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Date:         Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:36:36 -0600
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Subject:      Congressional Research Awards Announcement
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CONTACT:
Frank H. Mackaman
The Dirksen Congressional Center
301 South 4th Street, Suite A
Pekin, IL 61554
309.347.7113
309.347.6432 FAX
fmackaman@pekin.net
www.pekin.net/dirksen

Congressional Research Awards Announcement

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants totaling
$50,000 in 2001 to fund research on the U.S. Congress. Political scientists,
historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American
studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center also awards a
significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Organizations
and institutions are not eligible.

The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2001. The grant selections will
be announced in March 2001. Complete information about eligibility and
application procedures may be found at The Center's website:
http://www.pekin.net/dirksen/grantcongresearchaward.htm. Frank Mackaman is
the program officer (fmackaman@pekin.net).

The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is
a private, non-partisan, nonprofit research and educational organization
devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the
Congressional Research Awards program has paid out over $450,000 to support
more than 250 projects.