Rock Talk: NIH Data for 2014
Salley Rockey has another great post over at Rock Talk, this time about 2014 statistics from NIH on proposals and awards. NIH received over 51,000 research proposals in 2014, with a success rate of...
View ArticleThursday Top Ten: DHHS Publishes Its Top 10 Management Challenges
This week’s Top Ten is from our friends at DHHS. The DHHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published a list of its top ten management challenges in 2014. Many are related to the Affordable Care...
View ArticleNature Studies Indirect Costs
Nature has published a great article on indirect costs! If you’ve ever been interested in the history of the Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate and what it has meant for universities, this is a good place...
View ArticleSponsor Updates: NIH, NSF Issue New Guides
NIH and NSF have issued some new guidelines for awardees and applicants. NSF Prospective New Awardee Guide NIH_Insider Guide to Applicants (PDF, 432KB) Additional Updates from NIH: NIH has also made...
View ArticleParticipant Support Costs vs Human Subject Incentives
One of the changes made to our budgeting guidelines with the advent of the Uniform Guidance is the treatment of Participant Support costs. The government basically adopted NSF’s long standing policy...
View ArticleNIH Webinar on Uniform Guidance
Here’s another educational opportunity for those who have or are interested in NIH funding! NIH is holding a webinar about their new terms and conditions in response to the Uniform Guidance on...
View ArticleThursday Top Ten: Who You Should Be Following on Twitter
This week’s Thursday Top Ten is all about how faculty can use Twitter in their scholarly pursuits! With the deluge of information coming at us every day, Twitter can be a great way to distill it down...
View ArticleA Message from Your Associate Dean about RCR Training Requirements
Dear CHS Faculty As you start to bring trainees into your research groups for the summer, please pay special attention to this new policy on training. New Policy Makes PI’s and Departments Financially...
View ArticleNCURA Region III Update: NIH
While at the NCURA Region III Spring meeting last week, I had a chance to attend a session called “Ask NIH” where attendees could ask DD Rutberg (from the Dental Institute at NIH) all their burning NIH...
View ArticleNIH Clinical Trial Troubles
You may have heard about the recent contamination scare at NIH. If not, Science Magazine reports that operations have been suspended at a facility that makes drugs for clinical trials conducted by NIH....
View ArticleReminder About Change in Deadline for NIH Reports
This just in from NIH: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-15-111.html Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-111 Key Dates Release Date: June 17, 2015 Related Announcements NOT-OD-14-084...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Peer Review Integrity, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, and...
Today’s News Roundup: What do you do if you run into one of your NIH peer reviewers at a conference? Dr. Nakamura (Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review) explains it all. Entrepreneurship:...
View ArticleNews Roundup: NIH priorities, Pressures at NSF, Math and Music
How does NIH prioritize funding for public health needs? If you’ve ever wondered, Dr. Carrie Wolinetz at NIH has the answers. What are your chances of getting funded by NIH? Salley Rockey has those...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Financial Crises, Government Shutdowns, Deadline Changes and More
If you’ve been following the financial crisis in Greece, you already know that things are dire. How does that affect Greek researchers? Here’s an interesting perspective from Science Insider. Are we...
View ArticleNews Roundup: NSF Compliance Update, Animal use in biomedical research, NIH...
This week’s news roundup is chock full of fun: NSF is making updates to FastLane on July 24 that will implement a new set of automated compliance checks in the system. This makes it more likely that...
View ArticleTransferring a Grant to Your New Institution? Not So Fast…
It’s been a fairly standard practice when transitioning from one university to another for faculty to take any grant awards on which they are PI with them to their new institution. It’s referred to by...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Earth, Conformity, and Being Over the Hill
This is just really cool: a really good picture of Earth, courtesy of NASA. Does peer review encourage conformity and discourage innovation? These researchers think so. NIH may be missing out by...
View ArticleNCURA AM57 Recap
Heather and I really enjoyed last week’s NCURA Annual Meeting in Washington DC! Here’s a quick recap of the conference (with more specific info to come, of course!): Our very own Thursday Top Ten...
View ArticleNews Roundup: Understanding NIH Peer Review, More on Ethics, Impact of...
Ever wondered what’s up with peer review at NIH? The amazing Salley Rockey has the answers over at Rock Talk. In other NIH news, you can still give your feedback on the RPPR updates until September 21...
View ArticleFunding Monday: The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
If you’re interested in the study of infectious disease and its transmission, NIH, NSF, and USDA have a combined funding program for you! It’s called The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases...
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