The web site for the Mississippi Space Commerce Initiative (MSCI) at The University of Mississippi is up and running. The web site includes information about the initiative, contacts for more information, Requests for Proposals (RFP), and other information. If you are interested, please visit www.olemiss.edu/research/msci. If you have any questions, contact Greg Easson at geasson@olemiss.edu.
The National Endowment for the Humanities partners with the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI WorldCom, and the National Trust for the Humanities to sponsor EDSITEment, a “gateway” to humanities resources. The site includes a page with links to 49 humanities sites selected through the NEH merit review process. See http://edsitement.neh.gov.
The University of Iowa, Office of the Vice President for Research, provides electronic versions of forms needed for applications to NIH. At http://www.uiowa.edu/~vpr/eforms/nih/nih.htm, you’ll find both PC and Mac versions of full kits and individual forms for PHS 398, PHS 2590, and PHS 416 applications. These forms can be downloaded, saved to your computer, and completed electronically. Departments and individual researchers may wish to bookmark the site.
GRANTSNET, an electronic clearinghouse for information on funding opportunities and trends in the biological and medical sciences, reports that the National Institutes of Health is considering a classification scheme that would recognize research assistants appointed to NIH grants as “trainees,” rather than as employees. Under such a plan, graduate students and postdocs on NIH grants would complete web-based forms, allowing NIH to monitor the number of people receiving training through their awards and the nature of that training. For more on this subject, see “Research Assistants: Not Just Employees,” at http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/awards.dtl. GRANTSNET is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.
