Rebecca Helton
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Rebecca Helton
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I'm a Senior Program Manager for the Edge at Vanderbilt and primarily work with early career faculty. I manage the Newman Society, the VUMC Faculty Research Scholars program, Edge Reviews, and more. I also edit much of the content on the Edge. When not editing, writing, or working on career development activities, you can find me jumping, spinning, and gliding on the ice.
Academic Institution:
Vanderbilt University
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Program Manager
Department
OCTSD
Degrees
MA
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Authored Posts:
- NIH's New Data Sharing Policy: Not So Scary
- Pro Tips for Networking and Collaborating
- Writing Science in Plain English: Clarity Rules
- Flight Tracker: Streamlined Career Development Tracking & Analysis
- Growing Stronger in the Face of Rejection: Roundup
- Pearls of Wisdom: Teach Less but Better
- Teaching Tips Roundup
- Build a Great Team: Help Your Staff Help You
- One Minute Writing Tuneup: Readability
- Edge Writing Resources Roundup
- NIH Diversity/Minority Supplements for Your R01
- Keys for Moving from T32 to Your Own Science
- Preparing for a K While on a T32
- Protect Your Time and Use Internal/Foundation Funding to Launch
- Mentoring is Key to Transition from T32 to Your Own Science
- Setting Goals and Timelines to Move From T32 to Your Own Science
- Practical Writing Advice from a Writing Teacher
- Tips for Scoring a VA Career Development Award
- Responding to Manuscript Reviews
- Tips for Writing Scientific Manuscripts
- Mental Health During a Pandemic
- Get Your PMCIDs PDQ
- Shark Tank for Scientists: NIH’s SBIR/STTR Grants
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It
- Paper-Writing Checklists To Prevent Headaches Down the Road
- Interviewing Do's and Don'ts (from Those Who've Seen It All)
- One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Energize Your Words with Active Voice
- Water Your ORCID
- Accommodating Employees with (Invisible) Disabilities
- Discover What’s Getting Funded with NIH Matchmaker
- One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Don't Dangle Your Modifiers Off a Cliff
- One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Comprise vs. Compose
- Therapeutic Antibody Discovery and Development Event
- One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Correcting Comparisons
- How to Present an Academic Research Poster
- Stupid-Proofing Experiments
- Your Guide to the Unspoken Rules of a Career in Academics
- Top 10 NIH Peer Review Q&As
- Awesome Science Videos for Kids (and Grown-Up Kids Too)
- How to Protect Your Protected Time
- Using NIH RePORTER to Find Your Guide
- Another Human Subjects Proposal Change: Inclusion across the Lifespan
- So You Want to Be a Leader
- We Want YOU to Post on Edge for Scholars. Here's How.
- Funding Opportunities on Offer
- How to Keep Your Trainee Tables So Your Grants Manager Will Love You
- Use Your Kroger Card to Donate to the Hardship Fund
- What to Do When Your To-Do Lists Get Buried
- Lupus Research on World Lupus Day: April Barnado
- Avoiding a Mismatch: How To Work with a Writer or Editor
- Scientific Salon: A Soiree of Science & Song - May 3
- BRET Annual Career Symposium is June 1: Alumni Career Trajectories
- Dissertating This Summer? Start Strong with a Dissertation Retreat
- RCR Day is Monday, May 15
- Recipe for Hosting a Manuscript Sprint
- American Cancer Society Funding for Pilot Data
- Pilot Funding Available for Cancer Research - Applications Due May 1
- TB Research on World TB Day: Yuri van der Heijden
- Limited Submission Opportunity in Cancer - April 12
- Limited Submission Opportunity in Neuroscience, Gastroenterology, Regenerative Medicine and Oncology - March 27
- TEDx Nashville Ticket Winners
- Translational Research Forum October 13, 2017
- Visiting Scholar's Day with Dr. Janice Gabrilove, June 22, 2017
- In It Together: Dyadic Coping Among Doctoral Students and Partners
- Harness the Immense Power of Nosiness in NIH RePORTER
- Love TED Talks? So Do We. Tell Us Your Favorite and Win Two Tickets to TEDxNashville!
- What You Really Need from Mentors
- Community Scholars Program - deadline March 10!
- Five Tips to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone and Build Your Network
- 16th Annual Meharry-Vanderbilt-Tennessee State Cancer Partnership Retreat
- Back to Her Roots: Natasha Halasa
- The Easiest Grant You'll Ever Apply For
- How to Manage People as a New Investigator
- Academic Mentoring: Problem, Solution, Both...or Neither?
- Newman Seminar: Managing People as a New Investigator
- Mentorship, Pharmacogenetics, and the Power of Play: Richard Ho
- Identifying and Responding to Health Inequity: Guest Talk on February 3
- Apps and Other Productivity-Boosting Technology
- Get Writing and Recapture Your Free Time with How to Write a Lot
- Managing a Budget as a New Investigator
- New Edition Admin Guide
- Sharing Data May Make It Less Accurate for All of Us
- What's an Edition?
- Exciting AND Consistent? Verbs and Nouns in Scientific Writing
- Get Hacked: Make Your Productivity Tools Work For You
- Productivity Tip #4: Do You Put the PRO in Procrastination?
- Midcareer Mentoring
- On Motivation
- Don't Delay (Or Do). Read Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
- Four Lies You Tell Yourself About Productivity (And How to Stop)
- Your Grant Is Scheduled for an Appendectomy
- Why You Should Read Drive
- Understanding H. pylori: Meira Epplein
- The Puzzle of Motivation
- When the Help You Get Isn't Helpful
- Get Your Genetics Questions Answered
- Nature: The Plight of Young Scientists
- Newman Seminar 12/8: The Nuts and Bolts of Getting What You Need to Succeed
- Diversifying Your Research Portfolio
- Exercising Your Professional Brand at Conference Interviews
- Prevent the Email Faux Pas That Gets You Fired: Read Send
- Heart to Heart: Anna Hemnes
- Finding Signals in the Noise: Todd Edwards
- The Five Stages of Grief: Saying Goodbye to the Old Biosketch
- Marathon Running, Marathon Research: Dawn Newcomb
- Face It: Your Decks Will Never Be Cleared
- Working Backwards: Digna Velez Edwards
- How Humor Can Transform Your Classroom
- Understanding Asthma: Kecia Carroll
- Cool Jobs
- Big Numbers, Big Ideas: Pingsheng Wu
- Rock Talk: NIH Human Subjects Training Earns AMA CEUs
- Putting It All Together: Kevin C. Ess
- Here's What Happens When You Extend a Deadline
- Rock Talk: New Reforms to Federal Grant Policies
- Rock Talk: PubMed Gets Interactive
- Rock Talk: FY13 by the Numbers
- On Declining Gracefully
- Finding Email Equilibrium
- How Saying No Helps Professors Find Their Focus
- Cash-Strapped NIH May Ask Universities to Limit Grant Applications
- 7 Time-Management Tricks from Chris Hardwick, Man of 1,000 TV Shows
- The Greatest Course You'll Ever Teach
- Why Are Associate Professors So Unhappy?
- Expectations for Trainee Publication Output
- Why Aren't You Delegating?
- Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online
- What Would You Do If You Could Do Anything? Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele
- Meetings Are a Skill You Can Master, and Steve Jobs Taught Me How
- Preparation Makes Perfect: Rizwan Hamid
- To Succeed, Forget Self-Esteem
- News: NIH's Pathway to Independence Award Aims Younger
- PLoS One and Stupid CV Tricks
- Yes, You Can Brainstorm Without Groupthink
- Shut Up and Write
- Don't Be a Power Hog: How Sharing Information, Time and Authority Makes You a Better Leader
- New NIH Biosketch Format Requirement Moved to May 25, 2015
- It's All About Teamwork: William Wester
- Rock Talk: New Funding Opportunities with a Focus on Workforce Diversity
- Rock Talk: Looking Back, Looking Forward
- May Edge Reviews
- Spring Manuscript Sprint Signups