Looking back – 2014 Grants Administration in Review
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…
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Challenge Prizes – The Future of Research Funding?
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…
STAR METRICS Comes of Age
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…
Proposal Submission in the Internet Age
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…
More Politics of Peer Review
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…
The Dark World of Research Administrators
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…
Sequestration Countermeasures
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…
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me A Grant
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…
Grants Market Insider Trading
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…
The Politics of Peer Review
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.…