IUSB GrantsLetter July 2000 For more information on the Office of Research and how it can help you please contact Erika Zynda at 237-4181 or ezynda@iusb.edu.

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The IU Undergraduate Research Conference will be held on Friday, 20 October 2000 on the Kokomo Campus. If you have any promising students please alert them to this opportunity. More information can be found at http://www.iusb.edu/~research/iuurc.html

Recent Funding Opportunities

This is a very short, unrepresentative list of funding opportunities. It only reflects those hard copy RFPs that have been received by my office in the last month or so. A more comprehensive list of current funding opportunities can be found on the IU Granstlink. You can also search for funding opportunities using keywords from COS.
 

Deadline	Program Name/Description	URL for further information
7/7/00	The Office of the Vice President for Information Technology is pleased to announce the the second round of the High Performance Network Applications Program (HPNAP) for developing innovative applications in research and teaching that require high performance local, regional or national research networks.	http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/hpnap
7/14/2000	Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program HUD's Office of University Partnership will competitively award up to 15 grants to eligible doctoral candidates	http://www.hud.gov
7/15/00	Indiana Humanities Council Historic Preservation Grants	http://www.ihc4u.org/grants.htm
7/25/00	NSF CAREER The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those faculty members who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER awardees will be selected on the basis of creative, integrative, and effective research and education career development plans that build a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education.	http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0089
7/28/00	Searle Scholars Program To support independent research of outstanding individuals who are in the first or second year of their first appointment at the assistant professor level, and whose current appointment is a tenure-track position.	http://www.searlescholars.net
8/14/00	NEA - Grants to Organizations Access- Access to the arts for all. Education - Lifelong education in the arts.  Heritage/Preservation - Preservation of our cultural heritage.	http://arts.endow.gov/guide/Orgs01/OrgIndex.html
8/15/00	Indiana Humanities Council History Alive Grants for Schools Humanities Initiative Grants	http://www.ihc4u.org/grants.htm
9/1/00	Burrough Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Awards in Traditional Research	http://www.bwfund.org
9/15/00	United States Institute of Peace: Senior Fellowships on International Peace and Conflict Issues Support practitioners and scholars working on projects concerning the sources and nature of international conflict and ways of managing and sustaining peace.	http://www.usip.org
9/15/00	Sloane Foundation Research Fellowships Candidates for Sloan Research Fellowships are nominated by department heads or other senior scholars. Direct applications are not accepted. Candidates are required to hold the Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, physics,  mathematics, computer science, economics, or neuroscience, or in a related interdisciplinary field, and must be members of  the regular faculty (i.e., tenure track) of a college or university in the United States or Canada.	http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=10138
9/15/00	NSF - Information and Data Management (IDM) Program The Information and Data Management program supports research fundamental to the design, implementation, development, management, and use of databases, information retrieval, and knowledge-based systems.	http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=11545
9/30/00	Candian Studies Grant Promotes research in the social sciences and humanities with a view to contributing to a better knowledge and understanding of Canada and its relationship with the US or other countries of the world.	http://www.canadianembassy.org
10/1/00	NEH Summer Stipends Support two months of full-time work on projects that will make a significant contribution to the humanities	http://www.neh.gov
10/2/00	Burrough Wellcome Fund Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences	http://www.bwfund.org
11/15/00	Indiana Humanities Council History Alive Grants for Schools Humanities Initiative Grants	http://www.ihc4u.org/grants.htm

00-2 IU Research Site
A new website has been created to publish in one central location, information pertaining to sponsored awards at IU.
http://www.research.indiana.edu

An Announcement from the National Science Foundation concerning the switch
from PIN to Passwords for FastLane.

NSF has successfully moved several volunteer organizations from PINs to Passwords and will start moving over other users in two weeks.   The
changeover is scheduled as follows:

June 19 - All users with organizational management access
June 26 - All other users with last names starting with A-F
July 3 - All other users with last names starting with G-L
July 10 - All other users with last names starting with M-R
July 17 - All other users with last names starting with S-Z

For example, a user with organizational management access will need to choose a new password when they next login to the system (using their
present PIN) on or after June 19.    If a user does not access the system for months, they will still be able to login with their present PIN and
choose a new password at that time.  Users should not provide their passwords to anyone else.

Answers to common questions regarding the PIN-to-Password changeover and how sponsored research offices may edit, review and submit documents without
knowing user passwords may be found at http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a0/password.htm

NSF Regional Grants Conference at Purdue
Purdue University will host the National Science Foundation Regional Grants Conference running Wednesday through Friday, October 11-13, 2000. Dr. Rita Colwell, National Science Foundation Director and other key foundation staff plan to be there to answer your questions.
     The conference includes sessions covering all aspects of the NSF proposal and awards process.
          - Proposal and Merit Review
          - Introduction to FastLane
          - Award and Administration
          - Challenges, Opportunities and New Directions
          - Breakout sessions by discipline
For information about the program content, contact: the NSF policy office at (703) 306-1243, by email: policy@nsf.gov, or Christine King, Sponsored Program Development at Purdue University at (765) 494-6706 or email: hcking@purdue.edu.
     You can also visit the Purdue website .
     Program and registration information will be mailed in July to those expressing interest.