, solid earth, and ice that surround it. The research topics supported by the program include, but are not limited to, oceanic circulation transport of heat, momentum, and fresh-water and dissolved chemical constituents; mixing processes such as double diffusion, convection, and turbulence; ocean's role in climate; barotropic and baroclinic tides; surface and internal waves; dynamics of the coastal zone, including estuarine processes; small-scale transport processes such as diffusion and conduction; and physical properties of seawater. Physical oceanography research problems are tackled by combining a variety of approaches including field experiments, analysis of field and historical data, numerical modeling, laboratory studies, and analytic and theoretical modeling. Regions of interest range from the deep ocean, to the continental slope, the continental shelf, the surf zone, estuaries, and the Great Lakes. Boundary processes such as air-sea interaction, benthic circulation processes, and the influence of topography are also considered.

Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF). Grants. The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) funds research on organic farming and food systems and the dissemination of these research results to the greater agricultural community. Proposals must involve farmers or ranchers in project design and implementation and take place on working organic farms or ranches whenever possible. Additionally, proposals should articulate how the proposed research project will foster the improvement or adoption of organic farming systems. Upper Amount: $15,000. Deadline: December 15, 2006; July 16, 2007.

People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES). Scientific Research and Conservation Project Funding. The People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) make funds available for wildlife researchers and conservationists to carry out crucial work on endangered species throughout the world. Projects may either focus on research into the status of a particular species or involve practical conservation work within the field. Deadline: Continuous.

Raptor Research Foundation. Various Awards. Awards span various categories: awards for recognition of significant contributions, awards for student recognition and travel assistance, grants, and other awards. Deadline: varies by award.

Rufford Maurice Laing Foundation. Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation (RSGs). The Whitley Laing Foundation offers a wide range of awards for conservation and sustainable development projects worldwide (outside the first world). All supported projects have the common aim of promoting the benefits of wildlife and habitat conservation to the local communities in which the applicants work. The foundation also seeks to raise awareness of the serious problems facing ecosystems everywhere and hence life itself on our planet. The Rufford Foundation small grants scheme offers grants aimed at smaller conservation projects. The grants are not designed to provide a small part of the funding for a large undertaking. The project requiring funding must be directly linked to field work and Rufford Small Grants may not be used to pay the costs of attending conferences or for tuition fees. Undergraduate projects are not eligible.

Save-the-Redwoods League. Research Grants. The Save-the-Redwoods League was established in 1918 to protect coast redwood and giant sequoia trees from destruction. Since establishment the League has helped preserve over 6 of every 10 acres of redwood in protected ownership. The League has worked consistently to foster a greater understanding of the redwood forests by supporting and promoting scientific research and through dissemination of information to the public. The objectives of the league are - to rescue from destruction representative areas of the primeval forests; - to cooperate with the California State Park Commission, the National Park Service, and other agencies, in establishing redwood parks and other parks and reservations; - to purchase redwood groves by private subscription; - to foster and encourage a better and more general understanding of the value of primeval Redwood or Sequoia and other forests of America as natural objects of extraordinary interest to present and future generations; and - to support reforestation and conservation of forest areas. Research proposals should seek to expand understanding of the coast redwood, giant sequoia, or the ecosystems in which they are key components. Grants are awarded to study redwood biology, redwood ecosystem maintenance or restoration, or sustained public use for redwood areas. Applied research or research that informs redwood conservation, restoration, and public use is welcomed. Deadline: November 10, 2006.

Soil Science Society of America. Various Awards. The principal criteria for the Soil Science Research Awards are (1) demonstration of unusual research creativity; (2) excellence in reasoning ability or technical skill; and (3) originality and significance of research to basic soil science. Deadline: Varies across the programs.

Trout Unlimited (TU). Embrace-A-Stream (EAS) Program.Embrace-A-Stream (EAS) is a matching grant program administered by the National Office of Trout Unlimited (TU) that awards funds to TU chapters and councils for coldwater fisheries conservation. For the 2007 funding cycle, TU chapters and councils are asked to submit proposals for projects that best address the organizational priorities outlined in TUs National Conservation Agenda (Water Quality, Instream Flows, Pacific and Atlantic Salmon Recovery, and Conserving Wild Trout and Salmon) and 2003-2008 Strategic Plan. This new structure, introduced in 2005, allows TUs grassroots to use their judgment and creativity to design projects that best advance TUs mission of conserving, protecting, and restoring coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: November 20, 2006.

United State Department of Agriculture. Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization Program The Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization (IAER) project focuses on strengthening Iraqi agriculture by revitalizing the country's extension and educational training capacity. By re-building the skills of Iraqi extension experts so that they may better serve the needs of farmers, processors and marketers, the project will foster a healthy agricultural sector that contributes to national stability. The project will be implemented by providing Iraqi nationals from universities and the Ministry of Agriculture with extension management, production, and marketing training. These training programs will be held in the United States and third countries, and will be implemented through partnerships between a consortium of U.S. land-grant institutions and Iraqi agricultural universities. The project is jointly offered by USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and the Foreign Agricultural Service with funding from the U.S. Department of State. Upper Amount: $5,300,000.00. November 08, 2006.

United States - Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) Fund. BARD Workshops. The objective of the Binational Agricultural and Research Development (BARD) workshop is to identify research needs in areas of new development, to define directions and opportunities regarding contemporary agricultural needs, and provide information needed to address policy issues. The workshop is intended to promote increased contact between BARD scientists and other scientists throughout the world who work in academic and industrial communities in areas related to the binational agricultural interests of BARD. Deadline: February 01, 2007.

United States - Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) Fund. Senior Research Fellowships. The Binational Agricultural and Research Development (BARD) Senior Research Fellowships program objective is promotion of joint agricultural research or other scientific activities between established fellows from the United States and their Israeli counterparts. Amount: $9,000. Upper Amount: $38,000. Deadline: January 16, 2007.

United States - Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) Fund. Vaadia-BARD Postdoctoral Fellowships. The Vaadia-Binational Agricultural and Research Development (BARD) Postdoctoral Fellowship program is designed to identify and support young scientists who will eventually become leaders in agricultural sciences and technologies in universities and research institutes in the United States and Israel. The primary objective of the fellowship is to enable these young scientists to acquire new skills and techniques while becoming professionally established in the agricultural research community. The program promotes cooperative agricultural research between postdoctoral fellows from one country (the United States or Israel) and established scientists from the other. BARD gives preference to applicants with innovative research topics that are relevant to agricultural issues. Amount: $32,000. Deadline: January 16, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Technical Assistance and Training Grant. Grants are available to pay expenses associated with providing technical assistance and training (TAT) to identify and evaluate solutions to water problems relating to source, storage, treatment, and distribution, and to waste disposal problems relating to collection, treatment, and disposal; assist applicants that have filed a preapplication with the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) in the preparation of water or waste disposal loan or grant applications; and to provide training that will improve the management, operation, and maintenance of water and waste disposal facilities. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Solid Waste Management Grant Program. Grants are available to evaluate current landfill conditions to determine threats to water resources in rural areas; provide technical assistance or training to enhance operator skills in the maintenance and operation of active landfills in rural areas; provide technical assistance or training to help associations reduce the solid waste stream; provide technical assistance or training for operators of landfills in rural areas which are closed or will be closed in the near future with the development/implementation of closure plans, future land use plans, safety and maintenance planning, and closure scheduling within permit requirements. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Agricultural Research Service (ARS); Postdoctoral Research Associate Positions. Research Bioinformaticist/Computational Biologist RA-07-016H. This postdoctoral opportunity will take place at the Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit on the Iowa State University Campus in Ames, Iowa. The incumbent will work in the new Crop Genomics and Informatics Laboratory (CGIL), a collaborative effort of ARS and Iowa State University scientists. As a member of a team of biologists, bioinformaticists, and computational biologists, the incumbent will integrate meta-analysis modules into the multi-crop plant expression database, PLEXdb. The incumbent will create an informatic pipeline to (1) Establish sets of metagenes within the grass and legume families, e.g., barley-wheat-rice-maize or soybean-alfalfa as well as between-family metagene sets, such as Arabidopsis-maize and Arabidopsis-soybean; (2) Build a PLEXdb-compatible MySQL relational database to interrogate the metagene sets; and (3) Design and implement algorithms that will enable visualization and analysis of metagene data to discern biologically relevant co-expression patterns. Deadline: August 31, 2009.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Competitive Grants Program. The Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Competitive Grants Program (OASDFR) provides funds to organizations to conduct outreach and technical assistance to encourage and assist socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to own and operate farms and ranches and to participate in agricultural programs. The OASDFR will support a wide range of outreach and assistance activities in farm management, financial management, marketing, application and bidding procedures, and other areas. The primary purpose of the OASDFR is to deliver outreach and technical assistance, to assure opportunities for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers to successfully acquire, own, operate, and retain farms and ranches; and assure equitable participation in the full range of USDA programs. Amount: $100,000. Upper Amount: $300,000. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Program (CYFAR) - Sustainable Community Projects. The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) has announced the Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR) funding program to support Sustainable Community Projects. The objective of the program is to improve the quality and quantity of comprehensive community-based programs for at-risk children, youth, and families supported by the Cooperative Extension System. CYFAR funds are intended to support the development of high quality, effective programs based on research and to document the impact of these programs on intended audiences. The CYFAR Program mission is "to marshal resources of the Land-Grant and Cooperative Extension Systems to develop and deliver educational programs that equip limited resource families and youth who are at risk for not meeting basic human needs with skills needed to lead positive, productive, contributing lives." Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: December 08, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); Higher Education Program. Higher Education Challenge Grants Program. The Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program is designed to stimulate and enable colleges and universities to provide the quality of education necessary to produce baccalaureate or higher degree level graduates capable of strengthening the U.S. food and agricultural scientific and professional work force. It is intended that projects supported by the program will: (1) address a state, regional, national, or international educational need; (2) involve a creative or nontraditional approach toward addressing that need which can serve as a model to others; (3) encourage and facilitate better working relationships in the university science and education community, as well as between universities and the private sector, to enhance program quality and supplement available resources; and (4) result in benefits which will likely transcend the project duration and USDA support. Amount: $150,000. Upper Amount: $500,000. Deadline: February 01, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program. National Integrated Food Safety Initiative. The purpose of the National Integrated Food Safety Initiative is to support projects that address issues in food safety and demonstrate an integrated approach to solving problems in applied food safety research, education, and extension as described in this RFP. Various models for integration of applied research, education, and extension will be considered for funding. Proposals describing multistate, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary, and multifunctional activities (and combinations thereof) are encouraged. However, special emphasis will be given to proposals describing multifunctional activities that integrate research, education, and extension projects (i.e., those that contain research, education, and extension components). Amount: $600,000. Upper Amount: $3,000,000. Deadline: January 12, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program. Regional Integrated Pest Management Program - North Central Region. The Regional Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Competitive Grants Program supports research and extension projects that develop individual pest control tactics, integrate individual tactics into an IPM system, and develop and implement extension education programs. In the North Central region, priority will be given to proposals that address one or more of the following topic areas: 1) improve cost benefit analyses when adopting IPM practices; 2) reduce potential human health risks from pests and related management strategies; and 3) minimize adverse environmental effects from pests and related management strategies. Deadline: October 31, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program. Integrated Organic Program (Organic Transitions and Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative). The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) is requesting applications for the Integrated Organic Program for fiscal year (FY) 2007 to solve critical organic agriculture issues, priorities, or problems through the integration of research, education, and extension activities in two program areas: (1) Organic Transitions Program (ORG); and (2) Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI). ORG funds the development and implementation of research, extension and higher education programs to improve the competitiveness of organic producers. OREI funds research and extension programs that enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market high quality organic food, feed, and fiber. Deadline: December 18, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster. Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (A): Organismal and Population Biology.Several emerging issues are challenging our ability to provide high quality food and fiber to the Nation's global economy. This unprecedented level of population growth will necessitate increased production and protection of agricultural commodities. Our ability to respond to and recover from pests and diseases that threaten our food supply has recently assumed paramount importance. Fundamental knowledge is needed to form the basis of novel management strategies for pests, which will lead to better utilization of beneficial species. Upper Amount: $400,000. Deadline: January 17, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster. Animal Protection and Biosecurity (C): Animal Biosecurity Coordinated Agricultural Projects (CAP).Strengthening the Nation's capacity to protect animal agriculture from disease losses and threats arising from high impact endemic diseases, new or re-emerging challenges, or foreign diseases accidentally or intentionally introduced, is a major challenge facing the U.S. The Animal Biosecurity Program was initiated in FY 2003 and serves as a catalyst to bring the larger animal health community together for specific diseases or issues. Upper Amount: $5,000,000. Deadline: August 14, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster. Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (B) and (C): Suborganismal Biology and Tools, Resources, and Genomics. The Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management Program supports fundamental research at the suborganismal and molecular levels to address the problem of controlling invasive and re-emerging pests and the Nation's over-dependence on environmentally persistent pesticides. Advances in the molecular genetics, physiology biochemistry and genomics of arthropods and nematodes are poised to provide novel solutions to these problems which threaten the Nation's food supply and natural resources. The program has two elements: Suborganismal Biology, and Tools, Resources, and Genomics. Upper Amount: $750,000. Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster. Animal Protection and Biosecurity. The Microbial Genomics program is part of the larger effort at CSREES to use the understanding of the biological role of gene sequences and gene expression to address the CSREES strategic goals to enhance economic opportunities for agricultural producers and to enhance the protection and safety of the Nations agriculture and food supply. Investment in microbial genomics has and will continue to enable improvements in the quality of agricultural commodities and products and the realization of more efficient and sustainable production practices. Public investment in genome sequencing of agriculturally relevant microbial species will result in improved traits of commodities and more efficient breeding programs; discovery and utilization of microbes to enhance innate properties of agriculturally important organisms; improved animal and plant production and protection; and facilitate better stewardship of land, air and water resources. The Microbial Genomics Program consists for two program elements: 51.0 Microbial Genomics (A): Genome Sequencing and 51.0 Microbial Genomics (B): Functional Genomics of Microbes. Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster. Animal Protection and Biosecurity. This program develops and delivers science-based information and technologies to reduce the number and severity of agricultural disease outbreaks. In addition to program-identified disease priorities, this focus also includes animal well being. Additionally, studies of zoonotic diseases (such as Avian Influenza) may benefit public health. The Animal Protection program has two program elements: Animal Disease (44.0A) and Animal Well-being (44.0B). Deadline: November 29, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster. Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management. The intentional or accidental introduction of arthropod or nematode pests into the U.S. is a major threat to the security of agricultural systems, our food supply, and communities. To combat these threats, conventional agricultural chemicals are still the primary means to control arthropod and nematode pests, despite concerns about adverse effects on public health, non-target organisms, and natural resources. Environmentally safer alternatives have been developed in some systems, such as the use of biological control organisms (parasites, predators, and microbes), semiochemicals, resistant plant varieties, and genetically modified crops that resist attack by pests, but fundamental knowledge of arthropod and nematode biology, which could lead to better usage of these alternatives or novel approaches to control, is still lacking in many areas. The Arthropod and Nematode Biology Management Program Area consists of three program elements: Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (A): Organismal and Population Biology; Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (B): Suborganismal Biology, and Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (C): Tools, Resources, and Genomics. Upper Amount: $400,000.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster. Biology of Plant-Microbe Associations. This program will support fundamental and mission-linked research in the following three priority areas: 1) Elucidation of molecular mechanisms of disease and resistance interactions between microbial plant pathogens and their host plants; 2) Molecular mechanisms of communication between plant-associated microorganisms (e.g. plant pathogens, microbial biological control agents, nitrogen-fixing bacterial endosymbionts) or between microorganisms and plants; and 3) Mechanisms by which plant pathogens emerge and spread over short (e.g. within a plant host) and long (geographic) distances, including the influence of environmental factors on pathogen spread. Upper Amount: $400,000. Deadline: December 14, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Biosecurity Program Cluster. Plant Biosecurity. This program supports integrated projects aimed at ensuring a continued supply of safe, high-quality, affordable food and fiber for consumers in the U.S. and international trade partners. The goal of the program is to harness our Nations scientific and technological resources to help agricultural producers and professionals implement strategies to safeguard agriculture in the U.S. from high-consequence plant diseases. To accomplish this, the program will focus on integrated research, education and extension projects that counter threats to the agriculture system in the U.S., both by stepwise improvements to current responses and by development of innovative new capabilities. Upper Amount: $1,000,000. Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Genomics Program Cluster. Microbial Genomics (B): Functional Genomics of Microorganisms.Functional Genomics of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms research activities should characterize, on a large scale, the function of genes or networks of genes in microbes having a completely, or almost completely, sequenced genome. The genomes of study must be of importance to U.S. agriculture. Upper Amount: $1,000,000. Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Genomics Program Cluster. Animal Genome. The Animal Genome program provides science-based knowledge and technologies to generate new or improved high-quality products/processes and to promote the efficiency of agricultural production systems. This information will also enhance protection and safety of the nation's agriculture and food supply through development and delivery of information/technologies to genetically improve animals of agricultural importance. The result will be a reduction in the number and severity of animal disease outbreaks and a decreased dependence on the widespread use of antibiotics. This information will also contribute to protection and enhancement of the nation's natural resource base and environment by increasing productivity while minimizing environmental consequences. The Animal Genome program has four program elements: Applied Animal Genomics (43.0A), Tools and Resources (43.0B), Bioinformatics (43.0C), and Functional Genomics (43.0B). Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Genomics Program Cluster. Plant Genome. This program supports research ranging from technology development to fundamental science and practical application for crop or forestry improvement in the U.S. Its priorities focus on technological advances and discoveries in areas such as a) analytical methods for mapping genes for complex traits for direct use by plant breeders, b) novel methods for analysis of the genome and its effect on biological function, c) cost-effective sequencing strategies to understand complex genome structure and organization, d) procedures to analyze the total expression patterns of genes under specific conditions, and e) appropriate data handling and analysis capabilities. The ultimate goal of the program is to contribute knowledge about the biology of agriculturally important plant processes and traits, which can be used to develop crops with enhanced economic value and expanded utilities. In FY 2007, the program will have four program elements: Tools, Genetic Resources and Bioinformatics in Fabaceae (52.1A); Functional Genomics in Fabaceae (52.1B); Genome Structure and Organization in Wheat (52.1C); and Integrated Applied Plant Genomics Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP) (52.1D). Deadline: December 06, 2006; February 14, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster. Animal Growth and Nutrient Utilization.Suboptimal nutrition and growth are limiting factors in animal productivity. Basic information regarding these processes in agriculturally important animals, including aquaculture species, is lacking. The primary objective of the program is to increase the understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying normal animal growth, development of skeletal muscle, lactation, and nutrient digestion and metabolism. New knowledge in these areas is needed to improve animal production and control muscling, growth, metabolism and mammary function. Upper Amount: $450,000. Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster. Animal Reproduction. The objective of this program is to increase the knowledge base for reproductive biology of agriculturally important animals with the goal of reducing infertility and improving overall reproductive management in animal production systems. New knowledge is needed to improve fertility and facilitate implementation of integrated animal production systems that will contribute to sustainability of the animal production unit. Upper Amount: $450,000. Deadline: November 29, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster. Biobased Products and Bioenergy Production Research.Program activities will expand science-based knowledge and technologies to support the efficient, economical and environmentally friendly conversion of biomass, more specifically agricultural residuals into value-added industrial products and biofuels. Upper Amount: $500,000. Deadline: November 08, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster. Improving Food Quality and Value.Improving food quality and value is essential in meeting the needs of the consumer and enhancing competitiveness in global markets and is driven by the application of physical, chemical and biological principles. Upper Amount: $500,000. Deadline: November 08, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster. Agricultural Markets and Trade.Success of the U.S. economy in general, and the agricultural and rural economies in particular, is increasingly dependent on maintaining and expanding domestic and international markets It is also dependent on the development of new products, production practices, and business and marketing tools and information that enhance efficiency and correspondingly, the competitiveness of the producer. The Agricultural Markets and Trade program is designed to maintain and expand domestic and international markets and to identify public policies and private strategies that may be employed to enhance marketing efficiency and the competitiveness of agricultural producers. This program accepts a wide range of applications, please carefully review the budget guidelines to ensure application acceptance. Upper Amount: $500,000. Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster. Plant Biology (C): Biochemistry.For plant genomics to lead to development of agricultural plants with improved or optimized performance, the biochemical processes and pathways in the cell and the genes and proteins involved in biochemical processes and pathways must be characterized. The goal of this program is to provide basic knowledge about biochemical processes, pathways, and interactions in agriculturally and economically important plants and related organisms. Upper Amount: $400,000. Deadline: December 06, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster. Plant Biology (D): Growth and Development. The goal of this program is to provide fundamental knowledge on plant growth and development over various phases of the plant life cycle to improve crop plants through modification of plant growth patterns or developmental processes. This will provide more profit and less risk for U.S. farmers in the ever more competitive global market. To meet these identified needs of agriculture, the long-term (10-year) goals for this program are: develop crop models for studying plant developmental processes (one or two cereal crops, one or two dicot crops, one hardwood tree, and one conifer); detailed understanding of signal transduction mechanisms (hormones, light, gravity, etc.) in agricultural plants to improve their performance; and enhance our ability to alter developmental processes of agricultural plants to improve plant characteristics. Researchers are encouraged to study these processes directly in a crop or forest species important to agriculture. Use of model systems is appropriate if tools are not yet available in the crop species of interest; however, the investigator must address agricultural application of such studies. Upper Amount: $400,000. Deadline: December 06, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Production and Value-Added Processing Program Cluster. Plant Biology (B): Environmental Stress. The future of agricultural productivity and sustainability depends on the ability of crop plants to grow and be productive in response to a changing environment. To lessen impacts on yield, agriculturally-important plants and trees will need to adapt to environmental perturbations which can range from short term challenges, such as flooding, to long term challenges, such as global climate change, sustained drought, and loss of arable land. This program supports fundamental plant research to optimize biological yield and quality while improving tolerance to environmental stress in agriculturally important plants. This program also supports integrated activities to advance training in plant breeding and germplasm enhancement. Upper Amount: $600,000. Deadline: December 06, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) Program. New Investigator Awards. Investigators or co-investigators who are beginning their research careers, do not have an extensive research publication record, and have less than five years postgraduate, career-track research experience may submit proposals as new investigators. The research proposed shall be appropriate to one of the following program areas: natural resources and the environment; nutrition, food safety, and health; animals; pest biology and management; plants; markets, trade, and rural development; enhancing value and the use of agricultural and forest products; and agricultural systems research.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agricultural Research Enhancement Awards (AREA) Program. Postdoctoral Fellowships. The research proposed must be solicited in and directly submitted to one of the following program areas: natural resources and the environment; nutrition, food safety, and health; animals; biology and management of pests and beneficial organisms; plants; markets, trade, and rural development; enhancing value and use of agricultural and forest products; and agricultural systems research. Although a proposed project may fit in the context of the mentor's existing research area, projects are specifically solicited which initiate the postdoctoral student's independent research program rather than serve as extensions of on-going projects in the mentor's laboratory. Upper Amount: $125,000.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agroecosystems Program Cluster. Air Quality.Agriculture, forest, and range production practices have increasingly become subject to state and federal regulations that are meant to protect air resources. In many instances, data do not exist or are not representative of agricultural industries for the purpose of estimating emissions to the atmosphere of regulated pollutants or of public nuisances such as odors and fugitive dust. The long-term (10-year) goals of this program are: a) develop emission data for agriculture, forest, and range production practices that will lead to emission reduction targets, based on sound science, that will significantly improve air quality and protect human and environmental health; b) develop mitigation strategies that will increase adoption of best management practices to reduce agricultural emissions; c) and improve understanding of odor, gases, and particulate matter (PM) measurement, production, flux, fate and transport that will lead to a better understanding of the environmental fate of agricultural atmospheric emissions. Upper Amount: $500,000. Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agroecosystems Program Cluster. Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems. The long-term (10-year) goal of the program is to support inter-disciplinary experimental, observational, theoretical, and modeling studies of invasive species that lead to ecological and economic models in cost/benefit analyses of different management, control and elimination strategies. Upper Amount: $500,000. Deadline: December 06, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agroecosystems Program Cluster. Water and Watersheds. The goals of the Water and Watersheds program are to protect and enhance the natural resource base and environment by improving and maintaining healthy watershed habitat and water supply protection; enhance economic opportunities by reducing economic liability from water contamination; improve the quality of life in rural America through adequate clean water supplies; and protect food safety through clean irrigation and livestock drinking water supplies. The long-term (10-year) goals for this program are: reduce pathogens such as bacteria, viruses and protozoa in waters derived from agricultural and rural watersheds; and maintain adequate water supplies for agricultural crop and livestock production and rural use. Upper Amount: $400,000. Deadline: January 17, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agroecosystems Program Cluster. Agricultural Prosperity for Small and Medium-Sized Farms. The purpose of this program is to foster interdisciplinary studies to improve our understanding of the interactions between the economic and environmental components important to the long-term viability, competitiveness and efficiency of small and medium-sized farms (including social, biological and other components, if necessary). While small and medium-sized farms account for less than 25 percent of the value of all agricultural products sold in the United States, the long-term viability of these farms is critical to the prosperity of rural people and places as these farms account for approximately 92 percent of all farms in the United States Upper Amount: $500,000. Deadline: February 14, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Agroecosystems Program Cluster. Soil Processes.Soil is a vital natural resource that not only sustains plant and animal productivity, but also has profound effects on the health and quality of the environment. As such, agricultually-related sustainability hinges on the interactions among the biological, chemical and physical properties and processes in this below-ground ecosystem. More science-based knowledge is needed to fill gaps regarding the combined interactions of the properties and processes affecting soil quality as it relates to agricultural sustainability. Upper Amount: $400,000. Deadline: December 06, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Nutrition, Obesity, Food Safety and Quality Program Cluster. Food Safety. This program supports hypothesis driven research that seeks to increase our knowledge of microbial ecology with regard to the routes of contamination of food; this includes on-farm investigations, post-harvest incidence, processing and distribution of food. One of the main objectives of this program is to fund research efforts which result in a demonstrable reduction in food-borne illness. Upper Amount: $400,000. Deadline: December 14, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Nutrition, Obesity, Food Safety and Quality Program Cluster. Epidemiological Approaches for Food Safety.Research that develops an understanding of the multiple factors involved in food safety and provides the science-based data for policy decisions requires epidemiological studies. Epidemiological studies of pre and post-harvest areas are vital to identify and characterize pathogenic organisms, including their sources and reservoirs; and to understand the transmission of the pathogen along the entire continuum. Upper Amount: $1,000,000. Deadline: December 14, 2006.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Nutrition, Obesity, Food Safety and Quality Program Cluster. Human Nutrition and Obesity. This crosscutting program addresses the complex problem of obesity prevention. Projects funded by this program are intended to lead to a better understanding of the behavioral and environmental factors that influence obesity and to the development and evaluation of effective interventions to prevent obesity. Obesity is the number one nutritional problem in the U.S. Food is an integral part of the process that leads to obesity, and USDA has a unique responsibility for the food system in the U.S. To meet the identified needs of agriculture, the long-term (10 year) goals for this program are: the behavioral and environmental factors that influence obesity will be sufficiently well understood to develop effective obesity prevention strategies; valid behavioral and environmental instruments for measuring progress in obesity prevention will be available; and effective strategies for preventing overweight and obesity will be available. The ultimate goal of the program is to stem the rising tide of obesity. Upper Amount: $1,500,000. Deadline: June 05, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRICGP); Nutrition, Obesity, Food Safety and Quality Program Cluster. Bioactive Food Components for Optimal Health. The consumption of a nutritious diet is important for maintaining long-term health and decreasing the risk for chronic disease. The primary objective of this program is to support research to improve the understanding of the role of foods and their biologically active components (e.g., phytochemicals) in promoting health. This program invites both fundamental and mission-linked applications for innovative research in the following priority areas: - mechanistic studies of the bioavailability, function, efficacy and safety of physiologically active dietary components and neglected nutrients; - interrelationships among dietary components in promoting health; and - mechanisms underlying the relationship between diet and optimal health, e.g., the influence of bioactive food components on the immune, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and central nervous systems. Multi-disciplinary approaches are encouraged. Upper Amount: $750,000. Deadline: January 17, 2007.

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES); Special Research Grants Program. Potato Research. The purpose of this grant program is to support potato research that focuses on varietal development/testing. As used herein, varietal development/testing is research using traditional and biotechnological genetics to develop improved potato varieties. Aspects of evaluation, screening, and testing must support or complement the development of improved varieties. Amount: $130,000. Upper Amount: $600,000. Deadline: December 20, 2006.

United States Department of Commerce (DOC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Weather Service (NWS). Automated Flood Warning Systems (AFWS) Program. The National Weather Service (NWS) is soliciting applications for projects to provide for the creation, renovation, or enhancement of rain and stream gage networks that are locally operated and maintained with non-NOAA resources. The NWS seeks to form a partnership with entities that can demonstrate a long-term ability to operate and maintain an Automated Flood Warning System AFWS and provide the data to the NWS. Amount: $70,000. Upper Amount: $199,000. Deadline: October 31, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

United States Department of Commerce (DOC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). National Sea Grant College Program - Aquatic Invasive Species Research and Outreach. The National Sea Grant College Program seeks to fund research and outreach projects addressing the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species. The goal of the program is to discover and develop information and tools that can lead to the prevention, monitoring, and control of aquatic invasive species threatening United States coastal, oceanic, and Great Lakes communities, resources and ecosystems. The program seeks especially to support NOAA-relevant regional research and outreach priorities identified by the Regional Panels of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force.
Appropriate areas of research may include: biology and life history research, population dynamics, genetics, physiology, behavior, and parasites and diseases of invasive species, ecological and environmental tolerances of invasive species, impacts of invasive species at each stage of their life history on the environment, resources, and human health, research into invasive species control measures (engineering, physical, chemical, biological, physicochemical, administrative, and educational), and economic impact analysis of invasive species on marine and coastal resources, sport, commercial and tribal fisheries, the recreation and tourism industry, the shipping and navigation industry, and municipal and industrial water users. Amount: $200,000. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006; May 15, 2007; November 01, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Environmental Restoration. Improved Methods and Practices for Long-Term Monitoring of Contaminated Groundwater. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to seek applied research leading to reductions in the costs of long-term monitoring (LTM) at sites with contaminated groundwater. The research should include one or more of the following: - More cost-effective methods for efficient analysis of key contaminants of concern. - Improved and more cost-effective tools (e.g., passive sensor systems) for data collection. - Improved practices or guidance leading to more cost-efficient monitoring programs. Research must be applied and must be able to demonstrate methods or tools that are cost effective through robustness and ease-of-use. Proposals which do not include an assessment of cost-effectiveness will not be considered. Contaminants of concern include chlorinated hydrocarbons (tetrachloroethene [PCE], trichloroethene (TCE), and daughter products), perchlorate, energetics (RDX, HMX, and TNT), and heavy metals. Other hydrogeochemical factors also may be considered, such as those needed for monitored natural attenuation assessments. The research must be focused on reducing the overall costs for LTM of contaminated sites. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Environmental Restoration. Improved Understanding and Prediction of Plume Response to DNAPL Source Zone Architecture and Depletion. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. This Statement of Need (SON) has two primary objectives: (1) to integrate and assess the current understanding of DNAPL source zones with field-observed phenomenon, and (2) to develop techniques by which cost-effective measurements may be made of key parameters defining the DNAPL source zone that will enable the prediction of the source zones impact on the resulting plume. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Environmental Restoration. Improved Understanding of the Biological Degradation of Nitroamines in the Environment. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to solicit fundamental and applied research proposals to increase our understanding of the biological degradation of nitroamines in the subsurface at contaminated sites. Results from this research will improve our ability to predict and enhance the in situ biodegradation of nitroamine compounds in soil and groundwater, as well as to monitor the progress of natural and enhanced bioremediation of these compounds. The research should focus on one or more of the following research objectives: 1. Elucidation of organisms and pathways responsible for nitroamine biodegradation in natural and engineered systems in the field. 2. Development of methods and appropriate molecular biomarkers capable of identifying organisms and genes responsible for nitroamine biodegradation in situ. 3. Development of methods to demonstrate, and quantify, the microbial capacity to degrade nitroamine in groundwater and soils in situ. 4. Development of tools useful for monitoring the progress of nitroamine biodegradation. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Munitions Management. Advanced Discrimination of Military Munitions Exploiting Data from the ESTCP Discrimination Pilot Study. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop novel signal processing techniques applicable to the diverse detection and discrimination problems encountered on Department of Defense (DoD) munitions-contaminated sites. Capabilities are needed in the interpretation of magnetic and electromagnetic data for a wide variety of site conditions, particularly those with difficult geology, terrain and vegetation, and complex ordnance and clutter distributions. Munitions ranging from 20-mm projectiles to 2000-lb bombs must be detected and discriminated from other non-hazardous items in the subsurface, although proposals need not address the entire range of potential ordnance with a single technology solution. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Munitions Management. Advanced Technologies for Detection, Discrimination and Remediation of Military Munitions. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop sensors, signal processing, platforms, systems, supporting technologies, phenomenology studies or remediation technologies to address the diverse challenges associated with the cleanup of Department of Defense (DoD) munitions-contaminated sites (sites contaminated with unexploded ordnance [UXO] and related items). Capabilities are needed for a wide variety of site conditions, particularly those with difficult geology, terrain and vegetation, and complex ordnance and clutter distributions. Many sites or sections of sites have sparsely distributed subsurface ordnance and clutter items that can clearly be separated, while other areas have almost continuously overlapping suspected items, which need to be assessed and removed. Ordnance ranging from 20-mm projectiles to 2000-lb bombs must be detected and discriminated from other non-hazardous items in the subsurface, although proposals need not address the entire range of potential ordnance. Improved detection and discrimination of small munitions is particularly of interest. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Munitions Management. Improved Technologies for Wide Area Assessment of Potential Munitions Response Sites. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop a next generation of wide area assessment (WAA) technologies to evaluate Department of Defense (DoD) sites potentially contaminated with military munitions. Areas of interest include sensor hardware and phenomenology, signal processing, advanced platforms, and systems design and integration that will lead to advances in support of WAA. All aspects of WAA will be considered, but primary interest is in: - Technologies that can rapidly scan wide areas at near 100% coverage to detect surface and subsurface munitions or features indicative of the presence of munitions. - Technologies for detection of subsurface metal in challenging terrain, vegetation, and geology. - Systems able to detect smaller individual ordnance items reliably. - Systems that can increase stand off distance or production rates. - Alternative sensor technologies or innovative deployment strategies for existing technologies that will increase confidence in determinations of where munitions are not present. - Analysis and interpretation tools to support implementation of WAA. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Munitions Management. Improvements in the Detection and Disposal of Underwater Military Munitions. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to significantly improve the ability of the Department of Defense (DoD) to characterize and remediate military munitions found on underwater sites. Proposals addressing all aspects of munitions response for underwater sites will be considered, with particular interest in the following topics: Wide Area Assessment: Technologies are needed to locate concentrations of munitions in the underwater environment and characterize their nature and extent. There is a particular need for systems that can operate in deep water (>100 feet water depth) and cover large areas with high production rates. The detection objects proud of the sea bottom (non-buried objects) would provide a needed capability for circumscribing contaminated areas. The added ability to locate objects buried in the sediment is also of interest. Cost-Effective Rrecovery and Disposal: Technologies are needed to cost-effectively recover munitions in the underwater environment. Current practices employing divers for manual retrieval of targets are dangerous and prohibitively expensive. Proposals should focus on recovery in the shallow water environment, where munitions are likely to be encountered by the public, and should address explosive safety issues. Cost-effective, safe, and environmentally preferable techniques are also needed for underwater items that cannot be moved due to explosive safety concerns. Blow-in-place operations underwater can significantly impact marine life. Underwater Geolocation: Two modes of accuracy are of interest for applications in coarse assessment and detailed surveys. Coarse accuracy (on the order of meters) is needed to support wide area assessment in water depths to hundreds of feet. Accuracy for this mode must be sufficient to guide the survey platform and to support analyses delineating and characterizing target areas. Finer absolute accuracy (centimeters to 10s of centimeters) is required for survey platforms, where data must support the analysis, reacquisition and recovery of individual targets. The depth range of interest for this mode is from about 20 feet, where errors in extrapolation from surface measurements become prohibitive, to approximately 100 feet. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Sustainable Infrastructure. Characterization of Air Emissions from Prescribed Burning. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to evaluate the air quality aspects of prescribed burning in the different ecological systems managed by the Department of Defense (DoD). The focus shall be on: (1) improving characterization of fuel types, fuel loadings, and consumption estimates across a variety of fire-adapted ecological systems; (2) improving characterization of the air emissions of each of these fuel types under both flaming and smoldering conditions with respect to particulate matter (PM2.5) (both primary and secondary sources), volatile organic compounds, heavy metals, and reactive gases; (3) modeling the contributions of burning to regional air quality relative to other sources, and (4) comparing prescribed burning's effects relative to wildfires in terms of fuel characteristics, fuel loadings, fire intensities, consumption estimates, and timing of burning and the resultant impacts to local and regional air quality. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Sustainable Infrastructure. Impacts of Military Activities and Invasive Species on Pacific Island Freshwater and Near-Shore Marine Ecosystems. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop the science underlying our understanding of the ecology of Pacific Island freshwater stream ecosystems, their response to various natural, military, and other anthropogenic stressors, and their interaction with near-shore marine ecosystems to: (1) improve their capacity to sustain the direct and indirect impacts of military training; (2) maintain habitat for listed and at-risk terrestrial and aquatic species within the watershed; (3) reduce their impacts to the near-shore marine environment; and (4) enable restoration of degraded stream segments. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Sustainable Infrastructure. Innovative Technologies for Electricity Production from Waste Heat for Deployed Forces. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop innovative technologies that will produce electricity from waste heat generated at deployed forces locations. The desired endpoint is to be able to extract the maximum amount of energy from every heat source that is normally present in deployed forces locations. Deployed forces locations often employ equipment such as mobile kitchens, diesel engines/generators, and incinerators that produce heat as a byproduct of their operation. These heat sources are often at temperatures that are lower than those used to generate electricity in the conventional manner (e.g., steam turbines). Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Sustainable Infrastructure. Managing and Restoring the Dry Forest Ecological System in the Pacific Islands. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop the science underlying our understanding of the ecology of tropical dry forests and thereby improve management of these natural resources to: (1) increase their capacity to sustain military training; (2) maintain habitat for listed and at-risk species; and (3) enable restoration of degraded forests. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Sustainable Infrastructure. Scalable Power Grids that Facilitate the Use of Renewable Energy Technologies. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to provide Department of Defense (DoD) installations, facilities, and contingency operations (i.e., deployed forces) with the capability to network distributed energy resources (DERs), including renewables, in a "plug-and-play" scalable configuration or topology. The resulting "intelligent" power grid would minimize reliance on external energy resources and thereby reduce fossil fuel consumption. This capability would also facilitate the implementation of renewable energy projects and enhance energy security and reliability. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Weapons Systems and Platforms. Environmentally Benign Pyrotechnics Assemblies. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop materials and techniques to eliminate the use of hazardous materials in non-energetic pyrotechnic components and to support the degradation of the hardware used in military pyrotechnics so as to eliminate munitions debris on Department of Defense (DoD) ranges and the battlefield. Potential areas that may be addressed include new materials for cases, packaging and initiation mechanisms as well as additives (chemical or biological) that degrade fragments or residual hardware after the pyrotechnic has functioned. Proposed solutions, when implemented, must be able to meet or exceed existing performance and shelf-life requirements for the protection of the energetic materials and the functioning of the munition. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Weapons Systems and Platforms. Environmentally Benign, High-Strength Fasteners for Weapons Systems. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with environmentally benign technologies and design methods to eliminate the need for cadmium or chromate coatings on high-strength fasteners. The DoD has a long-term need for high-strength, corrosion resistant fasteners for use on both legacy weapon systems and new weapon platforms. Traditionally, high-strength steels have been used with cadmium (Cd) electroplated coatings, followed by a hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) rinse. The environmental hazards associated with both cadmium and chromate are well established, and alternatives to both processes have been pursued by the technical community. However, there is still a significant technology gap for replacing these systems on high-strength fasteners. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Weapons Systems and Platforms. Scientific Understanding of Non-Chromated Corrosion Inhibitors Function. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to gain a scientific understanding of how non-chromated corrosion inhibitors perform. Chromates are widely used as corrosion inhibitors because they exhibit outstanding performance in protecting nearly all metals, especially in galvanic couples, in a large range of environments. They are also inexpensive and relatively easy to use. The basic protection mechanisms of chromates are well known. Alternatives to chromates vary in chemistry and provide protection using different mechanisms which have not been fully characterized. This solicitation seeks to develop a quantitative, mechanistic understanding of the basic functionalities of non-chromated corrosion inhibitors, individually and in synergistic combinations. Proposals shall focus on existing non-chromate inhibitors and inhibitor packages. Proposals to develop completely new inhibitors will not be accepted. An understanding of how these materials protect against corrosion will make it much easier to optimize existing inhibitor packages and to identify novel combinations of materials for use in new inhibitor packages. Proposed solutions should yield concepts that will aid in the optimization and/or development of significantly less toxic corrosion inhibiting packages that will meet/exceed the performance of chromates in the most severely corrosive environments. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Weapons Systems and Platforms. Self-Remediating Munitions. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop approaches to reduce or mitigate the release of hazardous energetic materials into the environment when munitions do not perform as intended. Department of Defense (DoD) munitions may release energetic material to the environment during a low order detonation on impact or during range clearance operations; or, it may be released from a dud round when the case ruptures on impact or corrodes over time. Proposals may explore techniques to (1) ensure reliable munition performance (to reduce low order detonations or dud rates) or (2) encourage physical, chemical, or biological degradation of energetic materials into benign products within the munition if it fails to function or in the environment if energetic materials are released. Submunitions provide the most dramatic example of this problem and are of highest priority. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); Core Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Weapons Systems and Platforms. Understanding Volatile Particle Emissions from Military Aircraft. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to solicit proposals to increase our understanding of the formation and fate of volatile particles formed in the exhaust of military aircraft. Volatile particles are defined as those particles formed from condensable gases in the exhaust after the exhaust has cooled to temperatures below the conditions at the exit plane of the engine. In addition to non-volatile particulate emissions, or soot, aircraft emit a wide variety of condensable gases. These condensable gases remain as gases in the hot exhaust flow near the exit plane of the engine but as the flow expands and mixes with ambient air these gases condense on existing particles or form new particles. Volatile particles constitute a significant fraction of particulate matter (PM) from aircraft and can impact local air quality. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 04, 2007; March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); SEED Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Munitions Management. Advanced Technologies for Detection, Discrimination, and Remediation of Munitions and Explosives of Concern (MEC): UXO Technology (SEED). The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to develop sensors, signal processing, platforms, systems, supporting technologies, phenomenology studies, or remediation technologies to address the diverse challenges associated with the cleanup of munitions and explosives of concern (MEC)-contaminated sites and sites contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO) and related items. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: March 08, 2007.

United States Department of Defense (DOD); Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP); SEED Solicitation (Federal and Non-Federal); Sustainable Infrastructure. Innovative Approaches for Non-Destructive Sensing and Analysis of the Integrity of Historic Buildings and Structures. The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) corporate environmental R&D program, planned and executed in full partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with participation by numerous other federal and non-federal organizations. Within its broad areas of interest, the program focuses on Environmental Restoration, Munitions Management, Sustainable Infrastructure, and Weapons and Systems Platforms. The objective of this Statement of Need (SON) is to solicit proposals to develop techniques to effectively and efficiently assess the structural integrity of the fabric (e.g., concrete, brick, masonry, iron, steel, wood) of historic buildings and structures in non-invasive, non-destructive manners. These technologies should assess the structures or systems general condition, enable focused attention on particular building systems for which traditional condition assessment techniques are inappropriate due to inaccessibility or potential assessment-related damage to historic fabric, identify urgent or potentially hazardous conditions that might require immediate repair or remediation, and contribute to cost analysis on whether renovation versus demolition is economically viable. Optimally, these technologies will produce or facilitate analysis and predictive modeling of corrosion, decay, oxidation, and other processes of decomposition to facilitate development of appropriate and cost effective management strategies. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: March 08, 2007.

United States Department of the Interior (DOI). Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act. The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act establishes a competitive, matching grants program that supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean that promote the long-term conservation of Neotropical migratory birds and their habitats. The goals of the act include perpetuating healthy populations of these birds, providing financial resources for bird conservation initiatives, and fostering international cooperation for such initiatives. Amount: $10,000. Upper Amount: $250,000. Deadline: December 04, 2006.

United States Department of the Interior (DOI); Minerals Management Service (MMS); Technology Assessment and Research (TA&R). Broad Agency Announcement: Technology Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program, Safety and Engineering Research (OSER). The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) Minerals Management Service (MMS) is soliciting White Papers of not more than five pages in length for specific topics of interest to the MMS Technology Assessment and Research (TA&R) Operational Safety and Engineering Research (OSER) Program. The topics for this 2007 OSER solicitation include research on the following: 1. Evaluate top and bottom tendon connectors for Tension Leg Platforms to determine weak points, likely failure mechanisms, and design issues that may lead to premature failure. Provide recommendations on how to minimize potential failures through design criteria and monitor and inspect critical areas within the connectors. Provide guidelines for possible use in updating Federal regulations and industry standards. 2. Evaluate accuracy of polyester subrope damage detection performed by ROVs following hurricanes and other events (i.e., loop current) that exceed the 100 year design criteria. ROV inspections are used to detect damage to polyester mooring systems and estimate remaining fatigue life if damage exists. A quantitative evaluation is needed to determine if ROV survey results and resulting life damage estimates are accurate. Identify non-invasive inspection methods other than ROV surveys and compare ROV inspections to physical insert testing to determine the level of accuracy that can be expected. Identify the most reliable insert tests to verify that the mooring system is fit for purpose. Emphasis should be placed on fatigue life predictions. 3. Develop pre-hurricane riser inspection and monitoring program to determine in-situ condition of riser with particular attention to corrosion, preventative maintenance, and repair practices. Develop recommendations for a long term maintenance program to minimize or eliminate conditions that may lead to riser/pipeline damage during hurricanes and major storms events. 4. Evaluate superstructure icing of both drilling and production vessels and platforms as it relates to conducting activities in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. Deadline: November 10, 2006.

United States Department of the Interior (DOI); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) Small Grants. Principal conservation actions supported by NAWCA are acquisition, creation, enhancement and restoration of wetlands and wetland-associated uplands. The Small Grants program is intended to promote long-term wetlands conservation activities through encouraging participation by new grantees and partners. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

United States Department of the Interior (DOI); U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants Program. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the National Institutes for Water Resources, requests proposals for matching grants to support research on the topics of water supply and water availability, which are issues of importance nationwide. Proposals are requested on the topics of water supply and availability, including investigations of possible new sources of supply, improvement of impaired waters to usable quality, conservation of existing sources, and limiting growth in demand. Proposals are sought in not only the physical dimensions of supply and demand, but also quality trends in raw water supplies; the role of economics and institutions in water supply and demand; institutional arrangements for tracking and reporting water supply and availability; and institutional arrangements for coping with extreme hydrologic conditions. Upper Amount: $250,000. Deadline: February 16, 2007; March 02, 2007.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Environmental Education Grants Program. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting grant proposals from educational institutions, environmental and educational public agencies, and nonprofit organizations to support environmental education projects. The Environmental Education Grants Program provides financial support for projects that design, demonstrate, or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques. Proposals that increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues and provide them with the skills to make informed decisions and take responsible actions are sought. EPA encourages applicants to demonstrate or disseminate existing environmental education materials rather than designing new materials. In addition to identifying existing educational improvement goals and discussing how the project will meet these goals, proposals must address one of the following educational priorities: 1. Capacity Building - Increasing capacity to develop and deliver coordinated environmental education programs across a state or across multiple states 2. Education Reform - Utilizing environmental education as a catalyst to advance state, local, or tribal education reform goals 3. Community Issues - Designing and implementing model projects to educate the public about environmental or health issues in their communities through community-based organizations or through print, film, broadcast, or other media 4. Health - Educating teachers, students, parents, community leaders, or the public about human-health threats from environmental pollution, especially as it affects children 5. Teaching Skills - Educating teachers, faculty, or nonformal educators about environmental issues to improve their environmental education teaching skills, e.g., through workshops 6. Career Development - Educating students in formal or nonformal settings about environmental issues to encourage environmental careers Upper Amount: $150,000.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). CERCLA Superfund - Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the competition for the National Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Grants, and is now accepting proposals. The Brownfields Law requires the EPA to publish guidance to assist applicants in preparing proposals for grants to address brownfield sites. This law defines a brownfield site as "real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant," as defined in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). Deadline: December 08, 2006.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP). The 2007 Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP) Regional Grants program will provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to carry out projects that address pesticide risk reduction, integrated pest management (IPM), IPM in schools, children's health issues related to pesticides, and those research methods for documenting IPM adoption or the reduction of risks associated with changes in pesticide use. Proposed projects should have defined outcomes that can quantitatively document their environmental, human health, or community impacts. Upper Amount: $59,000. Deadline: January 12, 2007.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Research on the Use of Panel-Based Internet Surveys, Research Support for Data Gathering for Dissertations on the Pollution Control Aspects of Environmental Economics, and Research for Assessing and Characterizing Uncertainty in Economic Analysis. The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) is soliciting initial proposals for federal assistance for conducting research on one of the following three topics: 1. Panel-Based Internet Surveys. The EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) is seeking Initial Proposals for research addressing methodological issues associated with the use of panel-based internet surveys for determining willingness-to-pay for environmental improvements. This research needs to resolve some of the issues identified with the use of panel-based internet surveys in such a way so as to be convincing to the research communities involved and to other stakeholders. 2. Data Gathering for Dissertations. NCEE is seeking Initial Proposals for gathering data for use in doctoral dissertations in those areas of environmental economics involving pollution control. The data to be gathered should be relevant to the area of responsibility of EPA and/or state and local pollution control agencies, but should not be gathered primarily for the use of EPA or other US Government agencies. 3. Assessing and characterizing uncertainty in economic analyses. The consequences of environmental policies are often extremely difficult to predict and the results of economic analyses of these policies are often highly uncertain. Often there is great uncertainty in the baseline conditions and in the policy-induced changes in environmental quality. Uncertainty in economic analyses reflects not just limitations in economic data and knowledge, but also limitations earlier in the analytic chain related to emissions, occurrence, fate and transport, exposure, and dose-response. It is important that uncertainty in economic analyses be not only rigorously assessed, but also properly presented and characterized in a manner useful for decision makers. Upper Amount: $1,000,000. Deadline: November 24, 2006.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Broad Agency Announcement for Conferences, Workshops, and/or Meetings. The EPA is soliciting applications from eligible applicants for the planning, arranging, administering, and conducting of conferences in the areas of (1) EPA mission related issues; (2) advancing the scientific and technical research that promotes environmental protection; (3) exploring current and emerging issues of importance to environmental protection; and/or (4) encouraging collaboration among the nation's best scientists and engineers. Deadline: January 18, 2007.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO). Great Lakes Legacy Act Request for Projects. The purpose of this request is to solicit project proposals that would help to implement the Great Lakes Legacy Act. In order to receive funding under the Great Lakes Legacy Act, projects must be located in one of the 31 U.S. Great Lakes AOCs. In selecting projects to carry out, the Legacy Act specifically directs the Administrator to "give priority to projects that:
1. Constitute remedial action for contaminated sediment;2. Have been identified in a Remedial Action Plan (RAP) and are ready to be implemented;3. Use an innovative approach, technology, or technique that may provide greater environmental benefits, or equivalent environmental benefits at a reduced cost; or4. Include remediation to be commenced not later than 1 year after the date of receipt of funds for the project."
Remediation projects would include, but are not limited to, remedial options such as: dredging, capping, monitored natural recovery, treatment technologies, or a combination of remedial alternatives for contaminated sediment.
The next priority level would be given to projects that seek to monitor or evaluate contaminated sediment or prevent further or renewed contamination of sediment. These projects could include: site characterizations, site assessments, source identification/source control, monitoring, risk assessments, remedial alternatives evaluations and short-term/long-term effects analyses. Amount: $40,000. Upper Amount: $7,500,000. Deadline: September 15, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

US Department of Agriculture/CSREES. Postdoctoral Fellowships and Career Opportunities.

US Department of Agriculture/CSREES. Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) Grants. Deadline: Varies across programs.

US Department of Commerce (DOC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Ocean Service (NOS). Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies (CRES). Proposals are sought that address causes of regional declines in coral abundance and degradation of coral ecosystems. NOAA's interest is to provide timely and high-quality scientific results that can be used to develop alternative management strategies to restore and protect coral reef ecosystems. NOAA solicits proposals that seek a better understanding of the underlying processes that regulate coral reefs and associated ecosystems. Upper Amount: $5,000,000. Deadline: November 13, 2006.

US Department of Commerce (DOC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Ocean Service (NOS). International Coral Reef Conservation. This Program solicits proposals under four funding categories: (1) Promote watershed management in the wider Caribbean, Brazil, and Bermuda; (2) regional enhancement of marine protected area management effectiveness; (3) encourage the development of national systems of marine protected areas in the wider Caribbean, Bermuda, Brazil, and Southeast Asia; and (4) promote regional socio- economic training and monitoring in coral reef management in the wider Caribbean, Brazil, Bermuda, East Africa, South Pacific, and Southeast Asia. Upper Amount: $80,000. Deadline: November 13, 2006.

US Department of Commerce (DOC); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); National Ocean Service (NOS). National Estuarine Research Reserves System FY 2007 Land Acquisition and Construction Program. The Estuarine Reserves Division (ERD) of NOAA is soliciting proposals from the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) for land acquisition and construction funding. The National Estuarine Research Reserve system consists of estuarine areas of the United States and its territories which are designated and managed for research and educational purposes. Each reserve within the system is chosen to represent different biogeographic regions and to include a variety of ecosystem types. Through the funding of designated reserve agencies and universities to undertake land acquisition and construction projects that support the NERRS purpose, NOAA will strengthen protection of key land and water areas; enhance long-term protection of the area for research and education, and provide for facility and exhibit construction. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

US Department of Defense (DOD); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). BioFuels. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Technology Office (ATO) is soliciting proposals for BioFuels. The Defense Department has been directed to explore a wide range of energy alternatives and fuel efficiency efforts in a bid to reduce the military's reliance on oil to power its aircraft, ground vehicles and non-nuclear ships. DARPA is interested in proposals for research and development efforts to develop a process that efficiently produces a surrogate for petroleum-based military jet fuel (JP-8) from oil-rich crops produced by either agriculture or aquaculture (including but not limited to plants, algae, fungi, and bacteria) and which ultimately can be an affordable alternative to petroleum-derived JP-8. Deadline: July 05, 2007.

Waksman Foundation for Microbiology. General Grants. The foundation today supports research and education in the general field of microbiology, including medical disciplines, agricultural and soil microbiology, marine microbiology, and the diverse environmental interactions of microbes. Deadline: continuous.

Water Environment Research Federation (WERF); Request for Proposals (RFP). Workshop on Trace Organics: Mapping a Collaborative Research. Through this request for proposals (RFP), the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) will take initial steps to establish a coordinated research program in the area of trace organics in water and to focus its own research efforts within the broader program that is underway across numerous organizations. These initial steps include (i) identifying those organizations that set the research agenda and fund the research in this area and (ii) organizing and executing a strategic workshop involving these organizations to identify specific research gaps, propose a research roadmap, and select a set of immediate research objectives. The premise is that this issue is being pursued by numerous organizations and that better awareness and collaboration will lead to better use of resources and complementary efforts that draw on each organizations unique abilities and resources in this area. Amount: $50,000. Upper Amount: $75,000. Deadline: November 06, 2006.

Water Environment Research Federation (WERF); Request for Proposals (RFP). Workshop on Trace Organics: Mapping a Collaborative Research. Through this request for proposals (RFP), the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) will take initial steps to establish a coordinated research program in the area of trace organics in water and to focus its own research efforts within the broader program that is underway across numerous organizations. These initial steps include (i) identifying those organizations that set the research agenda and fund the research in this area and (ii) organizing and executing a strategic workshop involving these organizations to identify specific research gaps, propose a research roadmap, and select a set of immediate research objectives. The premise is that this issue is being pursued by numerous organizations and that better awareness and collaboration will lead to better use of resources and complementary efforts that draw on each organizations unique abilities and resources in this area. Amount: $50,000. Upper Amount: $75,000. Deadline: November 06, 2006.

WateReuse Foundation. Comparisons of Chemical Composition of Reclaimed and Conventional Waters. The objective of this project is to develop a data set that compares the quality of water and the chemical composition of water produced by planned water reuse projects with the quality and chemical composition of conventional water produced from surface and ground sources that are impacted by waste discharges. This data set will address the following research questions: What is the quality and chemical composition of water produced by water reuse projects? How does the quality and chemical composition of water produced from planned water reuse projects compare to water produced from surface and ground sources that are impacted by waste discharges? How does the source water history and treatment process affect the chemical composition of the water? Is there a loss and/or generation of constituents through the distribution system? Upper Amount: $294,000. Deadline: November 14, 2006.

WateReuse Foundation. Comparisons of Chemical Composition of Reclaimed and Conventional Waters. The objective of this project is to develop a data set that compares the quality of water and the chemical composition of water produced by planned water reuse projects with the quality and chemical composition of conventional water produced from surface and ground sources that are impacted by waste discharges. This data set will address the following research questions: What is the quality and chemical composition of water produced by water reuse projects? How does the quality and chemical composition of water produced from planned water reuse projects compare to water produced from surface and ground sources that are impacted by waste discharges? How does the source water history and treatment process affect the chemical composition of the water? Is there a loss and/or generation of constituents through the distribution system? Upper Amount: $294,000. Deadline: November 14, 2006.

WateReuse Foundation. Exploring the Value of Reliability Benefits for Water Reuse and Desalination Projects. The claim that water reuse and desalination projects provide "reliable" supplies of water for customers is grounded in the observation that the volume of water produced is not sensitive to drought. Although "drought-proofing" is often cited as a major benefit of water reuse and desalination projects, the existing empirical information is limited, often dated, and not easily interpreted. A systematic review and exploration of the issue will advance the production of robust and reliable empirical values that can be used to quantify the benefits of water reuse and desalination projects. Upper Amount: $49,000. Deadline: November 14, 2006.

WateReuse Foundation. Leaching of Metals from Aquifer Soils During Infiltration of Reclaimed Water of Low Ionic Strength: Determination of Kinetics and Potential Mitigation Strategies. The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential for release of metals of public health concern from a surface spreading operation. Desorption kinetics calculated from experimental data will be used to create groundwater transport models that will predict potential plume structure and facilitate migration planning. Upper Amount: $117,281. Deadline: November 14, 2006.

WateReuse Foundation. Occurrence of Infectious Cryptosporidium Oocysts in Raw, Treated, and Disinfected Wastewater. The primary objective is to determine the occurrence and concentration of infectious Cryptosporidium oocysts in secondary and tertiary effluents including effluents disinfected by UV, chlorine, and ozone. A secondary objective is to determine the species/genotype of infectious oocysts in disinfected effluents. Upper Amount: $343,000. Deadline: November 14, 2006.

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Research Fellowship Program. The Research Fellowship Program (RFP) is administered by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)-International Conservations Training and Capacity Building Program and jointly funded by the BP Energy and Environment Programme/BP Conservation Programme. The RFP is a small grants program designed to build capacity for the next generation of conservationists through supporting individual field research projects that have a clear application to the conservation of threatened wildlife and wildlife habitat. The program seeks projects that are based on sound and innovative conservation science and that encourage practices in conservation that can contribute to sustainable development. Most of the grantees are professional conservationists from the country of research or postgraduates pursuing a higher degree. Applications will be accepted for marine or terrestrial field research in Africa, Asia, and Latin America (including Mexico.) Additionally, the RFP will entertain proposals for research in North America only from Native Americans and First Nation People. Applicants must be recognized members of established native groups who intend to conduct their work on native lands, on issues of direct relevance to wildlife conservation/management on native lands, or on species governed by treaty or intertribal agreements. Upper Amount: $25,000. Deadline: March 01, 2007.

Wildlife Conservation Society. Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund. Awards through the Wildlife Action opportunities Fund will be made in the range of $20,000 to $200,000. These grants will support projects that advance the implementation of State Wildlife Action Plans such as: projects that integrate State Wildlife Action Plan priorities with other land use planning efforts at the local, regional or national level; promote agency incentive programs that are focused on State Wildlife Action Plan priorities; implement policy changes that advance conservation priorities; involve pilot or demonstration landscape-scale habitat restoration or stewardship projects; publicize and raise the profile of State Wildlife Action Plans to the general public and decision makers; improve the existing Plans so as to better facilitate implementation (e.g., developing maps of focal conservation areas); help direct mitigation funds or environmental damage awards toward State Wildlife Action Plan priorities; or engage citizens in science projects that are linked to State Wildlife Action Plan priorities. Funding priority will be placed on projects that are feasible and practical in 1-2 year time periods, are closely aligned with goals of State Wildlife Action Plans, involve multiple organizations, and may serve as models for conservation that can be replicated elsewhere. Please note that these funds cannot be used to support land acquisition or conservation easements, political lobbying and advocacy, or capacity building of organizations. Amount: $20,000. Upper Amount: $200,000. Deadline: November 17, 2006.

Arts & Humanities

Academy of American Poets; Awards and Prizes. Walt Whitman Award. The Academy of American Poets established the Walt Whitman Award in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet's first book. Contestants should send only one copy of each manuscript, which must consist of original poetry in English. There are no limitations on the style of poetry or subject matter. Translations are not eligible. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

Academy of American Poets; Awards and Prizes. Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award recognizes a published translation of poetry from any language into English. A noted translator chooses the winning book. Books must be published in a standard edition (40 pages or more and 500 or more copies), and must consist primarily of poetry. Only books published in the United States during 2006 are eligible for the 2007 prize. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Visiting Artists Program. The Visiting Artists Program is an ongoing activity of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Foundation since 1970. The program assists colleges and media art centers, as well as festivals, conferences and other film-related events, in sponsoring visits to their sites by leading film professionals. The program was designed by the academy to allow students and faculty the opportunity to have direct contact with working film professionals, thereby establishing an important link between the academic study of film and filmmaking and the men and women who make movies.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Institutional Grants Program. The Academy Foundation, the educational and preservation wing of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), distributes grants through its Institutional Grants Program to a variety of film-related, nonprofit organizations, schools, and colleges. As an annual program, the Institutional Grants Program reflects one of the academy's fundamental purposes - "to foster educational activities between the public and the film industry, and to encourage an appreciation of the motion picture as an art form and a vocation." Grant requests must target a concrete program; organizations may not request general support. Proposals should be specific and thorough in their description of the program for which the request is made. In recent years, general Institutional Grants have been made to the AFI for the Directing Workshop for Women; to Cornell Cinema (Ithaca, New York) for visiting artists within a screening series; to Streetlights (Los Angeles) for a production assistant training and placement program; to the UCLA Film and Television Archive for film preservation; and to the Community Film Workshop in Chicago for a production workshop. Amount: $5,000. Upper Amount: $15,000. Deadline: January 31, 2007.

Altria Group, Inc. Arts. Altria supports innovative and culturally diverse programs that include artists and organizations that advance their fields, enlighten communities and encourage audiences to think freely, creatively and positively about the world around them. Altria supports artists and organizations that are charting new territory, both in message and in medium, in their particular disciplines.Arts funding is available in the following categories: dance, theater, visual arts, arts and community membership, and major sponsorships. Deadline: Continuous.

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS); Awards. Wiley-Berger Award for Volunteer Service. The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) presents the Wiley-Berger Award for Volunteer Service to recognize outstanding effort in a volunteer capacity to improve the public well-being. The award is co-sponsored by the Wiley-Berger Award for Volunteer Service Fund and the AAFCS. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: January 16, 2007.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS); Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East Asian Archaeology and Early History; Grants for Applicants From the United States and Canada. Postdoctoral Fellowships. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the second annual competition for grants to individuals in the archaeology and early history of East Asia. This program is undertaken in cooperation with the Henry Luce Foundation. Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded to scholars holding the Ph.D. degree for the purpose of research, or writing, or both, to be used in East Asia, the United States, or Canada for study of the peoples and cultures of early East Asia. For the purposes of this program, "East Asia" refers to northeast Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Mongolia, and Taiwan) and southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). Comparative projects and those that build scholarly networks are especially encouraged. Proposals may cover prehistoric or historical periods, but must focus on research or training that involves excavations, excavated materials, or both. Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS grants to individuals seek to (1) promote research, including the interpretation and analysis of sites, artifacts, and texts; (2) train the next generation of specialists; (3) foster cooperation among specialists in East Asia, the United States, and Canada; and (4) bring to wide public appreciation the results of recent discoveries and research. The selection committee will judge proposals on their intrinsic intellectual merit, the clarity and cogency with which they are presented, and the significance of their contribution to the field of East Asian archaeology and early history. Especially encouraged are applications for projects and training that stimulate and enable international communication among scholars. Applications will be stronger if their work-plans include mentoring and collaboration. Upper Amount: $32,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS); Southeast European Studies Program. Postdoctoral Fellowships in Southeast European Studies. Pending confirmation of funding, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) will offer support for postdoctoral research and writing in Southeast European studies in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. All proposals should be for scholarly work, the product of which is to be disseminated in English. Support will be available for research on Southeastern Europe or for developing expertise on the area to add a comparative perspective to their work on another world region:
1. Research Fellowships are for scholars with area expertise in Southeastern Europe for 6 to 12 months of research and writing.
2. Developmental Fellowships are for scholars with primary area expertise in a region of the world outside Southeastern Europe for 6 to 12 months to acquire expertise in Southeastern Europe, including language skills, in order to add a Southeastern Europe comparative perspective to their current or proposed research.
Applications should be for work related to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia and Montenegro (including Kosovo). Applicants may propose comparative work considering more than one country of Southeastern Europe or relating Southeast European societies to those of other parts of the world. In awarding these grants, primary considerations are the scholarly merit of the proposal, its importance to the development of the field, and the scholarly potential and accomplishments of the applicant. Upper Amount: $25,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

American Council on Germany. Journalism Fellowships. Proposed research projects should address topics with current political or policy significance in Germany's relations with the United States or within the European Union. The program seeks to create a better understanding of transatlantic matters among American journalists and to enable fellows to gain new perspectives on such topics. Deadline: Continuous.

American Historical Association (AHA); Research Grants. Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History. The American Historical Association (AHA) offers the Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History to recognize the most deserving proposal relating to work in progress on a research project in American colonial history, with particular reference to the intercultural aspects of American and European relations. The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used, for example, for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, for photographs, or for photocopying. Upper Amount: $800. Deadline: February 15, 2007.

American Historical Association (AHA); Research Grants. Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants for Research in European, African, or Asian History. The American Historical Association (AHA) offers the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grants for Research in European, African, or Asian History to support research in the history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. The grants are intended to further research in progress and may be used, for example, for travel to a library or archive, for microfilms, for photographs, or for photocopying. Upper Amount: $1,000. Deadline: February 15, 2007.

American Library Association (ALA). W. Y. Boyd Literary Award. The American Library Association (ALA) presents the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award to honor the best fiction set in a period when the United States was at war. It recognizes the service of American veterans and military personnel, and encourages the writing and publishing of outstanding war-related fiction. Juries will examine each book for excellence of writing, attention to detail, accuracy, and the ability to hold the reader's interest. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Library Association (ALA). ALA/Information Today Library of the Future Award. The American Library Association (ALA)/Information Today Library of the Future Award honors an individual library, a library consortium, a group of librarians, or a support organization for innovative planning for, applications of, or development of patron training programs about information technology in a library setting. Criteria should include the benefit to clients served; benefit to the technology information community, impact on library operations, public relations value, and the impact on the perception of the library or librarian in the work setting and to the specialized or general public. Amount: $1,500. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Library Association (ALA). Gale Group Financial Development Award. The American Library Association (ALA) presents the Gale Group Financial Development Award to recognize an innovative, creative, well-organized project which successfully developed income from alternative sources. The alternative sources may include, but are not limited to: individual gifts, foundations, endowments, "challenge" grants, and related efforts. While the library development project may have been a continuing one, the nomination should represent a significantly new effort which involved a more broad-based constituency and utilized additional fund-raising techniques. The successful use of new and commendable library development methods is a more important factor than the amount of money raised. The involvement of boards of trustees and library friends groups in the project will be considered as adding greatly to the merit of the program, as will the inclusion of a public awareness effort which enhances the position of the institution.
The criteria for selection of an award winner are - evidence of the need and appropriateness of the financial goal; - the use of innovative, creative and well-organized development methods; - the success of the effort in meeting or exceeding the goal within a reasonable expenditure of fund-raising monies; and - the involvement of library supporters, who might include boards of trustees and library friends groups or their equivalent. Other factors which may add strength to the nomination are (1) the use of a public awareness program and (2) the possibility that aspects of the project might be replicated by other library organizations. Amount: $2,500. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Library Association (ALA); American Association of School Librarians (AASL). Intellectual Freedom Award.Sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), the Intellectual Freedom Award recognizes a personal member of the AASL who has upheld the principles of intellectual freedom as set forth by the AASL and the ALA. Amount: $2,000. Deadline: February 01, 2007.

American Library Association (ALA); Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). Esther J. Piercy Award. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), gives the Esther J. Piercy Award to recognize the contribution to those areas of librarianship included in library collections and technical services by a librarian with not more than 10 years of professional experience who has shown outstanding promise for continuing contribution and leadership. Evidence of this promise is determined by the person's accomplishments, as they are related to technical services and resources, in such activities as (1) leadership in professional associations at local, state, regional, or national level; (2) contributions to the development, application or utilization of new or improved methods, techniques, and routines; (3) significant contribution to professional literature; and (4) conduct of studies or research in the technical services. Amount: $1,500. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Library Association (ALA); Government Documents Round Table (GODORT). LexisNexis/GODORT/ALA Documents to the People Award. The LexisNexis/Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)/American Library Association (ALA) "Documents to the People" Award is a tribute to an individual, library, institution, or other non-commercial group that has most effectively encouraged the use of government documents in support of library service. Amount: $3,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Library Association (ALA); Public Programs Office. Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature - Identity and Imagination Grants. The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office (PPO) and Nextbook, a gateway to Jewish literature, culture, and ideas, are pleased to announce two new rounds of grants for Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature - Identity and Imagination, a scholar-led, theme-based reading and discussion series that explores the best in contemporary and classic Jewish literature. Programs must be open to the public and promoted to attract adult audiences. Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature is designed as a reading and discussion series facilitated by a single scholar. The intent of the single-scholar model is to nurture discussion, communication, comfortable dialogue, and a relationship between the program participants and the scholar over the five-session series. Amount: $2,500. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006; December 01, 2007.

American Library Association (ALA); Reference and User Services Association (RUSA). STARS Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Librarian Award. The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) awards the annual Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Librarian Award of the Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) to recognize a librarian for outstanding professional achievement, leadership, and contributions to interlibrary loan and document delivery through publication, during the previous two years, of significant professional literature, participation in professional associations, or innovative approaches to practice in individual libraries.
Winners are selected based on the merit and significance of their contributions and their leadership role in the profession. For example, publications in a refereed journal are considered more significant than those in a non-refereed journal. Professional service is evaluated based on its overall impact to the ILL community. Local service innovations which are recognized as a model for other institutions are considered more prestigious than those which cannot be adapted to other institutions. Amount: $2,000. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

American Philological Association (APA). Various Awards. Deadline: Varies by award.

American Philosophical Society. Sabbatical Fellowship. The fellowship is open to mid-career faculty of universities and four-year colleges in the United States who have been granted a sabbatical or research leave, but for whom financial support from the parent institution is available for only part of the year.

American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Various Awards and Grants. Deadline: Varies by award (April 15 through August 01, annually).

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation. Various Awards and Prizes. Deadline: Varies by award.

American Society of Primatologists (ASP). General Small Grant (Small Research Grant). The American Society of Primatologists (ASP) Research and Development Committee offers the ASP General Small Grant (also called the Small Research Grant) to support captive or wild primate-oriented research projects that have clear independent and dependent measures. Research grants should be designed to test hypotheses about the proximate and ultimate processes that influence primate behavior, social organization, development, reproduction, welfare, physiology, anatomy, or evolution. Preference is given to training initiatives, start-up funds, supplementary funding for students, and innovations in animal care and research technology. ASP welcomes applications from larger, long-term studies that have side projects or additional needs, for example, for additional supplies or personnel that are not covered in the larger program. However, it is not necessary for a project to be connected to a larger program. Projects that are small and not part of a larger or long-term project and whose funding needs would be covered entirely by an ASP General Small Grant are also eligible. Applications will be accepted for proposed projects that are focused on primate research and are deemed feasible and of high quality. Research grants will not support projects that focus primarily on conservation (those whose projects focus on conservation should apply for a conservation grant). Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $1,500. Deadline: April 30, 2007.

American Society of Primatologists (ASP); Conservation Awards and Grants. Conservation Small Grants. American Society of Primatologists (ASP) offers the Conservation Small Grants to support conservation research or related projects, including conservation education. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $1,500. Deadline: January 31, 2007.

Annenberg Foundation. Grants. The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health. Deadline: Continuous.

Archaeology Abroad. Fieldwork Awards. Archaeology Abroad Fieldwork Awards assist the recipients to meet the costs of joining an excavation project or field school listed in the spring or autumn bulletins. Deadline: Continuous.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Standing Committee on Research seeks nominations for the Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award, which was created to recognize people who have devoted substantial parts of their careers to promoting research in mass communication. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Nafziger-White Dissertation Award. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's (AEJMC's) Standing Committee on Research seeks nominations for the Nafziger-White Dissertation Award, which recognizes the best Ph.D. dissertation in the field of mass communication research. The Nafziger-White Dissertation Award is named for Ralph O. Nafziger and David Manning White, authors of Introduction to Mass Communication Research, the royalties of which have endowed the award. Deadline: January 15, 2007.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Standing Committee on Research seeks nominations for the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research, which recognizes a body of significant research over the course of an individual's career. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC); History Division. Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book. The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's (AEJMC's) History Division is soliciting entries for its award for the best journalism and mass communication history book of 2006. Deadline: February 04, 2007.

Association of American Geographers (AAG). Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography. The Association of American Geographers (AAG) presents the Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography for a book that conveys most powerfully the nature and importance of geography to the non-academic world. Books published in calendar year 2006 are now eligible for the awards. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

Association of American Geographers (AAG). Meridian Book Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. The Association of American Geographers (AAG) Meridian Book Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography recognizes a book that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography. Books published in calendar year 2006 are now eligible for the awards. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

Atlas Economic Research Foundation; Templeton Freedom Awards Program. Templeton Freedom Award Grants (TFA Grants). The Atlas Economic Research Foundation presents Templeton Freedom Award Grants (TFA Grants) to reward think tanks that are extremely promising or operating in difficult environments. Awards are based on standards designed to evaluate the past achievement and future potential of think tanks. Atlas will continue to refine its analysis tools with the goal of creating benchmarks against which think tanks can measure their own performance. Atlas intends for the process of competing for the TFA Grants to inspire the adoption of the best operating practices, more concentrated efforts toward effective public relations, and other efforts reflective of greater effectiveness among think tanks. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Atlas Economic Research Foundation; Templeton Freedom Awards Program; Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty (TFA Prizes). Templeton Freedom Prize for Free Market Solutions to Poverty. Atlas Economic Research Foundation awards the Templeton Freedom Prize for Free Market Solutions to Poverty, one of the Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty, to honor nonprofit institutes that research and promote solutions to poverty that utilize free enterprise, sound legal institutions, and entrepreneurship. The prize recognizes outstanding research and innovative projects addressing how free enterprise and sound economic and legal institutions can solve problems of poverty. Entries must describe a completed project or an ongoing project with an existing track record. Prizes will not be awarded to project proposals. Amount: $5,000. Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

Atlas Economic Research Foundation; Templeton Freedom Awards Program; Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty (TFA Prizes). Templeton Freedom Prize for Ethics and Values. Atlas Economic Research Foundation awards the Templeton Freedom Prize for Ethics and Values, one of the Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty, to honor nonprofit research institutes that study the symbiotic relationship between free enterprise and enlightened systems of ethics and values. The prize recognizes outstanding research and innovative projects concerning the relationship between free enterprise and the ethics, values, and character that sustain it. Entries must describe a completed project or an ongoing project with an existing track record. Prizes will not be awarded to project proposals. Amount: $5,000. Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

Atlas Economic Research Foundation; Templeton Freedom Awards Program; Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty (TFA Prizes). Templeton Freedom Prize for Social Entrepreneurship. Atlas Economic Research Foundation awards the Templeton Freedom Prize for Social Entrepreneurship, one of the Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty, to honor nonprofit institutes that link ideas and action through social entrepreneurship by developing voluntary, private solutions to social problems. The prize recognizes outstanding research and innovative projects on social entrepreneurship to benefit the poor; increased cooperation among think tanks, the private sector and grassroots organizations for the free society; and general building of a sound, strong, civil society. Entries must describe a completed project or an ongoing project with an existing track record. Prizes will not be awarded to project proposals. Amount: $5,000. Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

Atlas Economic Research Foundation; Templeton Freedom Awards Program; Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty (TFA Prizes). Templeton Freedom Prize for Student Outreach. Atlas Economic Research Foundation awards the Templeton Freedom Prize for Student Outreach, one of the Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty, to honor nonprofit research institutes engaged in innovative and successful projects to improve students' understanding of the causes and consequences of individual freedom. The prize recognizes outstanding work by think tanks in building bridges with the academic world to improve education about freedom and to advance the understanding of the free society through creating educational programs, or working with existing educational institutions (formal and informal). Judges will favor efforts that go beyond traditional teaching in classrooms by career teachers. Entries must describe a completed project or an ongoing project with an existing track record. Prizes will not be awarded to project proposals. Amount: $5,000. Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

Author Services, Inc. Illustrators of the Future (IOTF). The L. Ron Hubbard's Illustrators of The Future Contest was launched in 1988 as an expression of L. Ron Hubbard's wish that the relationship between the written word and the illustrator's art would not die. Since its inception, it has spanned the globe in its appeal to the new and amateur artist for which it was designed, bridging cultural, economic, and language barriers. All themes of science fiction and fantasy illustration are welcome: every entry is judged on its own merits only. An entry shall consist of three illustrations done by the entrant in a black-and-white medium. Each must represent a theme different from the other two. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $4,500. Deadline: December 31, 2006; March 31, 2007; June 30, 2007; September 30, 2007.

Author Services, Inc. Writers of the Future (WOTF). The L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of The Future Contest is an ongoing competition designed to discover new and amateur writers of science fiction and fantasy. All types of science fiction, fantasy, and horror with fantastic elements, are welcome. Eligible entries must be original works of prose in English, up to 17,000 words in length. Author's Services, Inc. regrets that they cannot consider poetry or works intended for children. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: December 31, 2006; March 31, 2007; June 30, 2007; September 30, 2007.

Bellingham Review. 49th Parallel Poetry Award. The Bellingham Review, a nonprofit literary arts magazine affiliated with Western Washington University, awards the 49th Parallel Poetry Award for poetry. Entries are accepted in any style and on any subject. Each poem within a series of poems will be treated as a separate entry. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: March 15, 2007.

Bellingham Review. Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. The Bellingham Review, a nonprofit literary arts magazine affiliated with Western Washington University, awards the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction for creative nonfiction pieces and essays. Entries are accepted in any style and on any subject. The maximum length for prose is 8,000 words. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: March 15, 2007.

Bellingham Review. Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. The Bellingham Review, a nonprofit literary arts magazine affiliated with Western Washington University, awards the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction for fiction and short stories. Entries are accepted in any style and on any subject. The maximum length for prose is 8,000 words. Novel excerpts up to 8,000 words are accepted. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: March 15, 2007.

Beverly Hills Theatre Guild (BHTG). Various Awards. The Beverly Hills Theatre Guild currently sponsors three annual playwright award competitions: Julie Harris Playwright Award Competition, Play Competition for Children's Theatre; The Marilyn Hall Awards, California Musical Theatre Award Competition; intended to discover new works and encourage writers. Deadline: Varies by award.

Blakemore Foundation. Frances Blakemore Asian Art Grants. The Blakemore Foundation was established in 1990 by Thomas and Frances Blakemore to encourage the advanced study of Asian languages and to improve the understanding of Asian fine arts in the United States. Frances Blakemore Asian Art Grants support U.S. programs, exhibits, or publications that improve the understanding of Asian fine arts in the United States as follows: 1. Asia is limited to the countries of China, Japan, Korea, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Mongolia, and Tibet. 2. Fine arts refer to paintings, graphic arts, ceramics, sculpture, and textiles. The Blakemore Foundation will not make grants for any of the following: 1 Endowment purposes 2. General operating or regular curriculum expenses 3. Capital projects, including the acquisition or collection of art 4. General administrative or overhead expenses of the applicant Amount: $200,000. Upper Amount: $1,000,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006; May 15, 2007; November 01, 2007.

CEC ArtsLink; ArtsLink; ArtsLink Central and Eastern Europe. ArtsLink Residencies.ArtsLink enables artists and arts organizations to work collaboratively with counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe on projects that benefit artists and audiences in both countries. The ArtsLink Residencies program supports U.S. organizations in hosting artists or arts managers, known as ArtsLink Fellows, from Central or Eastern Europe. Grants are for five week residencies from November through December. Amount: $10,000. Upper Amount: $50,000. Deadline: November 06, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

Claremont Graduate University. Kate Tufts Discovery Award.Established in 1993, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award is presented for a first or very early work by a poet of genuine promise. Poets must agree at the outset to grant permission to reproduce portions of the work honored in publicizing the award, and attend the awards presentation. Amount: $10,000. Upper Amount: $50,000. Deadline: September 15, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

Claremont Graduate University. Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.Established in 1992 by Kate Tufts to honor her late husband, poet and writer Kingsley Tufts. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is presented annually for a work by an emerging poet, one who is past the very beginning but has not yet reached the acknowledged pinnacle of his or her career. While some poetry prizes discover and honor new voices and others crown an indisputably major body of work, this award at Claremont Graduate University aims to sustain a poet who is laboring in the difficult middle between these extremes. Amount: $100,000. Upper Amount: $60,000. Deadline: September 15, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

College Art Association (CAA). Millard Meiss Publication Fund.College Art Association awards Millard Meiss Publication Grants to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. Deadline: October 01, 2006; March 15, 2007.

College Art Association. Various Awards. Deadline: August 31, annually.

Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History. The Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History was established in memory of Walter Muir Whitehill who was editor of publications for the Colonial Society and the moving force behind the organization for many years. The prize will be awarded for a previously unpublished distinguished essay on colonial history. Preference will be given to New England subjects. Amount: $2,500. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

Dana Foundation. Arts Education Grants. The foundation is interested primarily in training for in-school specialists who teach performing arts in the public schools, and professional artists who work in residencies in the public schools. Upper Amount: $75,000. LOI Deadline: August 31, annually. Deadline: Continuous.

Delacorte Press; Bantam Doubleday Dell. Contest for a First Young Adult Novel. The prize of a book contract (on the publisher's standard form) covering world rights for a hard-cover and a paperback edition, including an advance and royalties, is awarded annually to encourage the writing of contemporary young adult fiction. Amount: $9,000. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

Delmas Foundation, Gladys Krieble. Humanities Program. The foundation awards grants to further the humanities along a broad front, supporting projects that address the original tenets of the studia humanitatis: a humanistic education is rooted in the great traditions of the past; the formation of human beings according to cultural, moral, and aesthetic ideals derived from that past; and the ongoing debate over how these ideals may best be conceived and realized. Deadline: Continuous.

Delmas Foundation, Gladys Krieble; Venetian Research Program. Publication Assistance. The foundation supports publications to help make possible the dissemination of work accomplished through their Grants for Independent Research on Venetian History and Culture. Applications for funds in aid of publication will be considered by the foundation on the following conditions: the work is the outcome of research accomplished with the aid of a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for Independent Research in Venice and the Veneto; the work has already been accepted by a reputable publisher; a statement and budget are submitted by the publisher indicating how the funds would improve the published work and its circulation and affect pricing; acknowledgment of the foundation's support will be included in the published work; the foundation will be sent two copies of the published work upon publication; and the publisher is a publicly supported, tax-exempt organization under the United States Internal Revenue Code, or might otherwise qualify. Amount: $7,500. Upper Amount: $4,000. Deadline: March 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

Earhart Foundation. Fellowship Research Grants. The Earhart Foundation concentrates on educational matters, with emphasis on such disciplines from the social sciences and humanities as economics, philosophy, international affairs, and government. Deadline: Continuous.

EDS Foundation. Arts and Culture Grants. The EDS Foundation will support programs in arts and culture. This could include support of outreach programs for exhibitions, special performances, concert series, exhibits, and arts education. Deadline: Continuous.

EDS Foundation. Arts and Culture Grants. The EDS Foundation will support programs in arts and culture. This could include support of outreach programs for exhibitions, special performances, concert series, exhibits, and arts education. Deadline: February 26, 2007; June 25, 2007; October 15, 2007.

Elizabeth Firestorm Graham Foundation. Grants. Goal is to foster awareness and appreciation of contemporary visual art, particularly through catalogues and other publications that document art produced by emerging or under-recognized artists. The foundation is also interested in special projects that attempt to bring together artists and the community and in efforts to provide exposure to contemporary art where it may not otherwise be seen. Amount: $20,000

General Mills Foundation. Arts and Culture Community Grants. The foundation supports organizations that enhance and sustain excellence in performing and visual arts. Amount: $1,000. Upper Amount: over $100,000. Deadline: Continuous

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, John Simon. Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed. The foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. The foundation selects its fellows on the basis of two separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin America and the Caribbean. Deadline: October 01, 2006; December 01, 2006.

Hearst Foundation, William Randolph. Culture Program Grants. The Hearst Foundation supports programs that enrich the lives of young people by engaging them in cultural activities, primarily through arts-in-education programs. Deadline: continuous. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information on ISU internal deadlines.

Heller Charitable Foundation. Music Grants. The objective of the Music program area is to encourage the playing, the enjoyment, and the accessibility of symphonic and chamber music by providing scholarship and program assistance at selected community music centers, schools, and institutes; and by helping community-based ensembles of demonstrated quality implement artistic initiatives, audience development programs, and improvements in fundraising capacity. Grants range from $5,000 to $600,000. Deadline: Continuous.

Howard Foundation, George A. and Eliza. Fellowship Awards. The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in fields selected on a rotational basis. The fellowships will support persons engaged in independent projects in visual arts, media studies, and the history of art and architecture. Amount: $25,000. Upper Amount: $70,000. Deadline: October 17, 2006; March 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

Humanities Iowa. Regular, Major, and Media grants. Interested in supporting projects that stimulate meaningful community dialogue, attract diverse audiences, are participatory and engaging, and invite discovery of the humanities in interesting and exciting ways. Deadline: May 01, July 01, annually (Major grants); Continuous (Mini grants).

Humanities Iowa. Mini Grants. Mini Grants are due the first working day of each month, for activity beginning after the 15th of the following month. Humanities Iowa offers mini grants in support of public programs in the humanities. Proposals are encouraged for projects of limited scope and duration. Deadline: Continuous

Inter American Press Association (IAPA). Scholarships. The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) was established in 1942 to defend and promote the right of the peoples of the Americas to be fully and freely informed through an independent press. This right is basic to the survival of a free society and individual liberty. At the same time the IAPA recognized that an independent press, fundamental as it is, could not be the sole objective. Needed also was perceptive reporting that would contribute to better understanding among the countries of the Western Hemisphere. It was for this reason that in 1954 the IAPA established a scholarship fund for young journalists and journalism school graduates. Under this program, U.S. and Canadian scholars spend an academic year studying and reporting in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Latin American and Caribbean scholars spend an academic year studying at a recognized U.S. or Canadian journalism school. Amount: $20,000. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

International Reading Association, Research Grants and Awards Program. Various Grants and Awards. Deadline: Varies by award.

Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, Iowa Arts Council (IAC). Mini Grants. Mini Grants provide cash-matching grants to eligible individuals and organizations on a monthly basis to support new or exemplary arts projects. Examples of projects that can be supported are creation or completion of significant work by artists; event planning and presentations of art exhibitions, performances, readings and concerts; sponsoring arts related workshops and conferences; commissioning artists to create public art or other significant new works; arts education projects by artists, arts educators, schools, area education agencies or organizations; marketing and promotional activities for artists and organizations; and artist apprenticeships. Upper Amount: $1,500. Deadline: Continuous.

J. Paul Getty Trust. Conservation Treatment and Research Grants. Support is available for the conservation treatment of significant works of art that are part of a museum's permanent collection. The scope of the project should extend beyond the proposed treatment to embrace interdisciplinary issues. Treatment projects that reveal new information regarding materials, manufacture, or historic context are particularly encouraged. Deadline: Continuous.

Jewish Community Center of Cleveland. Dorothy Silver Playwriting Prize. The Dorothy Silver Playwriting Prize is a special fund of the Jewish Community Center of Cleveland supports the annual competition which is designed to encourage new plays that provide significant, fresh perspectives on the range of Jewish experience. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: December 31, 2006.

Journal of the History of Philosophy. Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowships. The Kristeller-Popkin Travel Fellowships are in recognition of the scholarship and generous support that two of the founding members of the board of directors have given to the journal. Amount: $2,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Klingenstein Fund, Inc., Esther A. and Joseph. Church and State. This fund has developed a program concerned with the historic importance of the separation of church and state and the preservation of religious liberty. Deadline: Continuous.

Knight Foundation. Journalism Program. The foundation gives particular emphasis to the education of current and future journalists, the defense of First Amendment rights, and the support of a free press at home and worldwide. Deadline: Continuous.

Kress Foundation, Samuel H. Old Masters in Context Program. To encourage new ways of presenting European art to the American public, the Kress Foundation Old Masters in Context Program invites joint proposals from art curators and art historians (and art conservators, as appropriate) to interpret works of art in relation to their European origins. At the heart of the project is the premise that the knowledge gathered by the historian of art (why works of art were created, how they were originally seen, and what they meant to their first viewers) is potentially fascinating to the general public, and that imaginative ways of presenting this information will excite new interest in old master artists. The following are key elements of the program: 1. The purpose of the program is to promote a greater understanding of European art from antiquity to the early nineteenth century in regard to the context for which it was originally created or the means by which it was made. 2. The central feature of every grant will be an expanded presentation to the public of one or more works of European art in the permanent collections of museums and other public institutions in the United States through interpretation of original context or structure and materials. When possible, the projects should include works of art in the Kress Collection. Forms of interpretation will involve the works of art, and may include special exhibitions, reconstructions, conferences, lectures, workshops, performance, video, film, publication, and advanced technology. (Comparative objects are not limited to American collections.) 3. The project is developed as a collaboration among curators, scholars, and conservators (as appropriate), and typically reaches beyond the resources of a single institution. Professionals from other arenas, such as music, theatre, religion, or food preparation, may also be engaged. 4. When practicable, the project is shared by two or more institutions (museums, universities, conservation facilities, et cetera.). Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: January 15, 2007; July 15, 2007.

Lannan Foundation. Literary Arts Grants. Literary Arts supports the creation of exceptional English-language literature and seeks to develop a wider audience for contemporary poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Areas of interest include funding organizations that support diverse writers through publication, presentation, and distribution. The criteria used to evaluate grants include - literary merit, - the project's benefit to the community, and - the organization's stability and relationship to its community. Deadline: Continuous.

Lannan Foundation. Contemporary Visual Art Grants. Areas of interest in Contemporary Visual Art include funding nonprofit organizations to commission the creation of new work by contemporary artists, scholarly publications that foster serious discussion of contemporary art, and organizations that bring new and sometimes experimental works of art to a wide audience. Deadline: Continuous.

Leakey Foundation, L.S.B. General Research Grants. The Leakey Foundation was formed to foster research into human origins. Recent priorities include research into the environments, archaeology, and human paleontology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; into the behavior, morphology, and ecology of the great apes and other primate species; and into the behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Upper Amount: $22,000. Deadline: July 15, 2006; December 15, 2006.

LEF Foundation. Grants. LEF Foundation's California office seeks to support work of creative merit in the fields of contemporary art and architecture, design, environment, literature, the performing arts, film, and new media. Deadline: Continuous.

MacDowell Colony. Artist Residencies. Provides a secluded work environment for established writers, composers, visual artists, photographers, printmakers, filmmakers and architects. Deadline: January 15, April 15, and September 15, yearly

Mapplethorpe Foundation, Robert. Photography Grants. As a priority, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation will support museums and other public institutions by assisting in the creation or expansion of photography departments. The foundation's emphasis is on permanance, which is to say, the acquisition of photographs or the support for study and exhibition facilities. Support is also available for important exhibitions which ideally will be accompanied by quality catalogues, books, or other documents to insure their place as reference resources for the future documentation of photography as a fine art. In many cases where an institution or a sponsor for an exhibition has begun a project such as a catalogue, the foundation is willing to augment the project by providing funds to improve quality. In the appropriate circumstance, the foundation will also assist independent curators in developing interesting photography exhibitions. Deadline: Continuous.

Mapplethorpe Foundation, Robert. Photography Grants. As a priority, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation will support museums and other public institutions by assisting in the creation or expansion of photography departments. The foundation's emphasis is on permanance, which is to say, the acquisition of photographs or the support for study and exhibition facilities. Support is also available for important exhibitions which ideally will be accompanied by quality catalogues, books, or other documents to insure their place as reference resources for the future documentation of photography as a fine art. Deadline: Continuous.

Marijuana Policy Project (MPP). Request for Proposals: Marijuana Research. The purpose of the grants program administered by the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is to support efforts that foster measurable changes in U.S. public policy that will lead to marijuana's being regulated similarly to alcohol and to marijuana's availability for medical use. The grants program does not fund political parties or candidates for office, state ballot initiatives, or hemp-related projects. Upper Amount: $60,000. Deadline: January 01, 2007; May 01, 2007.

Millipore Foundation. Grants. Through its grant program, the Millipore Foundation provides valuable support in the following areas: Education and Research; Social Services; Culture; Health Care; and Public Policy. Deadline: Continuous.

Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). Publications Fund. The Committee of the Modern Humanities Research Association invites applications for financial assistance towards the costs of publishing scholarly works in the field of the medieval and modern European literatures and languages (including English) which, by their nature, could not expect to be financially self-supporting. Since the works supported would not normally be viable in a commercial market, the association will not entertain applications where the publisher allows a payment of royalties to the author. The Modern Humanities Research Association exists to encourage and promote advanced study and research in the field of the medieval and modern European languages and literatures. English and the Slavonic languages are included in this definition. History, library studies, education and pedagogical subjects, and the medical application of linguistics are excluded.

Modern Language Association of America (MLA). Annual Prizes. Deadline: Varies by award.

Modern Language Association of America (MLA). James Russell Lowell Prize. The Committee on Honors and Awards of the Modern Language Association (MLA) invites authors to compete for the James Russell Lowell Prize, which will be awarded for a scholarly book published in 2005 by a current member of the association. To qualify for the prize, a book must be an outstanding literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography. Studies dealing with literary theory, media, cultural history, and interdisciplinary topics are eligible; books that are primarily translations will not be considered. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: March 01, 2007.

Muste Memorial Institute, A.J. A.J. Muste Memorial Institute Grant. The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute has, as one of its programs, the funding of projects that promote the principles and practice of nonviolent social change. They must be concerned with one or more of the issues to which A.J. Muste dedicated his life: peace and disarmament; social and economic justice; racial and sexual equality; and the labor movement. From its regular grant program, the institute makes about 20 to 30 grants annually to international, national, and local projects in the United States and around the world, giving priority to those with small budgets and little chance of funding from more traditional sources. Upper Amount: $2,000. Deadline: October 20, 2006; February 09, 2007; April 13, 2007.

National Education Association (NEA); NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE). Fine Arts Grant Program. The National Education Association (NEA) Fine Arts grants are awarded to fine arts teachers, through local NEA affiliates, to enable them to create and implement fine arts programs that promote learning among students who are at risk of school failure. Programs must address the arts (e.g., painting, sculpture, photography, music, theater, dance, design, media, or folk arts). Amount: $2,000. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

National Endowment for the Arts. Grants for Arts Projects. The GAP program supports exemplary projects in dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, local arts agencies, media arts (film/radio/television), museums, music, musical theater, opera, presenting, theater, visual arts, and multidisciplinary art forms. The NEA is interested in projects that are of national, regional, or field-wide significance; that tour in several states; or that provide an unusual or especially valuable contribution because of geographic location. Granting opportunities are available in the following categories: Access to Artistic Excellence, Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants, and Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth. Amount: $5,000 - $150,000. Deadline: Continuous.

National Foundation for Jewish Culture (NFJC). Various Prizes. Deadline: Varies by award.

National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Folk and Traditional Arts Infrastructure Partnership. This initiative advances the National Endowment for the Arts goal to preserve the United States' diverse cultural heritage by strengthening the state and regional infrastructure of support for the folk and traditional arts. Upper Amount: $50,000. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for information on ISU internal deadlines.

National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). NEA John Renna Art Scholarships. John Anthony Renna bequeathed his estate to the National Endowment for the Arts for the purpose of supporting two- or four-year scholarships for art students of limited financial resources. To fulfill the terms of this bequest, the Arts Endowment has created the National Endowment for the Arts John Renna Art Scholarships initiative to award grants to independent schools and colleges of art, enabling them to provide such support. Amount: $100,000. Upper Amount: $500,000. Deadline: November 06, 2006. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for more information on ISU internal deadlines.

National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities; National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites proposals for the planning or initial stages of digital initiatives in all areas of the humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants may involve: research that brings new digital approaches to the study of the humanities or that examines the implications of the use of emerging technologies for humanities scholarship; new digital modes of publication facilitating the dissemination of humanities scholarship in advanced academic as well as informal or formal educational settings at all academic levels; exploration of digital methods or approaches to preserve, archive, and make accessible traditional (i.e., analogue) and "new media" resources in the humanities; planning new digital tools for preserving, analyzing, and making accessible humanities data; and programs addressing the innovative use of emerging digital technologies in formal and informal educational settings, including public forums such as museums, libraries, historic sites, and broadcast media, and K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants should result in plans, prototypes, or proofs of concept for long-term digital humanities projects prior to implementation. Amount: $5,000. Upper Amount: $30,000. Deadline: November 15, 2006.

National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities; National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). We the People Bookshelf - Pursuit of Happiness.As part of its We the People initiative, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is collaborating with the American Library Association (ALA) to present the We the People Bookshelf, a program that encourages young people to read classic books and explore themes in American history, culture, and ideas. School (K-12) and public libraries are invited to apply for fifteen thematically related books. In this fourth We the People Bookshelf program, two thousand libraries will receive a set of classic books related to the theme "Pursuit of Happiness." The National Endowment for the Humanities is proud to offer this program in cooperation with the American Library Association. Deadline: January 31, 2007.

National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities; National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); Division of Education Programs. Interpreting America's Historic Places - Implementation Grants. Implementation grants for Interpreting America's Historic Places support public humanities programs that exploit the evocative power of historic places to address themes and issues central to American history and culture. Projects may interpret a single historic site, a series of sites, an entire neighborhood, a town or community, or a larger geographical region. The place as a whole must be significant to American history, and the project must convey its historical importance to visitors. Applicants for implementation grants should have already done most of the planning for their projects, including consultation with scholars and programming advisers, identification of the key humanities themes, articulation of program components, and performance of relevant research. Upper Amount: $350,000. Deadline: January 23, 2007.

National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities; National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH); Office of Challenge Grants. We the People Challenge Grants in United States History, Institutions, and Culture.As part of its We the People initiative, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is inviting proposals for challenge grants designed to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements in and support for humanities activities focused on exploring significant themes and events in American history. NEH is particularly interested in projects that advance knowledge of the founding principles of the United States in their full historical and institutional context. Upper Amount: $1,000,000. Deadline: February 01, 2007.

National Geographic Society. Grants for Research and Exploration. The National Geographic Society awards grants for scientific field research and exploration through its Committee for Research and Exploration. All proposed projects must have both a geographical dimension and relevance to other scientific fields and be of broad scientific interest. Applications are generally limited to the following disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, biology, botany, geography, geology, oceanography, paleontology, and zoology. In addition, the committee is emphasizing multidisciplinary projects that address environmental issues (e.g., loss of biodiversity and habitat, effects of human-population pressures). Amount: $15,000. Upper Amount: $20,000.

National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). Library Fellows Program. The objective of the Library Fellows Program is to encourage and promote the creation of quality book art. The program provides funds for the creation of new artist's books by book artists or artists of other media who are interested in creating a book. Only new books will be considered. Previously published books or books that are versions of books previously published or planned for publication will not be considered. Deadline: January 31, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) - NSF 06-579. The Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. FIBR encourages investigators to identify major understudied or unanswered questions in biology and to use innovative approaches to address them by integrating the scientific concepts and research tools from across disciplines including biology, math, and the physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, and the information sciences. Deadline: Preliminary proposals due by September 22, 2006; Full proposals due February 16, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE); Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS); Linguistics. Linguistics. The Linguistics program supports scientific research that focuses on human language as an object of investigation. The program supports research on the syntactic, semantic, phonetic, and phonological properties of individual languages and of language in general; the psychological processes involved in the use of language; the development of linguistic capacities in children; social and cultural factors in language use, variation, and change; the acoustics of speech and the physiological and psychological processes involved in the production and perception of speech; and the biological bases of language in the brain. Deadline: January 15, 2007; July 15, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE); Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES). Science and Society (S&S) - NSF 05-588.Science and Society (S&S) considers proposals that examine questions that arise in the interactions of engineering, science, technology, and society. There are four components: Ethics and Values in Science, Engineering, and Technology (EVS); History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering, and Technology (HPS); Social Studies of Science, Engineering, and Technology (SSS); and Studies of Policy, Science, Engineering, and Technology (SPS). The components overlap, but are distinguished by the different scientific and scholarly orientations they take to the subject matter, as well as by different focuses within the subject area.
This program solicitation covers the following modes of support: 1) S&S Scholars Awards 2) Standard Research Grants and Grants for Collaborative Research 3) S&S Postdoctoral Fellowships 4) S&S Professional Development Fellowships 5) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants 6) Small Grants for Training and Research 7) Conference and Workshop Awards
Additional Contact:
1) John P. Perhonis, Associate Program Director; Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Division of Social and Economic Sciences; Phone +1 (703) 292-7279; Fax +1 (703) 292-9068; jperhoni@nsf.gov Deadline: February 01, 2007; August 01, 2007.

Nevada Humanities Committee. Mini-Grants. The Nevada Humanities Committe solicits grant applications from individuals for mini-grant awards. All projects must be rooted in one or more disciplines of the humanities. Upper Amount: $1,000.

Ohio State University; Ohio State University Press. Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction.Each year an independent judge selects one manuscript for this award. Entries may include short stories, novellas, or both. Submissions must be between 150 and 300 double-spaced manuscript pages (approximately 40,000 to 80,000 words). Novellas must not exceed 125 pages in length (approximately 35,000 words). Each entry must be numbered consecutively, with text on only one side of the page. Amount: $1,500. Deadline: January 31, 2007.

Organization of American Historians (OAH). Grants/Fellowships. The Organization of American Historians sponsors or cosponsors awards, prizes, fellowships and grants given in recognition of scholarly and professional achievements in the field of American history. Deadline: Varies across programs.

Organization of American Historians (OAH). ABC-CLIO America: History and Life Award. The ABC-CLIO America: History and Life Award was first given in 1985 to recognize and encourage scholarship in American history in the journal literature advancing new perspectives on accepted interpretations or previously unconsidered topics. Individuals and editors may submit nominations. Amount: $750. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Organization of American Historians (OAH). Erik Barnouw Award. The Erik Barnouw Award, first given in 1983, honors Erik Barnouw, Columbia University, a historian of the mass media. One or two awards are given annually in recognition of outstanding reporting or programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of history. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Organization of American Historians (OAH). Binkley-Stephenson Award. The Binkley-Stephenson Award, first given in 1967, is an annualprize for the best scholarly article published in the Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year (March, June, September, December issues). William C. Binkley was president of the OAH 1944-46 and editor of the Journal of American History 1956-63. Wendell H. Stephenson was OAH president 1957-58 and editor of the Journal 1946-1953. Amount: $500. Deadline: Continuous.

Organization of American Historians (OAH). Richard W. Leopold Prize. The Richard W. Leopold Prize was designed to improve contacts and inter-relationships within the historical profession. An increasing number of history-trained scholars hold distinguished positions in governmental agencies. This prize recognizes the significant historical work being done by historians outside of academe. The prize is for the best book written by a historian connected with federal, state, or municipal government in the areas of foreign policy, military affairs broadly construed, the historical activities of the federal government, or biography in one of the foregoing areas. Amount: $1,500. Deadline: October 01, 2007.

PEN American Center, PEN New England. Various Book Awards. Deadline: Varies by award.

PEN American Center. PEN/Nora Magid Award. The PEN/Nora Magid Award, established in 1993, honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and taste have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits. Candidates for the biennial award include current editors-in-chief, literary editors, and "back-of-the-book" editors of serious general interest magazines, book reviews, or literary reviews and quarterlies, whose intellectual discernment and wide range of interests recall the late PEN member Nora Magid, who was for many years the literary editor of The Reporter. The award is made possible by a grant from PEN member Gerald Weales. Amount: $2,500. Deadline: January 16, 2007.

PEN American Center; PEN New England. Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction was founded in 1976 by the late PEN member Mary Hemingway in honor of her husband and to recognize distinguished first books of fiction by American authors. The prize is now supported by The Hemingway Society. Books must be the author's first-published booklength work of fiction, whether novel or short story collection, and must have been published in the current calendar year. Amount: $8,000. Deadline: December 08, 2006.

Pennsylvania State University; College of Communications; Page Center, Arthur W. Page Legacy Scholars Grant. The Page Center will award grants to support scholars and professionals making important contributions to knowledge, practice or public understanding of ethics and responsibility in public communication or other principles of Arthur W. Page. The themes for this year's call for proposals arehow company credos and codes of ethics affect corporate behavior; ethics in public communication; the role of public relations in fostering corporate responsibility; curriculum development in and pedagogical approaches to ethics in public relations; and other areas of Page's legacy, including political communication, public opinion formation and attitude change, history of public relations, and international broadcasting. Proposals for studies or projects that have potential to directly impact or influence the practice of public relations are particularly welcome. Recipients of these grants will be designated either a Page Legacy Scholar or a Robert Wood Johnson Legacy Scholar. Amount: $5,000. Upper Amount: $25,000. Deadline: February 16, 2007.

Phi Beta Kappa Society. Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship. The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship is awarded annually, in the fields of Greek and French alternately. The award may be used for the study of Greek language, literature, history, or archaeology, or for the study of French language or literature. Amount: $20,000. Deadline: January 15, 2007.

Poetry Society of America (PSA). Various Awards. Deadline: Varies by award.

Primate Conservation, Incorporated (PCI). Grants. Primate Conservation, Incorporated (PCI) is a nonprofit foundation founded to fund field research that supports conservation programs for wild populations of primates. Priority will be given to projects that study, in their natural habitat, the least known and most endangered species. The involvement of citizens from the country in which the primates are found will be a plus. The intent is to provide support for original research that can be used to formulate and to implement conservation plans for the species studied. PCI will grant seed monies or provide matching grants for graduate students, qualified conservationists, and primatologists to study rare and endangered primates and their conservation in their natural habitat. All appropriate projects will be considered, but the regions of current interest are Asia and West Africa. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: February 01, 2007; September 20, 2007.

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Lennart Nilsson Award. Individuals who are deserving of the award are described as those considered to be meritoriously following in Nilsson's footsteps in the field of visual (photographic) representation of science, medicine, biology and technology. Deadline: June 01, 2006.

Schultz Foundation, Arthur B. Global Understanding. The Arthur B. Schultz Foundation (ABSF) supports efforts to increase global understanding by promoting peace, learning, and understanding among peoples of the world through opportunities for progressive dialogue, especially among the younger generation. The use of technology toward this aim will be given special consideration, especially use of computers and the Internet, to further shrink the world and enable a more widespread understanding of other cultures.

Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). Various Awards. Deadline: varies by award.

Starbucks Foundation, Grant Program. Giving Voice. The Starbucks Foundation invites letters of inquiry from organizations that work with youth (ages six to eighteen) in the fields of arts and literacy or environmental literacy. Upper Amount: $20,000. Deadline: September 01, 2006; March 01, 2007.

Sundance Institute. Sundance Documentary Fund. The Sundance Documentary Fund is dedicated to supporting international documentary films and videos focused on current and significant issues and movements in contemporary human rights, freedom of expression, social justice, and civil liberties. In supporting such works, the Sundance Documentary Fund hopes to give voice to the diverse exchange of ideas crucial to developing an open society, raise public consciousness about human rights abuses and restrictions of civil liberties, and engage citizens in a lively, ongoing debate about these issues. Two distinct project categories will be considered for funding:. Development Funds and Work in progress (production or post-production) Funds. Upper Amount: $50,000.

Surdna Foundation, Inc. Arts.Surdna's Arts Program is a national initiative focusing on arts and education. Its goals are (1) to contribute to the ability of young people to explore both their own identity and their relationship to the world through high-impact, long-term experiences creating art with accomplished professional artists and (2) to deepen the ability of artists and arts organizations to contribute to the needs of young people and educators. Toward these ends, the foundation has selected two program themes for primary attention: 1. Artist-Leaders and Young People: Creating Works of Art 2. Arts Institutions and Arts Magnet Schools: Augmenting Expertise Amount: $240,000. Upper Amount: $147,900. Deadline: August 24, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

The Dirksen Congressional Center. Congressional Research Awards. Award topics could include the study of the leadership in Congress, external factors shaping the exercise of congressional leadership, institutional conditions affecting it, resources and techniques used by leaders, or the prospects for change or continuity in the patterns of leadership. Eligibility is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress, including political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists. Upper Amount: $3,500. Deadline: February 01, 2007; Continuous.

Tiffany & Co. Foundation. Grant Proposals. Tiffany & Co. Foundation offers funding through two programs. The mission of the foundation's Environment Program is to support organizations dedicated to the conservation of natural resources in the areas of responsible mining, coral reef conservation, and land protection.The Arts Program seeks to accomplish its mission in the following areas: Promoting America's Premier Cultural Institutions (in New York City), Preservation and Conservation, and Decorative Arts (jewelry and silver design). Deadline: Continuous.

University of Bergen; Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund. Holberg International Memorial Prize. The Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund was established for the purpose of awarding the Holberg International Memorial Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of arts and humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. The contribution may be within the framework of one discipline or may be multidisciplinary in nature. Deadline: February 15, 2007.

University of London; School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS); Endangered Languages Documentation Programme. Field Trip Grants. The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) offers research grants to support documentation of the world's endangered languages in collaboration with language communities. ELDP aims to preserve the diversity of human languages by supporting documentation of as many languages as possible, together with their social and cultural contexts, by: encouraging fieldwork on endangered languages, especially by younger scholars skilled in language documentation; and fostering the creation and preservation of a body of language resources for use by the linguistic and other social sciences, and language communities.
Applications for grants are assessed for their intellectual quality, the degree of language endangerment, the urgency of the issues they raise, their relation to a language's social and cultural contexts, and their prospects for raising levels of knowledge of the language and expertise in field linguistics, including among members of the language community. Applications for Field Trip Grants may be submitted for fieldwork trips between 6 and 12 months in duration. In such cases, preliminary or supplementary research should very substantially prepare for or advance the documentation of a language or languages that are either closely related to languages already well documented or that themselves have already been the subject of substantial documentation.
Another contact is Jean Tullett, Research Grants Officer; +44 (0) 20 7898 4703; jt26@soas.ac.uk. Deadline: January 09, 2007; March 27, 2007.

University of London; School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS); Endangered Languages Documentation Programme. Pilot Project Grants. The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) offers research grants to support documentation of the world's endangered languages in collaboration with language communities. ELDP aims to preserve the diversity of human languages by supporting documentation of as many languages as possible, together with their social and cultural contexts, by: encouraging fieldwork on endangered languages, especially by younger scholars skilled in language documentation; and fostering the creation and preservation of a body of language resources for use by the linguistic and other social sciences, and language communities.
Applications for grants are assessed for their intellectual quality, the degree of language endangerment, the urgency of the issues they raise, their relation to a language's social and cultural contexts, and their prospects for raising levels of knowledge of the language and expertise in field linguistics, including among members of the language community. Applications for Pilot Project Grants may be submitted for the purposes of assessing and demonstrating the feasibility of a larger project.
Another contact is Jean Tullett, Research Grants Officer; +44 (0) 20 7898 4703; jt26@soas.ac.uk. Deadline: January 09, 2007.

University of Michigan; Journalism Program. Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. The Livingston Awards are for the best examples of print, online, or broadcast journalism in three categories: local, national, and international affairs. Entries must be directly related to current events or include new information about old events. Features and commentary are eligible. The Livingston Awards do not include still photography.
Submissions must consist of materials prepared in the ordinary course of the journalist's professional production. Materials prepared by journalists specifically for submission to the Livingston Awards will not qualify and may not be considered. Student media are not eligible. Competition is limited to work done during the calendar year ending December 31, 2006. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: February 01, 2007.

University of New Mexico/Western History Association. Various Awards. Deadline: varies across programs.

University of North Carolina at Asheville; Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (CCCD). Craft Research Grants. The Craft Research Fund seeks to advance, expand, and support scholarship in U.S. studio craft. Grants will be awarded to support research relating to the goals of the Craft Research Fund. The fund's goals are to support innovative research on artistic and critical issues in craft theory, practice, and history; to explore the inter-relationship among craft, art, design, and contemporary culture; to foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field in America; and to advance investigation of neglected questions in U.S. craft history and criticism. Grant funds may be used to support documentation such as images or rights to use images or text, as part of the research yet to be completed. The grant awards are not for the printing of already completed research. Upper Amount: $15,000. Deadline: January 08, 2007.

Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF). Paul E. Buchanan Award for Excellence in Field Work and Interpretation. The Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) seeks nominations for the Paul E. Buchanan Award for 2007. Initiated by VAF in 1993, the award recognizes excellence in field work and interpretative projects that contribute significantly to knowledge of vernacular architecture and landscape studies. Projects completed in 2005 and 2006 are eligible for consideration and may include, but are not limited to, the following: - Architectural Recording Projects (including HABS/HAER); - Historic Structures Reports- Cultural Resource Surveys- Historic Designation Studies - Preservation Plans; - Restoration Projects; - Furnishing Plans and Installations; - Exhibits and other temporary installations; - Permanent Museum Exhibits; - Visual Arts Presentations, e. g., drawing, painting, photography, 3-D media- Film and Video Presentations; - Computer Applications and Modeling; - Educational and Interpretive Programs; - Symposia, Conferences, and Public Events. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Various Awards and Grants. Deadline: Varies by program.

Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. Grant Proposals. Through a bequest from Witter Bynner in 1972, The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry perpetuates the art of poetry. The foundation promotes poetry in American culture and encourages grant proposals that expand awareness of the positive effects of poetry on society. The following categories may serve as a guideline to applicants in determining whether their programs fall within the foundations funding priorities. - Individual Poets: In 1997 the Board of Directors approved an annual grant to the Library of Congress for Witter Bynner Fellowships selected by the Poet Laureate. - Translation and the Process of Translation: The translation of poetry from languages not currently available to English readers and poetry which has not been translated or merits a new translation. Projects, which explore the art and the process of translation, are also encouraged. The foundation does not fund publications of poetry-in-translation; it rather makes it a priority to give grants to individual translators. Samples from the proposed translation should accompany the application. - Developing the Poetry Audience: Organizations applying in this category should indicate who the target audience will be. Please describe previous programming the organization has successfully completed. Past programming has included documentary film production, dramatic presentations, school poetry programs, reading series, conferences, and seminars. - Uses of Poetry: Programs that use poetry for the greater public good: Model programs or curriculums that can be transferred to and used by other organizations are preferred. Past programs have focused on youth-at-risk, hospital and therapeutic programs, minorities, people with disabilities, prison programs, curriculum development, and documentary films. Amount: $1,000. Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

World Cultural Council - Consejo Cultural Mundial. Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. The Leonard da Vinci World Award of Arts has been established as a means of acknowledgment to those who endeavor to create different expressions of art. The award is conferred upon a renowned artist, an avant guardist, or an authority on the subject whose work constitutes a significant contribution to the artistic legacy of the world. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: January 30, 2007.

World Cultural Council - Consejo Cultural Mundial. Jose Vasconcelos World Award of Education. The Jose Vasconcelos World Award of Education has been established to recognize those who have the all-important labour of teaching the underlying basis of our present civilization. The award is granted to a renowned educator, an authority in the field of teaching, or to a legislator of education policies who has had a significant influence on the advancement in the scope of culture for mankind. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: January 30, 2007.

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American Accounting Association (AAA). Wildman Medal Award. The Deloitte Wildman Award Committee is currently accepting nominations for the 2006-2007 Wildman Award, which will be given at the American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting to the author or authors of the article, book, monograph, or other work published during the five calendar years preceding the year of the award (2007), which is judged to have made or to be likely to make, the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of accounting (including audit, tax, and management services). Amount: $5,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Accounting Association (AAA). Seminal Contributions to Accounting Literature Award. The American Accounting Association (AAA) presents the Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature Award to recognize works that have stood the test of time and have contributed in a fundamental way to later research. Seminal is defined as "having the character of an originative power, principle or source; containing or contribution to the seed of later development." Eligible works must have been published at least 15 years prior to the year in which the award is bestowed. Deadline: Continuous.

American Accounting Association (AAA). Various Awards. Awards are available for research, educational innovations, literature contributions, information services, and other sections. Deadlines: Varies by award.

British Computer Society (BCS). Lovelace Medal. The British Computer Society (BCS) Lovelace Medal is intended to be presented to individuals who have made a contribution that is of major significance in the advancement of information systems or that adds significantly to the understanding of information systems. BCS is pleased to consider those who have made an industrial, academic, technical or managerial contribution. Deadline: November 30, 2006.

Center for the Business of Government. Research Stipends. The Center for the Business of Government provides grants to stimulate research and improve the effectiveness of government at the federal, state, local, and international levels. Amount: $20,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006; March 01, 2007.

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Research and Development Programme. Visiting Professorships. The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Research would like to offer financial support to academics and practitioners involved in leading edge management accounting research and development work, for short visits to the United Kingdom. Upper Amount: £5,000. Deadline: continuous.

Institute of Management Accountants, Inc. (IMA). Carl Menconi Ethics Case Writing Competition. The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Committee on Ethics is proud to announce the Carl Menconi Ethics Case Competition. The Competition is named in memory of Mr. Menconi who held leadership positions in IMA for many years and who served as the chair of the IMA Committee on Ethics. He also valued education and taught part time at his alma mater, Northern Illinois University. The objective of the competition is to develop and distribute cases focusing on business ethics with specific application to management accounting and finance issues. The cases must utilize the IMA's Statement of Ethical Professional Practice as a guidance tool or reference. The case should be suitable for either undergraduate or graduate classroom use or IMA chapter continuing educational programs. Deadline: January 12, 2007.

Kauffman Foundation, Ewing Marion. Grants. Ewing Kauffman advised his associates to invest in people and be willing to take risks as opportunities to promote positive youth development and accelerate entrepreneurship in America are sought. Deadline: Continuous.

Nasdaq Educational Foundation. Grants. The mission of The Nasdaq Educational Foundation, Inc. is to promote learning about capital formation, financial markets and entrepreneurship through innovative educational programs. Grants will be awarded for education projects related to four priority categories: Academic study or research, generally awarded to college or university professors; Ph.D. dissertation fellowships, awarded to colleges or universities on behalf of the candidate; Curriculum development, generally awarded at the university level to develop financial markets curricula; Educational projects or programs, including classroom and extracurricular programs at the high school, college and university level; teacher training; and professional development for adults, and may also include the creation of new educational materials. Please note that all proposals must further financial markets literacy and entrepreneurship in addition to meeting other criteria. The categories, above, are for guidance only. All proposals compete for a single pool of funds and are subject to selection by the Foundation Board of Directors. Deadline: February 01, 2007; August 01, 2007.

Nasdaq Educational Foundation. Grants. Grants will be awarded for education projects related to four priority categories: 1) Academic study or research, generally awarded to college or university professors; 2)Ph.D. dissertation fellowships, awarded to colleges or universities on behalf of the candidate; 3) Curriculum development, generally awarded at the university level to develop financial markets curricula; 4) Educational projects or programs, including classroom and extracurricular programs at the high school, college and university level; teacher training; and professional development for adults, and may also include the creation of new educational materials. Deadline: August 01, 2006; February 01, 2007.

National Academies; National Research Council (NRC) - USA. Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program. The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students in the analysis that informs the creation of science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government. As a result, students develop essential skills different from those attained in academia and make the transition from being a graduate student to a professional. During the program, interns engage in studies and activities throughout the National Academies. Some examples of projects interns conducted include developing an outline of themes of leading research in remote sensing applications, a workshop on how scientists in developing countries can take better advantage of the new wireless communication networks to gain access to the Internet, a background paper on the current state of knowledge about the demography of street-children, and on what is known about the cost and effectiveness of existing programs to help street-children and orphans in the United States and abroad. Each intern is assigned to a senior staff member who acts as his or her mentor. The mentor provides guidance and ensures that the intern's time is focused on substantive work and activities. Upper Amount: $6,300. Deadline: November 01, 2006; March 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE). Grants Program. The grants program seeks innovative research and research-based development projects that can make a profound contribution to the field of financial literacy. Deadline: June 19, 2006; December 05, 2006; February 06, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) - NSF 06-579. The Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. FIBR encourages investigators to identify major understudied or unanswered questions in biology and to use innovative approaches to address them by integrating the scientific concepts and research tools from across disciplines including biology, math, and the physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, and the information sciences. Deadline: Preliminary proposals due by September 22, 2006; Full proposals due February 16, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF). Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - NSF 06-586. The National Science Foundation (NSF) offers postdoctoral research fellowships in selected areas to provide opportunities for recent doctoral scientists to obtain additional training, to gain research experience under the sponsorship of established scientists, and to broaden their scientific horizons beyond their research experiences during their undergraduate or graduate training. Postdoctoral fellowships are further designed to assist new scientists to direct their research efforts across traditional disciplinary lines and to avail themselves of unique research resources, sites, and facilities, including foreign locations. The Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO) and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) of the NSF jointly sponsor this program of Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and related supporting activities. The term "minority" as used in this announcement refers to those ethnic groups that are significantly underrepresented at advanced levels of science and engineering in the United States, i.e., Native Americans (including American Indians and Alaskan Natives), African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Pacific Islanders. This program is an effort by the NSF to increase the number of research scientists from underrepresented minority groups, thereby contributing to the future vitality of the nation's scientific enterprise. The goal of the program is to prepare minority scientists for positions of scientific leadership in academia and industry. To attain this goal, the program provides opportunities for postdoctoral training of the highest quality to recent minority doctoral recipients. The program has other special features to address the needs of these young scientists: travel awards for graduate students to meet prospective sponsoring scientists prior to submitting a postdoctoral fellowship application; meetings for sponsoring scientists and fellows; and research starter grants. Amount: $40,000. Upper Amount: $70,000. Deadline: November 06, 2006; March 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF). Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) - NSF 06-610. The Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) program supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, not-for-profits, voluntary organizations or interorganizational arrangements. IOC-funded research must be grounded in theory, relevant to an operational or applied context, and generalizable. It must advance our scientific understanding of innovation and organizations. Proposals that aim to implement or evaluate innovations or particular organizational changes rather than to advance fundamental, generalizable knowledge about innovation and organizations are not appropriate for IOC. Deadline: February 02, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF). Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC). The Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) program seeks to create and apply fundamental new knowledge with the aim of improving the effectiveness of the design, administration, and management of organizations, including industrial, educational, service, government, nonprofit, and voluntary organizations. Deadline: February 02, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Engineering (ENG); Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS). Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks (PCAN). The Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) program supports creative research and education underlying the analysis and design of intelligent engineering networks for control, communications, computation and energy. Proposals leading to improved methods for multi-scale modeling, learning, optimization, reliability, security and robustness of complex dynamical systems are of interest. Distributed networks occur in telecommunications, Internet, power and energy, transportation and manufacturing. Deadline: October 07, 2006; February 07, 2007. Full proposal windows are September 7, 2006 through October 7, 2006 and January 7, 2007 through February 7, 2007.

Sloan Foundation. Globalization. The goal of this project is to provide a fact-based picture of globalization, primarily within specific industries. Grants have been made to study company location decisions and the effects of these decisions on jobs, wages, and the company's competitive position in a number of industries: computer flat display, auto, computer disk file, semiconductor manufacturing, personal computer, and computer software. International collaboration is encouraged. Deadline: continuous.

Sloan Foundation. Human Resources/Jobs/Income. The goal of this program is to build understanding of best practices in the changing workplace and the effects of changes on jobs and income. Current research is focused on understanding in more detail for a given industry the effect of new technology on the reorganization of work and on the higher skills required of workers. Deadline: Continuous.

Sloan Foundation. Industry Centers. The goal of this program is to build an academic community with direct knowledge of and interest in various industries. Foundation grants are designed to establish centers which foster the study of the following industries in both manufacturing and service sectors: apparel and textile, computer, construction, financial services, information storage, managed health care, motor vehicle, pharmaceutical, powder metallurgy, retail food, semiconductor, steel, and trucking. Deadline: Continuous.

Sloan Foundation. Business Organizations. The Business Organizations program (formerly "Role of the Corporation") supports academic research and scholarship aimed at painting a realistic picture of how corporations and other business organizations function, with special emphasis on how the people in them actually behave, how they are motivated, and how they are rewarded. Deadline: continuous.

University of Oklahoma; Price College of Business; School of Accounting. Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics. The School of Accounting at the University of Oklahoma is soliciting submissions for the ninth annual Glen McLaughlin Prize for research in accounting ethics. The prize is for the best unpublished paper on ethics in any area of accounting. The School of Accounting invites all papers that examine the implications of ethics for accounting, organizational design, reporting and disclosures, assurance services, control systems, economic consequences of firms, and investment and financing of firms. The development of the ethical concepts in the paper may be rooted in ethical philosophy, but authors should feel free to draw upon ethical insights from other disciplines such as sociology, psychology, biology, economics, and humanities. The paper is best viewed an interdisciplinary work, contributing to the understanding of ethical concepts and then applying this understanding to accounting issues in an effective way. Examples of topics suitable for the prize include (but not limited to)- corporate disclosure practices; - financial reporting, valuation, and performance measurement; - management control systems; - executive compensation structure and incentive issues; - assurance services and litigation; - organizational design; - forecasting and the role of financial analysts; and- tax reporting and disclosure. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: December 04, 2006.

US Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Navy. NAVAIR Orland BAA. Numerous opportunities in a variety of fields. Deadline: varies by program.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Navy. Research and Development for Industrial Capabilities in Logistics, Maintenance and Manufacturing Technologies. Areas include supply chain management, weapon system sustainment, logistics research networks, competitive sustainment, strategic distribution and reutilization, material acquisition, electronic commerce, and others. Deadline: Continuous.

Education

American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Distinguished Service Award.Distinguished Service Awards are given annually to retired American Association of School Administrators (AASA) members who exhibit exemplary leadership throughout their careers and who have enhanced the profession of school administration. Amount: $500. Upper Amount: $15,000. Deadline: August 31, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Various Foreign Language Education Grants. Deadline: Varies by grant.

American Educational Research Association (AERA). Research Grants Program.With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grants Program announces its Research Grants Program. The program's goals are (1) to stimulate research on issues related to U.S. education policy and practice using NCES and NSF data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's first-hand knowledge of the range of data available at the two agencies and how to use them; and (3) to increase the number of educational researchers using the data sets. AERA invites researchers having the doctorate to submit education policy- and practice-related research proposals using NCES, NSF, and other national data bases. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, e.g., education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics. Upper Amount: $35,000. Deadline: September 01, 2006; January 05, 2007; March 01, 2007.

Associated Western Universities, Inc. Post baccalaureate awards. Awards provide the opportunity to participate in and contribute to research, technology, and related activities at sponsoring facilities and were designed to provide professional development opportunities and to encourage continuation or education toward an advanced degree in these or allied fields. Deadline: Continuous.

Association for Institutional Research (AIR); AIR/NCES/NSF/NPEC Grant Program - Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Education Institutions. Research Grant Program. The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), with support from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC), sponsors a grant program titled: Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions. The goals of the program are to provide professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional researchers, educators and administrators, and to foster the use of the federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education. Upper Amount: $30,000. Deadline: January 16, 2007.

Bowne Foundation, Robert (RBF); Afterschool Matters Initiative. Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. Research Grants. The Robert Bowne Foundation (RBF) is a family foundation that supports the development of quality programs in New York City offering education to children and youth in the out-of-school hours, especially those living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. The RBF seeks to have a long-term and substantial effect on the field of out-of-school education, and launched several initiatives to accomplish this mission. Afterschool Matters is one of the initiatives, the goals of which are to (1) generate and disseminate research about community-based organizations serving youth during the out-of-school hours; (2) build a network of scholars studying community based-organizations serving youth; and (3) contribute to basic knowledge and the improvement of practice and policy in the area of community-based youth programs. One of the projects of the Afterschool Matters Initiative is the Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. Research Grants. This is a national grant competition intended to support (1) original empirical research in or about community-based youth programs during the non-school hours, or (2) writing research syntheses or policy analyses of community-based youth programs. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

Broad Foundation. Grants. The Broad Foundation's mission is to dramatically improve K-12 urban public education through better governance, management, and labor relations. The Broad Foundation accepts proposals in its core areas of focus: governance, management, and labor relations in large, urban K-12 school systems in the United States. The foundation is interested in action-oriented programs that are innovative and entrepreneurial, and therefore only considers research proposals that include an actionable implementation agenda. The foundation also supports research and dissemination projects that actively communicate the results of high potential endeavors.

Carnegie Corporation of New York. Higher Education. Concentrating initially on the dissemination of the best models of teacher education to encourage their wider adoption, assistance to governors and other state policy makers in developing incentives and accountability mechanisms to promote more widespread change, and promoting broader public understanding of the importance of teaching quality. Deadline: Continuous.

Coca-Cola Foundation. Grant Program. Funding available in the areas of higher education, classroom teaching and learning, and global education. Deadline: Continuous.

Compaq. Corporate Contribution Program: Enhancing Education. The company maintains that commitment and continues to support the effective use of technology in the classroom to bring about a positive impact on teachers and student learning. Deadline: Continuous.

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Research Opportunities in Stuttering (R21). The purpose of this program is to encourage research and to invite R21 applications for research in stuttering. The primary objective is to stimulate basic, clinical, and translational research in stuttering. Amount: $40,000. Upper Amount: $275,000. Deadline: October 01, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Research Opportunities in Stuttering (R01). The purpose of this program is to encourage research and to invite R01 applications for research in stuttering. The primary objective is to stimulate basic, clinical, and translational research in stuttering. Areas of research responsive to this funding opportunity may include, but are not limited, to the following: research in the characteristics of the brain development during the period of stuttering onset; animal studies that will yield hypotheses-driven models of neural pathways and connectivity to stuttering; longitudinal studies of high risk families to identify predictive factors for persistence and/or recovery of stuttering; examination of efficacy of treatments of stuttering; examination of state and trait aspects of affect and their relation to change in stuttering; development of structure-equation models of stuttering; improvement in social validation of outcomes for treatment Amount: $100,000. Upper Amount: $1,500,000. Deadline: October 01, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

EDS Foundation. General Education Grants. The EDS Foundation will support programs in general education. This could include after-school programs, mentoring, tutoring, et cetera. Deadline: February 26, 2007; June 25, 2007; October 15, 2007.

Educause. Various Awards. Deadline: Varies by award.

Heller Charitable Foundation. Education Grants. The objective of the Education program area is to enhance educational opportunities for elementary and secondary level students by supporting the development, application, and dissemination of innovative programs that provide a challenging academic environment; and by supporting programs designed to improve the professional skills of teachers in the classroom. Amount: $5,000 - $600,000. Deadline: Continuous.

Hewlett Foundation, William and Flora. Education Program Grants. Grants in the Education program are made to promote long-term institutional development, reform, or renewal. Proposals that do not fit directly within the guidelines may be considered if they serve several institutions or otherwise advance the foundation's interest in improving elementary, secondary, or higher education. Specific components of the Higher Education program include the following: Pluralism and Unity, Liberal Arts Institutions, General Education in Research Universities, Tools of Scholarship, Educational Policy and other areas. Deadline: Continuous

Infinity Foundation. Call for Grant Proposals. To do research and/or develop educational materials, whose objective would be to improve the authenticity of portrayal of Indic traditions in the educational system. These projects would result in one or more of the following books, curriculum development, articles, conferences, CD-ROMs, digital slide shows, Internet presentations, and audio/video materials. Topics covered may include philosophy, history, religion, science, art and sociology, as they pertain to the educational curricula on Indic traditions. Deadline: Continuous.

International Reading Association. Various Awards and Grants. Deadline: varies by award/grant.

International Technology Education Association (ITEA). ITEA's Program Excellence Award.Sponsored by International Technology Education Association (ITEA) and the NASSP, the Program Excellence Award is one of the highest honors given to technology education classroom teachers on the elementary, middle, or high school levels. It is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession and students. The Program Excellence Award provides public recognition at local through international levels. On the province or state level, a certificate of achievement is granted at the affiliated association's annual meeting. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

International Technology Education Association (ITEA). ITEA's Teacher Excellence Award. The Teacher Excellence Award is one of the highest honors given to technology education classroom teachers and is presented in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the profession and their students. The Teacher Excellence Award provides public recognition at the local through international levels. On the province or state level, a certificate of achievement is granted at the affiliated association's annual meeting. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Knight Foundation. Journalism Program. Emphasizes education for current and future journalists, and supports a free press around the world.

Mailman Family Foundation, Inc., A.L. Grants. The A.L. Mailman Family Foundation's goal is to promote the building of sustainable systems that provide access to high quality early learning experiences for all children. Grants will be given to organizations attempting to effect system-wide change by encouraging responsive public policies; creating and disseminating curricula, materials or tools that promote quality; that engage in advocacy and strategic communication to inform and build public will; doing applied research designed to inform policy and improve practice. Deadline: December 01, 2006; May 15, 2007.

Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) established the Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member to honor beginning college or university faculty whose teaching has been extraordinarily successful and whose effectiveness in teaching undergraduate mathematics is shown to have influence beyond their own classrooms. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: December 15, 2006.

Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) instituted the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics in order to honor college or university teachers who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had influence beyond their own institutions. Amount: $1,000. Deadline: March 01, 2007.

Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Grants for Women and Mathematics Projects. The Mathematics Association of America (MAA) plans to award grants for projects designed to encourage college and university women or high school and middle school girls to study mathematics. The Tensor Foundation, working through the MAA, is soliciting proposals for projects that may replicate existing successful projects, adapt components of such projects, or be innovative. Possible projects are to - organize a club for women interested in mathematics or mathematics and science; - provide release time to allow a faculty member to prepare a course on women and mathematics provided the host institution agrees to offer such a course; - create a network of women professional mentors who will direct mathematics projects for girls; - hold a conference for counselors to prepare them to encourage women and girls to continue to study mathematics; - conduct a summer mathematics program for high school women; - bring high school women onto a college campus for a Math Day with follow-up; - structure a program for high school or college women to mentor younger female mathematics students with math projects or math clubs; and- form partnerships with industry to acquaint women students with real-life applications of mathematics. The objectives of the MAA and Tensor Foundation Program are to encourage mathematics faculty to develop projects to increase participation of women in mathematics and to provide support to project directors. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: February 15, 2007.

Micron Technology Foundation. Grants for Higher Education. Interested in projects on curriculum development and innovative methods using technology to deliver education. Deadline: Continuous.

Microsoft. Tablet PC Technology and Higher Education. Microsoft Research will use the Tablet PC Technology, Curriculum, and Higher Education RFP as a catalyst to encourage educators to apply resources toward revising, updating, and validating curriculum and pedagogy in conjunction with tablet technology in higher education. Projects related to the gathering of evidence and educational evaluation of the use of tablet technology in the classroom will be accepted. This grant is open to all disciplines with the focus of the project on the evaluation of tablet technology in the classroom, but is not meant for curriculum development. Proposals with well-developed content and detailed research questions and evaluation plans are required. Projects may be course specific, tool building, or educational model building. Successful projects will identify innovative ways to incorporate tablet technologies into the classroom. Projects should focus on the execution of these approaches and the gathering of data to add to the body of knowledge on teaching and learning in higher education. Explicit education research questions to be addressed should be included. The expectations for all projects include a detailed assessment plan, gathering of baseline data, collection of several sets of data, and formative and summative analysis of the data. Deadline: November 27, 2006.

National Academy of Education. Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship. National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. This nonresidential postdoctoral fellowship funds proposals that make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education. The program also develops the careers of its recipients through professional development activities involving National Academy of Education members. Amount: $55,000. Upper Amount: $60,000. Deadline: November 10, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

National Education Association (NEA), NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE). Learning and Leadership Grants. Learning and Leadership Grants support educators for one of the following two purposes: grants to individuals fund participation in high-quality professional development experiences, such as summer institutes or action research; grants to groups fund collegial study, including study groups, action research, lesson study, or mentoring experiences for faculty or staff new to an assignment. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: continuous.

National Education Association (NEA), NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE). Student Achievement Grants. The NEA Foundation provides grants to improve the academic achievement of students in U.S. public schools and public higher education institutions in any subject area(s). The proposed work should engage students in critical thinking and problem solving that deepen their knowledge of standards-based subject matter. Upper Amount: $5,000. Deadline: continuous.

National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) - NSF 06-579. The Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program supports integrative research that addresses major questions in the biological sciences. FIBR encourages investigators to identify major understudied or unanswered questions in biology and to use innovative approaches to address them by integrating the scientific concepts and research tools from across disciplines including biology, math, and the physical sciences, engineering, social sciences, and the information sciences. Deadline: Preliminary proposals due by September 22, 2006; Full proposals due February 16, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS). Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS): A Multidisciplinary Program of the Children's Research Initiative. This program supports studies that increase our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development. Deadlines: February 17, 2006; January 15, annually thereafter; July 15, annually (Individual Investigator Research Projects and Workshops and Small Conferences); February 17, 2006 (Integrative Research Activities for Developmental Science, IRADS).

National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education. Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI). The program supports efforts to create new learning materials and teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, and conduct research on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teaching and learning. Deadline: May 09, 2006 (Phase 1); January 10, 2007 (Phase 2 and 3).

National Science Foundation (NSF). Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) - NSF 06-610. The Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC) program supports scientific research directed at advancing understanding of innovation and organizational phenomena. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups and/or institutional arrangements. Research may involve industrial, educational, service, government, not-for-profits, voluntary organizations or interorganizational arrangements. IOC-funded research must be grounded in theory, relevant to an operational or applied context, and generalizable. It must advance our scientific understanding of innovation and organizations. Proposals that aim to implement or evaluate innovations or particular organizational changes rather than to advance fundamental, generalizable knowledge about innovation and organizations are not appropriate for IOC. Deadline: February 02, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF). International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops. This solicitation describes International Planning Visit/Workshop awards to support the early phases of developing and coordinating a research and education activity with a foreign partner(s). Deadline: September 20, 2006; February 20, 2007; May 20, 2007.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR); Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education (ESIE). Discovery Research K-12 (DR-K12) - NSF 06-593. The Discovery Research (DR-K12) program merges three EHR formal K-12 education programs--Teacher Professional Continuum (TPC), Instructional Materials Development (IMD), and Centers for Learning and Teaching (CLT). This merger of the three programs increases flexibility and agility, focuses the resources needed to address acknowledged Grand Challenges in K-12 STEM education, and encourages innovative thinking from the field while continuing to build on the solid foundations of the portfolio. DR-K12 brings together Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education faculty, mathematicians, and scientists, cognitive scientists, teachers and administrators, and STEM education graduate students to conduct the research, develop resources and tools and build the nations capacity to develop and test innovative solutions to improve K-12 teaching and learning. There are three components to this program: (A) Applied Research, (B) Development of Resources and Tools, and (C) Capacity Building. Upper Amount: $3,000,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006; November 15, 2006; December 01, 2006.

National Science Foundation (NSF); Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS); Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST). Program for Research and Education With Small Telescopes (PREST) - NSF 04-557. The Program for Research and Education With Small Telescopes (PREST) is designed to address a spectrum of research and teaching needs for a large number of individuals at institutions without observatories or the resources needed to make their existing observing facilities reliable and productive tools for research and training. The PREST activity provides funding and modest operational support for modern, instrumented telescopes in the range of 0.5 to 2.5 meters aperture to organizations or consortia presenting an integrated program of research, student training, and educational programming. Deadline: January 20, 2007.

National Science Foundation. Research in Undergraduate Institutions. The specific objectives of the RUI program are to support high-quality research by faculty with active involvement of undergraduate students; strengthen the research environment in academic departments that are oriented primarily toward undergraduate instruction; and promote the integration of research and education at predominantly undergraduate institutions.Three types of awards are granted under this program: Faculty Research Projects, Research Instrumentation Grants, and Research Opportunity Awards. Deadline: varies.

National Science Foundation. Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research - SBE. Awards available to allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field and archival research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. May also be used for valid research expenses, data collection and sample survey costs, payments to subjects or informants, specialized research equipment, analysis and services not otherwise available, supplies, travel to specialized collections and facilities or field research locations, and partial living expenses. Deadline: Varies depending on program

National Science Foundation. Program for Research and Education with Small Telescopes - NSF 04-557. The Program for Research and Education with Small Telescopes (PREST) is designed to address a spectrum of research and teaching needs for a large number of individuals at institutions without observatories or the resources needed to make their existing observing facilities reliable and productive tools for research and training. Deadline: January 20 annually.

Sloan Foundation, Alfred P, Standard of Living and Economic Performance. Higher Education as an Industry. The goal of this program is to produce understanding of how institutions of higher education actually work. The foundation is interested in new research on the emergence of for-profit higher education. Deadline: Continuous.

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - USA; Eurasia Program. Eurasia Teaching Fellowship.At the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), postdoctoral research grants have allowed young faculty members to expand upon their research interests after having completed (and often published) their dissertation work. The SSRC Eurasia Program supports faculty in their classroom activities as well. The Eurasia Program's Teaching Fellowships encourage and support faculty members at all career levels in their efforts to impart their own knowledge and expertise to their students. These awards support the creation of original and innovative course curricula. Funds will support the rethinking and reframing of courses in the humanities and social sciences that directly relate to the whole or part of Eurasia. Courses must be wholly new, or substantial revisions of a course previously taught. The SSRC invites proposals that have an interdisciplinary or comparative outlook, encompass a diverse range of literatures or source media (including audio, video, and web content), and make appropriate use of various pedagogical approaches. Proposals that target unique and important student audiences, provide a substantial addition or significantly diversify existing departmental or university curricula, or that otherwise fill an important niche or fulfill an instructional gap are especially encouraged. Amount: $7,000. Deadline: November 14, 2006.

Spencer Foundation, Research Programs. Field-Initiated Proposals. The Foundation is alive to the possibility that someone may have a terrific idea for worthwhile research that does not fit easily into even its broad areas of interest. Deadline: continuous.

Spencer Foundation, Research Programs. Organizational Learning in Schools, School Systems, and Higher Education Institutions. Sustained improvement in educational performance requires continuous learning within and among schools, education systems, and higher education institutions. The Foundation is interested in advancing understanding of ways to strengthen the capacity of schools and education systems as learning organizations. Deadline: continuous.

Spencer Foundation, Research Programs. Purposes and Values of Education. Analytical, historical and empirical work that probes effectively and creatively into these deeply challenging and permanently important issues can contribute mightily toward social decision-making that moves education along constructive paths. Deadline: continuous.

Spencer Foundation, Research Programs. Relation between Education and Social Opportunity. The interests of the Spencer Foundation extend to studies that examine the ways in which differences in educational experiences (including quality and character of schooling as well as number of years in school) translate into differences in employment, earnings, and civic and social outcomes. Deadline: continuous.

Spencer Foundation, Research Programs. Teaching, Learning, and Instructional Resources. A key aim of research in this initiative is to support investigations of questions that are grounded directly in teaching practice as well as in research about important aspects of teaching and learning processes that hold promise for enriching opportunities to learn and for guiding informed policymaking. Deadline: continuous.

Spencer Foundation. Major Research Grants. The foundation supports research that promises to contribute new knowledge to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, in the United States and abroad. A variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are favored; though emphasis is given by charter to the behavioral sciences. Amount: $35,000. Deadline: Continuous.

Toyota USA Foundation. Various Programs. Helps organizations, schools, universities and other businesses to support programs that help make our world a better place. Deadline: Continuous.

United States Department of Education (ED). What Works Clearinghouse. The U.S. Department of Education intends to award a five-year contract to continue the operation and further development of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). This is a full and open procurement to operate the Clearinghouse, and it is open to all responsible sources. The clearinghouse promotes informed education decisionmaking through a set of easily accessible, searchable databases and user-friendly reports that provide education consumers with high-quality reviews of the effectiveness of replicable educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies) that are intended to improve student achievement.

US Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Navy. Research, Development and Engineering Command - Simulation and Training Technology Center RDECOM-STTC). The Department of the Navy is soliciting white papers proposing to develop technologies that will lead to more efficient and effective Army training, test and evaluation systems. One area of interest is battlefield simulation research. White Paper Deadline: September 01, 2010.

US Department of Defense (DOD), Department of the Navy. NAVAIR Orland BAA. Numerous opportunities in a variety of fields. Deadline: varies by program.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Navy. Knowledge Presentation Formats. Research is needed to determine optimal methods for presenting this knowledge to trainees so that they learn and encode it in a manner that is consistent with cognitive processing requirements. In particular, the relative merits of various multi-media formats must be determined, and issues such as authoring multi-media instructional systems must be addressed. Deadline: Continuous.

US Department of Education (ED), Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Education Research Request for Applications. Programs include reading and writing; mathematics and science education; teacher quality - reading and writing; teacher quality mathematics and science education; education leadership; education policy, finance, and systems; postdoctoral research training; interventions for struggling readers; cognition and student learning; high school reform; and postsecondary education. LOI Deadline: June 01, 2006; September 14, 2006. Deadline: July 27, 2006; November 16, 2006.

US Department of Education (ED), Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Special Education Research Request for Applications. Programs include early intervention, early childhood special education, and children with disabilities; mathematics and science education; reading, writing, and language development; serious behavior disorders; assessment for accountability; response to intervention; autism spectrum disorders; teacher quality and quality of other service providers for students with disabilities; secondary and transition services; and individualized education programs and individualized family service plans. LOI Deadline: June 01, 2006; September 14, 2006. Deadline: July 27, 2006; November 16, 2006.

US Department of Education (ED), Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Unsolicited Applications. The Institute of Education Sciences announces its interest in considering unsolicited applications for research, evaluation, statistics, and dissemination projects that would make significant contributions to the mission of the Institute. Deadline: May 01, 2006.

US Department of Education/Institute of Education Sciences. Various Programs. Deadline: varies across programs

US Department of Education/Institute of Education Sciences. Grants. The goal of these grants will be to provide national leadership in expanding fundamental knowledge and understanding of education from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education. Applicants capable of conducting scientifically valid research will be eligible to apply.

Engineering & Sciences

Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Broad Agency Announcement. Research opportunities available in diverse scientific areas of interest to the military. Deadline: Continuous.

Air Force Research Laboratory. Advance Research for Warfighter Interface Technologies. Technology research will be primarily focused on battlespace visualization, system control interfaces, cognitive systems, collaborative interfaces, and battlespace acoustics. Deadline: Continuous

Altran Foundation for Innovation. Innovation Prize - 2007 Award. The Altran Foundation for Innovation awards prizes for technological innovation in a different field every year. For the 2007 round, the foundation has selected the theme, "Mending the human body through technological innovation." Nowadays, improving quality of life is one of our priorities. Promoting and protecting health are essential elements. In this context, scientists and doctors are increasingly working on finding solutions and techniques to repair the human body: - Restoring the human functions altered since birth or by an accident, disease, or old age - Improving diagnosis, detecting and preventing risks - Improving and developing tools necessary to these actions The union of medicine and technology permitted to develop unique techniques in the fields of science and medicine. These progresses are due to: - Progresses in optimisation of processes, elaboration and transformation - The union of bio and nanotechnologies - The meeting between data processing and robotics - Discoveries in (bio) materials and matters (titanium, ceramic, mother-of-pearl, coral, polyethylene) Thanks to these considerable progresses, many projects are developing new techniques of restoration or are improving those existing with decreasing costs, improving reliability and results. This year, the Altran Foundation for Innovation wants to help efficiently these projects and thus facilitate mobility, independence, and freedom for affected people. Deadline: March 27, 2007.

Alzheimer's Association. Conference Grants. The Alzheimer's Association has a long history of supporting scientific conferences that advance research on Alzheimer's disease. The range of acceptable topics is as broad as the entire arena of Alzheimer's disease research and includes, but is not limited to: - patient care and outcomes; - family and social support; - care settings; - etiology and pathophysiology; - risk factors and epidemiology;-- diagnosis; - management and treatment; - prevention; and - clinical trials of new therapies. Upper Amount: $10,000. Deadline: Continuous.

Alzheimer's Association; Research Grants Program. Senator Mark Hatfield Award for Clinical Research in Alzheimer's Disease. The goal of the Alzheimer's Association, through the provision of its research grant funds, is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research and to enhance care and support for individuals, their families, and caregivers. The Senator Mark Hatfield Award for Clinical Research in Alzheimer's Disease will support a research project by a new investigator that is focused on a clinical question or questions in interventions for Alzheimer's disease. Upper Amount: $225,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Alzheimer's Association; Research Grants Program. Investigator-Initiated Research Grants (IIRG). The goal of the Alzheimer's Association, through the provision of its research grant funds, is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research and to enhance care and support for individuals, their families, and caregivers. The Investigator-Initiated Research Grant (IIRG) forms the backbone of the Alzheimer's Association's grants program. Proposals must address a question or questions relevant to the current year's areas of focus or a compelling issue in Alzheimer research pertinent to the applicant's special interest or expertise. The areas of focus for 2007 are - research in diverse populations: closing the gap; - social and behavioral focus: evaluating interventions and translating knowledge into practice; and - biological focus: causes, early detection, treatment, models, prevention, and risk factors. Upper Amount: $240,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Alzheimer's Association; Research Grants Program. New Investigator Research Grant (NIRG). The goal of the Alzheimer's Association, through the provision of its research grant funds, is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research and to enhance care and support for individuals, their families, and caregivers. The New Investigator Research Grant (NIRG) Program is designed to provide new investigators with funding that will allow them to develop preliminary or pilot data, to test procedures, and to develop hypotheses. The intent is to support early-career development that will lay the groundwork for future research grant applications to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and other funding agencies and groups, including future proposals to the Alzheimer's Association. All NIRG applications must target defined areas of focus for the current year. The areas of focus for 2007 are - research in diverse populations: closing the gap; - social and behavioral focus: evaluating interventions and translating knowledge into practice; and - biological focus: causes, early detection, treatment, models, prevention, and risk factors. Upper Amount: $100,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

Alzheimer's Association; Research Grants Program. Zenith Fellows Award Program. The goal of the Alzheimer's Association, through the provision of its research grant funds, is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research and to enhance care and support for individuals, their families, and caregivers. The objective of the 2007 Zenith Fellows Award Program is to provide major support for investigators who (1) have contributed significantly to the field of Alzheimer's disease research or made significant contributions to other areas of science and are now beginning to focus more directly on problems related to Alzheimer's disease and (2) are likely to make substantial contributions in the future. The proposed research must be "on the cutting edge" of basic science or biomedical research and thus may not conform to current conventional scientific wisdom or may challenge the prevailing orthodoxy. The proposed research should address fundamental problems related to early detection, etiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention of Alzheimer's disease. Upper Amount: $250,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR); Research Funding; AACR Research Fellowships. AACR-National Brain Tumor Foundation Fellowship, in Memory of Bonnie Brooks. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)-National Brain Tumor Foundation Fellowship, in memory of Bonnie Brooks, supports projects in basic, translational, clinical, or epidemiology research with 100 percent applicability to brain tumor science. The recipient must devote a substantial portion of time, ordinarily 70 percent, to cancer research during the research fellowship term. Amount: $40,000. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR); Scientific Awards. Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research has been established to honor an individual who has made significant fundamental contributions to cancer research, either through a single scientific discovery or a body of work. These contributions, whether they have been in research, leadership, or mentorship, must have had a lasting impact on the cancer field and must have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to progress against cancer. Deadline: December 01, 2006.

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR); Travel Grants; Annual Meeting Scholar-in-Training Awards. AACR-Unrestricted Travel Awards. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting Scholar-in-Training Awards provide financial support to early-career scientists whose proffered papers for the association's annual meeting are highly rated by the Program Committee. The 98th AACR Annual Meeting will be held April 14 to 18, 2007, in Los Angeles, California. The AACR offers unrestricted travel awards supporting attendance at the annual meeting for presenters of highly rated proffered papers in all fields of cancer research. Unrestricted awards are supported by AACR, AstraZeneca, Busch Travel Fund, Eli Lilly and Company, Merck, and others. Amount: $400. Upper Amount: $2,000. Deadline: November 28, 2006.

American Association of Immunologists (AAI); Travel Awards; AAI Minority Scientist Awards. Minority Trainee-to-Junior-Faculty Travel Award. The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) offers Minority Scientist Travel Awards to provide travel support to eligible AAI members to attend the AAI annual meeting. These awards are supported in part by a FASEB grant from the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program, administered by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Minority Trainee-to-Junior-Faculty Travel Award provides funding for underrepresented minority trainees or junior faculty members to attend the annual meeting. Immunology 2007, the 94th Annual Meeting of the AAI, will be held May 18 to 22, 2007, in Miami Beach, Florida. Upper Amount: $1,350. Deadline: January 15, 2007.

American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Various Awards. Deadline: continuous.

American Astronomical Society (AAS). Various Grants. Deadline: Varies across programs.

American Astronomical Society (AAS). Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy. The American Astronomical Society (AAS) annually presents the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy to honor a woman postdoctoral scholar for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy. Amount: $1,500. Upper Amount: $147,900. Deadline: October 01, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

American Astronomical Society (AAS). Small Research Grants. The purpose of the Small Research Grants is to cover costs associated with any type of astronomical research. Upper Amount: $7,000. Deadline: May 01, 2006; November 27, 2006.

American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA). Basic Research Fellowships. The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Basic Research Fellowships program provides funding for basic brain tumor research conducted in the United States or Canada by young postdoctoral scientists who have demonstrated the motivation and potential to conduct this research. All basic brain tumor research will be given serious consideration, including pediatric brain tumor research. Additionally, ABTA is interested in receiving innovative research proposals - those that incorporate new or original concepts and have the potential to make a difference. Criteria for selection include the quality of the applicant, including his or her neuro-oncology commitment; the training program; and the proposed research work. Amount: $80,000. Deadline: January 05, 2007.

American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA). Translational Research Grants for Brain Tumors. The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Translational Grants program provides funding for neuro-oncology research conducted in the United States or Canada by young postdoctoral scientists. All such research will be given serious consideration, including pediatric brain tumor research. In this context, translational research is defined as pre-clinical research intended to evaluate the therapeutic potential of recent discoveries in the basic mechanisms of either brain tumor pathogenesis or experimental therapeutics. Human studies are excluded. Criteria for selection include the quality and therapeutic potential of the research; the quality of the laboratory environment; and the individual applicant, including their commitment to neuro-oncology. Amount: $50,000. Deadline: January 05, 2007.

American Chemical Society (ACS). Various Awards. Deadlines: Vary by award.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology. The American Chemical Society (ACS) presents the Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology to recognize outstanding and creative contributions to fundamental discoveries or inventions in ultrafast science and technology in areas of physics, chemistry, biology, or related fields. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives the Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry to recognize outstanding contributions to bioorganic or bioinorganic chemistry. The award is intended to recognize significant research accomplishments that are at the interface between biology and organic or inorganic chemistry. Special consideration will be given to applications of the fundamental principles and experimental methodology of chemistry to areas of biological significance. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) presents the Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry for outstanding contributions in the field of medicinal chemistry. Amount: $3,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Arthur C. Cope Award. The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives the Arthur C. Cope Award to an individual in recognition of an outstanding achievement in the field of organic chemistry. The significance of this achievement shall have become apparent within the five years preceding the year in which the award will be considered. Amount: $175,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards. The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry. Each recipient is required to deliver an awards address at the Arthur C. Cope Symposium. Amount: $45,500. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives the Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry to recognize distinguished services in the advancement of surface chemistry. Activities recognized by the award may include such fields as teaching, writing, research, and administration. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. The purpose of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research is to recognize and encourage the use of computers in the advancement of the chemical and biological sciences. The award shall be granted to an individual for outstanding achievement in the use of computers in research, development, or education in the chemical and biological sciences. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology. The purpose of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology is to encourage creativity in research and technology or methods of analysis to provide a scientific basis for informed environmental control decision-making processes, or to provide practical technologies which will reduce health risk factors. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry is given to recognize individuals who advance inorganic chemistry by significant service in addition to performance of outstanding research. Activities recognized by the award may include such fields as teaching, writing, research, and administration. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences is given to recognize individuals who have significantly stimulated or fostered the interest of students in chemistry, especially those currently underrepresented in the profession (e.g., minority or economically disadvantaged students), thereby promoting their professional development as chemists or chemical engineers, and in generating a broader appreciation of chemistry as the central science. Amount: $15,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution is given to recognize the importance of research with undergraduates. The award will honor a chemistry faculty member whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to chemistry and to the professional development of undergraduate students. This award recognizes research that constitutes advances in science as evidenced by refereed publications with undergraduate coauthors in leading scientific research journals, external research grant support, and the subsequent professional development of students who have participated in the research program. The award will be given for significant work over a long period of time rather than for a specific, limited project. Amount: $10,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award for Team Innovation. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Team Innovation is given to highlight the value and importance of technical teams and teamwork to the chemical and allied industries by recognizing a multidisciplinary team for successfully moving an innovative idea to a product now in commercial use. The output of the team must demonstrate innovation and commercialization of a product or process, be of a special value to society, and be of a nature that could only be achieved by professionals working together effectively. The rate of commercialization of the team's output will also be considered in the selection of the recipient of this award. Amount: $3,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Analytical Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Analytical Chemistry is given to recognize and encourage outstanding contributions to the science of analytical chemistry, pure or applied, carried out in the United States or Canada. Special consideration will be given to the independence of thought and the originality shown, or to the importance of the work when applied to public welfare, economics, or the needs and desires of humanity. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Applied Polymer Science. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Applied Polymer Science is given to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in the fields of polymer and polymer materials research. The recipient will be selected primarily on the basis of scientific contributions made to the technology of plastics, coatings, polymer composites, adhesives, and related fields during the 10-year period preceding date of selection. Preference will be given to avoid repeating specific areas of technology whenever recognized by the granting of this award in the two preceding years. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Chromatography. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Chromatography is given to recognize an individual for outstanding contributions to the fields of chromatography. Particular consideration is given to the development of new methods. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry is given to recognize and encourage outstanding scientific contributions to colloid or surface chemistry in North America. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Industrial Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Industrial Chemistry is given to recognize outstanding contributions to chemical research in the industrial context. Significant creative contribution to chemistry in any field of chemical, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical, or biochemical research is appropriate. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Inorganic Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Inorganic Chemistry is given to recognize and encourage fundamental research in the field of inorganic chemistry. The recipient shall have accomplished outstanding research in the preparation, properties, reactions, or structure of inorganic substances. Special consideration shall be given to the independence of thought and originality shown. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Organometallic Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Organometallic Chemistry is given to recognize a recent advancement that is having a major impact on research in organometallic chemistry. The recipient shall have shown outstanding research in the preparation, reactions, properties, or structure of organometallic substances. Special consideration will be given to demonstrated creativity and independence of thought. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Polymer Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Polymer Chemistry is given to recognize outstanding contributions to polymer chemistry. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Pure Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Pure Chemistry is given to recognize and encourage fundamental research in pure chemistry carried out in North America by young men and women. Special consideration is given to independence of thought and the originality shown in the research. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in the Chemistry of Materials. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in the Chemistry of Materials is given to recognize and encourage creative work in the chemistry of materials. Particular emphasis will be placed on research relating to materials of actual or potential technological importance, where a fundamental understanding of the chemistry associated with materials preparation, processing, or use is critical. Since much of the impact of research depends upon the extension of the work of others, some consideration should be given to the nominee's success as mentor and colleague. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Theoretical Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Theoretical Chemistry is given to an individual to recognize innovative research in theoretical chemistry that advances theoretical methodology or contributes to new discoveries about chemical systems. Emphasis in the selection process will be on work characterized by depth, originality, and scientific significance. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management. The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives the Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management to recognize those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and creativity in promoting the sciences of chemistry and chemical engineering in research management. The recipient shall have demonstrated success in research management by exhibiting the proven ability to manage research projects and people. This leadership and creativity must have been demonstrated by a record of successful research projects and by a strong motivation of the researchers on those projects. Recognition of these accomplishments by peers is essential. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives the Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry to recognize outstanding achievement in the development or application of mass spectrometry. In odd-numbered years the award will be presented for advances in techniques or fundamental processes in mass spectrometry. Recognition will be given in even-numbered years to development of the applications of mass spectrometry. Amount: $5,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives the Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry to recognize and encourage research in nuclear and radiochemistry or their applications. Amount: $3,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry. The American Chemical Society (ACS) presents the Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry to recognize an outstanding graduate student and her or his preceptor(s), in the field of chemistry, as broadly defined. Amount: $3,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Award in Separations Science and Technology. The purpose of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Separations Science and Technology is to recognize outstanding accomplishments in fundamental or applied research directed to separations science and technology. The scope of the award is to be as broad as possible, covering all fields where separation science and technology is practiced, including, but not limited to, biology, chemistry engineering, geology, and medicine. The recipient will deliver a lecture at the annual ACS Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Separations Science and Technology Symposium. Amount: $5,000.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. E.B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances. The American Chemical Society (ACS) presents the E. B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances to recognize and encourage outstanding discoveries or developments in the chemistry of medicinally active substances. The discovery for which the award is given should have been made during the last two decades. Amount: $3,000. Upper Amount: $4,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics. The Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics is given to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics. In even-numbered years, the American Chemical Society (ACS) selects the award recipient and presents the award. In odd-numbered years, the American Physical Society (APS) selects the prize recipient and presents the prize. Amount: $10,000. Upper Amount: $15,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006; February 01, 2007; June 01, 2007.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Nakanishi Prize. The Nakanishi Prize, funded by the Nakanishi Prize Endowment, recognizes and stimulates significant work that extends chemical and spectroscopic methods to the study of important biological phenomena. The prize was established by the students and colleagues of Koji Nakanishi in the United States and Japan, and by members of the scientific community of both countries who have benefited by his nurturing of collaborative and interdisciplinary science. Consequently the prize is given in the United States and in Japan in alternate years through the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Chemical Society of Japan and the separate endowments administered accordingly. Special consideration will be given for work that has contributed broadly on an international scope. Amount: $3,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. Charles Lathrop Parsons Award. The Charles Lathrop Parsons Award is given to recognize outstanding public service by a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The public service to be recognized may be performed either as a part of or completely outside the regular duties and activities of the nominee's employment. Amount: $3,000. Deadline: November 01, 2006.

American Chemical Society (ACS); ACS National Awards. E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy. The American Chemical Society (ACS) gives the E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy to an individual to recognize outstanding accomplishments in fundamental or applied spectroscopy in chemistry. The scope of the award is to cov