Helping You Get Recognized For The Great Science That You Do
Last night I gave a webinar on grant writing, where I told a story of a grant. It was a story of both failure and successes, showing what things worked and what things didn’t. It was meant to be an instructional story, as many good stories are. In fact, the older I get, the more I realize that people learn far better through story than through pedantic spewing of facts.
So. A lot of people wrote to me afterwards ...(read more)
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It would be hard not to notice that things are changing in the world of grants. Funding rates are at an all-time low (< 1 in 6 according to NIH data). People are demoralized. I talk to them everyday, and it can be painful at times.
I have some good ideas about why things are changing and what to do about it. Instead of trying to write this up in a (very long) blog post, I’ve decided to put together ...(read more)
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A few years ago I gave a talk in the biochem department at UNC. Afterwards I went out for lunch with my mentor, and he berated me. (Did I mention that he can be an intimidating guy? But I listen to him, since he’s the one who helped me go from no grants to lots of grants…)
He berated me for several things, including using a difficult-to-read font, giving a software demo that took a bunch of time to get ...(read more)
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The Great Grant Crunch is coming soon…to a theatre near you.
What the heck is “The Great Grant Crunch?” It’s a term I invented to describe the perfect storm of factors that are headed our way as grant seekers:
ARRA stimulus funds are wearing off. This is a very big deal. Lots of us who had that funding ramped up operations and hired staff to do projects, and given that 2 yrs is not a very long time to ramp up ...(read more){ 4 comments }
