NIH Director, Time to Bring Science to the People American Ninja Warrior Style

Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.

The best problems in science and medicine are solved over a delicious cocktail. Cocktails release dopamine. Alcohol an awesome preconditioning agent against subsequent stress and is a lot better than …

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Rock Talk: NIH Recovers a Significant Portion of Funds Lost Due to Sequestration

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Much good news here: Because of the increased NIH budget as compared to last year, and due to the cycle of out-year commitments, we should ultimately be making more competing …

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Marathon Running, Marathon Research: Dawn Newcomb

Rebecca Helton, MA

For Dawn Newcomb, PhD, writing a grant is like running a marathon.  As a veteran of six marathons since she moved to Nashville in 2007, she should know.  “You have to …

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Five Tips to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone and Build Your Network

Rebecca Helton, MA

Networking. It’s one of those things we all know we should do, but for many people, it just doesn’t come naturally. From The Glass Hammer: Five Tips to …

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Peering into Peer Review

The Edge for Scholars

Why don’t proposals given better scores by the National Institutes of Health lead to more important research outcomes? Michael Lauer’s job at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) …

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Congress Likely to Give NIH $2 Billion Funding Increase

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A federal omnibus spending bill released early today gives a $2 billion funding increase to NIH, the biggest increase in more than 12 years. Scientists, patients and familes have been urged by …

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Build-a-Grant, Section by Section

Ashley Hood, PhD

A round-up of blogs addressing specific grant sections.

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#GRExit and the Next Slippery Slope in Graduate Admissions

Rachel Yoho, CDP, PhD

As more academic programs and departments make the GRE optional, the question remains - which metrics will be used to replace it?

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Advice from a Sixth Year PhD Student

Aimee Edgeworth

A short thread with some cool resources and tidbits of advice for the new-ish PI.

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Postdoctoral Fellow - Job Opening

Marsha Gordon, MPH

JOIN OUR TEAM! Rutgers CARE-PC is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join our collaborative team on an NCI-funded survivorship project.

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