Breakthrough Prize
There’s a new prize in town, and its name is Breakthrough! This prize is awarded to a researcher in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences, or Mathematics, and the prize winner is awarded $3 million...
View ArticleDo Multi-PI Proposals Have a Better Chance of Award by NIH?
NIH implemented their policy on multiple PIs several years ago, and since then, some have wondered whether a project with multiple PIs had a better chance of receiving an award than a project with a...
View ArticleExperiment With Review Process at NSF May Be Paying Off
Last year, NSF experimented with a new method of proposal review in which each applicant had to review seven other proposals in order to have their own proposal reviewed. ScienceInsider has a great...
View ArticleRock 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 ArticleNominate a Colleague for SCHEV Oustanding Faculty Awards
This just in from President Rao: Dear Colleagues: The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) has issued its annual call for nominations for the 2016 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Awards...
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