If there is a single overarching – some would say overwhelming – topic for grants administrators in 2014, it would have to be Uniform Guidance. Published December 26, 2013 and…
The XPRIZE Phenomenon Many will recall the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE offered to the team that could get a commercial vehicle into space, which was won in 2004. Today, the…
The STAR METRICS (Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the Effect of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science) project grew out of a collaboration between federal agencies and academic institutions…
Have you ever wondered what happens after the signing official clicks the ‘submit’ button on an electronic proposal submission via Grants.gov? That was essentially the topic of a forum I was…
If the efforts by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) to micromanage the NSF peer review process and end NSF funding of political science research respectively were not…
Research administrators spend a lot of time trying to convince people of things. Whether it’s persuading senior leadership that additional staff will be needed to meet a new sponsor requirement…
No, not that King James…LeBron James, King of the Hardcourt. Listen, if you want to succeed in the midst of sequestration, you have no choice but to take your game…
The final episode of an 8 part series where Edward Johnson Jr. (a.k.a. Eddie) sits down with Hilda Alajajian, Grants Resource Specialist at the University of Vermont, to discuss tools…
Part 7 of an 8 part series where Edward Johnson Jr. (a.k.a. Eddie) sits down with Hilda Alajajian, Grants Resource Specialist at the University of Vermont, to discuss tools and…
NSF, and the Scientific Peer Review System, Under Congressional Scrutiny In April 2013, in the course of hearings by the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Rep.…