For interdisciplinary and multicomponent research on racial and ethnic disparities in health that can be reduced by improving organization, delivery, and financing of health services. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants and loans to fund distance learning and telemedicine projects servicing rural America. Field-Initiated Studies Grants to conduct education research in which topics and methods of study are generated by investigators.
Collaborative research is encouraged.
To establish a center for the rehabilitation of minorities with disabilities. A pre-application meeting will be held on December 13 in Washington, D.C. to discuss the funding priority. Alternative arrangements will be made to accommodate interested parties unable to attend the pre-application meeting. Applications are due February 4, 2000. Department of Energy Experimental and Computational Structural Biology Research is sought for experimental and computational biological studies on the structural biology of proteins involved in DNA repair or in bioremediation.