GPN Digest

Upcoming Member Meeting
At the upcoming GPN member meeting, Larry Ammiot from Northwestern University and Internet2 will be speaking about the Internet2 Commons project. The purpose of the project is to enable one-to-one, one-to-group, and group-to-group collaborative conferencing in support of personal communications, meetings, conferences, and shared education for Internet2 members (primary and sponsored) and their international counterparts. The plan is to provide a rich suite of collaboration tools and services over time that are as easy to access as it is to make a phone call today. Register for the meeting at the GPN Meeting Registration Cafe

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In this issue, Julia Abrahams, Program Director with the National Science Foundation, contributes a synopsis of several programs she manages. Look them over and contact Dr. Abrahams if you have questions. I have also included several other solicitations from a variety of sources to share.

NSF Advanced Networking Solicitations The Advanced Networking Infrastructure section of our Division recently announced three solicitations: Middleware Development, High Performance Network Computing (HPNC) and Strategic Technologies for the Internet. Links to these solicitations are located at the NSF CISE web site. Program Directors will be assigned to each of these programs in the near future.

The HPNC program is aimed at hooking up new universities to a high performance network (e.g., Abilene, vBNS). It is a new version of the program under which many of the GPN members were connected to Internet2. Anyone for new members?

Keep an eye out for upcoming solicitations, including CyberInfrastructure and Networking Research. I will notify GPN subscribers as these solicitations are announced.

NSF Reviewers and Program Directors Needed Want to get acquainted with NSF from the inside? Want to spend some quality time in Washington, DC? Want to raise your own visibility to Program Directors? May I suggest...
...volunteer to participate on a review panel: All proposals submitted to NSF are peer-reviewed. That means we, as Program Directors, constantly need folks to participate in panels here in DC or on ad hoc panels. This is EVERY DIRECTORATE AT NSF. Find your directorate and volunteer. Your participation will be greatly appreciated.
...sign up to become a Program Director. If you like DC and want to hang out for a year, contact a Division Director and start the dialog. Currently, CISE is looking for Program Directors. So are many other directorates.

Visit the NSF web site and contact someone. It could be a life-changing experience.

A select group of Kansas City politicians learn from Rick Summerhill that the Great Plains Network Spring Member Meeting will be held at UMKC.
Rogue Access Grid Nodes A group of creative individuals from GPN who attended the Internet2 meeting in early March expressed interest in jumping into the midst of Access Grid technology using spare equipment. Gurcharan Khanna, from Dartmouth College, who taught me to use VIC and RAT--I don't have any idea what they mean, but I know they are essential components for AGN operation--is lending his experience as is Michael Grobe from KU. Tom Brenneman from UMKC has probably mastered a lot of this by now. Join this group by subscribing to the Great Plains/Access Grid mailing list. Write to these folks--they are really helpful (I started with "Where do I get VIC and RAT and what do they mean?").

Research Collaboration Meeting The time for the Research Collaboration Meeting has changed to Fridays from 11AM to Noon Central. The first meeting will be this Friday, March 30, 2001. We can catch up on old business and plan for the future. Funding is a topic that I would like to briefly discuss. I can also help answer questions about the solicitations mentioned above.

April 19-20, 2001 GPN Meeting If you are reading this but have not registered for the GPN Member Meeting: Networking Tools and Resources for Collaboration, then all I can say is "What's wrong with you?" Register online at the GPN Meeting Registration Cafe

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NSF Educational Innovation by Dr. Julia Abrahams, NSF CISE (Computer and Information Science and Engineering) Educational Innovation supports innovative educational activities at the undergraduate level in computer and information science and engineering that transfer research results into the undergraduate curriculum. Deadline dates are 04/25/2001 and the second Tuesday of March of each following year. Program Announcement

CISE Research Infrastructure provides support for the establishment, enhancement, and operation of major experimental facilities for all CISE research areas. Deadline dates are 10/15/2001 and the third Monday in October of each following year. Program Announcement

Experimental Partnerships provides opportunities in support of multidisciplinary, group-oriented research in topics that are within the domain of CISE programs and activities. Deadline dates are November 01 of each year. Program Announcement

Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education supports fellowships and associated training that will enable graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the sciences, mathematics, engineering, and technology to serve in K-12 schools as resources knowledgeable about both the content and applications of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Deadline dates are 05/31/2001 for letters of intent and 06/28/2001 for full proposals. The current program announcement is not yet available. Previous version of this Program Announcement

ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers has three subprograms. Fellows Awards will enable promising individuals to establish or reestablish full-time independent academic research and education careers in institutions of higher learning. Institutional Transformation Awards will support academic institutional transformation to promote the increased participation and advancement of women scientists and engineers in academe. Leadership Awards will recognize the outstanding contributions made to date by organizations and/or individuals who have enabled the increased participation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers, and will enable awardees to sustain, intensify and initiate new activities designed to make further progress. Deadline dates are 04/02/2001 for letters of intent (Institutional Transformation, Leadership), 05/16/2001 for letters of intent (Fellows), 05/08/2001 for full proposals (Institutional Transformation, Leadership), 08/22/2001 for full proposals (Fellows). Program Announcement

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship has as its goal the development of innovative, research-based, graduate education and training activities that will produce a diverse group of new scientists and engineers well-prepared for a broad spectrum of career opportunities. Deadline dates are 06/28/2001 for preproposals and 01/18/2002 for full proposals. Program Announcement

NSF-CONACyT Collaborative Research Opportunities supports efforts in international cooperative research and research infrastructure in computer science, information systems, and computer engineering with the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) (National Council of Science and Technology Research) of Mexico. Deadlines dates are 02/02/2002 and the first Wednesday in February of each following year. Program Announcement

NSF-CNPq Collaborative Research Opportunities supports new efforts in international cooperative research in any CISE-related area where the efforts are likely to produce positive, complementary, and synergistic effects with CNPq-Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico da Pesquisas (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research) in Brazil. Deadline dates are 10/05/2001 and the first Friday in October of each following year. Program Announcement

Post Doctoral Research Associates provides opportunities to work in established laboratories performing experimental research in computer science and engineering. Deadline dates are 11/02/2001 and the first Friday in November of each following year. Program Announcement

Research Experiences for Undergraduates supports sites for several students to provide active research experience for attracting talented undergraduates to and retaining them in careers in mathematics, science, and engineering. Deadline dates are September 15 of each year. Program Announcement

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Julia Abrahams--jabrahams@nsf.gov
National Science Foundation
Experimental & Integrative Activities
Computer & Information Sciences &
Engineering
4201 Wilson Blvd.--Suite 1160N Arlington, VA 22230
(703) 292-4763
FAX (703) 292-9030
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NSF proposal and award statistics: To obtain information on NSF proposal and award statistics at varying levels of detail and for different "cuts" of the data, check out the Internet Information System. Use it to see award summaries by state and/or institution, to see top institutions, and to do keyword searches.

In addition to the announcements in other sections of this Digest, you may also want to check these funding opportunities:

Hewlett-Packard: The primary focus of HP's U.S. strategic grants initiatives for 2001 is education and e-Inclusion. Targeted recipients include U.S. universities, low-income and ethnically diverse K-12 schools, national non-profit organizations that align with HP's goals to increase acheivement in math and science, and underserved communities working to address their most pressing issues through reinvention and collaboration. Program and Contact Information

NEH:
All NEH program deadlines.
July 1: Deadline for applications for funding of online state encyclopedias. State humanities councils will find the program description and application materials on p. 52 of the NEH program book.

Future Architecture Concepts for Information/Integration Technologies (FACIT)
Primary Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory

Engineering Information Foundation Grant Programs
Primary Sponsor: Engineering Information Foundation (NY)

Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Primary Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Training and Technical Assistance on a National Service Web-Based Reporting System
Primary Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service

AT&T Invitational Grants
Primary Sponsor: AT&T Foundation (NY)

AT&T Learning Network Grants
Primary Sponsor: AT&T Foundation (NY)

NSF/USDOT Partnership for Exploratory Research on Information and Communications Systems for Surface Transportation (ICSST)
Primary Sponsor: National Science Foundation