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History Professor's Book Wins Foundation Prize
 Dr. Philippa Levine, professor in the Department of History, and Alison Bashford, the University of Sydney, received the Berendel Foundation’s 2011 Cantemir Prize for their book "The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics." It's the first comprehensively global collection of essays on the subject of improving the human race through controlled breeding. Levine is the Mary Helen Thompson Centennial Professor in the Humanities and co-director of the British Studies Program.
The Berendel Foundation is a private foundation based in London.
Law Professor Wins Book Award from American Political Science Association
 A book written by Karen Engle, professor in the School of Law, received the 2010 Best Book Award prize from the American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. Engle is the Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law and director of the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.
The book, "The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy," explores the international legal frameworks and strategies used to pursue indigenous peoples’ claims to heritage, territory, and economic development.
News and Information
Intro to Cayuse424 Offered
Attend a free introductory course to learn how to use Cayuse424 to prepare proposals for Grants.gov submissions. The Office of Sponsored Projects requires Cayuse424, a Web-based application, for all Grants.gov opportunities supported by Cayuse.
Open to all, the course suits the needs of principal investigators, departmental staff, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and others who are new to Cayuse and the Grants.gov submission process. The course also serves as a Cayuse424 refresher.
The course runs 9:30-11:30 a.m., Aug. 30, 2011 in NOA 5.318.
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Quoted-UT Researchers in the News
 (This week's quote is not so much of a quote, but a reference to the research of Camille Parmesan, associate professor in the Section of Integrative Biology.)
In the early nineties, a young Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin spent four and a half years following a small black butterfly with red and yellow spots up and down the west coast, from southern California in March to Canada in August. In 1996 she published the results of her laborious fieldwork in a paper titled “Climate and Species Range” in the journal Nature.
The Ph.D. student’s name was Camille Parmesan, and her paper offered one of the first documented examples of a species’ having shifted its range in response to climate change. Dr. Parmesan’s work (she is now an associate professor at the university) showed that over the previous 100 years, the entire range of the butterfly, the Edith’s Checkerspot, had moved northward and to higher elevations. In fact, 80 percent of the populations in Mexico and Southern California had disappeared.
Dr. Parmesan’s pioneering work helped to unleash a flood of similar research documenting the geographical adaptations of plants and animals to a warming world.
Research Opportunities
Important University Research Deadlines
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The University of Texas at Austin Stimulus Package Web page is online.
Funding Sources
Department of Defense
Military Infectious Diseases Basic Research Award
Deadline: Dec. 7, 2011
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - RFI: Transformational Change in Drug Discovery: Overcoming Antibiotic Resistant Microbes
Deadline: Sept. 15, 2011
Department of Health and Human Services
Global Nurse Capacity Building Program
Deadline: Oct. 17, 2011
Department of Homeland Security
International Research in Homeland Security Science & Technology Mission Areas
Deadline: Oct. 11, 2011
National Institutes of Health
Systems Science and Health in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Sept. 5, 2011; Application, Oct. 5, 2011
Discovery of Genetic Basis of Mendelian or Monogenic Heart, Lung, and Blood Disorders
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Sept. 19, 2011; Application, Oct. 18, 2011
Innovative Pilot Studies of Novel Mechanism of Action Compounds for Treating Psychiatric Disorders
Deadlines: Letter of Intent, Sept. 5, 2011; Application, Oct. 5, 2011
National Science Foundation
Division of Integrative Organismal Systems
Deadline: Jan. 12, 2012
Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2012
Deadlines: Sept. 30, 2011; Nov. 9, 2011; and March 30, 2012
[This is a limited submission. For more information, contact limitedsub@austin.utexas.edu.]
Materials World Network: Cooperative Activity in Materials Research Between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad
Deadline: Nov. 10, 2011
Sustainability Research Networks Competition
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2011
Division of Environmental Biology
Deadline: Jan. 9, 2012
Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering
Deadline: Jan. 20, 2012
Arts, Humanities and Culture
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Museums for America
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2011
American Institute of Indian Studies
Research fellowship programs
Deadline: July 1, 2011
Other Funding Opportunities
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Grand Challenges Explorations, Round 8
Deadline: Nov. 17, 2011
United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation
Regular Research Grants
Deadline: Mid-November 2011 (The organization's Web site recommends checking back for a specific date.)
Research Project
Mechanism of Vascular Morphogenesis from Mesenchymal Stem Cells
 RESEARCHER: Laura Suggs, assistant professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, principal investigator
AGENCY: American Heart Association
AMOUNT: $140,000
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine has the potential to replace and restore diseased or damaged tissue for millions of individuals. The most significant obstacle to the widespread application of regenerative medicine strategies is the inability to promote, maintain, and control neovascularization, or the development of new blood vessels. A major challenge to the development of clinical applied stem cell therapy remains the incomplete understanding of how stem cells contribute to blood vessel development. In particular, an understanding of the matrix-integrin-cytoskeletal (MIC) signaling axis is critical in defining the mechanism of morphogenesis. It is, therefore, the specific objective of the current proposal to investigate the MIC signaling axis in the process of vasculogenesis from MSCs within a three-dimensional hydrogel matrix.
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