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    Recently Announced Funding Opportunities See All

    Major Research Instrumentation Program
     (NSF  09-502) Posted October 24, 2008

    International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups
     (PD  09-9145) Posted October 10, 2008

    Research Initiation Grants to Broaden Participation in Biology
     (NSF  09-501) Posted October 6, 2008

    Plant Genome Research Program
     (NSF  08-607) Posted September 16, 2008

    Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
     (NSF  08-604) Posted September 8, 2008

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    Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems
     (NSF  07-598) Full Proposal: November 18, 2008

    International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups
     (PD  09-9145) Full Proposal: November 20, 2008

    Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences
     (NSF  08-564) Full Proposal: November 21, 2008

    Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
     (NSF  08-604) Preliminary Proposal: December 8, 2008

    Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
     (NSF  08-604) Preliminary Proposal: December 9, 2008

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    Photo of mushrooms, sphagnum moss and cranberry. In Alaska's Forests, Dried Mushrooms to the Rescue?
    Released November 2, 2008
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    Illustration of Medicago truncatula, a small legume that adapts to high salinity. NSF Awards 20 New Projects for Plant Genome Research
    Released October 27, 2008
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    News thumbnail Silencing a Protein Could Kill T-cells, Reverse Leukemia
    Released October 22, 2008
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    Thermal infrared image of Brazilian free-tailed bats in Texas. 'Gone Bats' Over Aeroecology
    New scientific discipline studies bats, birds, other animals in atmosphere closest to Earth's surface
    Released  October 28, 2008

    Photo of basmatii rice before harvest. Using Your Computer to Grow More Nutritious Rice for a Hungry World
    Computational biologists use a powerful distributed computing network to research rice genome for increased yields of more nourishing rice varieties
    Released  October 14, 2008

    Photo of dung beetle males examined in the study. Size Trade-off: Horns vs. Copulatory Organs
    Indiana University biologist Armin Moczek explains his findings about the inverse relationship between horn and copulatory organ size in male beetles and how it affects species divergence
    Released  September 30, 2008

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    November 20, 2008
    Advisory Committee for Business and Operations
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