Lead Articles

• Do You Want to Publicize Your Research?....November (#11)
• More Accounting Changes for Grants.....January (#1)
• ORDA Proposal Submission Policy and Procedures: An Update....September (#9)
• Please Share Your Undergraduate Research Experiences.....April (#4)
• Spending Waaaay Too Much Time on Grant Paperwork? You're Not Alone....August (#8)

Of Special Note

• Anthropology to Host International, Regional Conferences....December (#12)
• Anti-Plagiarism Site Available.....April (#4)
• Awarded Matching Funds May Be Lost....December (#12)
• Bookmark ORDA's Web Site and the Sponsored Project Guide....August (#8)
• Call for Papers Announced....March (#3)
• Campus Lab Seeks Undergraduate Researchers....October (#10)
• Change for NIH R01 Applications....December (#12)
• Chemistry Dept. Launches Internal Review Process for Proposals....October (#10)
• Chugh Earns Fulbright Senior Specialist Honor....September (#9)
• CIR-CNS Co-Sponsors Neuroscience Retreat....May (#5)
• Dental Visits for Autistic Children Made Easier with SIU Research....May (#5)
• Faculty Seed Grants Awarded.....April (#4)
• Faculty Seed Grant Deadline and Workshops Set....August (#8)
• Foundation Account Provides New Way to Support Undergraduate Research....June (#6)
• Get Your News Earlier—Read Research Matters Online.....January (#1), November (#11)
• Give NSF Your Two Cents' Worth.....January (#1)
• Graduate Student Workshop Scheduled.....January (#1), June (#6), July (#7)
• Grant Institute to Offer Grant Writing Program....June (#6)
• Grants.gov Update.....January (#1)
• Illinois Water Resources Center: Call for Papers.....April (#4)
• Intellectual Property Brochure Available.....January (#1)
• Intellectual Property/Tech Transfer Workshop Announced....October (#10)
• Keep Your Spreadsheet Current.....January (#1)
• Limited Submissions Page Introduced.....February (#2)
• Mark Your Calendars for the Research Forum....March (#3)
• McCubbin to Travel to China as Fulbright Scholar....May (#5)
• McNair Annual Research Symposium Scheduled....May (#5)
• More NIH Applications Go Electronic-Only.....April (#4)
• NEH Summer Stipends Reminder....August (#8)
• New Mass Spectrometry Facility to Host Open House....September (#9)
• New Submission Date for NSF's MRI Program....December (#12)
• NIH Applicants and Grantees: Register with eRA Commons.....February (#2)
• NIH Changes Receipt Time.....April (#4)
• NIH Pushes Back Date on Electronic Submissions....March (#3)
• Nominations Sought for Graduate Research Award....November (#11), December (#12)
• North American Power Symposium To Be Held at SIUC....August (#8)
• NSF Lifts Cap on Consultant Compensation.....April (#4)
• NSF Outreach Workshop Offered at SIUE....March (#3)
• ORDA Makes Staff Change for College of Education and SouthernTECH.....February (#2)
• ORDA New Faculty Orientation Scheduled....August (#8)
• ORDA Trades Duncan for Another Schwartz....September (#9)
• Overdue Reports Delay NSF Proposal Submissions.....February (#2)
• Project Collaborators Wanted—New ORDA Service....March (#3)
• REACH Workshop, Deadlines Set....August (#8)
• Reminder for IRIS Users: Sign Up for COS.....February (#2)
• Researcher Lounge Opens in Woody Hall....September (#9)
• Rex Duncan Leaves ORDA for New Position.....July (#7)
• Seminar to Address Strategies for Online Communication....June (#6)
• SIUC Now Has Site License for MATHEMATICA.....January (#1)
• SIUC Research Fair Scheduled....March (#3)
• SIUC Research Profile Now Available....March (#3)
• Undergraduate Grant Program Deadline (Reminder).....January (#1)
• Undergraduate Research/Creative Activities Awards Made.....April (#4)
• Undergraduate Research Publication Now Available....October (#10)
• Undergraduates Invited to Participate in Research Forum.....January (#1)
• Workshop Reminders....October (#10)

Research Digest

• AAAS, Partners Launch Global Web Site on Sustainability Science....June (#6)
• Accounting for Grants Amounts to More Than a Hill of Beans.....February (#2)
• Americans Understand STEM Education Equals Competitiveness.....February (#2)
• Asian Science on the Move....March (#3)
• Bioinsecurity....September (#9)
  
• Collaboration Will Preserve Digital Research Data.....July (#7)
• Commerce Drops Plan to Limit Researchers.....February (#2)
• Congress Adopts Austere Budget for Research and Student Aid.....February (#2)
• Congress Cancels Program to Bolster Industry....December (#12)
• Congress Joins NIH Paper Chase.....February (#2)
• Congress Quietly Crafts Bill to Maintain Lead in Science....October (#10)
• Database Offers Information on Federal Grants, Contracts....December (#12)
• Donations in 2005 Up for Environment and Education, Down for Arts....August (#8)
• Endangered by Research....August (#8)
• Energy Research Gains Support.....April (#4)
• Engineered Numbers?.....February (#2)
• Exile for Export Rule Change.....July (#7)
• Former UV Professor Gets a Year in Jail for Faking Data....August (#8)
• Foundations' Asset Growth Slows....May (#5)
• GAO Examines Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Awards....May (#5)
• Gates Foundation to Support Agriculture Projects....May (#5)
• Gene Grant Funds Less Chaff, More Wheat.....April (#4)
• Government Seeks to Track Research Time More Closely.....January (#1)
• House Committee on Science Introduces Education and Research Bills....June (#6)
• House Panel Recommends That NSF Implement Innovation Research Prizes....August (#8)
• House Passes Drug, Vaccine R&D Plan....November (#11)
• Humanities and Social Sciences Should Improve Digital Resources....September (#9)
• Industry Support for Academic Research Falls, But Federal Aid Rises....June (#6)
• Innovation Craze Hits China.....April (#4)
• Intellectual Property, Part I....December (#12)
• Is NSF Education Directorate at Risk?.....April (#4)
• It's Unanimous: Patents Not Omnipotent.....July (#7)
• Math/Science Education Programs Being Reviewed....May (#5)
• Nanotech Risks and Implications Examined....June (#6)
• National Science Board Looks at Support of High-Risk, Revolutionary Research.....January (#1)
• NIH Eyes Training Support Cuts.....July (#7)
• NIH Imposes Cap on Tuition Payments....October (#10)
• NIH Investigators Brace for Cuts.....February (#2)
• NIH Prepares for Lean Budget....September (#9)
• NIH Proposes Caps on Training Grants....June (#6)
• NIH Seeks to Speed Up Peer Review Process.....February (#2)
• NIH Unveils New Biomedical Postdoc Grant....March (#3)
• NIH Wants Its Minority Programs to Train More Academic Researchers.....July (#7)
• North Carolina Releases Nano Roadmap....October (#10)
• NSF Asks PIs to Mentor Their Postdocs....October (#10)
• NSF Begins a Push to Measure Societal Impacts of Research....June (#6)
• Panel Calls for Extra Review of Dual-Use Research....September (#9)
• Panel Wants Security Rules Applied to Genomes, Not Pathogens....December (#12)
• Peer-Review Changes at NEH....November (#11)
• Plan to End Federal Study Comes Under Fire.....April (#4)
• President Signs FY06 DOE Appropriations Bill.....January (#1)
• Priorities Needed for Nano-Risk R&D....November (#11)
• Proposed FY07 Budget Bad News for Health, Environment, Ag....November (#11)
• Radio Station Limits Broadcasts to Avoid Research Interference....August (#8)
• Research Budget for Homeland Security Shrinks....November (#11)
• Research Tops Rural Educators' Agenda.....January (#1)
• Researchers Call for Medical Education Overhaul....November (#11)
• Review Process Approved for U.S. Education Research....March (#3)
• Senate Pressured on Stem Cells.....July (#7)
• Supplemental Help Hard to Find for Rural Students.....January (#1)
• System for Transcontinental Research Could Be Prototype.....February (#2)
• Tagging System Could Help Computers Compare Research Results....August (#8)
• Treatment of Donors Key to Understanding Why They Stop Giving....December (#12)
• Tuning in Biomedical Research....November (#11)
• University Seeks to Sell Paintings to Raise Funds.....April (#4)
• U.S. House Boosts Energy Science.....July (#7)
• U.S. Patent Office Wants to Tap Experts.....July (#7)
• Young Scientists Get a Helping Hand from NIH.....January (#1)

Funding Opportunities

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Administration for Children and Families (ACF):
----Healthy Marriage Demonstration Grants....June (#6)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ):
----Conference Support.....April (#4)
Agriculture, U.S. Dept. of (USDA):
----Higher Education Challenge Grants Program....November (#11)
----Integrated Organic Program....November (#11)
Alternatives Research and Development Foundation....March (#3)
American Cancer Society:
----Psychosocial and Behavioral Research....March (#3)
American Chemical Society/Frasch Foundation:
----Research in Agricultural Chemistry....August (#8)
American Council of Learned Societies:
----ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships....August (#8)
American Diabetes Association....November (#11)
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention....October (#10)
American Heart Association:
----Grants-in-Aid....June (#6)
----Greater Midwest Affiliate Grants-in-Aid....October (#10)
American Institute for Cancer Research:
----Investigator-Initiated Grants....August (#8)
American Legacy Foundation:
----Reducing Tobacco Use....February (#2)
American Philosophical Society:
----Lewis and Clark Fund for Field Research....February (#2)
----Library Resident Research Fellowships....October (#10)
American Water Works Association Research Foundation....June (#6)

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Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation....October (#10)
Blues Music Foundation....May (#5)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund:
----Career Awards at the Scientific Interface.....April (#4)
----Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease....October (#10)

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Canon: National Park Science Scholars Program....February (#2)
C-FAR: see Illinois C-FAR
Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation:
----Homeland Security Award....June (#6)
CIGNA Foundation:
----Health, Human Services, Education.....April (#4)

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Education, U.S. Dept. of (ED):
----Arts in Education....March (#3)
----Field-Initiated Research or Development Projects....December (#12)
Energy, U.S. Dept. of (DOE):
----Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology....February (#2)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
----Consequences of Global Change for Air Quality.....April (#4)
----EPA/NIH/NSF: Environmental and Human Health Effects of Nanotechnology.....January (#1)
----Sources and Atmospheric Formation of Organic Particulate Matter....December (#12)
Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology....May (#5)

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Ford Foundation:
----Diversity Fellowships....October (#10)
Frasch Foundation:
----Research in Agricultural Chemistry....August (#8)
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program....June (#6)
Fulbright U.S. Student Program....May (#5)
Fund for Wild Nature:
----Species & Ecosystem Restoration....June (#6)

-G-
Gerber Foundation:
----Pediatric Health, Nutrition, and Safety....March (#3), November (#11)
(William T.) Grant Foundation:
----Youth Service & Development Research....October (#10)
(Harry Frank) Guggenheim Foundation:
----Understanding/Reducing Violence, Aggression, Dominance....June (#6)

-H-
(George and Eliza) Howard Foundation:
----Fellowships in Visual Arts, Media Studies, and History of Art and Architecture....August (#8)
Human Growth Foundation:
----Postdoctoral Research....March (#3)

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Illinois Arts Council:
----Artists Fellowships.....July (#7)
Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research (C-FAR):
----External Grants....October (#10)
Illinois Dept. of Agriculture:
----Sustainable Agriculture Research....September (#9)
Illinois Dept. of Public Health:
----Alzheimer's Disease Research....November (#11)
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency:
----Nonpoint Source Pollution Control....February (#2)
Institute of International Education: see Fulbright
International Foundation for Education and Self Help:
----Teachers for Africa.....January (#1)

-J-
(Robert Wood) Johnson Foundation:
----Healthy Eating Research to Prevent Childhood Obesity.....January (#1)
----Interdisciplinary Research in Health Policy....February (#2)
----Physician Faculty Scholars....August (#8)
Justice, U.S. Dept. of:
----Crime and Justice Research....November (#11)
----NIJ: Social Science Research on Terrorism....December (#12)

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(John F.) Kennedy Library Foundation:
----Ernest Hemingway Research Grants....August (#8)

-M-
Michigan Society of Fellows....September (#9)
Milheim Foundation for Cancer Research.....January (#1)
Muscular Dystrophy Association:
----Development Grants....October (#10)
Musser Fund:
----Collaborative Environmental Decision Making....June (#6)

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National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA):
----Sustainable Vision Grants....August (#8)
National Council for the Social Studies:
----Enhancing Geographic Literacy.....January (#1)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA):
----Challenge America: Reaching Every Community Fast-Track Review Grants....May (#5)
----Literature Translation Projects....December (#12)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH):
----Challenge Grants.....April (#4)
----Documenting Endangered Languages (with NSF).....July (#7)
----Preservation and Access Education and Training....May (#5)
----Special Projects Implementation Grants....November (#11)
----Summer Stipends Program....June (#6)
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation:
----Nature of Learning
National Geographic Society:
----Young Explorers Grants....December (#12)
National Institutes of Health (NIH):
----Abusive Head Trauma Prevention....December (#12)
----Bioengineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (joint with NSF)....October (#10)
----Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health.....July (#7)
----Cancer Prevention Research Small Grants Program....May (#5)
----Childhood Agricultural Safety and Health Research....June (#6)
----Developing Integrated Economic Models of Health and Retirement....October (#10)
----Development of Disease Biomarkers....December (#12)
----Economics of Diet, Activity, and Energy Balance....May (#5)
----Effect of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination/Bias on Health Care Delivery....May (#5)
----EPA/NIH/NSF: Environmental and Human Health Effects of Nanotechnology.....January (#1)
----Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology....June (#6)
----Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research via Methodological and Technological Innovation in the Behavioral/Social Sciences....November (#11)
----Focal Cognitive Deficits in CNS Disorders....December (#12)
----Functional Links Between Immune System, Brain Function, and Behavior....October (#10)
----Global Partnerships for Social Science AIDS Research....June (#6)
----Interdisciplinary Research Consortiums Program....February (#2)
----International Research Collaboration in Behavioral, Social Sciences.....July (#7)
----Measurement and Methodology in the Behavioral and Social Sciences....May (#5)
----Methamphetamine Research....September (#9)
----Neuroeconomics of Aging....September (#9)
----NIA: Developmental Research on Elder Mistreatment....September (#9)
----NCI: Cancer Education Grants....October (#10)
----NIDCD: Small Grants for Communication Disorders Research.....April (#4)
----NIMH: Neurobiology of Late-Life Mood and Anxiety Disorders....August (#8)
----Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Awards....September (#9)
National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation:
----Collegiate Inventors Competition.....April (#4)
National Marine Fisheries Service:
----Community-Based Habitat Restoration.....July (#7)
National Science Foundation (NSF):
----Academies for Young Scientists (NSFAYS)....May (#5)
----Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems....September (#9)
----Advanced Learning Technologies.....April (#4)
----Bioengineering Approaches to Energy Balance and Obesity (joint with NIH)....October (#10)
----Biomedical Engineering/Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities....June (#6)
----Broadening Participation in Computing....March (#3)
----Cognitive Neuroscience.....April (#4)
----Cooperative Studies of Earth's Deep Interior.....July (#7)
----Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement....March (#3)
----Discovery Research K-12....September (#9)
----Documenting Endangered Languages (with NEH).....July (#7)
----Ecology of Infectious Diseases....November (#11)
----EPA/NIH/NSF: Environmental and Human Health Effects of Nanotechnology.....January (#1)
----Ethics Education in Science and Engineering.....January (#1)
----Geoscience Teacher Training.....January (#1)
----Information and Intelligent Systems....June (#6)
----Instrument Development for Biological Research.....July (#7)
----Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates in Biology and Math....March (#3)
----International Research Fellowships.....July (#7)
----Major Research Instrumentation....November (#11)
----Math and Science Partnership Program....March (#3)
----Mathematical Social and Behavioral Sciences....February (#2)
----Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics.....July (#7)
----MUSES and Biocomplexity Research.....January (#1)
----Plant Genome Research.....July (#7)
----Research in Disabilities Education....November (#11)
----Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology....May (#5)
----Undergraduate Research in Chemical Sciences.....January (#1)
National Sleep Foundation:
----Postdoctoral Fellowships....October (#10)
National Wildlife Refuge System:
----Preserve America Initiative....September (#9)
Naval Research, Office of (ONR):
----Young Investigator Program....December (#12)

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Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU):
----Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards....November (#11), December (#12)
Organic Farming Research Foundation....November (#11)

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Sage Foundation:
----Social Science Project Awards....August (#8)
SIUC:
----Faculty Seed Grants....August (#8)
----Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants....September (#9)
----REACH Awards—see next entry
----Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Awards....November (#11), December (#12)
Smithsonian Institution:
----Undergraduate Natural History Research Training....October (#10)
Society of Toxicology:
----Alternatives to Animal Models....June (#6)
State Dept, U.S.:
----Summer Institute for Pakistani Students....March (#3)
State Farm Companies Foundation:
----Education Grants....March (#3)

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U.S. Institute of Peace:
----Conflict Resolution....February (#2)

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Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars:
----East European Studies....November (#11)

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