The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has proposed changes to its funding paradigm. CIHR has proposed two tracks of funding: Foundation/Programmatic Scheme focused on investigators with a separate track…

The announcement of the Big Data program was made at a conference titles “Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data”, jointly sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology…

NIH uses the Just-in-Time (JIT) method for investigators to provide certain information about grant applicaitons following review. The JIT procedure reduces the time to award while ensuring accuracy and timliness…

The GRANT Act, H.R. 3433 the Grant Reform and New Transparency Act of 2011, seeks to establish new standards for awarding federal grants. It would require agencies to base award…

OMB is extending the public comment period for input regarding making the oversight of Federal funds more effective and efficient. [This extension is expected to be published in the Federal…

An IdeaScale page was launched by US Federal officials this week to collect ideas for reducing technological barriers encountered by disabled individuals when interacting with the federal government as employees…

In a memorandum issued on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, OMB directed Federal agencies to consider the cumulative effects of new regulatory requirments and take active steps to avoid them. Sunstein…

The University of Virginia is set to launch a new platform through which they intend to support a thriving, interdisciplinary collaborative community called OpenGrounds. The underlying tenet of the approach…