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nsf.gov>Dear Colleagues at U.S. Institutions, I am pleased to announce several funding opportunities for U.S. linguists and language scientists at the National Science Foundation and to give you some other news. First, as you may know, the NSF Program Director for Linguistics became a 1-2 year 'rotator' position in Fall 1999, and my term ends this Spring. Following a successful search, a new Program Director will be announced soon. I hope many of you will consider a rotation at NSF in the future. The Linguistics Program supports research in phonetics & phonology, formal linguistics, descriptive & historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and psycholinguistics & neurolinguistics. Funding includes grants for regular research, doctoral dissertation research, conferences and workshops, and group travel to international conferences; CAREER awards, small grants for exploratory research, and minority research planning grants and minority career advancement awards, as described in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide and links on our webpage, at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/ling . Target dates for submission of proposals are January 15 and July 15 each year. Proposals must be submitted through an institution in the U.S. Other important funding opportunities are listed below. Subscribe to the NSF Custom News Service ( http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/ ) to be notified when program announcements or vacancy announcements are issued! * Cognitive Neuroscience: this new area of emphasis was announced in a Jan. 5 'Dear Colleague' letter at http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0141 . Proposals may be submitted through the Linguistics Program for the Jan. 15 target date. There is also an April 16 deadline for proposals for pilot studies, planning grants, workshops, and doctoral dissertation research. * Information Technology Research ( http://www.itr.nsf.gov/ ): ITR is a major funding area which cuts across all divisions at NSF. There are opportunities here for computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, digital archives, computational models, and so on. Deadline for 'small' proposals (<$500K) is Jan. 22-24. * Major Research Instrumentation ( http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/mri/ ): The MRI program accepts proposals for acquisition or development of research instrumentation. Deadline is Feb. 7. Please note that the special Instrumentation competition for the social and behavioral sciences has been discontinued; future instrumentation proposals should be submitted to MRI or (if under $100K) to Linguistics. * Information Technology Workforce ( http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0133 ): ITW welcomes proposals that address research questions related to the under-representation of women and minorities in the IT workforce. There are opportunities here for computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, and so on. Deadline is March 19. * Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/gk12): academic institutions apply for these awards to support fellowship activities. This could be a nice opportunity for linguistics to connect with K-12. Deadline for letters of intent is April 3. * Integrative Graduate Research & Education ( http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/igert ): IGERT provides doctoral institutions with an opportunity to develop new, focused multidisciplinary graduate programs that transcend organizational boundaries and unite faculty from several departments or institutions. Past awards have supported new graduate programs in the cognitive science of language. Deadline for preproposals is June 28. Other news: Linguistics at NSF is housed within the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. I am pleased to note that our new Division Director is Dr. Philip Rubin (prubinMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue