External Funding Announcements
Sun Microsystems Inc. continues its support for University Research
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A new program - the Education Research Grant Program.
If you or your institution is in the process of applying for, or have already received a research grant from a government agency such as the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Department of Defense or Department of Energy or other private or corporate foundation, your school may be eligible for program participation.
The Education Research Grant Program extends the value of Sun's technology with the offer of additional discounts, participation in collaborative communities and other strategic programs to support your research projects. Sun has an established tradition of successful public and private partnerships for research; after all Sun was founded as a university collaboration.
Sun is committed to bringing the latest technology in High Performance Computing, Grid Computing, Storage, and Web Services to your campus. Our secure systems built on open standards using Java technology can scale to manage the data generated by advanced research.
Contact me today to learn more about the Education Research Grant Program. Your university could save up to 20% on hardware and software purchases associated with grant research, or you can go to the this URL for more information - www.sun.com/edu/promotions/researchgrant
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National Institutes for Health
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Research Opportunities Tenured and Tenure Track Positions in the Laboratory of Biological Modeling
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services, invites applications for both tenured and tenure track positions in the newly established Laboratory of Biological Modeling. The Laboratory will be comprised of scientists who use computational approaches to understand cell biological and physiological systems. Specific areas of research interest will include mathematical modeling at the subcellular, cellular, tissue and system levels. Excellent computational facilities and resources for rapid achievement of research goals are available. The position offers unparalleled opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration within NIDDK and throughout NIH. Applicants should have an outstanding record of research accomplishments and will be expected to propose and pursue an independent research program.
The Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK will be located on the main intramural campus of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Interested applicants should send a Curriculum Vitae and list of publications, copies of five major publications, a summary of research accomplishments, a plan for future research, and three letters of recommendation to: William A. Eaton, Chair, Search Committee, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, Building 5, Room 104, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-0520.
William A. Eaton, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Laboratory of Biological Modeling Search Committee Chief,
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK Building 5,
Room 104 National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892-0520
email: eaton@helix.nih.gov
tel: 301-496-6030
fax: 301-496-0825
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NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL)
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Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m proposer's local time): April 21, 2003
The National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program seeks to create, develop, and sustain a national digital library supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. The program funds projects in three tracks: Collections, Services, and Targeted Research. Collectively, these projects form a network of learning environments and resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. The resulting digital library is intended to meet the needs of students and teachers at all levels -- pre-K to 12, undergraduate, graduate, and lifelong learning. It will also serve learners in both individual and collaborative settings, as well as formal and informal modes.
The NSDL (http://www.nsdl.org) will provide the premier path to a rich array of current and future high-quality educational content and services, and also function as a forum where resource users may become resource providers. For example, users might contribute their expertise to produce new teaching modules from resources such as real-time experimental data or visualization software available through the network. Or they might evaluate and report on the efficacy of specific digital learning objects (such as Java applets or interactive electronic notebooks) and their impact on student learning.
In addition to services such as the intelligent retrieval of relevant information, indexing and online annotation of resources, and archiving of materials, the digital library will offer users access to virtual collaborative work areas, tools for analysis and visualization, remote instruments, large databases of real-time or archived data, simulated or virtual environments, and other new capabilities as they emerge. The digital library will also enable the dynamic use of materials and tools for learning supplied by cooperating providers of resource collections and services. For example, a case study at one site of how climate-change scientists employ satellite imagery to determine surface water chemistry could be combined with computational and visualization tools from another collection, and used to analyze and display archived data housed in yet another collection. Finally, library services will increase the impact and accessibility of all resources, by giving users tools to search for and discover content, to assemble curricular and learning modules from component pieces in a flexible manner, and to communicate and collaborate with others.
Through its distributed digital library building strategy, the NSDL program is fostering the creation and development of a comprehensive infrastructure. Features include practices and policies for community-based review and other mechanisms that assure the quality and usability of resources. Likewise, practices and policies are under development for collections management issues such as archiving, preservation, and deaccessioning. Other aspects of this infrastructure address: i) digital rights management systems, ii) effective ways to handle intellectual property issues that focus on maximizing the value of content, iii) the articulation of standards that promote stability, interoperability, and reusability of a wide variety of learning objects, and iv) login and authentication systems. For a list of all NSDL projects with links to abstracts see http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/awards/nsdl.xls. Each abstract also has contact information for the project's principal investigators. To follow the current state of collaborations within the growing NSDL community and to join the ongoing exploration and discussion of key issues, see the NSDL Communications portal for developers at http://comm.nsdlib.org. Under the list of workspaces at this site, note in particular the sections on Activities/Committees and Library Building. Covered areas include: Community Services, Content, Educational Impact, Technology, Sustainability, Services & Tools, and Standards & Metadata.
This program builds on work supported previously and currently under the multi-agency Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) Phase I and Phase II (see http://www.dli2.nsf.gov). The program is intended to multiply the impact of efforts supported by NSF and sister government agencies, the private sector, professional societies, and others working to improve education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics nationwide. New NSDL projects are expected to coordinate their work with those of current NSDL projects and other educational digital library projects, such as the U.S. Department of Education's Gateway to Educational Materials (http://www.thegateway.org) or projects supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (http://www.imls.gov). The impact of the NSDL program will depend largely on how well funded projects can leverage related efforts and to achieve sustainability after the period of NSF funding.
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NSF Network Infrastructure Programs
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NSF has announced two new network infrastructure funding programs:
- NSF 03-538 NRT - Network Research Testbeds
- NSF 03-539 EIN - Experiments Infrastructure Network
Both of these new programs focus on funding network infrastructure in support of leading edge research.
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NSF Announces Two New Greant Programs
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Two new grant programs were recently announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Partnerships for Innovation is designed to promote academic, government, and private-sector cooperation to explore, develop, and implement innovative ideas that will benefit the economy at all levels. Letters of intent are due February 27, 2003; the full proposal deadline is April 9, 2003. For complete information, go to http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03521/nsf03521.html
The EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Grant Program is designed to promote scientific progress in jurisdictions that historically have not received extensive research and development funding. The full proposal deadline is July 17, 2003. For complete information, go to http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03528/nsf03528.htm
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TLC2 News Regarding NSF Guidelines
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It has come to our Proposal staff's attention that there have been problems with other department's submission on NSF grants please keep the following in mind when writing your NSF:
- Font: no smaller than 10 point
- Top, Bottom and Side Margins: 2.5 cm
- Characters: 12 characters for constant spacing per 2.5 cm and for proportional spacing an average of 15 characters across per 2.5 cm (horizontal measurement)
- Lines: 6 lines per 2.5 cm (vertical measurement)
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The Molecular Science Computing Facility (MSCF)
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Richland, WA - The Molecular Science Computing Facility (MSCF) in the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announces the 2005 Call-for-Proposals (for allocations of computer time) for Computational Grand Challenge Applications (CGCA) in environmental molecular science research areas that address the environmental problems and research needs facing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Nation. This call includes research applications in biology, chemistry, climate and subsurface science and is open to all research entities regardless of research funding source. Computer allocations for CGCAs are for three years, with the computer allocation appropriate for the scope of research to be performed. Letter-of-Intent is due April 16, 2004 with final proposals due May 31, 2004. Announcement of awards are expected September 1, 2004. Further information on the CGCA Call-for-Proposals is available at http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/tms/mscf/proposals/index.shtml. The MSCF houses an 11.8 Teraflop HP Linux Itanium2 Cluster with 980 nodes/1960 processors. The MSCF also has a suite of computational chemistry software (Molecular Science Software Suite) designed to take advantage of the new HP. We seek research applications that will use a significant portion of this computational resource.
The William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) http://www.emsl.pnl.gov is a user research facility funded by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the U.S. Department of Energy. As a National Scientific User Facility, the mission of the EMSL is to provide advanced and unique resources to scientists engaged in research in the environmental molecular sciences and educate young scientists in the molecular sciences to meet the demanding environmental challenges of the future. As a research organization, the EMSL provides scientific recourses to attain a molecular-level understanding of the physical, chemical and biological processes needed to solve critical environmental problems and advance molecular science in support of the long-term environmental missions of DOE and the Nation. Both computational and experimental resources are available to users at "no cost".
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