May Bulletin Pt 2 - CISE, EHR, ENG, GEO

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Computer and Information Science and Engineering

CFDA #47.070

PROGRAM DEADLINES:

May 1, 1996--

Networking and Communications Research. (Brochure NSF 89-110.)
Contact Dr. Aubrey Bush or Dr. Darleen Fisher in the Division of
Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure by phone,
306-1949; by e-mail, ab...@nsf.gov or dfi...@nsf.gov; or by URL,
http://banjo.cise/nsf.gov/cise/ncri. [P.T.34; K.W.0405000,1004055.]

July 31, 1996--

Connections to the Internet. (Brochure NSF 96-64.) Contact Mr.
David Staudt or Mr. Douglas Gatchell in the Division of Networking
and Communications Research and Infrastructure by phone, 306-1949;
by e-mail, dst...@nsf.gov or dgat...@nsf.gov; or by URL,
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/cise/ncri/connect96.html. [P.T.18,36;
K.W.1103008.]

August 5, 1996--

CISE Instrumentation. (Brochure NSF 95-60.) Supports the purchase
of special-purpose equipment or instrumentation to be used for
research in those areas of science or engineering supported by the
CISE Directorate. This equipment is not intended to provide general
computing capacity and should be required by more than one research
project or be difficult to justify for one project alone. Contact
Ms. Rita Rodriguez in the Office of Cross-Disciplinary Activities
by phone, 306-1980, or by e-mail, rrod...@nsf.gov. [P.T.18;
K.W.1014001.]

TARGET DATES:

July 15, 1996--

Database and Expert Systems. (Contact program for brochure.)
Contact Dr. Barbara Blaustein in the Division of Information,
Robotics, and Intelligent Systems by phone, 306-1926, or by e-mail,
bblau...@nsf.gov. Proposals should be submitted close to the
target date. [P.T.34; K.W.1004000,1004027.]

Education and Human Resources

CFDA #47.076

PROGRAM DEADLINES:

May 15, 1996--

Experimental Projects for Women and Girls. Preliminary Proposals.
(Brochure NSF 93-126.) This program seeks to create positive and
permanent changes in the academic, social, and scientific climates
to allow the interest and aptitude that women and girls display in
science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM) to flourish.
Collaborating organizations/institutions and multiple target
populations are required. The program also seeks to add to the
knowledge base about interactions between gender and the
infrastructure of SEM. Formal proposals are due September 1, 1996.
Contact the Division of Human Resource Development by phone, 306-
1637, or by e-mail, hrdw...@nsf.gov. [P.T.12;II; K.W.0500000.]

June 10, 1996--

Course and Curriculum Development. (Brochure NSF 96-10.) This
program provides support to improve the quality of courses and
curricula in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology,
with an emphasis on the development of introductory-level courses
and curricula, especially those that are multi- or
interdisciplinary in nature. An initiative within this program--
Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications Throughout the
Curriculum--seeks proposals that will lead to increased student
appreciation of and ability to use mathematics. Proposals are
encouraged that address these goals on a scale more modest than
that of the proposals previously supported. Another initiative--
Systemic Changes in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum--does
not accept proposals for the above closing date, though more
focused proposals in chemistry will continue to be accepted for the
regular Course and Curriculum Development Program. Contact the
Division of Undergraduate Education at 306-1681. [P.T.25;
K.W.0500000.]

Institution-Wide Reform of Undergraduate Education in Science,
Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology. (Brochure NSF 95-127.)
This new initiative seeks proposals from institutions that present
visionary plans for institution-wide reform of undergraduate
education based on significant achievement. The objective is to
capitalize on the investments that have been made to improve the
learning of mathematics and science and to convert successful
innovation into pervasive reform for the benefit of all students.
NSF expects to make grants to a diverse set of two- and four-year
colleges and universities. Grants are intended to assist
institutions in their efforts to plan and initiate comprehensive
changes in undergraduate education in science, mathematics,
engineering, and technology, and to reallocate institutional
resources to accomplish reform of undergraduate education. Letters
of intent to submit a proposal are due May 1, 1996. Contact the
Division of Undergraduate Education at 306-1666. [P.T.14;
K.W.0505015.]

Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Program. (Brochure NSF 96-10.)
This program supports workshops and other activities that target
faculty who teach undergraduate students. The purpose of these
activities is to inform them about advances in their fields and to
help them incorporate this knowledge into their instructional
material. Contact the Division of Undergraduate Education at 306-
1666. [P.T.25,42; K.W.0501051,0505015,0901072.]

June 25, 1996--

Advanced Technological Education. Preliminary Proposals for Centers
and Projects. (Brochure NSF 96-10.) This program promotes exemplary
improvement in advanced technological education within associate
degree-granting institutions in collaboration with four-year
institutions, secondary schools, and industry. The program supports
curriculum development and program improvement for science and
engineering technicians who are being educated for the high-
performance workplace of advanced technologies. Support is expected
for a variety of projects and up to five Centers of Excellence.
Formal proposals are due December 10, 1996. Contact the Division of
Undergraduate Education at 306-1668. [P.T.25;
K.W.0502006,0502056,0503016.]

July 15, 1996--

Model Projects for Persons with Disabilities. Preliminary
Proposals. (Brochure NSF 93-44.) This effort encourages the design
and implementation of innovative and highly focused activities that
will improve the access and retention of persons with disabilities
in improved education and careers in science, engineering, and
mathematics (SEM) fields. These targeted activities are designed to
demonstrate the effectiveness of existing activities that will
better enable persons with disabilities to gain access to improved
SEM education and careers in those fields. These goals can be
achieved through evaluation, refinement, and expansion, or
replication with a different population or setting. Formal
proposals are due October 1, 1996. Contact the Programs for Persons
with Disabilities by phone, 306-1636, or by e-mail, hrd...@nsf.gov.
[P.T.12,25;DD; K.W.0502006,0770010.]

Information Dissemination Activities for Persons with Disabilities.
Preliminary Proposals. (Brochure NSF 94-44.) This effort supports
activities designed to disseminate and promote utilization of
program results and to promote replication of successful strategies
used to increase the recruitment and retention of persons with
disabilities in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology
(SMET) education and career development. Audiences for Information
Dissemination Activities include precollege school counselors and
science and mathematics teachers, college and university SMET
faculty, and families of students with disabilities. Formal
proposals are due October 1, 1996. Contact the Programs for Persons
with Disabilities by phone, 306-1636, or by e-mail, hrd...@nsf.gov.
[P.T.16;DD; K.W.0502006,0770010.]

TARGET DATES:

June 1, 1996--

Informal Science Education. Preliminary Proposals Were Required by
March 1, 1996. (Brochure NSF 93-131.) These programs promote a
better understanding of the process of science and scientific
thinking through learning that is voluntary, self-directed, and
long term. Informal science programs are often visual or object-
oriented and operate through a variety of media and organizations
including television, film, museums, nature centers, parks, and
libraries. The projects are designed to reach a large national or
regional audience for maximum impact and seek to promote new
relationships between informal and formal education. Contact the
Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education at 306-
1616. [P.T.25; K.W.0502031,0502058,0503003.]

June 15, 1996--

Research in Teaching and Learning. Preliminary Proposals Required.
(Brochure NSF 95-138.) Contact Ms. Barbara Lovitts in the Division
of Research, Evaluation, and Communication at 306-1652. [P.T.34;
K.W.0500000.]

June 17, 1996--

Networking Infrastructure for Education (NIE). Planning Grants and
Preliminary Proposals. (Brochure NSF 96-13.) This program is a
joint venture between the CISE and EHR Directorates. The NIE
program is intended to help lay a foundation on which strategies
for the appropriate use of technology to enhance teacher
professionalization, student achievement, and school restructuring
can build. Contact Dr. Nora Sabelli, Mr. Steven Sanchez, or Ms.
Carla Boeckman in the Division of Research, Evaluation, and
Communication at 306-1651. [P.T.25; K.W.0500000,0501051,1004055.]

August 15, 1996--

Instructional Materials Development. Preliminary Proposals Are
Required by May 1, 1996. (Brochure NSF 93-131.) This program
pursues the development of instructional materials that will
promote the systemic improvement of science, mathematics, and
technology instruction at the pre-K through grade 12 levels. The
projects emphasize the connections within and among science,
mathematics, technology, and other areas of study. The materials
should have a broad impact on education and should make positive,
long-term changes in student learning. Contact the Division of
Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education at 306-1614. [P.T.25;
K.W.0503016.]

Engineering

CFDA #47.041

PROGRAM DEADLINES:

May 3, 1996--

Combined Research Curriculum Development Program. Concept Paper.
(Brochure NSF 96-36.) Contact Mrs. Mary Poats in the Division of
Engineering Education and Centers at 306-1380. [P.T.25,34;
K.W.0600000.]

May 7, 1996--

NSF-CONACyT Collaborative Research Opportunities. (Brochure NSF 96-
4). In the CISE Directorate, contact Ms. Rita Rodriguez at 306-
1980; and in the ENG Directorate, contact Dr. M.C. Roco at 306-
1371. [P.T.34; K.W.0112000,0606013,1004003.]

June 12, 1996--

Small Business Innovation Research. (Brochure in revision.) Contact
the Division of Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation at
306-1390. [P.T.34; K.W.0901043.]

Geosciences

CFDA #47.050

PROGRAM DEADLINES:

June 1, 1996--

Division of Earth Sciences. In the Continental Dynamics Program,
contact Dr. Leonard Johnson at 306-1559; in the Geology and
Paleontology Program, contact Dr. John Maccini or Dr. Christopher
Maples at 306-1551; in the Geophysics Program, contact Ms. Robin
Reichlin or Dr. James Whitcomb at 306-1556; in the Hydrologic
Sciences Program, contact Dr. L. Douglas James at 306-1549; in the
Petrology and Geochemistry Program, contact Dr. John Snyder or Dr.
Maryellen Cameron at 306-1554; and in the Tectonics Program,
contact Dr. Thomas Wright at 306-1552. Descriptions of programs are
contained in Earth Sciences Research and NSF (NSF 93-66). [P.T.34;
K.W.1005002,1005005,1005013,1005017,1005019,1005024,1005048,10130
09.]

DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED--

Environmental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry. (Brochure NSF 96-
2.) Contact Dr. Maryellen Cameron in the Division of Earth Sciences
at 306-1554. [P.T.34; K.W.1005000,1005002.]

TARGET DATES:

May 1, 1996--

Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR).
Contact Dr. Sunanda Basu in the Division of Atmospheric Sciences at
306-1529. [P.T.34; K.W.1001000,1008050.]

U.S. Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program-Coupled Ocean
Atmosphere Research Experiment (TOGA-COARE). (Brochure NSF 94-173.)
Contact Dr. Jay Fein in the Division of Atmospheric Sciences at
306-1527, or Dr. Eric Itsweire in the Division of Ocean Sciences at
306-1583. [P.T.34; K.W.1001000,1008004.]

June 1, 1996--

Division of Atmospheric Sciences. Research proposals that require
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) or university-based
national facilities for the period April 1, 1997, through October
1, 1997. Contact Mr. Kenneth Van Sickle at 306-1526. [P.T.34;
K.W.1001000.]

August 15, 1996--

Biological Oceanography, Chemical Oceanography, Marine Geology and
Geophysics, and Physical Oceanography. Contact Dr. Michael Reeve in
the Division of Ocean Sciences at 306-1582. [P.T.34;
K.W.1005008,1008005,1008006,1008145,1013009.]

Ocean Drilling Program. Contact Dr. Bruce Malfait in the Division
of Ocean Sciences at 306-1581. [P.T.34; K.W.1005078.]

Ocean Sciences Instrumentation Development. Contact Mr. Lawrence
Clark in the Division of Ocean Sciences at 306-1584. [P.T.34;
K.W.1008000,1014001.]