Grant Bytes on the Web Janet Hartman Applied Computer Science Department Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61790-5150 hartman @katya.acs.ilstu.edu for your research or curriculum project can be an arduous task when your idea doesn't quite fit the proposal guidelines of familiar agencies. Where do you go when your idea doesn't quite fit? Grant information usually filters slowly down to the department level in a university or college--sometimes too late to prepare a proposal. Most guidelines that are available from a university or college research office are also available on the Web, so why not use the Web to search for funding sources? While it is impossible to describe all the potential sources for funding that may be found on the Web, a few of the sites that emerged in a brief search are described below. In looking for federal sources of funding, the first stop was a familiar site, the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education [1]. In this column last year, the NSF programs for undergraduate education were discussed. Since then, the Division of Undergraduate Education has re-organized its programs. The Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement and the Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement programs have disappeared. In their place
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