DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES BULLETIN

http://intranet.okstate.edu/Fiscal_Affairs/fund_opp.htm
November 30, 2000

This is a monthly publication of announcements of funding opportunities. For more information, please contact Adele Tongco (adel@okstate.edu) at 4-5398 in Ag Hall 139 or Jan Madole (jkd1703@okstate.edu) at 4-7196. More information about each announcement is accessible on the Internet (see URL listed with each opportunity to view full record).

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Title: Aggregate Exposure Assessment for Pesticides: Longitudinal Case Studies

Sponsor: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), and National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance (NCERQA).

Deadline: March 07, 2001

URL: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=56755

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Title: Biobased Products Industry

Sponsor: United States Department of Energy (DOE), Idaho Operations Office.

URL: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=50696

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Title: Children's Vulnerability to Toxic Substances in the Environment

Sponsor: United States EPA, Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental Research and Quality Assurance (NCERQA)

Amount: $150,000

Deadline: February 28, 2001

URL: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=56753

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Title: Technical Resource Center for Integrated Pest Management in Schools & Day Care Centers

Sponsor: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Deadline: December 15, 2000

Amount: $100,000

Abstract: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting pre-application grant proposals for the establishment of a Technical Resource Center for promoting the adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) in schools and day care centers. This center will be regionally based (region of the country and target states to be identified by the applicant). The center will provide information, guidance, education, training, and other tools necessary for schools and day care centers to successfully launch and sustain IPM programs geared at reducing children's exposure to pests and pesticides.

URL: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=56766

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Title: Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Pilot Program

Sponsor: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Commodity Credit Corporation

Abstract: The purposes of the Seniors Farmers' Market Nutrition Pilot Program are to (1) provide resources in the form of fresh, nutritious, unprepared, locally grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs from farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture programs to low-income seniors, (2) increase the domestic consumption of agricultural commodities by expanding or aiding in the expansion of domestic farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture programs, and (3) develop or aid in the development of new and additional farmers' markets, roadside stands, and community supported agriculture programs.

URL: http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=56239

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Title: Scholarship: ASAE Student Engineer of the Year Scholarship

Sponsor: American Society of Agricultural Engineers Fund

Deadlines: 04/15/2001

URL: www.asae.org

Eligibility Criteria: This scholarship is to go out to an outstanding engineering undergraduate student in one of the engineering departments in the United States or Canada. A student in engineering who will have been enrolled in school as an undergraduate a minimum of one academic year starting in September of the calendar year nominated for the award.

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Selected International Grants, Exchanges, Fellowships, and Collaborative Research Opportunities in Agriculture http://www.fas.usda.gov/icd/grants/director.html

Grants I (Citizenship Unrestricted) http://www.fas.usda.gov/icd/grants/grantsi.html

American Orchid Society

Conservation, Food & Health Foundation Inc.

Earthwatch Grants for Field Research

Eppley Foundation for Research Inc.

The Eurasia Foundation

European Science Foundation

The Ford Foundation

Horticultural Research Institute

Inter-American Foundation

The International Foundation, Inc.

International Science Foundation

The International Society of Arboriculture - Research Trust

Lindbergh Foundation

C.S. Mott Foundation

Purina Mills Inc.

Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust

U.S.-Israel B.A.R.D.

United States Information Agency

Wallace Genetic Foundation, Inc.

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche

DOE/NSF/USDA Joint Program on

Collaborative Research in Plant Biology

Development Study Centre

Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships

Fogarty International Center

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Fulbright Scholar Program

The German Marshall

Golda Meir Fellowship Fund

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Humboldt Research Fellowships for Foreign Scholars

International Agricultural Centre

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

International Institute of Tropical Ag

International Research & Exchanges Board

The Kosciuszko Foundation

Life Sciences Research Foundation

NATO Science Fellowships

The National Council for Soviet and East European Research

National Research Council

National Science Foundation

The Research Council of Norway

U.S.-Israel Cooperative Development

Research (CDR) Program

U.S.-China Program

U.S.-Israel B.A.R.D.

Also distributed by Agriculture Grants & Contracts are information on the following:

URL: www.asae.org

International Science Foundation

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche

International Institute of Tropical Ag

Research (CDR) Program

U.S.-China Program

Fellowships and Exchanges for Foreign Nationals in the United States

Fogarty International Center