• CUR Arts & Humanities Division travel awards

  With the goal of promoting undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity in Arts and Humanities education, the Arts and Humanities Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research will offer financial support for faculty to present on the process and/or results of undergraduate research at regional or national Arts and/or Humanities conferences. The awards will be from $600 and up to three will be awarded for presentations that have been accepted by Feb. 10, 2015, to be presented (or which have been presented) in the fall of 2014 or spring of 2015 (by June 1, 2015).

  tags: grant humanities art music media history literature writing langling student

• Press Release: CDMRP Research Funding for 2015, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program

  The Fiscal Year 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations Act provides research funding for the following peer reviewed programs managed by the Department of Defense office of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP):

  Alcohol and Substance Abuse Research Program – $4.0 million
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program – $7.5 million
  Autism Research Program – $6.0 million
  Bone Marrow Failure Research Program – $3.2 million
  Breast Cancer Research Program – $120.0 million
  Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program – $3.2 million
  Epilepsy Research Program – $7.5 million
  Gulf War Illness Research Program – $20.0 million
  Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program – $50.0 million
  Lung Cancer Research Program – $10.5 million
  Military Burn Research Program – $8.0 million
  Multiple Sclerosis Research Program – $5.0 million
  Neurofibromatosis Research Program – $15.0 million
  Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Parkinson’s Research Program – $16.0 million
  Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes – $10.0 million
  Ovarian Cancer Research Program – $20.0 million
  Peer Reviewed Alzheimer’s Research Program – $12.0 million
  Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program – $50.0 million
  Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program – $247.5 million
  Peer Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program – $30.0 million
  Prostate Cancer Research Program – $80.0 million
  Spinal Cord Injury Research Program – $30.0 million
  Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Research Program – $6.0 million
  Vision Research Program – $10.0 million

  tags: notice biomed cancer neuroscience

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