FUNDING ALERTS 03/27/09
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I. Funding for Libraries, Librarians, and Library Science Students
----------------------------------------------------------------------1. Law Librarians Annual Meeting/Workshop Grant
2. Preserving America’s Documentary Heritage through Electronic Records
Projects
3. Digitizing America’s Historical Records Project
4. Digital Humanities Start up Grants
5. Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access
Projects
6. American Library Association Annual Diversity Research Grant
7. Save Our Treasures
8. Preservation and Access Education and Training
9. 2009 Library and Information Science Research Paper Competition
10. Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources
II. Funding for Organizations and Academic Institutions
---------------------------------------------------------------------1. Learning Enrichment Projects
III. Funding for Individuals
-----------------------------------------------------------------------1. Course Development in the History of Public and Private support of the
Arts
2. Fellowship at the Schlesinger Library: History of Women in America
3. Congressional Fellows Program
4. Institute of American History Research and Dissertation Fellowships
5. Individual Research in Anthropology
6. Post Doctorate Fellowships in Anthropology
7. Humanities Fellowships for Researchers, Teachers and Writers
8. Early Career Researchers for Youth and Policies’ Development
9. International Collaborative Research Grant in Anthropology
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10. Research Development to Improve Youth Settings
11. Archival and Library Research in American Music
I. Funding for Libraries, Librarians, and Library Science
Students
----------------------------------------------------------------------1. Law Librarians Annual Meeting/Workshop Grant
Deadline: April 1, 2009
Award Amount: Grants cover registration costs at either the Annual Meeting
or workshops associated with the Annual Meeting
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Grants Program provides
financial assistance to experienced law librarians who are actively involved
in AALL or its chapters and to newer law librarians or graduate students who
hold promise of future involvement in AALL and the law library profession.
An applicant must meet all of the following criteria to be considered for the
award:
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be a member or student member of AALL or an AALL chapter;
not have received and used an AALL grant in the past*; and
submit a timely and complete application.
http://www.aallnet.org/committee/grants/grant_application.asp#
----------------------------------------------------------------------2. Preserving America’s Documentary Heritage through Electronic Records
Projects
Deadline: Draft (Optional) due: April 1, 2009 ; Final Due: June 5, 2009
Award Amount: $150,000
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
encourages proposals that will increase the capacity of archival repositories
to create electronic records archives that preserve records of enduring
historical value. The NHPRC supports efforts by archivists and records
managers to meet the challenges of electronic records. Projects must involve
institutions that have already established archives and records management
programs.
The NHRPC seeks applications for start-up or collaborative projects:
1. Start-up projects: Develop the capacity of institutions to prepare to
capture and preserve electronic records, through program planning; or
2. Collaborative projects: Establish and/or improve electronic records
archives by engaging in effective and innovative collaborations.
Most electronic records archives depend upon collaboration among archivists,
record managers, and information technology specialists. Only a few
organizations have all the required expertise, making training, collaboration
and recruitment of new personnel essential components of electronic records
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archives. We strongly encourage applicants to include professional
development components necessary for the success of the project. These may
consist of basic or advanced electronic records and digital preservation
training for archives staff, agency records managers, high level
administrators, information technologists, and others.
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/electronic.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------3. Digitizing America’s Historical Records Projects
Deadline: Draft (optional): April 1, 2009, Final Due: June 5, 2009
Award amount:$150,000
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
encourages proposals that use cost-effective methods to digitize nationally
significant historical record collections and make the digital versions
freely available online. Projects must make use of existing holdings of
historical repositories and consist of entire collections or series. The
materials should already be available to the public at the archives and
described so that projects can re-use existing information to serve as
metadata for the digitized collection.
To make these projects as widely useful as possible for archives, historical
repositories, and researchers, the applications must demonstrate:
1. The national significance of the collections or records series to be
digitized;
2. An effective work flow that repurposes existing descriptive material,
rather than creating new metadata about the records;
3. Reasonable costs and standards for the project as well as sustainable
preservation plans for the resulting digital records;
4. Well-designed plans that evaluate the use of the digitized materials
and the effectiveness of the methods employed in digitizing and
displaying the materials.
http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/digitizing.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------4. Digital Humanities Start up Grants
Deadline: April 8, 2009
Award Amount: $5,000 to $25,000
This program is designed to encourage innovations in the digital humanities.
By awarding relatively small grants to support the planning stages, NEH aims
to encourage the development of projects that are particularly innovative and
promise to benefit the humanities. In an effort to foster new collaborations
and advance the role of cultural repositories in online teaching, learning,
and research, this program is cosponsored by IMLS. NEH and IMLS encourage
library and museum officials—as well as scholars, scientists, educational
institutions, and other nonprofit organizations—to apply for these grants and
to collaborate when appropriate. Proposals should be for the planning or
initial stages of digital initiatives in any area of the humanities.
Innovation is a hallmark of this grant category.
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http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/digitalhumanitiesstartup.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------5. Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access
Program (TICFIA)
Deadline: April 16, 2009
Award Amount: $150,000-$190,000
This program provides grants to develop innovative techniques or programs
that address national teaching and research needs in international education
and foreign languages by using technologies to access, collect, organize,
preserve, and widely disseminate information on world regions and countries
other than the United States.
Grants may be used to:
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Facilitate access to or to preserve foreign information resources in
print or electronic forms;
Develop new means of immediate, full-text document delivery for
information and scholarship from abroad;
Develop new means of shared electronic access to international data;
Support collaborative projects for indexing, cataloging, and providing
other means of bibliographic access for scholars to important research
materials published or distributed outside the United States;
Develop methods for the wide dissemination of resources written in nonRoman alphabets;
Assist teachers of less commonly taught languages in acquiring, via
electronic and other means, materials suitable for classroom use;
Promote collaborative technology-based projects in foreign languages,
area studies, and international studies among grant recipients under
Title VI of the HEA; and
Support other eligible activities consistent with the purposes and
intent of the legislation.
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsticfia/applicant.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------6. American Library Association Annual Diversity Research Grant
Deadline: April 30, 2009
Award Amount: $2,000 for research, $500 for travel
The grant program is designed to address critical gaps in the knowledge of
diversity issues within library and information science. Topics for 2009-2010
Diversity Research Grants may be submitted under one of the following three
topics:
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Meeting Diversity Goals in the Context of Economic Challenges
Librarianship in Multicultural/Multigenerational Community Building
Libraries' Multicultural Involvement in Social Networking
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http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/diversity/divresearchgrants/diversity
research.cfm
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Deadline: May 22, 2009
Award Amount: $25,000 minimum request for collections;
$125,000 minimum request for historic property
projects; $700,000 maximum request for all projects
The Federal Save America’s Treasures program is one of the largest and most
successful grant programs for the protection of our nation’s endangered and
irreplaceable and endangered cultural heritage. Grants are available for
preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual
and cultural artifacts and historic structures and sites. Intellectual and
cultural artifacts include artifacts, collections, documents, sculpture, and
works of art. Historic structures and sites include historic districts,
sites, buildings, structures, and objects.
What is funded?
Preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual
and cultural artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and
sites. Selection Criteria:
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The collection or historic property must be nationally significant.
Collections or historic properties not meeting this criterion will
receive no further consideration.
The collection or historic property must be threatened or endangered,
and the application must document the urgent preservation and/or
conservation need.
Projects must substantially mitigate the threat and must have a clear
public benefit (for example, historic places open for visitation or
collections available for public viewing or scholarly research).
The project must be feasible (i.e. able to be completed within the
proposed activities, schedule, and budget described in the
application), and the application must document adequately the required
non-Federal match. For every dollar of federal funds awarded, the
grantee must supply a dollar for dollar match of nonfederal funds.
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/treasures/
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Deadline: July 1, 2009
Award amount: $50,000-$250,000
Preservation and Access Education and Training grants help the staff of
cultural institutions, large and small; obtain the knowledge and skills
needed to serve as effective stewards of humanities collections. Grants
also support educational programs that prepare the next generation of
conservators and preservation professionals, as well as projects that
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introduce the staff of cultural institutions to recent improvements in
preservation and access practices.
Preservation and Access Education and Training grants support
activities such as these:
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Regional preservation field services that provide a wide range of
education and training (for example, through surveys, workshops,
consultations, reference services, and informational materials
about the care of humanities collections), especially for staff
at smaller libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural
organizations;
Graduate programs in preservation and conservation; and
Workshops that address preservation and access topics of broad
significance and impact
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pet.html
----------------------------------------------------------------9. 2009 Library and Information Science Research Paper Competition
Deadline: July 15, 2009
Award Amount: $2,500
The purpose of this award is to further stimulate the communication of
research at Association for Library and Information Science Education
(ALISE) annual meetings. Research papers concerning any aspect of
library and information science are eligible. This competition is not
limited to research regarding Library Information Science education.
Any research methodology is acceptable.
A. Papers must represent completed research not previously
published. However, the manuscript may have been submitted and be
in process for publication.
B. Papers, including abstract and references, must not exceed 35
double-spaced pages (approximately 10,000 words), should have one
inch margins and be in 12 point font.
C. Research papers completed in the pursuit of master's and doctoral
studies (e.g. theses, seminar papers, and dissertations) are not
eligible for entry. Research utilizing data gathered by a
master's or doctoral student is eligible unless the research
report is taken directly from a paper submitted for degree
requirements. Papers which are spin-offs of such research are
eligible for entry.
D. Papers generated as a result of a research grant or other sources
of funding are eligible for the competition.
E. Two title pages must be sent. One with, and one without, author
names(s) and institution. Both title pages should carry the name
of the competition for which the paper is being submitted.
http://www.alise.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=55551
----------------------------------------------------------------10. Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources
Deadline: July 15, 2009
Award Amount: $100,000 to a maximum of $350,000 for a two-year
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period
Grants support projects that preserve and create intellectual access to
such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials,
maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of
material culture. To ensure that significant collections are preserved
and available for research, education, or public programming in the
humanities, applications may be submitted for the following activities:
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digitizing collections;
arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections;
cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded
sound, moving image, art, and material culture;
preservation reformatting;
deacidification of collections; and
Preserving and improving access to humanities resources in “born
digital” form.
Applicants may combine preservation and access activities within a
single project or concentrate either on preserving or providing
intellectual access to collections and humanities content. Projects to
digitize collections may focus on the holdings of a single repository
or multiple repositories. All digitization projects should be designed
to facilitate sharing and exchange of humanities information.
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Collections_and_Resources.html
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II. Funding for Organizations and Academic Institutions
----------------------------------------------------------------------1. Learning Enrichment Projects
Deadline: none, Send letter of inquiry
Award amount: $20,000-$50,000
The McKenzie Foundation has chosen these four initiatives for its initial
years of grant making because of its fundamental belief that assisting
families with educational, environmental and health related projects, is one
of the most effective and lasting ways to strengthen communities.
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Early childhood development
Education
Environment
Arts and culture
The McKenzie Foundation supports opportunities and experiences that enrich
learning for all ages. Special consideration will be given to charitable
efforts that inspire excellence and encourage personal development. In
addition, the Foundation recognizes the power of arts and culture to nurture
the vitality of people of all ages and backgrounds. Generally, The McKenzie
Foundation looks for creative projects or programs which can serve as
catalytic agents in their fields and that can have an impact that will
continue after the specific project has been completed. The McKenzie
Foundation seeks proposals that support the most effective and promising
approaches to make a significant difference in the initiative areas and are
well matched to the size and capabilities of the organization making the
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request. The Foundation has supported museums, libraries, academic
institutions, as well as a variety of types of nonprofit organizations.
http://www.mckenziefoundation.us/guidelines.php
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III. Funding for Individuals
----------------------------------------------------------------------1. Course Development in the History of Public and Private Support of the
Arts
Deadline: April 1, 2009
Award Amount: $15,000
Through an annual series of Course Development Grants, The Society for the
Preservation of American Modernists (SPAM) supports the course development by
educators at the college level in the history of public and private support
for the arts in the United States.
Course Development Grants are intended to expand college and university
teaching of the history of support for the arts in the U.S. Applicants, who
may come from disciplines other than art history, must demonstrate that the
proposed course is entirely new or substantially revised from old course
offerings at their school.
http://www.americanmodernists.org/grant_apply.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------2. Fellowship at the Schlesinger Library: History of Women in America
Deadline: April 3, 2009
Award Amount: $3,000
The Schlesinger Library is a noncirculating research library that documents
the history of American women in the United States and abroad in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is open to the public and part of the
Harvard University Library system.
Applicants must have a doctoral degree or equivalent research and writing
experience. Priority will be given to those who have demonstrated research
productivity and whose projects require use of materials available only at
the Schlesinger Library. Non-US citizens are eligible but should contact the
library regarding visas and other required paperwork prior to applying.
Applications will be evaluated on the significance of the research and the
project's potential contribution to the advancement of knowledge as well as
its creativity in drawing on the library's holdings.
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/research_grant.asp
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3. Congressional Fellows Program
Deadline: April 16, 2009
Award Amount: $40,000 with Benefits
During the yearlong fellowship, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Fellows
(CBCF) work in a congressional office, attend leadership development
seminars, complete a community service project and produce a policy research
paper. The qualifications are:
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U.S. citizen or permit to work in the U.S.
Graduate or professional degree completed prior to the start date
fellowship program. In some instances, extensive and relevant work
experience may be substituted for educational requirements.
Familiarity with the federal legislative process, Congress and the
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and its members.
Demonstrated interest in public policy, and commitment to creating and
implementing policy to improve the living conditions for underserved
and underrepresented individuals.
Selection as a CBCF Fellow is based on a combination of the following
criteria:
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A record of academic and professional achievement.
Evidence of leadership skills and the potential for further growth.
Demonstrated interest in public policy.
Quality of paper application and interview performance.
All of these qualities combined with strong writing skills, adaptability, and
demeanor are taken into consideration when selecting a class of CBCF Fellows.
Some other considerations are whether the program seems to be a good match
for applicant’s stated professional goals and objectives and evidence of
commitment to studying the impact of policy on African Americans and
minorities.
http://www.cbcfinc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=172:congr
essional-fellows-program&catid=52:leadership-education&Itemid=163
----------------------------------------------------------------------4. Institute of American History Research and Dissertation Fellowships
Deadline: May 1, 2009
Award amount: $1,500-$4,000
These Fellowships support work in one of five archives: The Gilder Lehrman
Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society; The Library of the
New-York Historical Society; The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript
Library; The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library;
and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL). Postdoctoral
scholars at every faculty rank, as well as journalists and independent
scholars are eligible for Research Fellowships; doctoral candidates who have
completed exams and begun dissertation reading and writing are eligible for
Dissertation Fellowships.
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http://www.gilderlehrman.org/index.php
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5. Individual Research in Anthropology
Deadline: May 1, 2009
Award amount: $20,000
Post-PhD. Research Grants are awarded to individuals holding a Ph.D. or
equivalent degree to support individual research projects. The program
contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic research in
anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of
vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity's
cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The Foundation
supports research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory
and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these
ideas. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or
subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes proposals that employ a
comparative perspective, can generate innovative approaches or ideas, and/or
integrate two or more subfields. Applicants must submit their applications
using the Foundation's online application submission procedure as well as
send printed copies to the Foundation by regular mail.
http://www.wennergren.org/programs/
----------------------------------------------------------------------6. Post Doctorate Fellowships in Anthropology
Deadline: May 1, 2009
Award amount: $40,000
Postdoctoral Fellowships support the writing-up of already completed
research. The fellowship is awarded to scholars in the earlier stages of
their careers, when they frequently lack the time and resources to develop
their research for publication. Scholars with a Ph.D. in hand for no more
than ten years (from the application deadline) are eligible to apply. A
maximum of eight Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded annually.
By providing funds for scholars to devote themselves full-time to writing,
the Foundation aims to enable a new generation of scholars to publish
significant works that will impact the development of anthropology. The
program contributes to the Foundation's overall mission to support basic
research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a
source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of
humanity's cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. The
Foundation supports research that demonstrates a clear link to
anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution
to advancing these ideas. There is no preference for any methodology,
research location, or subfield. The Foundation particularly welcomes
proposals that employ a comparative perspective, can generate innovative
approaches or ideas, and/or integrate two or more subfields.
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http://www.kauffman.org/entrepreneurship/entrepreneur-postdoctoral-fellowsprogram.aspx?gclid=CLWS84yIwZkCFYJM5QodFhg1vA
----------------------------------------------------------------------7. Humanities Fellowships for Researchers, Teachers, and Writers
Deadline: May 5, 2009
Award Amount: $4,200 per month, $50,400 for a twelve-month tenure award
period
The National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships program accepts
applications from researchers, teachers, and writers, whether they have an
institutional affiliation or not.
All applicants must have completed their formal education by the application
deadline. While applicants need not have advanced degrees, individuals
currently enrolled in a degree-granting program are ineligible to apply.
Applicants who have satisfied all the requirements for a degree and are
awaiting its conferral may apply, but such applicants need a letter from the
dean of the conferring school or their department chair attesting to the
applicant’s status as of May 5, 2009.
https://securegrants.neh.gov/fellowships.asp
---------------------------------------------------------------------8. Early Career Researchers for Youth and Policies’ Development
Deadline: Letters of Inquiry: May 12, 2009; Full Application due: October 6,
2009
Award amount: $100,000-$600,000
Scholars Program supports promising early career researchers from diverse
disciplines. The award is intended to facilitate the professional development
of early career scholars who have some demonstrated success in conducting
high quality research and are seeking to further develop their skills and
research program. Studies from these Scholars contribute to theory and
policy/practice for improving the everyday settings of youth.
Current Foundation Research interests are to understand and improve the
settings of youth 8-25 in the United States. Settings are defined as the
proximal environments in which youth experience daily life. Important
settings include but are not limited to schools, youth serving organizations,
neighborhoods, families, and peer groups. Studies that enhance understanding
of how these settings work, effect our youth development and how they can be
improved will be funded.
The second area of interest that will be funded involves understanding when,
how and under what conditions influences youth policy and practice.
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/
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Deadline: June 1, 2009
Award Amount: $30,000
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Proposals must involve collaboration between two or more researchers of
different nationalities who are working in different countries. Each
researcher must hold a doctorate or equivalent qualification in anthropology
or a related discipline. Scholars are eligible without regard to
institutional or departmental affiliation. Priority is given to those
projects involving at least one principal investigator who is a citizen of,
and is working and residing in a country where anthropology is
underrepresented and where there are limited resources to develop the
discipline [ click here for country list ]. Other international
collaborations will, however, be given serious consideration where they are
consistent with at least two of the following aims of the Foundation to:
1. Bring together researchers with different national perspectives that
complement each other and enrich the research.
2. Strengthen anthropology in countries where there are limited resources
to support its development.
3. Combine different areas of expertise and knowledge that will benefit
both researchers.
http://www.wennergren.org/programs/
----------------------------------------------------------------------10. Research Development to Improve Youth Settings
Deadline: June 3, 2009*
Award amount: $350,000
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports promising early-career
researchers from diverse disciplines. The award is designed for early-career
scholars who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research
and are seeking to further develop their expertise. Studies from these
Scholars should contribute to theory, policy, and practice in the area of
improving youth settings. Candidates are nominated by a supporting
institution and must submit five-year research plans that demonstrate
creativity, intellectual rigor, and a commitment to continued professional
development.
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/
* There can only be one nomination from each college. Please review the
selection and eligibility criteria, as well as the institutional commitment
requirements. Those interested in applying for this opportunity should
contact their Research Dean`s Office to determine their college's internal
selection process.
----------------------------------------------------------------------11. Archival and Library Research in American Music
Deadline: July 1, 2009
Award amount: $2,100
Grants are awarded to support research in archives or libraries
internationally on any aspect of American music. There are no restrictions as
to an applicant's age, nationality, profession, or institutional affiliation.
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All proposals are reviewed entirely on the basis of merit. An applicant who
has not received an Epstein award for the first year of application may
resubmit a proposal in the two following years for any one project. An
applicant may receive only one award for any one project.
http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/awardsandgrants/epstein.shtml
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Kelley Cunningham
Sr. Grants Specialist
Smathers Library West
Kelcunn@uflib.ufl.edu
352-273-2513
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