FemaleScienceProfessor

When I am asked to review a grant proposal by a program director at NSF (doesn't matter which program), I almost always say yes. There ...

Every once in a while, someone makes a statement in a comment about how their advisor "doesn't do anything". In some cases, t...

Those of us who got some "stimulus" funding (ARRA) in the form of a research grant a few years ago have to do quarterly reporting...

Today in Scientopia , I respond to a reader's distress about re-reading a recently submitted grant proposal.

In yesterday's post, there were some comments about how many proposals an individual faculty writes or "should" write in a yea...

The blogosphere has done a rather thorough job of thrashing the recent *scathing* report by Senator Coburn (R-Oklahoma) on supposed mismanag...

Today in Scientopia , I discuss views of research time and money in the context of grants: Do you stick to your plan as closely as possible,...

How important is writing quality for the success of a grant proposal? I don't think you can get a grant proposal funded just because it...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled post to exult in what I hope is only a mildly obnoxious way about a new grant. It's not as if I hav...

In the good old days, this was a typical scenario for NSF grants, indicated by time ( t ) in months: t = 0: proposal submitted on or before ...

A reader writes with this cautionary tale: I don't know if you've heard about NSF FOIA requests, but you can make an FOIA request t...

Today in Scientopia , I discuss the mismatch between the time frame of a grant and the time frame of graduate students.

A scientist put together a research team to do some Awesome Science, and they wrote a grant proposal together. The team involved three PIs a...

There has been much blogospheric discussion, here and elsewhere , of (good) ways in which "career interruptions" can be mentioned ...

Thanks to all who sent me links to the recent PNAS article by Ceci & Williams on " Understanding current causes of women's unde...

A few years ago, some colleagues and I pitched a 'high-risk' idea to program directors at a funding agency. The program directors we...

As longtime readers know, every once in a while I venture out of Science World and interact with colleagues who inhabit different parts of t...

Some research projects take a long time to get off the ground, if they ever even make it, and it can be difficult to keep everyone in a rese...

Last week, an e-mail arrived from someone who is ".. part of a research team conducting a National Science Foundation-sponsored study t...

Owing to the apparent youth of much of the academic segment of the blogosphere , it is not difficult to find posts by assistant professors ...