Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development

2005 Funding Opportunities Archives
2006 archive

 

January

January 1

American Association of Cereal Chemists. Awards.

Population Council. Social Science Fellowship Program (Postdoctoral). The Policy Research Division (PRD) of the Population Council offers a few residential postdoctoral fellowships to persons who wish to pursue advanced training and research in population studies under the mentorship of a member of its research staff. Priority areas of research are fertility and family planning, health/reproductive health, population aging, population and development, transitions to adulthood, and urban growth and its consequences.

January 2

National Institutes of Health. Alcohol Abuse and HIV/AIDS in Resource-poor Societies. Investigators are encouraged to consider designing studies that utilize rigorous methodologies from epidemiological, biomedical, and behavioral research traditions.

National Institutes of Health. Molecular Epidemiology of Cancers Associated With Acquired Immunodeficiency. The program invites grant applications for interdisciplinary studies to better understand the molecular epidemiology and role of cofactors in the etiology and pathogenesis of preneoplastic conditions and cancers occurring among persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), specifically those cancers associated with viruses such as human papillomavirus (HPV), Epstein Barr virus (EBV), human herpes virus 8/Kaposi sarcoma associated herpes virus (HHV8/KSHV), and hepatitis viruses B and C. Other Deadline: May 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Nutrition and the Development, Treatment, and Prevention of HIV Disease in Women, Infants, and Children. Applications are encouraged that address preclinical or clinical, biomedical, or behavioral research that concentrates on studies of nutritional factors and HIV transmission; nutritional requirements for optimal growth, development, and maintenance of health; impact of HIV infection on breastfeeding; interactions between antiretroviral therapies, diet, nutrition, and health; nutritional assessment methodologies; and specific functional biomarkers of outcome related to the nutrition/HIV relationship. Other deadlines: September 01, 2004; May 01, 2005

January 3

Yale University/Agrarian Studies Program. Agrarian Studies Visiting Research Fellowships. The broad theme for the colloquium series of the Program in Agrarian Studies will be "Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions and Identities."The program intends to examine, comparatively, from the broadest perspective, the various distinctions different societies make between, say, frontier, wilderness, arable countryside, city, town, agriculture, commerce, hills, lowlands, maritime districts, and inland - and the weight given them.

January 5

American Educational Research Association (AERA). Research Grants Program. The program's goals are (1) to stimulate research on U.S. education policy and practice related issues using NSF and NCES data sets; (2) to improve the educational research community's firsthand 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. Amount: up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects. Other deadlines: September 03, 2004; March 10, 2005

American Research Center in Egypt. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships for Professional and Postdoctoral Scholars. The goal of the fellowship program is to promote knowledge of Egypt and the Near East through study and research, and to aid in the training of American specialists in academic disciplines that require familiarity with Egypt. Awards are generally limited to fields in the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Upper Amount: $39,900.

Association of Theological Schools. Faculty Sabbatical Grants. The Lilly Theological Faculty Sabbatical Grants are designed to assist faculty members who offer well-developed plans for conducting a significant research project during an institutionally approved research leave of six or more months. The fellowships program encourages applications from scholars in all disciplines and areas of theological research. Upper Amount: $25,000.

Environmental Protection Agency/NSF/NIOSH. Investigating Environmental and Human Health Effects of Manufactured Nanomaterials. Research areas may include the toxicology, fate, transport and transformation, bioavailability, and exposures of human and other species in natural ecosystems to nanomaterials.

Leakey Foundation. General Research Grants. Foundation fosters research into human origins. Recent priorities include research into the environment, archaeology, and human paleontology; behavior, morphology, and ecology of the great apes and other primate species; and behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Other areas related to human evolution have been funded on occasion.

National Institutes of Health. New Methodologies for Natural Products Chemistry. The goal is to reinvigorate the investigation of nature as a prolific source of small molecules with the potential to interact with all of the proteins that participate in cellular processes in health and disease. Optional LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: January 24, 2005.

National Science Foundation. Theoretical Foundations (TF) - NSF 05-500. Projects supported in the TF cluster seek to determine inherent limits of computation and communication, and to obtain optimal solutions within those limits. They address fundamental issues of information science and technology, both within computation and communications and at the interface between these and other disciplines. Amount: $125,000 per year for three years.

US Department of Agriculture/CSREES. Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grants Program. NNF applications are being solicited in the following national need areas: (1) animal, microbial, or plant molecular biology, including genomics and bioinformatics; (2) natural resources and the environment; (3) agricultural systems and natural resource engineering; (4) marketing and management; (5) food science and human nutrition; (6) human or family science and consumer sciences; and (7) multidisciplinary and/or multi-institutional programs.

January 6

American Brain Tumor Association. Basic Research Fellowships. All 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. Amount: $70,000.

National Science Foundation. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program. This program seeks to increase the number of U.S. students receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Optional LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: February 10, 2005.

New York University/International Center for Advanced Studies. Center Fellowships: The Authority of Knowledge in a Global Age. The community is international in membership, interdisciplinary and comparative in intellectual strategy, and global in scope. ICAS offers fellowships to scholars in any field of the social sciences and humanities whose work addresses the center's theme. Upper Amount: $35,000.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Army. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). This program supports research in cleanup, compliance, conservation, pollution prevention, and unexploded ordnance technologies. White Paper Deadline.

 

January 7

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Solar System Exploration Research. This research will support NASA’s STARDUST mission, which is scheduled to return dust samples from Comet P/Wild-2 to earth in January 2006. LOI Deadline: November 3, 2004. Application Deadline: January 7, 2005.

Princeton University/Center for the Study of Religion. Postdoctoral Fellowships in American Religion. For 2005-2006, research fellows will be appointed in two areas: 1) Christian Thought and Practice: special emphasis on the religious life of American Christians, congregations, or clergy; and 2) Public Theology: contingent on funding, special emphasis on contemporary issues bridging theology and the social sciences, such as just war theory, pluralism, or social welfare.

January 10

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS Fellowships.
AAAS/NIH Science Policy Fellowships are designed to provide a unique public policy learning experience; to demonstrate the value of government, university, and industry interaction; and to bring technical backgrounds and external perspectives to the policy-making process at NIH.
AAAS Homeland Security Fellows will gain expertise in national strategy, federal response efforts, and guiding and contributing to homeland security research and development programs.
AAAS Risk Policy Fellows in Health, Safety, and the Environment will study a wide array of environmental and public health issues, including counterterrorism, food safety concerns, environmental contaminants, and invasive species.

National Science Foundation. Biological Databases and Informatics. The terms "database development" and "biological informatics activities" describe a range of activities along a continuum, from formative, theoretical development of new algorithms, data structures, and tools specific to the management of biological information to the development and utilization of established resources needed by whole communities of biological researchers. The emphasis of the BD&I program as reflected in this announcement is on supporting proposals that address the formative stages of this continuum. Amount: $2,500,000 maximum

National Science Foundation. Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) Site and Conceptual Design - NSF 05-506. The purpose of a DUSEL is to enable the broad range of science and engineering research that requires a deep underground location for reasons such as shielding from cosmic rays or direct access to physical, chemical, biological, or engineering processes that occur deep underground. Upper Amount: $500,000.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Knowledge Dissemination Conference Grants Program. The purpose of this program is to disseminate knowledge about practices within the mental health services and substance abuse prevention and treatment fields and to integrate that knowledge into real-world practice as effectively and efficiently as possible. Amount: $1,025,000 for 22-41 grants.

US Department of State/Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. MEPI Standing Program Announcement. The Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) supports economic, political, and educational reform efforts in the Middle East and champions opportunity for all people of the region, especially women and youth. Other Deadlines: June 01, 2005; October 11, 2005.

January 11

National Institutes of Health. Novel Targets and Therapy Development for Ischemic Stroke. The NHLBI and the NINDS invite research applications that will improve the understanding of brain hemostasis, identify new molecular targets, explore promising agents, and develop novel therapeutics for cerebral ischemia. This program intends to support basic, translational, and early clinical studies. Optional LOI Deadline: December 10, 2004

National Institutes of Health/NHLBI. Causes and Mechanisms of COPD Exacerbations. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute invites applications for research projects that will investigate the causes of and molecular pathways involved in acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Optional LOI Deadline: December 13, 2004.

National Institutes of Health/NIAID. HLA Region Genetics in Immune-Mediated Diseases. The program will support participation in a cooperative research group to define the association between human leukocyte antigen region genes or genetic markers and immune-mediated diseases, including risk and severity of disease, and organ, tissue, and cell transplantation outcomes. Optional LOI Deadline: December 10, 2004.

January 12

National Science Foundation is soliciting proposals for research under six cluster programs (see below). Other deadline: July 12, annually. The following programs include:

National Science Foundation. Understanding development, form, function, and evolution requires integrative approaches. These can include analyses from the molecular through the ecosystem levels, including advanced computational techniques and interdisciplinary perspectives involving other areas of biology, behavioral science, physical science, mathematics, engineering, and computer science. Other Deadline: July 12, 2005.
- Behavioral Systems
- Developmental Systems
- Functional and Regulatory Systems
- Environmental and Structural Systems

Office of Naval Research. 2005 Young Investigator Program. This program supports academic scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees within the last five years and show exceptional promise for doing creative research.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Army. Exploration - Hypothesis Development Awards. The intent of the Exploration - Hypothesis Development Award is to provide funds to support initial exploration of innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking concepts in prostate cancer. Upper Amount: $75,000. LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: February 8, 2005.

US Department of Homeland Security. Project Atlantic-2. DHS has a need to develop and deploy a device to discreetly and safely screen persons at checkpoints. The government intends to award one or more contracts for the development of a whole-body, non-contact explosives detection device for screening persons entering airport checkpoints. The successful offeror will deliver and install one prototype device, conduct training, and provide supporting maintenance.

 

January 14

NASA. Regenerative Fuel cell (RFC) Breadboard Development. NASA is interested in RFCs as energy storage devices for remotely piloted, solar-electric aircraft, which is expected to enable high-altitude, long endurance flight capability.

National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute/National Hemophilia Foundation. Improved Therapy for Hemophilia and Hereditary Bleeding Disorders. Applicants are expected to conduct studies that will lead to improved treatment of hemophilia, von Willebrand disease, and other hereditary bleeding disorders. Research should seek to improve therapy and enhance understanding of immune response and safety issues related to novel therapeutics, gene transfer or cell based therapies for bleeding disorders. Optional LOI Deadline: December 15, 2004.

National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medicine Sciences.High-Accuracy Protein Structure Modeling. Optional LOI Deadline. The National Institute of General Medicine Sciences invites applications for funding to support the development of novel technologies that improve the accuracy of comparative modeling methods for protein structure prediction. Application Deadline: February 14, 2005.

National Science Foundation. Greenhouse Gas. Program seeks proposals for studies related to the production, interaction, and reactions of greenhouse gases Research focused on laboratory investigation of processes at the molecular level, development of experimental data necessary for effective modeling and prediction of greenhouse gas effects on a global scale, and identification of alternative, less environmentally destructive substances.

National Science Foundation. Research on Learning and Education (ROLE). The ROLE Program supports research across a continuum that includes (1) the biological basis of human learning, (2) behavioral, cognitive, affective and social aspects of human learning, (3) STEM learning in formal and informal educational setting, (4) changing educational systems to improve STEM learning, and (5) the diffusion of STEM innovations. LOI Deadline. Proposal Deadline: March 4, 2005.

National Science Foundation. Science of Learning Centers (SLC) - NSF 05-509. The Science of Learning Centers (SLC) program offers awards for large-scale, long-term centers that will extend the frontiers of knowledge on learning of all types and create the intellectual, organizational, and physical infrastructure needed for the long-term advancement of learning research.

National Science Foundation; Division of Chemistry. Various Programs. Programs include analytical and surface, organic dynamics, organic synthesis, theoretical and computational chemistry, and inorganic, biorganic, and organmetellic chemistry. Proposal submission window is from the second Monday of July to the second Friday of January, annually.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Air Force. Autonomous Pathogen Detection System. Systems are to be deployed in high-traffic indoor environments to allow rapid response to biological attacks. Responses should include measures to minimize exposures to the general population, limit the spread of contaminants, and treat exposed persons as rapidly as possible.

January 15

American Accounting Association. Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award. The screening committee for the joint American Institute for Certified Public Accountants/American Accounting Association (AICPA/AAA) Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award invites nominations of outstanding articles, books, monographs, or other publications for consideration. Amount: $2,500.

American Antiquarian Society. Short-Term Fellowships. The following short-term fellowships are available for scholars holding the Ph.D. and for doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research. Upper Amount: $3,000.

American Diabetes Association. Research Awards. The purpose of the ADA's Research Awards is to provide grant support to new and established investigators. Investigators who have not previously worked in the field of diabetes and who have an imaginative proposal related to any aspect of diabetes research are encouraged to apply for this award. Upper Amount: $300,000. Other Deadline: July 15, 2005.

American Physiological Society. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiological Genomics. A central criterion of the postdoctoral project requires the scientist to use the tools of cellular and molecular biology in the setting of the whole animal. Amount: $73,000.

Arthritis National Research Foundation. Grants. The goal is to help discover new knowledge for the prevention, treatment, and cure of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases. Upper Amount: $50,000.

Association for Institutional Research. Research Grant Program. Funded projects promise a significant contribution to the national knowledge of the nature and operation of postsecondary education and contribute to the professional development of personnel working in postsecondary education. Research grant projects must use one or more of the national postsecondary education databases of NCES or NSF. Upper Amount: $30,000.

The Conservation Fund. Banrock Station Wetlands Conservation Program. The goals of the Banrock Station Wetlands Conservation Program are to educate key audiences about the importance of wetlands, support action-oriented wetlands conservation projects across America, create partnerships between public, private, and nonprofit organizations to leverage resources for wetlands protection, showcase Banrock Station supported success stories, bringing visibility to effective conservation, and link Banrock Station's resources with wetland projects that address critical community issues. Upper Amount: $5,000.

Food and Drug Association. Support for Small Scientific Conference Grants. This program partially supports scientific meetings and conferences designed to coordinate, exchange, and disseminate information when the objectives are clearly within the scope of the agency's mission. In view of the diversity of interests among the various FDA centers and offices, and in order to provide maximum flexibility, FDA will not set rigid requirements concerning the type of scientific meetings to be supported. Other Deadline: April 15, 2005

Graham Foundation. Grants in Architecture and Related Arts. Grants offered to individuals and institutions in support of activities that focus on architecture and the built environment and that lead to the public dissemination of ideas through publication, exhibition, or educational programming.

Historic New Orleans Collection. Kemper and Leila Williams Prize. The Kemper and Leila Williams Prize, named for the founders of the Historic New Orleans Collection, offers a cash award for the best book on Louisiana history published in 2004. Amount: $1,500.

The Lalor Foundation. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Mammalian Reproductive Biology. Individuals nominated by applicant institutions may be citizens of any country. Individuals should have training and experience of at least equal to the Ph.D. or M.D. level and should not have a faculty appointment. Amount: $35,000.

National Science Foundation. Linguistics. 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.

National Science Foundation. Perception, Action, and Cognition. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Research topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control, and developmental issues in all topic areas.

Smithsonian Institution. Senior Fellowships. Fields of research at the Smithsonian include American history, American material and folk culture, and the history of music and musical instruments; history of science and technology, history of art, design, crafts, and the decorative arts; anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and ethnic studies; evolutionary, systematic, behavioral, environmental biology, and conservation; geological sciences and astrophysics; and materials characterization and conservation.

University of Oklahoma. Creativity in Motion/Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize. The prize celebrates a visionary work in process, recognizing the potential power of its original expression to affect and enrich the world around us. The competition will award an unrestricted sum of $40,000 to an individual whose work demonstrates original thinking and the promise of continuing creative work. Submissions are open to all fields of creativity, including but not limited to the arts, cultural affairs, education, and science.

January 16

Department of Health and Human Services/NHLBI. Cellular and Genetic Discovery Toward Curative Therapy in Myeloproliferative Disorders. The goal is to apply the markers to future development of novel therapeutics with curative intent. Optional LOI due: January 16, 2005. Deadline: February 16, 2005.

Department of Health and Human Services/NHLBI. Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS): Seeking Cure Through Discovery On Pathogenesis and Disease Progression. The goal is to develop new and curative treatments options for the future. Optional LOI due: January 16, 2005. Deadline: February 16, 2005.

National Science Foundation. National Space Weather Program (NSWP) - NSF 05-508. The NSWP goal is to ultimately achieve timely, accurate, and reliable space environment observations, specifications, and forecasts. Information about the NSWP can be obtained from the National Space Weather Program Strategic Plan and Implementation Plan. Proposals may be submitted for basic research in solar, heliospheric, magnetospheric, ionospheric, and thermospheric physics aimed at meeting the goals of the NSWP.

January 17

National Institutes of Health. Bioengineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity. The goal is to increase technologies and tools to facilitate scientists in their research on energy balance and health to address such problems as weight control and obesity. LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: February 16, 2005.

January 18

National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Challenge Grants: Biodefense Product Development. The applicants will conduct research to control and prevent diseases caused by infectious agents. This includes basic biomedical research, such as studies of microbial physiology and antigenic structure; immunity; applied research, including the development of diagnostic tests; and clinical trials to evaluate experimental drugs and vaccines. Optional LOI Deadline: Decemebr 17, 2004.

National Institutes of Health. National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways. These centers aim to develop highly novel, integrated and broadly applicable proteomics technologies to include instrumentation, biophysical methods, reagents, and infrastructure. LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: February 22, 2005.

US Agency for International Development. Production Finance and Technology Program in Zambia. USAID/Zambia plans to award a cooperative agreement for a program that will support achievement of the goals and objectives of its Economic Growth Strategy. Overall, the strategy aims to enhance competitiveness of small and medium scale agriculture and natural products producers and processors by providing better access to markets, improved production technologies, broader finance and business development services (BDS), implementing initiatives to improve the enabling environment and working to reduce barriers to trade and investment.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Navy. Communication and Sensor Systems Technologies. Typical systems and sensors include military and civilian voice, data, video and information communication systems; networks and situational awareness; infrared, optical, radar and geolocation systems; and radiological and ancillary systems.

US Department of Education/Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Field-Initiated Research in Rehabilitation Technology. Projects should maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of those with disabilities. Upper Amount: $150,000 per year.

US Department of Energy. Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance Core Technology Program. This program seeks to develop solid-oxide fuel cell power systems having broad applicability via use of mass customization techniques. White Paper Deadline: December 1, 2004.

US Department of Energy/Office of Science. Genomics GTL Research Program. Proposals should seek to develop the necessary experimental and computational capabilities to enable a predictive understanding of the behavior of microbes and microbial communities. LOI Deadline: October 25, 2004.

January 20

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. Other Deadline: January 20 annually thereafter

January 21

Harvard University. James Bryant Conant Fellowships in German and European Studies. The James Bryant Conant Fellowships in German and European Studies will be awarded by the Program for the Study of Germany and Europe. Topics should be in the fields of history, politics, economics, society, or culture, and preference will be given to projects that involve Germany. Upper Amount: $41,500.

National Institutes of Health. Assay Development for High Throughput Molecular Screening. The goal is to initiate a continuously evolving stream of scientifically and technologically outstanding assays that can be automated and used for screening small molecules within the Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network. Optional LOI Deadline. Proposal Deadline: February 14, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Innovative Exploratory Studies and Technology Development in Neuroinformatics Research. Encourages applications for one-time grant award to support: innovative research directions requiring preliminary testing or development of neuroscience databases or analytical tools (neuroinformatics) research; exploration of the use of approaches and concepts new to a particular substantive area of neuroinformatics research; or research and development of new technologies, techniques or methods in informatics that will have a high impact upon the advancement of neuroscience research.

National Institutes of Health. Novel Preclinical Tools for Predictive ADME-Toxicology. NIH invites applications to support novel approaches to obtain comprehensive absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicological profiles that could better predict how new molecular entities will perform in humans to reduce the failure rate in clinical testing. Optional LOI Deadline: December, 17, 2004.

National Institutes of Health/NIAID. Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI). The center will support intensive and highly collaborative projects addressing key immunological roadblocks to the discovery and development of a safe and effective HIV vaccine.Optional LOI Deadline:.; Application Deadline: February 23, 2005.

National Science Foundation. Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) - NSF 05-505. The NeTS program seeks to develop and sustain science and technology advances needed to create next-generation networks; increase our fundamental understanding of large, complex, heterogeneous networks; and continue the evolution of existing networks. The NeTS program also seeks to develop innovative curricular and educational materials that will help prepare the next generation of networking professionals.

National Science Foundation. To Determine the Function of All genes in Arabidopsis Thaliana by the Year 2010. Proposals should strive to use high throughput methods in understanding the gene circuitry underlying plant processes and determine the function of genes of unknown function.

US Department of State/Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Partnership for Learning (P4L) Undergraduate Program. Eligible U.S. organizations may submit proposals to administer the placement, monitoring, and evaluation for the program, which provides scholarships for one-year, non-degree study at U.S. institutes of higher education to outstanding students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Serbia. Scholarships are available in humanities and social sciences. Scholarships are granted to students who have completed at least two years of study at an accredited university in their home countries. Upper Amount: $400,000.

January 24

National Institutes of Health. National Centers for Biomedical Computing. These centers will create a networked national effort to build the computational infrastructure for biomedical computing in the nation, the National Program of Excellence in Biomedical Computing. Optional LOI Deadline: December 20, 2004.

National Institutes of Health. New Methodologies for Natural Products Chemistry. The goal is to reinvigorate the investigation of nature as a prolific source of small molecules with the potential to interact with all of the proteins that participate in cellular processes in health and disease. Optional LOI Deadline: January 3, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Pilot Projects for Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS). This study consists of a centralized informatics resource and a network of multidisciplinary scientists conducting computational and mathematical research to improve the ability to detect, control and prevent emerging infectious diseases caused by naturally occurring or intentionally released pathogens, including those relevant to biodefense. Optional LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: February 23, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Site Specific Approaches to Prevention or Management of Pediatric Obesity. NIH invites applications designed to develop and test intervention approaches for the prevention or management of overweight in children and adolescents through age 20 years. The focus is on utilizing specific sites where children and adolescents can be reached through innovative overweight prevention or weight management interventions. Optional LOI Deadline: December 23, 2004.

National Institutes of Health. Typical/Disordered Language: Phenotype Assessment Tools. NIH invites applications for funding to begin the process of adapting, norming or developing language measures that can be used in the characterization of the behavioral phenotypes of language disorders and specific aspects of typical language acquisition. Optional LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: February 24, 2005.

National Institutes of Health/ NIGMS. Membrane Protein Production and Structure Determination.The focus is on developing novel approaches to cloning, expression, oligomeric assembly, solubilization, stabilization, and purification of membrane proteins that are needed to advance the production of structurally and functionally intact membrane proteins suitable for structural studies.

National Science Foundation. Instrumentation for Materials Research - Major Instrumentation Projects. The program supports the design and construction of major instruments sited at major U.S. facilities. This program also supports the development of detailed conceptual and engineering design for new tools for materials preparation or characterization at major national facilities. Limited applications accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott (4-4933) for information on ISU's internal deadline.

University of Louisville. Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The university will offer an international prize in recognition of outstanding achievement by a living composer in a large musical genre: choral, orchestral, chamber, electronic, song-cycle, dance, opera, musical theater, extended solo work, etc. Amount: $200,000.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Air Force. JWS-D2, Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer (ARTEMIS) Sensor Payload. The objective is to develop a hyperspectral sensor suitable for integration on a government-provided spacecraft bus and interface to government-furnished data storage and processing system as part of a rapid development experiment to achieve a sensor payload.

January 25

US Department of Energy. Research in Innovative Approaches to High Energy Density Physics in Fusion Energy Sciences. The goal is to create research opportunities for other attractive physics pathways that have the potential of creating high energy density plasmas. LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: February 3, 2005.

 

January 27

Environmental Protection Agency. National Student Design Competition for Sustainability focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet. The P3 competition will provide grants to teams of college students to research, develop, and design solutions to sustainability challenges.
Proposals can include but are not limited to the following categories:
1. Agriculture (e.g., irrigation practices, reduction or elimination of pesticides).
2. Ecosystems (e.g., protection of ecosystem health; protection of biodiversity).
3. Materials and chemicals (e.g., materials conservation; renewable, bio-based feedstocks; inherently benign materials and chemicals through green engineering and green chemistry, biotechnology; recovery and reuse of materials through product, process, or system design).
4. Energy (e.g., reduction in air emissions through innovative strategies for energy production and energy distribution; energy conservation; inherently benign energy through green chemistry, green engineering, biotechnology).
5. Information technology (e.g., delivery of and access to environmental performance, technical, educational, or medical information).
6. Water (e.g., water quality, quantity, conservation, availability, and access).
7. Built Environment (e.g., environmental benefits through innovative green buildings, transportation and mobility strategies, and smart growth).

National Science Foundation. Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) Instrument Development and Acquisition. This program is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training.

January 28

US Department of the Interior/US Fish and Wildlife Service. Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Office of Subsistence Management is inviting the submission of proposals for fisheries investigation studies to be initiated under the 2006 Fisheries Resource Monitoring Program.

January 31

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Outstanding Published Scholarship. The Alice L. Beeman Research Awards are named in honor of Alice L. Beeman, Council for Advancement and Support of Education's first president. These awards previously recognized excellence in writing about educational advancement.

National Fragile X Foundation. Basic Science of Fragile X Syndrome. The following forms of investigation are potentially appropriate for the current round of funding: genetics, molecular and cellular physiology, molecular pharmacology and pharmacogenetics, developmental and structural biology, and animal models. Applications will be judged based on innovation, likelihood of contributing critical new knowledge, and scientific merit.

Pennsylvania State University. Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism. The award recognizes distinguished contributions to the improvement of print and electronic journalism through responsible analysis or critical evaluation. Work nominated for the award evaluates news media coverage of significant subjects or issues.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Army. Solutions for Physical Science and Technology Chemical and Biological Defense Program. The Army is soliciting white papers to identify viable solutions to technology gaps in chemical and biological science and technology capability areas. The areas include (1) detection, (2) modeling and simulation/battlespace, (3) protection and (4) decontamination.

 

February

February 1

American Geophysical Union. Congressional Science Fellowships.The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Congressional Science Fellowship Program places highly qualified, accomplished scientists, engineers, and other professionals with the offices of individual members of Congress and committees for a one-year assignment. Upper Amount: $54,000.

American Sociological Association. Teaching Enhancement Fund. These grants are intended to support projects that extend the quality of teaching in the United States and Canada. The principal criteria for the award are that the project is likely to enhance the teaching of sociology in North America, serve as a seed project that will continue to have an impact in months and years to come, and be systemic in its impact.

Department of Health and Human Services. Cancer Education Grant Program. To support the development and dissemination of innovative education approaches, methods, and tools that ultimately will have an impact on reducing cancer incidence, mortality, morbidity, and improving the quality of life of cancer survivors.

Department of Health and Human Services/NIH. Genetic Architecture, Biological Variation, and Complex Phenotypes. The program encourages new studies on genetic variation and the architecture of complex phenotypes. It is motivated by the amount and complexity of biological data that are being generated and by the understanding that complex phenotypes involve many genetic components that evolve in a variety of environments. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005

Department of Health and Human Services/NIH. Integrative and Collaborative Approaches to Research.The purpose of this initiative is to provide additional support for collaborative and integrative activities to groups of currently funded investigators working on a common problem of fundamental interest to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) or the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Upper Amount: $1,200,000. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005

National Endowment for Financial Education. Preparing Mature, Independent, Low-Income Women for Retirement. The objective is to assist this audience to identify and begin to implement steps they can take to achieve basic financial security, avoid pitfalls that could cost them money, and give them the confidence - through education and skill building - to make financial decisions on their own.

National Institutes of Health/NHLBI. Animal Models of Organ-Specific Tolerance for Heart and Lung Transplantation. The purpose is to encourage the submission of applications for the development of organ-specific tolerance protocols using large animal models for heart transplantation, and both large and small animal models for lung transplantation.

National Institutes of Health. Basic and Translational Research in Emotion. The purpose of this PA is to expand basic and translational research on the processes and mechanisms involved in the experience and expression of emotion. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Behavioral Therapies Development Program. The term "behavioral therapies" is used here in a broad sense and includes various forms of psychotherapy, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, family therapy, couples and marital therapy, group therapy, skills training, counseling, and other rehabilitative therapies. Stage I includes research on the translation of basic behavioral, cognitive, and neuroscience research into novel behavioral therapies. Stage II involves the efficacy testing of therapies that show promise. Stage III is research aimed at determining if and how efficacious behavioral therapies may be transported to community settings, including primary care sites.

National Institutes of Health. Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research Opportunities. The goal is to expedite research leading to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases caused by potential bioterrorism agents. Research projects appropriate for this solicitation include, but are not limited to, the following general areas: pathogen biology; bacterial toxins; immune response; microbial immune evasion and enhancement; animal models of infection and immunity; epidemiology and natural history of infection; and discovery of vaccines, therapeutics, adjuvants, diagnostics, and vector control products for biodefense.

National Institutes of Health. Bioengineering Research Grants. The BRGs support multidisciplinary research performed in a single laboratory or by a small number of investigators that applies an integrative, systems approach to develop knowledge or methods to prevent, detect, diagnose, or treat disease or to understand health and behavior.

National Institutes of Health. Career Development Award for Minority Scholars in Neuroscience - NINDS. Intends to support an intensive, supervised career development and scientific mentoring experience for promising minority investigators to obtain research independence during the performance period of the award. The proposed career development experience is expected to substantially contribute to the research capabilities of the applicant, and research should be in an area of interest to the NINDS. Candidates for this award may be nontenured minority faculty in their first or second faculty position who have earned a doctoral degree.

National Institutes of Health. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Pathophysiology and Treatment. Research should seek to better understand the environmental and biological risk factors, determinants of heterogeneity among patient populations, and common mediators influencing multiple body systems that are affected in CFS. Research project grants, exploratory or developmental project research grants, and small research project grants are anticipated. Other Deadlines: June 1, 2005; October 1, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. CNS Therapy Development for Lysosomal Storage Disorders. Research should be focused on improving CNS treatment outcomes; enhancing the effectiveness of delivery and targeting of cells, enzymes, drugs and genes into the brain; and developing novel therapeutic modalities.

National Institutes of Health. Cohort Studies in Cancer Epidemiology. The purpose of the program announcement (PA) is to coordinate the submission, review, and funding of population-based epidemiologic or survivorship cohort studies.

National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Collaborative Research in Stem Cell Biology. Projects should aim to understand how fate choices are made by stem and precursor cells in the nervous system, and to design, refine and improve upon the use of stem cells for diagnostic or therapeutic applications for neurological disorders. Other Deadline: June 1, 2005.

National Institutes of Health/The National Institute on Drug Abuse. Cross-Disciplinary Translational Research at NIH. The goal is to support the translation of clinical or basic research discoveries in the field of drug abuse research into new clinical and research tools, medications and behavioral therapies. Other Deadline: June 1, 2005.

National Institutes of Health/The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Development of the Endocrine Pancreas - NIDDK. This PA is intended to intensify investigator-initiated research, to attract new investigators to the field, and to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to research in this area. Other Deadlines: June 1, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Diet Composition and Energy Balance. The goal of this PA is to invite research applications investigating the role of diet composition in energy balance, including studies in both animals and humans. Both short and longer-term studies would be encouraged, ranging from basic studies investigating the impact of micro-or macronutrient composition on appetite, metabolism, and energy expenditure through clinical studies evaluating the efficacy of diets differing in micro- or macronutrient composition, absorption, dietary variety, or energy density for weight loss or weight maintenance.

National Institutes of Health. Diet, Epigenetic Events, and Cancer Prevention - NCI. This program focuses on research leading to the elucidation of mechanism(s) by which dietary factors influence epigenetic processes as well as increasing the understanding of these processes in cancer prevention.

National Institutes of Health/NIEHS. Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Grants Program. These centers support the entire spectrum of environmental health science research, including toxicology, mutagenesis, gene or environment interactions, epidemiology, occupational health, prevention and outreach.

National Institutes of Health/NIDDK. Exploratory Grant Program in Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism. This initiative encourages researchers to apply novel technologies, develop new tools, biomarkers and model systems, and test innovative concepts of potential diagnostic and therapeutic relevance to diseases within NIDDK’s mission. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. Exfoliated Cells, Bioactive Food Components, and Cancer. The purpose is to monitor the psychological effects of dietary bioactive food components thought to be involved with cancer prevention. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Genetics, Behavior, and Aging - NIA. This program announcement is framed around two broad categories of questions: gene-to-behavior questions concerning the nature and role of genetic influences on behaviors at older ages, and how these genetic effects vary with age; and questions about dynamic processes including gene-environment interactions, gene-environment covariation, age-related genetic effects, and how behaviors interact with and affect genetic expression.

National Institutes of Health. Genetics and Pathobiology of Vascular Cognitive Impairment. The goal is to obtain a better understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms causing vascular, neural and glial dysfunction in human and animal models of VCI. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. HIV Iinfection of the Central Nervous System. The program will support research in the pathogenic mechanisms involved in HIV-1 associated neurobehavioral and neurological dysfunction in domestic and international settings. Other Deadline: June 01, 2004.

National Institutes of Health. Improving Care for Dying Children and Their Families. The program invites applications to encourage research that will improve the quality of life for children who are approaching the end of life, the quality of the dying process, and bereavement following the death for the children's families, friends, and other care providers. For this program announcement, family is defined broadly to include children being cared for in foster situations, by distant relatives, or friends.

National Institutes of Health. Increasing Quality of Life in Mobility Disorders. This program announcement will focus on improving the quality of life in persons with limited mobility by managing the physical symptoms and psychosocial consequences that occur as a result of a primary or secondary condition.

National Institutes of Health/The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Cancer Institute. Innoovative and Exploratory Research in Digestive Diseases and Nutrition. The goal is to stimulate the application of highly novel approaches to important areas of digestive diseases, including associated cancers and nutrition research. Upper amount: $275,000. Other Deadline: June 1, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Joint Degeneration: Mouse Models. Multiple NIH institutes invite applications for funding to support research employing genetically defined and genetically modified mouse models to explore the biological mechanisms underlying non-inflammatory joint degeneration, or osteoarthritis. Exploratory or developmental research grants are anticipated. Other Deadline: June 1, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Mental Health Consequences of Violence and Trauma. Seeks to encourage investigator-initiated research to enhance scientific understanding about the etiology of psychopathology related to violence and trauma, as well as studies to develop and test effective treatments, services, and prevention strategies in this area.

National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Metagenomic Analyses of the Oral Microbiome. The goal is to completely characterize all microbes and their genes in the oral environment. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005

National Institutes of Health. Metals in Medicine. The objective of this program announcement (PA) is to encourage research that bridges the areas of inorganic chemistry and medicine. It continues the program previously announced as PA 01-071. The mechanisms by which organisms control transition metal ions and the roles of these metals in cellular regulation and signaling in health and disease are of principal interest.

National Institutes of Health. Methodology and Measurement in the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The goal is to encourage research that will improve the quality and scientific power of data collected in the behavioral and social sciences, relevant to the missions of the NIH institutes and centers. Research that addresses methodology and measurement issues in diverse populations, issues in studying sensitive behaviors, issues of ethics in research, issues related to confidential data and the protection of research subjects, and issues in developing multidisciplinary, multimethod, and multilevel approaches to behavioral and social science research is particularly encouraged.

National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse. Molecular Genetics of Drug Addiction Vulnerability - NIDA. This PA seeks investigator-initiated applications for research projects that identify chromosomal loci and genetic variation in genes and haplotypes that are associated with increased vulnerability to addiction or dependence on stimulants (e.g., cocaine and amphetamine), narcotics (e.g., opiates), nicotine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, cannabis, hallucinogens, or multiple drugs of abuse in human beings. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005

National Institutes of Health. Muscular Dystrophy: Pathogenesis and Therapies. Research priorities include gene and stem cell therapies, pharmacological approaches to treatment, and clarification of the role of inflammatory mechanisms. Research project grants and exploratory or developmental research grants are anticipated. Other Deadlines: June 1, 2005; October 1, 2005.

National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine. NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Bioinformatics (R01). Research should focus on management and efficient utilization of data, information and knowledge in healthcare and basic biomedical sciences. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005

National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine. NLM Resource Grant in Biomedical Informatics/Bioinformatics (P41). NLM invites applications for biomedical informatics resource grants to support of the development, maintenance and dissemination of databases or software tools. These tools and resources should advance research or practice in the biomedical sciences, clinical medicine or health services research. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005

National Institutes of Health/National Eye Institute. Noninvasive Imaging for Diabetic Retinopathy. The National Eye Institute invites applications for funding to develop, apply and evaluate noninvasive technology to screen for diabetic retinopathy. Such technology should be practical, affordable and accessible.

National Institutes of Health. Non-Invasive Methods For Diagnosis And Progression Of Diabetes, Kidney, Urological, Hematological And Digestive Diseases. Inviting applications for funding to support imaging and other non- or minimally-invasive technologies to detect, characterize, diagnose and identify persons with predisposition to numerous diseases, including type 1 and 2 diabetes, obesity, and kidney, liver, urologic, hematologic, digestive, endocrine and metabolic diseases and their complications.

National Institutes of Health. Novel Approaches to Enhance Animal Stem Cell Research. Innovative approaches to isolate, characterize and identify totipotent and multipotent stem cells from nonhuman biomedical research animal models, as well as to generate reagents and techniques to characterize and separate those stem cells from other cell types is encouraged. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health/NIDDK. Pilot and Feasibility Program in Hematologic Diseases. The primary intent of this initiative is to encourage new, exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early stages of their development. Upper Amount: $275,000. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Precursor Cells in Skeletal Muscle Repair and Hypertrophy. NIH encourage investigator-initiated research grant applications to isolate, characterize, and identify precursor cells required for normal growth and repair of injured, aged, or diseased muscle. Goals include determining factors responsible for migration, proliferation, and differentiation of precursor cells following muscle injury or increased exercise. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Reproductive Genetics and Epigenetics. Studies submitted under this program announcement are expected to identify and characterize the relevant genes, determine their function in normal human reproduction and reproductive development, identify functional partners or pathways and the nature of the interactions, and further our understanding of the consequences of mutations or dysregulation for human reproductive health. Other Deadline: June 01, 2005.

National Institutes of Health. Research Education Grants in Drug Abuse and Addiction. Programs that focus on preparing researchers in cross-disciplinary integration or translational research of neuroscience, basic behavioral, prevention, clinical, treatment, and services research are particularly encouraged.

National Institutes of Health. Women's Mental Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research - NIMH. This program announcement identifies three major areas for research emphasis: basic and clinical neuroscience, epidemiology and risk factors, and intervention and services research.

National Institutes of Health. Women's Mental Health in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period - DHHS. This program announcement encourages research on perinatal mood and other mental disorders in the ares of clinical course, epidemiology, and risk factors, basic and clinical neuroscience, interventions, and services. Research is encouraged both on perinatal nonpsychotic mood disorders and on psychotic disorders.

National Institutes of Health; Department of Health and Human Services. Identification and Prevention of Middle Childhood Precursors of Risky Sexual Behavior. The specific aims of this PA are to identify the interactions of individual characteristics with environmental factors during the middle childhood years that increase the likelihood that certain children will engage in risky sexual behavior; identify the characteristics that protect children from participation in risky sexual behavior; and develop, implement, and evaluate interventions designed for children between the ages of 6 and 12 years to promote healthy sexual development and prevent risky sexual behavior.

National Science Foundation. Biomedical Engineering Program and Research to Aid Persons With Disabilities Program - NSF 03-560. Current areas of interest are biomedical photonics, novel tissue characterization schemes, new cellular and tissue engineering concepts, the innovative integration of multidisciplinary technologies for new imaging and biosensing systems, and home care technologies related to chronic illness, persons with disabilities, and the aging.

National Science Foundation. Engineering Design. The goals of the Engineering Design program are to enhance a heightened awareness of engineering design as an important element of engineering education and practice; to support fundamental research on new technologies for engineering design and to foster the development of a science of engineering design; to promote improved application of sound principles of engineering design, particularly through the support of research that leads to the development of software to support their application; and to encourage curriculum development to encompass modern concepts of engineering design principles and to promote design education across the engineering curriculum.

National Science Foundation. Research on Gender in Science and Engineering. This program seeks to broaden the participation of girls and women in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education by supporting research, dissemination, and extension services in education. Preproposal deadline: October 18, 2004.

National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering.Various Programs. Fluid and Particle Processes, Thermal Systems, Chemical Reaction Processes, and Interfacial, Transport, and Separation Processes.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Education Foundation. Research Initiation Grants. The foundation encourages requests for Research Initiation Grants that will expand the research activities of manufacturing educators. The purpose of these grants is to give faculty the resources to conduct preliminary research on an idea that has the potential to be submitted to a major funding agency. Eligible areas of research include manufacturing processes and systems and human factors.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Army. Breast Cancer Research Program. This program provides investigators with the opportunity to pursue serendipitous observations and explore new, untested ideas relevant to breast cancer.

US Department of Homeland Security. Prototypes and Technology for Improvised Explosive Device Detection. This program seeks to (1) develop, rapid prototype, and improve products and systems capable of detecting explosive compounds in vehicles and (2) support research and development of technologies or prototypes for detection of improvised explosives in vehicles, in leave-behind packages, or carried by suicide bombers.

 

February 2

US Department of Health and Human Services/CDC. Grants for Violence-Related Injury Prevention Research: Youth Violence, Suicidal Behavior, Child Maltreatment, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence. Areas of interest include youth violence, suicidal behavior, child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and sexual violence. Optional LOI Deadline: December 6, 2004.

US Department of the Interior. Desalination and Water Purification Research and Development Program. This program supports partnerships with private industry, universities, water utilities, and others to address a broad range of desalting and water purification needs. The goal is to augment the supply of usable water in the U.S. by reducing the costs, improving operation and reliability, and developing innovations in desalination and water purification technologies. Preproposal Deadline. Full Proposal Deadline: April 18, 2005.

February 3

US Department of Agriculture. Higher Education Challenge Grants Program. This program seeks to strengthen institutional capacities to improve teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences or in rural economic, community and business development to respond to identified state, regional, national or international educational needs.

US Department of Energy. Research in Innovative Approaches to High Energy Density Physics in Fusion Energy Sciences. The goal is to create research opportunities for other attractive physics pathways that have the potential of creating high energy density plasmas. LOI Deadline: January 25, 2005.

 

February 4

National Science Foundation. Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT) - NSF 05-501. This cluster seeks to advance the fundamental capabilities of computer and information sciences and engineering by capitalizing on advances and insights from areas such as biological systems, quantum phenomena, nanoscale science and engineering, and other novel computing concepts.

National Science Foundation. Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program. This program seeks to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education for students, faculty and institutions by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. Preliminary Proposal Deadline.

US Department of Commerce/National Institute of Standards and Technology. Precision Measurement Grants Program. Research is sought in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination of fundamental constants. Amount: $100,000.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Navy. Information Systems Technology Test. This program seeks to develop advanced test technologies to enable non-intrusive testing and evaluation of future warfighting information systems in complex network-centric environments.

US Department of State. US Studies Institute for South Asian Undergraduate Student Leaders. The institute is intended to provide 21 highly motivated first through third year undergraduate students from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan a six-week academic seminar, including a domestic travel component, that will give them a deeper understanding of U.S. history, contemporary U.S. culture and society, and American politics and policymaking. Upper Amount: $260,000.

February 6

National Science Foundation. Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education. This program supports partnerships between science educators and nanoscale science and engineering researchers and seeks to increase knowledge of advances in nanoscale research and technology. Limited Applications Accepted. Contact Dorothy Pimlott for information on ISU internal deadlines. Required LOI Deadline. Proposal Deadline: April 6, 2005.

February 7

National Science Foundation. Cyber Trust. This program supports networked computer systems that are more predictable, more accountable and less vulnerable to attack and abuse; developed, configured, operated and evaluated by a well-trained and diverse workforce; and used by a public educated in their secure and ethical operation.

February 8

National Science Foundation. Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE): Integrated Research and Education in Environmental Systems. In FY 2004 and FY 2005, five topical areas will be emphasized: 1. Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) 2. Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles (CBC) 3. Genome-enabled Environmental Science and Engineering (GEN-EN) 4. Instrumentation Development for Environmental Activities (IDEA) 5. Materials Use: Science, Engineering, and Society (MUSES). Upper Amount: $2,000,000.

US Department of Defense/DARPA. MEMS Exchange (MX). This program seeks to provide flexible access to complex MEMS fabrication technology in a wide variety of materials and to a broad multi-disciplinary user base, pursuant to making possible novel devices otherwise unattainable via inflexible foundries.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Army. Exploration - Hypothesis Development Awards. The intent of the Exploration - Hypothesis Development Award is to provide funds to support initial exploration of innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking concepts in prostate cancer. Upper Amount: $75,000. LOI Deadline: January 12, 2005.

US Department of Defense/Department of the Army. Myeloproliferative Disorders Research Program. This program supports peer-reviewed medical research in specific chronic myeloproliferative disorders. Proposals are sought in three topic areas: polycythemia vera, idiopathic myelofibrosis, and essential thrombocytosis. LOI Deadline. Proposal Deadline: March 8, 2005.

February 9

National Science Foundation. Human and Social Dynamics. This program fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. The FY 2005 competition includes three emphasis areas: (1) agents of change; (2) dynamics of human behavior; and (3) decision making, risk and uncertainty.

February 10

National Science Foundation. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program. This program seeks to increase the number of U.S. students receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Optional LOI Deadline: January 6, 2005. Application Deadline: February 10, 2005.

February 11

NASA. Partnership Opportunity for CORECAM. NASA is seeking a partner to develop science instrument concepts for the Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph (TPFC) mission. The proposed instrument concept is for the camera option, which consists of an imaging optical chain, filter assembly, wavefront sensor and a detector.

US Department of Defense/DARPA. Novel Satellite Communications (NSC) Program (Phase II). This program aims to develop signal processing and coding techniques that enable a ground-based user located close to several jammers to uplink to a communications satellite.

US Department of Health and Human Services. The Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs). This program supports research to increase awareness of: (1) new uses of drugs, biological products, and devices; (2) ways to improve the effective use of drugs, biological products, and devices; and (3) risks of new uses and risks of combinations of drugs and biological products. Optional LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: March 11, 2005.

February 14

National Institutes of Health. Assay Development for High Throughput Molecular Screening. The goal is to initiate a continuously evolving stream of scientifically and technologically outstanding assays that can be automated and used for screening small molecules within the Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network. Optional LOI Deadline: January 21, 2005.

National Institutes of Health/NIEHS. Superfund Basic Research and Training Program. This program supports coordinated multi-project, multidisciplinary university-based programs that link biomedical research with related engineering, hydrogeologic and ecologic research. Optional LOI Deadline. Application Deadline: April 21, 2005.

National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medicine Sciences.High-