EAGE PROPOSALS DEADLINE - The Coleman Foundation and the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, through the Entrepreneurship Awareness and Education Grant Program (EAEG), are accepting proposals for cutting edge entrepreneurship programs that will help define the future of entrepreneurship education. They will award grants of $25,000 to $50,000 to any university, college or community college to significantly expand entrepreneurship education through innovation that focuses on any of the following areas:

1. Entrepreneurship course(s), program(s) or a minor targeting non-business majors in a collegiate setting.
2. Cross-curriculum entrepreneurship education in disciplines, such as medicine, law, architecture, engineering, psychology or veterinary science.
3. Entrepreneurship training or certificate program targeting non-degree seeking students that are owners of an active existing business.
4. Entrepreneurship course(s) or program(s) targeting performing, non-performing or other art-related studies.
5. Entrepreneurship outreach program(s) targeting high school, elementary or alternative school students.

Deadlines for proposals are: October 23, 2000 and March 15, 2001 For more details and submission instructions, CLICK: http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/Docs/bulletins/coleman.html
(FROM Katherine Sydik, ADEC and Jeff Finlay, Cooperative Extension, UWEX)

NSF PUMPS MILLIONS INTO COMPUTER SCIENCE - NSF Grants were awarded mid- September to more than 200 computer-science research projects. The grants are part of the National Science Foundation's Information Technology Research (ITR) program. Receiving grants were: 1) a University of Pittsburgh effort to design a robot to assist the elderly and 2) a University of Illinois project to make network-based programs effective for remote surgery, satellites and air traffic control. For the first round of ITR grants 1,400 proposals were received. Sixty-two large-scale projects of three to five years received $1 million a year. 148 smaller-scale projects received $500,000 a year for no more than three years. The projects that were selected are on the cutting-edge, the type that cannot easily receive financial support from the high-tech industry The NSF has asked Congress for $190 million for next year's ITR grants. Proposals are being accepted. (Federal Computer Week Online, 13 Sept 00)