AWARDS * Computational Chemistry * Undergraduate Student /
faculty Research Grant * Associated Students Research Grant
Never satisfied with the properties of sterling silver, Noffke was awarded
a faculty research grant in the early 1970s from the University of Georgia to explore cold forging fine silver from sheet.
Not exact matches
Grant Opportunities OSPRA (The U of I Office of Sponsored Programs &
Research Administration) OSPRA interacts with faculty, department business staff, University administration, and external sponsor program officers and award negotiators to provide service and support to the University's missions of instruction, research, public service, and economic deve
Research Administration) OSPRA interacts with
faculty, department business staff, University administration, and external sponsor program officers and award negotiators to provide service and support to the University's missions of instruction,
research, public service, and economic deve
research, public service, and economic development.
For example, half the molecular geneticists with degrees
granted between 2004 and 2007 work in the post-secondary education sector, 46 % of those women as
research associates and 15 % as tenure - track
faculty.
Luckily, my own
grant application to New York State Department of Health got funded and the senior postdoc opted to join another lab as a
research faculty.
But, as study co-author Schaffer, quoted by Basken, observes, «there is no evidence that there is a shortage of young, well - trained biomedical researchers to take their place on
faculties in schools of higher education or as principal investigators on NIH
research grants.»
AAAS provided 42 reviews for proposals submitted to the Nebraska EPSCoR
Faculty FIRST Awards initiative, which is designed to help early career
faculty initiate their
research programs and compete more effectively for NSF CAREER
grants.
The nub of both issues is that the university
faculty members running independent labs and competing for
grants to support their
research depend on graduate students and postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.
In a U.S. survey conducted in 1995 by Eric Campbell, a health policy researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues, more than a quarter of life - science
faculty members reported receiving support from industry through
grant agreements and
research contracts.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council (NSERC) gives operating
grants to
faculty members, and many
faculty members apply through NSERC's interdisciplinary program.
These conditions are fulfilled by most
faculty members at
research institutions, but few institutions allow postdocs to play the NIH -
research -
grant funding game.
I knew that
faculties in Canadian universities were starting to employ scientists in «
research officer» positions that were involved in
grant writing,
research, and fostering collaborations, but I did not have a clear plan on how I could pursue a bioinformatics career in Canada.
A DOE blue - ribbon panel, charged in 1999 with finding ways to bolster nuclear energy education in the United States, recommended new graduate fellowships and
grants for
faculty research including special programs for new
faculty.
The success of the NIH MRSP in its various manifestations is evidenced by the finding that its graduates are more likely to go on to receive NIH postdoctoral
research grants and medical school
faculty appointments with
research responsibility5.
Kaplan draws the conclusion that emphasizing her ability to garner federal
research grants is likely to make her more successful in her search for a
faculty position.
10 December 2013 Fatma Kaplan After applying unsuccessfully for nearly 150
faculty jobs, Fatma Kaplan concludes that what she really needs is a federal
research grant.
A competitive
faculty application package, I was told, should include publications in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature, or Science; evidence of fundraising such as travel
grants and in - kind
research support; and teaching experience as a teaching assistant or guest lecturer.
The environment seemed highly competitive and efforts by young
faculty to search for
grants to support their
research in genomics, ecology, and epidemiology were evident.
A: There are few immigration - status restrictions on
research grants from the major funding agencies and they do not require that you have a
faculty position.
DDEP
grants support doctoral
research overseas and proposals for these awards, submitted officially by the doctoral student's
faculty advisor, can be sent in to NSF at any time.
I saw few
research career options beyond being a
grant - supported
research associate working for a
faculty member.
The authors write that institutions should «increase bridge funding for promising
faculty who are struggling to fund their
research»; «lower the percentage of salary that
faculty must cover through
grants»; «improve administrative support for the
grant submission process»; and «increase the level of formal acknowledgement of
research collaboration expressed in the coauthor and coinvestigator status, both in the annual
faculty appraisals and in the criteria for promotion and tenure.»
Federal
research agencies now funnel most of their money for graduate students through
grants to
faculty members.
This evolution, combined with the flexibility
granted to the institutions to recruit and negotiate salaries for their
research faculty, has helped the nation become more attractive to top scientific talent.
... Without the defined academic productivity and rank requirements of the TTT type (e.g., «publish or perish»), clinician — educator
faculty who face ever - increasing clinical demands may put less emphasis on producing measurable academic products, such as publications in peer - reviewed journals or
grant - funded
research.»
Mann, now at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, was on the
faculty of the University of Virginia until 2005, and Cuccinelli is investigating whether Mann had committed fraud in the course of applying for
grants related to his global warming
research.
On the academic side, if you want to be on the
faculty at a
Research I university, you'll most likely need a fabulous postdoc in a well respected lab for however many years, some plum publications, plenty of
grant - writing practice, and contacts with the big - wigs in your field.
Involving 43 doctoral degree -
granting institutions and more than 295 «partner» institutions, the PFF program seeks to transform the way future
faculty members are prepared for
research, teaching, and service.
Without good publications, you stand little chance of winning the fellowship,
research grant,
faculty job, or other scientific prize you're competing for.
This
research centre — financed by Danish National Research Foundation with a grant of 66 million DKR — will be jointly run by NBI and DTU Space, a faculty of Technical University of Denmark (DTU), with Sune Toft appointed scientific d
research centre — financed by Danish National
Research Foundation with a grant of 66 million DKR — will be jointly run by NBI and DTU Space, a faculty of Technical University of Denmark (DTU), with Sune Toft appointed scientific d
Research Foundation with a
grant of 66 million DKR — will be jointly run by NBI and DTU Space, a
faculty of Technical University of Denmark (DTU), with Sune Toft appointed scientific director.
In fact, however, only about 25 percent of those earning American science PhDs will ever land a
faculty job that enables them to apply for the competitive
grants that support academic
research.
Research grants are made to institutions or individual investigators, generally
faculty members at universities and other institutions.
At RIMB, scientists were completely supported, enabling them to turn their full attention to any
research problem of interest to them without the distractions of teaching,
grant and fellowship applications, or
faculty meetings, and without the restrictions placed upon scientists in government.
The United States concentrates its civilian
research in universities, with projects funded mainly by competitive
grants awarded to individual
faculty members.
Nevertheless, upon entering the biomedical academic career track, black and white
faculty members are equally likely to be tenured at institutions that
grant doctorates and at
Research I institutions.
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BIRCWH principal investigator Eugene Orringer says: «During the initial 2 years of this award, we have been able to recruit 11 truly exceptional young people to our
faculty, all of whom are committed to the conduct of
research in the area of women's health... and many of them have already been successful in competing for their own individual
research grants.»
Applications from Asian, black, Hispanic, and Native American investigators together are 21 % of the total for NIH
research grant opportunities and are represented in similar proportion both to medical school
faculty and biomedical Ph.D. matriculants (9).
But they said that the university had exclusive rights because its
faculty, who patented the test, had been supported by
research grants from the U.S. government.
Dulay points out the upsides of her job: She is part of a premier
research team, has few funding worries because Zare's
grant covers her salary, and gets to spend more time with her young daughter than she would as a
faculty member.
One odd one that's important for early - career scientists is the new K99 / R00 award, which combined a training award with a
research grant to bridge the transition from postdoc to
faculty.
If you are a biomedical scientist with a
faculty position, you technically qualify to apply for an NIH
research grant.
«In the United States, since World War II when this basic system was created,
research has been a kind of Ponzi scheme in the sense that when the government provides
grants, the institution leverages the indirect costs to expand
research... and no institution has the resources to support the size of the
faculty they have, especially in the biomedical sciences.»
According to Michael B. Amey, Johns Hopkins University's assistant dean for
research administration, even though some JHU postdocs are classified as employees, «the only postdocs who would be allowed to submit an independent
research grant proposal (as opposed to a fellowship
grant) would be those who had been offered
faculty positions that would begin no later than the proposed start date of the
grant proposal.»
According to a widely disseminated statistic from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Ph.D. biomedical researchers are, on average, 38 years old when they get a permanent
faculty post and 42 when they get their first major
research grant.
Our Bridges
grant, though, includes
faculty from Harbor / UCLA, a nearby
research institute that mainly trains graduate and medical students.
Between teaching,
research,
grant writing, and other departmental service commitments, I don't see how junior
faculty balance family and career.
In 2009, FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science received a five - year
grant from the NSF to create CAKE as an industry / university cooperative
research center to provide the framework for interaction between university
faculty and industry in the critically important areas of information technology, communication, and computing.
The NSF Career
grant is given to junior
faculty who exemplify the role of teacher - scholars through outstanding
research, excellent education and the integration of education and
research.
Over her years in
research development, AtKisson has seen top - tier
research institutions shift from believing that their
faculty doesn't need help writing
grants to recognizing that, no matter how talented their
faculty members are, funding is «so hypercompetitive that they need all the help that they can get,» she says.
The report, which was commended by MIT's president, concluded that women
faculty in MIT's School of Science had been treated unfairly in the
granting of
research monies, salary, lab space, and other resources.