The Environmental Protection Agency posts past, current, and anticipated extramural funding opportunities at http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/. Check the site to see when to expect announcements of competitions focusing on Risk Assessment for Wildlife and on Drinking Water.
The Department of Education provides a list of active funding programs at http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/. Links are provided to brief descriptions, a list of required forms, and further links to the Federal Register announcement and to the program’s homepage (if any).
A recent report by the American Academy of Microbiology on “Dynamic Issues in Scientific Integrity: Collaborative Research,” offers guidance in structuring collaborative multidisciplinary projects so that potential conflicts can be avoided. The report notes that collaborators from different fields may also have different assumptions about working styles, expectation of communication, and sharing of data. The full report is available at http://www.asmusa.org/acasrc/aca1.htm
The National Science Foundation has just put online the 2000 Guide to Programs, available at http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf0065/start.htm. The Guide is a starting place for information on NSF’s on-going programs, providing descriptions of research interests, contact information, and deadline/target dates. Although NSF issues program announcements for a significant number of funding opportunities, the Guide is the best source of information on programs of active interest to NSF but for which submissions are “unsolicited,” that is, not invited through a separate announcement.
The National Institutes of Health in late December 99 issued its “Principles and Guidelines for Recipients of NIH Research Grants and Contracts on Obtaining and Disseminating Biomedical Research Resources. The policy is designed to assist institutions in determining how and to what extent they must or may share with the public the resources produced by NIH-funded research, as well as to guide institutions in sharing data with and accepting funding from for-profit organizations. Under this policy, examples of “research resources” include cell lines, drugs, computer software, and databases, among other outcomes and technologies. The policy can be found at http://www.nih.gov/od/ott/RTguide_final.htm
