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September 2006

Federal Funding Opportunities: September 2006
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

As well as federal funding opportunities, included in this section are programs with internal deadlines and programs from volunteer health agencies. For more information and/or application materials for these programs, please contact Julie O'Connor, Office of the Vice President for Research at...

Private Sector Funding: September 2006
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

If you are interested in these or any other private funding opportunities, please contact Jim Dauer at 577-6468 or jdauer@wayne.edu. The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) can assist you with private funding prospect identification, proposal development including grant writing...

Internal Funding Opportunities: September 2006
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

For more information on these programs, please contact Sarah James, OVPR, 577-5600. Working Groups in the Humanities and Arts Program Deadline: September 22, 2006 Maximum Award: The Humanities Center will fund up to five new working groups, making available to each group up to $1,000 for...

OVPR Announces Bridge Funding Grant
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) Bridge Funding Program is designed for faculty (Assistant, Associate and Full Professors) who have an ongoing, competitive extramural grant (e.g., NSF, NIH, DOD, ACS, etc.) but whose funding has been interrupted by an unsuccessful competitive...

WSU Launches Website for Interdisciplinary Research and Education
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

Colleges and universities across the country employ a variety of strategies to foster and sustain interdisciplinary research and education but one strategy - developing an interdisciplinary website - stands out as a powerful centralizing mechanism for interdisciplinary activities across a campus...

New Nano@Wayne Seminars Announced
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

The Office of the Vice President for Research at Wayne State University invites the research community to attend the first Nano@Wayne Seminar* of this academic year on Tuesday, September 19 at 2:30 p.m. at the School of Medicine in the Green Lecture Hall -- 3334 Scott Hall, 540 East Canfield...

OVPR Releases 2006-2007 Internal Research Support Booklet
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

Welcome to the 2006-2007 academic year! To support and encourage research endeavors at the university, the Office of the Vice President for Research offers a variety of internal research funding opportunities for which faculty are eligible to compete. Additionally, the Graduate School, Office of...

Center and Institute Advisory Committee-II Formed for 2006-2007 Academic Year
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

Under the university’s new policy on centers and institutes approved last year by the Board of Governors, the Center and Institute Advisory Committee-II (CIAC-II) will be responsible for the review of centers and institutes that report to the Office of the Vice President for Research, as well as...

Internal Deadlines: Programs with Limited Numbers of Submissions
Posted: Monday, September 18, 2006

Due to a limit on the number of submissions that Wayne State University may make, the Office of the Vice President for Research is requesting that faculty interested in the following programs submit to an internal competition: National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program...

Wayne State University Awarded $7.2 million in 21st Century Jobs Fund Grants
Posted: Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Wayne State University’s faculty are committed to transforming our economy through the research that they do, and the State of Michigan has recognized this by awarding Wayne State over $7.2 million through the 21st Century Jobs Fund initiative. The initiative is part of Governor Granholm’s...