<div dir="ltr"><p>1) NIH has reissued the announcement for its <b>Blueprint Program for Enhancing Neuroscience Diversity through Undergraduate Research Education Experiences (R25)</b> program (<a href="http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-14-010.html">http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-14-010.html</a>):<br>
</p><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin-left:40px"><span class="" id="synopsisDetailsOppTitle">The goal of this NIH
Blueprint R25 program is to support educational activities that enhance the
diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce. To
this end, this funding opportunity announcement encourages the development of
creative educational activities with a primary focus on Research Experiences,
Courses for Skills Development, and Mentoring Activities.
</span></div><p style="margin-left:40px" class="">The fully integrated research experiences, courses for
skills development, and mentoring activities should prepare undergraduate
students from diverse backgrounds nationally underrepresented in biomedical
and behavioral sciences to enter Ph.D. degree programs in the neurosciences.
To accomplish this goal, this initiative will provide institutional awards to
develop neuroscience research education programs consisting of collaborative
partnerships integrated across different educational institution types. Each
collaborative research education partnership must have the following
components: a) a research-intensive institution that has an established
neuroscience or neuroscience-related program, b) partnership between
institution(s) that have a substantial enrollment of undergraduates from
populations nationally underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral
sciences, c) integrated curriculum/academic enhancement and research training
activities designed to increase participants' preparation to enter doctoral
programs in the neurosciences, and d) well-described plans to provide early
communication and interaction between participating students and graduate
neuroscience programs across the country. </p><span class="" id="synopsisDetailsOppTitle">Letters of intent are due April 28 and full proposals are due May 28. Projects may not exceed 5 years. As for the budget..."</span>Although the size of award may vary with the scope of the
research education program proposed and there are no specific budget
limitations, the requested direct costs must be reasonable, well documented,
fully justified and commensurate with the scope of the proposed program."<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>2) You may have heard that the <b>NSF Research on Education and Learning (REAL)</b> program is not part of the President's budget request to Congress. It sounds like the REAL program will be folded into the <b>NSF EHR Core Research (ECR) program</b> (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504924">http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504924</a>) and that a new ECR funding announcement will appear this summer. The current ECR announcement has a proposal date of February 5, 2015, but there may be an Autumn 2014 deadline date instead.<br>
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