These grants provide support for joint study, outside experts, workshops on scholarly issues and related curricular questions, and planning. The deadline for application is April 15, 2000. The purpose of program is to provide grants or enter into cooperative agreements to improve postsecondary education opportunities. The deadline for preapplications is February 11, 2000. The deadline for final applications is May 19, 2000.
Applicants are to submit a preapplication to be eligible to submit a final application.
The Whitaker Foundation announces its Special Opportunity Awards in Biomedical Engineering and its new Leadership Development Awards Program. These two programs can help universities enhance biomedical engineering education in significant ways. The internal deadline for this limited competition has been extended to February 10, 2000. ROLE seeks gains at the intersections of these areas, where issues arising from research and educational practice can be reconciled, and hypotheses generated in one area may be tested and refined in others. The ROLE Program aims to advance the knowledge base in and across these multidisciplinary areas.