DEADLINE: April 27, 2009

This initiative will receive at least $200 million of Recovery Act funds to support 200 or more grants. Applications are due by April 27, 2009. The program will support research that focuses on specific knowledge gaps, scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation, or research methods that would benefit from an influx of funds to quickly advance the area in significant ways. The announcement describes broad challenge areas and includes links to institute and center sites that contain descriptions of additional, mission-specific topics.

PRE-PROPOSAL DEADLINE: October 1, 2009
FINAL PROPOSAL (if invited): January 15, 2010

The Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) is again offering grants in faculty and institutional renewal, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In the most recent round of grants awarded in January 2009, 22 ACS faculty received grants. In the next round of grants, pre-proposals are due on October 1, 2009. For those pre-proposals that are approved, final proposals will be due on January 15, 2010. Proposals will be accepted for individual and collaborative projects at one institution or across several ACS institutions. Visit the website at http://www.colleges.org/faculty_renewal/index.html to view the guidelines and selection criteria and to download the required cover page. If you have further questions about the program or process, please contact Marcia White at mwhite@colleges.org.

Notice of Correction to PAR-08-093

On February 8, 2008, the NIMH issued a Program Announcement (PAR-08-093) entitled, "National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Career Opportunities in Research (COR) Honors Undergraduate Research Training Grant (T34)". This notice is to inform the scientific community of the following revisions to the announcement.

Section II. Award Information (2) Funds Available

D. Training Related Expenses (TRE): The applicant institution may request TRE for each appointed trainee to help defray certain training expenses. These costs may include health insurance for each trainee, limited support for administrative staff salaries, curriculum enhancement, a modest amount of equipment needed to upgrade the curriculum, consultant costs, research supplies, faculty/staff travel directly related to the research training program, and program evaluation. Workshops designed to improve performance on specific tests (e.g., GRE, MCAT) are not allowed, nor is support for mentoring the COR trainees. Requests for TRE costs must be itemized by cost category and justified in the application.

Applicants requesting TRE in excess of 25% of the total direct costs are strongly advised to contact NIMH program staff prior to submitting an application.

Section IV. Application and Submission Information (6) Other Submission Requirements

Research Training Program: The current requirement that COR T34 research training applicants request a minimum of eight trainee positions per grant year is rescinded. Instead, because the depth and quality of the applicant pool and availability of preceptors may vary from application to application, it is anticipated that the number of trainee positions requested may also vary. It should be noted, however, that applicants requesting more than eight trainee positions per year are strongly advised to contact NIMH program staff prior to submitting an application.

Institutional Settings and Characteristics: This section should describe the nature and extent of the participation of students from diverse groups at the institution. Institutional data must include:

• the total number of students from underrepresented, disabled, and disadvantaged groups in the participating science departments;
• the number of students from underrepresented, disabled, and disadvantaged groups graduating per year
• the number of students from underrepresented, disabled, and disadvantaged groups who enroll in research Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. programs

Inquiries

Mark Chavez, Ph.D.
Division of Adult Translational Research & Treatment Development
National Institute of Mental Health
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 7147, MSC 9633
Telephone: 301-443-8942
FAX: 301-443-4611
Email: mchavez1@mail.nih.gov

DEADLINE: April 10, 2009

Submissions for the "Undergraduate Research Highlights" feature of the Summer 2009 issue of the CUR Quarterly are being accepted until April 10, 2009. Highlights consist of brief descriptions of recent (past six months) peer-reviewed research or scholarly publications in scholarly journals. These publications must be in print and must include one or more undergraduate co-authors. To be considered for publication as an Undergraduate Research Highlight, a submission should include the information listed below and MUST CONFORM TO THE FORMAT OF THE EXAMPLE PROVIDED BELOW. Submissions must be sent to the Editor of the Quarterly by email (Kelly McConnaughay - kdm@bradley.edu).
Submissions not selected for inclusion in the Quarterly will be posted to the Highlights portion of CUR's web site.