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…
Author: Roger Wood
US Grant Reform Training
The Council on Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR) will be hosting a day-long uniform grant guidance training web event on January 27th. As Victoria Collins explained at the recent Federal Demonstration…
Science’s Top 10 Breakthroughs for 2013
The #1 spot on the annual top 10 list of the journal Science for 2013 went to cancer immunotherapy. A wide array of topic befitting the broad scope of Science round out…
OMB Webcast on Grant Reform
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today announced that they will hold a webcast tomorrow to announce publication of their final Guidance on Uniform Administrative Requirements, cost Principles, and…
STEM Education in the US – The Story of the Three Bears
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduates, and more specifically those going on (or who have gone on) to pursue advanced degrees and later into research-focused careers, represent a significant…
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…
bioRxiv – Biology Preprint Service modeled after Physicists arXiv
bioRxiv, modeled after the popular preprint server arXiv for astrophysicists and theoretical physicists, has just come online. In 2003, arXiv began accepting quantitative biology preprints and in the past two…
Time to Check your Institution’s NIH Award DATA
It’s that time of year again, when the good folks at NIH are tidying up their FY2013 extramural award data. They published NOT-OD-13-117 last week encouraging institutional officials to review their award…
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…
How Sequestration Killed Bunnies
Recently, the Huffington Post looked in-depth at how sequestration’s budget cuts were affecting scientific research. In 2013, $1.7 billion will be trimmed from the NIH budget due to sequestration. The…