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August 2006

Federal Funding Opportunities: August 2006
Posted: Tuesday, August 15, 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: August 2006
Posted: Tuesday, August 15, 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...

Meetings and Seminars for Wayne State University Researchers
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Nano@Wayne All Nano@Wayne Seminars are held at the Welcome Center Auditorium located at 42 West Warren Avenue at 2:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Tuesday, September 19 at 2:30 p.m. in the Scott Hall Green Hall: Speaker: Dr. Donald Tomalia, Central Michigan University Tuesday, October 3...

Dr. Donald Tomalia to Speak at Nano@Wayne Seminars
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Wayne State University’s Office of the Vice President for Research has announced its 2006 – 2007 seminar series for researchers, students and the general public interested in the nanosciences. This seminar series is intended to introduce participants to the latest research findings in the...

SPA Announces Grants.gov Training Sessions
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Federal Government has declared FY 2007, which begins in October, as the year that all Federal Grants must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov. Grants.gov is the on-line grant application submission system used by all federal grant-making agencies to find funding opportunities and...

WSULS Receives Fourth IMLS Grant in Four Years
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Wayne State University was awarded one of 35 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grants as announced by First Lady Laura Bush on June 26. The Wayne State Library System received $851,018 for a project called "Recruiting and Educating the 21st Century Fine and Performing Arts...

SPA to Participate in NCURA Videoconference
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Wayne State University Sponsored Program Administration office is happy to announce its participation in The National Council of University Research Administrators 2006 Video Workshop Series, entitled "Technology Transfer for the Research Administrator." The session will be help on...

SPA Notes: Grants.gov Timelines
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Although Sponsored Programs has been drilling the conversion to Grants.gov into everyone’s collective psyche, we still receive the occasional phone call regarding the timeline for conversion to electronic submission. The following is a handy link that details the timeline for electronic...

Internal Deadlines: Programs with Limited Numbers of Submissions
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 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 Leadership-Class System Acquisition...

Two WSU Faculty Receive National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The National Science Foundation has recently bestowed upon Dr. Gregory Auner, of Wayne State University's Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Dr. Rata Naik, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, an award of $130,400 for its Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. The...

E2Detroit Returns to Wayne State
Posted: Thursday, August 17, 2006

The second annual E2detroit hosted by the Technology Commercialization Office will be held at Wayne State University on October 5 and 6th. E2detroit is committed to bringing together the finest entrepreneurial minds in the nation to facilitate Michigan’s local business talent and give back to...

New Grants.gov Newsletter Available
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Wayne State University's Sponsored Programs Administration office wishes to help its researchers make a smooth transition to the new grants.gov electronic system of proposal submission. To that end, it has created for university researchers and administrators a newsletter full of information...