RESEARCH

Submissions for presentations by Case faculty, students and staff, as well as researchers at its affiliated institutions are being accepted now through January 30th for Research ShowCASE 2009, held Thursday April 16, at Case Western Reserve University's Veale Convocation Center.

Join the Case community to attend symposia and forums on leading-edge current local and global issues, view active demonstrations featuring state-of-the-art applications and over 500 poster exhibits in presenting the latest research and scholarship.

This year's Case graduate and post-doctoral poster competition includes more cash prizes. Refer to the Research ShowCASE Web site for details: http://showcase.case.edu.

Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut has requested that public and private university representatives submit nominations for the External Review Panel for the Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program. This Panel will consist of experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine who live and work outside of Ohio. The Panel will review proposals and make recommendations to the Chancellor.

Submit nominations by December 22, 2008 via email to Dr. Harry Andrist, Vice Chancellor - Research and Graduate Programs, at handrist@regents.state.oh.us. Nominations should include, full name, professional title, telephone and postal and email addresses. Also included should be a summary of the nominee's relevant background information.

Read more about the Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program at: http://uso.edu/opportunities/partnership/chooseohio1st/proposals/info/COFSP_RFP_FY09_12Nov08.pdf.

Grant applicants may receive automated email messages from Grants.gov regarding a limited number of Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) that require PHS 398 paper applications. Approximately 100 FOAs active February 1, 2009 and beyond will be migrated by NIH into a new Adobe based system as required by Grants.gov in early December 2008. Please note that these FOAs must be transitioned to the Adobe compliant system, even though they do not yet require the use of the new Adobe-based forms.

When NIH transitions these opportunities, Grants.gov will automatically generate an email message regarding opening and closing dates, which may lead applicants to believe that the FOA has been closed when, in fact, the FOA is still active. It will be closed in the legacy system and immediately reposted in the new system. NIH has not been able to suppress these messages and therefore advises applicants to disregard the message and check the NIH Guide instead. Applicants can verify that their FOA is still active by searching the NIH Guide (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html) or Grants.gov to locate the opportunity of interest.