IUSB GrantsLetter May 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 Granstline. You can also search for funding opportunities using keywords from COS.
 

Deadline	Program Name/Description	URL for further information
5/25/00	NSF Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Promotes improvement in technological education at the undergraduate and secondary school levels.	http://www.nsf.gov
5/25/00	NIH Mental Retardation Research Centers To prevent or ameliorate mental retardation via integrated, multidisciplinary approaches involving biomedical and behavioral sciences	http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-00-017.html
6/1/00	NSF Partnerships for Innovation Promoting partnerships among academe, government, and the private sector to explore new appoaches to support and sustain innovation.	http://www.nsf.gov
6/2/00	NSF - Combines Research-Curriculum Development Multidisciplinary projects that integrate new, state-of-the-art research advances in emerging technology areas into upper-level undergraduate courses.	http://www.nsf.gov
6/13/2000	Lindbergh Foundation: Seeking to further the balance between nature and technology.	http://www.lindberghfoundation.org
6/30/2000	PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment - to stimulate research and facilitate discussion of new approaches to improving the effectiveness of government at the federal, state, local, and international level.	http://endowment.pwcglobal.com
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
7/25/00	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
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
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
9/30/00	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

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

Financial Information System
The FIS will be down for one week this summer. This period will begin at 5:30 pm EST on Friday June 2, 2000 and will continue through Sunday, June 11, 2000. This is due to the switchover to the PeopleSoft software for Student Information and Human Resource systems (including payroll).