February 2006
- Federal Funding Opportunities: February 2006
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 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: February 2006
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 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: Thursday, February 16, 2006
Faculty Commons This faculty-only meeting place to promote fellowship, collaboration and schlorship, has new dates and topics added: March 21, 2006 - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., Conference Room 6202 in 5057 Woodward - "Linguistics" April 11, 2006 - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., at Children's Hospital of...
- SPA to Participate in NCURA Videoconference
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006
On March 9, 2006, the Sponsored Program Administration office will be screening a videoconference sponsored by the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) entitled, "Grants.gov: Working Towards a Common Vision". The videoconference will take place at the David Adamany...
- HIC Revises the Adverse Reactions and Unexpected Events Policy
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006
The Human Investigation Committee (HIC) revised the policy on “ Identifying, Reporting, and Reviewing Adverse Reactions (AR) and Unexpected Events (UE)”. During the ongoing process improvement activities, the policy was reevaluated using the draft guidance from Office of Human Rights...
- Internal Funding Opportunities: February 2005
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006
Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Faculty Scholar Award (summer) Notify CHR of intent to submit: February 1, 2006 Deadline: March 1, 2006 Maximum Award: $15,000 The 2006 DMC Faculty Scholar Award Program will fund studies that focus on translating WSU faculty research into studies of clinical...
- Are You Ready for Grants.gov?
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006
If you haven’t had to submit a proposal to one of the 26 federal grant making agencies via grants.gov yet, it won’t be too long until you will be required to do so. Are you ready to use Grants.Gov when the time comes? Here is some basic information that you can use to help you...
- WSU Faculty Receives National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006
Alexey A. Petrov, Ph.D., of Livonia, Michigan and assistant professor of physics at Wayne State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award. The NSF CAREER Award is one of the highest honors...
- NIH Announces Program to Foster the Independence of New Investigators
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006
National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. recently announced the NIH Pathway to Independence Award Program. The program features a new opportunity for promising postdoctoral scientists to receive both mentored and independent research support from the same award...
- WSU Faculty Receives $2.2 Million to Study Congenital Abnormality in Children
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006
Tej Mattoo, MD, professor and chief of Pediatric Nephrology at Wayne State University was recently awarded over $2.2 million from the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to examine if long-term antibiotics are necessary in children with...
- Internal Deadlines: Programs with Limited Numbers of Submissions
- Posted: Thursday, February 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 Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education...
- Faculty Spotlight: Mark Luborsky and Andrea Sankar
- Posted: Thursday, February 16, 2006
Mark Luborsky, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and director of Aging and Health Disparities Research in the Institute of Gerontology, and Andrea Sankar, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and director of Medical Anthropology, were selected through a competitive process to co-edit the international...