In light of tight budgets and increasing fiscal uncertainty, Dr. Sally Rockey, NIH’s Deputy Director for Extramural Research, asks: How Do You Think We Should Manage Science in Fiscally Challenging Times? Dr. Rockey invites readers to take a look at some possible options and supporting data in a set of slides posted on the OER [...]
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RePORTER Updates
July 2nd, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
The most recent release of RePORTER offers some wonderful features in the areas of general updates, query, search results, and exporting data to Excel. You might also find some of the other RePORTER features such as the FAQ, RePORT Tutorial, Glossary, and Links.
The GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists
April 12th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Applications for the GE & Science Prize for Young Scientists are being accepted until August 1, 2010. Entrants must have been awarded their Ph.D. between January 1st and December 31st, 2010. There will be regional prizes awarded as well as a grand prize worth $25,000. READ MORE
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Lost in Translation
February 1st, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
EMBO Reports published an interesting article today: Lost in translation The current focus on translating research into applications might be part of the natural cycle of research funding, but at what cost?
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Pediatric cancer genome project
January 25th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Washington University School of Medicine and St. Jude Children’s Hospital have teamed up on a $65 million project to sequence the genomes of 600 pediatric cancer patients. Read more at MassGenomics and the St. Louis Business Journal
Grants & Funding
November 26th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Check out Science magazine’s Grants & Funding resources for useful information and alerts about funding resources. Funding News (RSS) The Funding News, now published weekly, provides the latest index of science research funding, scholarships, fellowships, and internships. Deadline Watch The Deadline Watch, now part of the Funding News, provides upcoming due dates for science research [...]
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NSF’s GRFP and other NSF funding opportunities
September 26th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Don’t forget that the deadlines for NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program begin on November 2! Check out the GRFP program announcement website where you will find such helpful things as contact information, FastLane FAQs for Applicants , Information about the Program for Applicants and Fellows, and even Abstracts of Recent Awards Made Through This Program. You probably won’t [...]
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NIH STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS
September 1st, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News NIH Office of the Director (OD) For Immediate Release: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 CONTACT: Megan Columbus, 301-435-0937, <e-mail:columbum@od.nih.gov> NIH HELPS ADVANCE RESEARCH CAREERS THROUGH STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS Over Two Years, Programs Offer to Pay Up to $70,000 of Scientists’ Educational Debt; [...]
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SciVal Funding Trial Access
July 8th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
SciVal is a suite of research tools from Elsevier that helps you evaluate, establish, and execute your research strategies more effectively. SciVal Funding is a “web-based funding intelligence solution” which helps investigators: FIND the right funding opportunities ANALYZE the funding environment MAXIMIZE award chances Pilot for the Washington University Community: The Office of the Vice [...]
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RePORTER from NIH
June 28th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
On September1, 2009, CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) will be discontinued and replaced with the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) tool: The NIH has released to the public a beta version of its new Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) tool. This new tool retains [...]
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