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)
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)
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)
The US NIH recently changed the grant format, among other things adding a new section titled “Innovation.” Many of us have wondered: how can we convey innovation if we’re using standard techniques and methods? Morgan has some ideas on this, illustrated with an iPad and a razor.