IUSB GrantsLetter May 2001 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.

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
5/14/01	NEA Arts Learning: Children and youth learning in and through the arts.	http://www.arts.gov/guide/Orgs02/OrgIndex.html
6/1/01	NSF - Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program seeks to improve the quality of Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technological (SMET) education for all students and targets activities affecting learning environments, course content, curricula, and educational practices. The program has three tracks:  1. Educational Materials Development (CCLI-EMD)  2. Adaptation and Implementation (CCLI-A&I)  3. National Dissemination (CCLI-ND)	http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf0158/nsf0158.htm
7/1/01	Indiana University International Programs Overseas Conference Fund - To provide partial support for travel expenses to an international conference held abroad where applicant will present a competitively selected or invited paper or perform some other important role.	http://www.indiana.edu/~intlprog/faculty_grant_ex.html
7/1/01	Twenty-First Annual Faculty Scholars Program This program supports promising post-doctoral (but pre-tenure, tenure-track) scholars from diverse disciplines. Priority areas are youth development; programs, policies, and institutions affecting young people, etc.	http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/wtgrant/appguide.html
7/15/01	NSF - Developmental and Learning Sciences: A Multidisciplinary Competition This initiative aims to support studies that increase our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children’s and adolescents’ learning in formal and informal settings.	http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf0146/nsf0146.html
8/13/01	NEA Access: Access to the arts for all.  Heritage/Preservation: Preservation of our cultural heritage.	http://www.arts.gov/guide/Orgs02/OrgIndex.html

Rebecca Brittenham	English	Linking W131	IUSB Curriculum Development Grant	$3,000
Andrea Greitzer	Arts	Digital Photography workshops	IUSB Curriculum Development Grant	$3,000
Geraldine Huitink	Chemistry	An Investigation of Excited-State Prototropic Behavior of 2- and 4- Quinolones	IUSB Faculty Research Grant	$8,000
Les Lamon	History	The Civil Rights Movement and Its Impact in South Bend	Indiana Humanities Council	$3,000
Les Lamon	History	Civil Rights Heritage Center	IUSB Seed Grant	$3,000
Deb Marr	Biology	Ecology Lab (L474) and Environmental Biology (L350)	IUSB Curriculum Development Grant	$1,005
Joan Metelli	Arts	Faculty-Artist Development and Research in Germany and Italy	IUSB Faculty Research Grant	$4,000
Barbara Peat	SPEA	Topics in Public Health	IUSB Curriculum Development Grant	$1,100
Marian Pettengill	Nursing	Geriatric Nursing in Long Term Care Agencies for BSN Students	Department of Health & Human Services	$25,000
Ben Withers	Arts	Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Texts	NEH Summer Seminars	$3,700

00-7 New Assistant Vice President for Research
As of June 1, 2000 Steven A. Martin was appointed as Assistant Vice President for Research. All proposals are submitted in the name of Indiana University with the
exception of agencies such as the Lilly Endowment, which are required as a condition of eligibility to be submitted in the name of the Indiana University Foundation.
 
 

Research and Sponsored Programs has been tracking our common questions regarding the Protection of Human Research Subjects?  Concise, direct answers have been posted to a new web page giving specific information regarding:

• The Test
• Contact Information
• Documentation and Proof
• Collaborators and Subcontractors

NSF Releases New FastLane Instructions
It has been nearly six months since all proposals to the National Science Foundation were required to be submitted electronically using FastLane. Now that the "kinks" have been worked out, NSF has released a comprehensive, 70-page guide on how to use Fastlane. You can access it online at New Documentation: FastLane Proposal Preparation and Submission Guide (1.5MB in PDF format)