The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announce the availability of the 2007 Beckman Scholars Program to help stimulate, encourage and support research activities by exceptionally talented undergraduate students who are pursuing their studies at accredited four-year institutions. Their research activities should be centered in either chemistry, biochemistry, the biological sciences and medical science or some combination of these subjects. This is a limited competition and only one application per institution is allowed.

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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences announces its Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Award (ONES) (R01). This award is intended to identify outstanding scientists who are in the early, formative stages of their careers and who intend to make a long-term career commitment to research in the mission areas of the NIEHS and assist them in launching an innovative research program focusing on problems of environmental exposures and human biology, human pathophysiology and human disease. Eligible Principal Investigators include individuals with faculty appointments which are tenure track or equivalent and who have fewer than eight years of experience beyond the Ph.D. at the time of application. Ineligible individuals include current and former Principal Investigators on NIH research projects (R01), sub-projects or program projects (P01) or Center Grants with research components (P50) or equivalent research grants awards. Applicants will be expected to devote at least 50% time and effort to the award and have a long-term commitment to research in the environmental health grants. An applicant may request a project period of up to 5 years and a budget for direct costs up to $400,000 dollars in each of the first and second years, and $275,000 in each of years 3-5.

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American Masterpieces: Visual Arts Touring is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy. NEA will sponsor performances, exhibitions, tours and education programs across all art forms that will reach large and small communities. NEA anticipates awarding fewer than 10 grants, ranging from $30,000to $300,000 with a required nonfederal match of at least 1 to 1.

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The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to non-profit research institutions to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. The BYI program is open to persons with tenure-track appointments in academic and non-profit institutions that conduct fundamental research in the chemical and life sciences. Candidates must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States at the time of application. Documentation of U.S. citizenship (copy of birth certificate or passport) or permanent residency status must be provided with the application. Persons who have applied for permanent residency but have not received their government documentation by the time of application are not eligible. To be eligible, an applicant should not have completed more than three full years in his or her tenure-track or other comparable independent research appointment. Regardless of eligibility under this rule, no individual may apply for a Beckman Young Investigator award more than three times.

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The Department of Defense (DOD) announces the fiscal year 2008 Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) (BAA W911NF-08-R-0008). The program solicitation goals include: enhancing programs and capabilities in scientific and engineering disciplines critical to the national security functions of the DoD; an increasing the number of graduates, including underrepresented minorities, in the fields of physical science, mathematics, and/or engineering. Research areas of interest are: bio-inspired sciences; information assurance; counter directed energy weapons; energy and power management; human sciences; information fusion an decision sciences; network sciences; quantum information sciences; counter weapons of mass destruction; immersive science for training and mission rehearsal; science of autonomy; other areas can be found at ARO: http://www.aro.army.mil and AFOSR: http://www.afosr.mil. The full announcement may be downloaded from ARO website at http://www.aro.army.mil/baa under Funding Opportunities, Open Broad Agency Announcements (BAA).

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The McCune Foundation's annual grant cycle is open until September 30, 2008. The foundation funds projects in New Mexico in the areas of arts, economic development, education, environment, health, and social services. Grants for specific projects, operating expenses, and capital expenses are considered. As in previous years, the foundation will accept only one application per organization. In UNM's case that means only one application per department, not school, college or the university as a whole. All proposals must be approved by the appropriate pre-award office (OVPRED or HSC) before submittal.

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