Sentences with phrase «of grant reviewers»

The final inspection report by the U.S. Department of Education's inspector general's office concluded that department officials may have intended to «stack» the panels of grant reviewers with those who favored a particular teaching methodology.

For now, young researchers have to rely on what Smith calls the open - mindedness of grant reviewers.

As an industry scientist, I'm less susceptible to the whims of grant reviewers, but I still work at a company that's largely grant funded.

Typical duties of a Grant Reviewer are processing applications, maintaining filing systems, collecting data, writing reports, forwarding their findings to supervisors, and providing advice to those who apply for a grant.

Not exact matches

Wagstaff, a chemist with a Ph.D. in STEM education research and an affinity for increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM, led an agency - wide effort to broaden NIJ's pool of peer reviewers, STEM graduate fellows, and R&D grant applicants.

«Every grant that we had reason to believe did not have optimal online review, or an optimal number of reviewers, was evaluated face - to - face.»

NIH is starting several pilot projects, including a training module that aims to teach young researchers how to design better experiments and medical - style checklists that grant reviewers will use to check the design of proposed experiments.

It is up to the grant reviewers and tenure and hiring committees in each field to determine how they value different forms of dissemination.

The FIRST Act would reauthorize the National Science Foundation, but its provisions would amount, to quote White House science adviser John Holdren, to «adding congress as reviewers» of NSF grant proposals.

Reviewers have a lot of expectations that are not usually formally stated — these are just tacitly agreed - upon norms that you need to discover, ideally before writing the grant.

Grant reviewers are supposed to assess newbies and VIPs separately, but they're also told to fund the grants with the greatest chance of success.

More than 200 people have weighed in so far, many of them frustrated researchers, grant reviewers, and others inside and outside the cancer field.

«Many scientists worry that grant reviewers will note the gap in productivity and go «Oh, this person took a year's break, they aren't really serious,»» says a biologist at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), who requested anonymity.

He said that DOE will need 300 to 400 reviewers in the next 6 months to handle the expected flood of grant applications triggered by DOE's share of the $ 787 billion stimulus package and the hike in its annual budget for 2009.

Elizabeth Goodwin, who was a biologist at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, until resigning in February 2006, admitted «that she included manipulated data» in a grant progress report «to convince reviewers that more scientific progress had been made with her research than was actually the case,» the Department of Justice announced on Friday.

Buckius then offered up a more substantive criticism, suggesting that posting pending grant winners would spur widespread second - guessing of reviewers.

► «Armed with new data showing black applicants suffer a 35 % lower chance of having a grant proposal funded than their white counterparts, NIH officials are gearing up to test whether reviewers in its study sections give lower scores to proposals from African - American applicants,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Thursday.

If you have an opportunity to respond to a letter that is unjustifiably critical, try (if you can) to succinctly point out, in the gentlest possible way, that the writer is not the best person to judge work in your field, and guide the committee toward more informed opinions (external evaluators and reviewers of papers or grant proposals).

Program officers have already begun to build a database of potential reviewers, choosing scientists with a track record of winning grants and publishing their results.

A review panel found in 2009 that the ERC's management system was «obsolete» in the way it left nonscientist bureaucrats in charge of day - to - day operations, leading to constant low - level conflict and even «abusive» requirements of volunteer grant reviewers.

To convince administrators and grant reviewers of the worthiness of their work, scientists have to be cheerleaders for their research; they may not be as

In Getting to the Top of a Big Pile, contributing editor Elisabeth Pain offers advice gleaned from interviews with reviewers of ERC's Starting Independent Researcher Grant applications.

Any problems the reviewers have with your rationale / significance must be addressed early in the rebuttal and in the body of the grant application with sufficient clarity that the reviewer will be convinced.

Because very few of the grants discussed during the study section meeting will be funded in this submission cycle, each reviewer will choose one or two grants to champion.

The reviewer uses his or her knowledge of science to decide if your grant is novel, is likely to result in new, important information, and can be accomplished with your experimental plan.

While you may be viewing your grant application as the magnum opus of your life's ambitions and plans — for the next 5 years anyway — a reviewer sees it as one of six to 12 other «magnum opii» projects to evaluate.

The revised biosketch is now being phased in across NIH, despite howls of protest that it burdens grant reviewers and lets scientists inflate the importance of their work.

The bill language is ambiguous, calling for disclosure of «[t] he employer, and either the name and title or a unique identifier, of each individual who served as a peer reviewer for the grant program» during the previous 6 months.

NSF tests «radical» idea of using grant applicants as reviewers to ease strain on peer - review system

The bill would force government granting agencies to, among other requirements, post funded applications on the Web, provide lists of reviewers, and enable unsuccessful applicants to request a «debriefing» from agency officials.

So the bill calls for greater reliance on preproposals, withholding the nonresearch components of a grant proposal until reviewers have given it a thumbs up, and creating a centralized database with the biosketches of applicants so that information doesn't have to be recreated for every agency.

Branch has included social media activity in the engagement plans of his grant applications, but reports a mixed reception from reviewers.

A team of «seasoned» scientific reviewers and scientists provide grant - writing tips based on the PHS 398 application, the application form used for most NIH grants, including R01 research grants, fellowships, and career training grants.

Researchers tend to think of their grant proposals as carefully guarded information that will be seen only by peer reviewers in strictest confidence.

[4] CIHR continues to work on issues regarding the size and membership of the expert panels, the use of teleconferencing in early stage review, and the algorithms used to match applications to reviewers, issues which will need to be resolved prior to the next competition for both «Foundation» and «Project» grants, scheduled for fall 2016.

NIMH will also work to improve communication and outreach by providing webinars and conference presentations for applicants about clinical trials, and will work to ensure a consistent understanding of this approach by grant reviewers.

Failure to disclose substantial financial or other conflicts of interest to internal or external monitoring bodies, organisations or publishers upon preparation, submission or publication of a manuscript or a grant application, or while acting as a reviewer for scholarly journals, funding agencies, or as a member of internal and external career advancement and recruitment committees or other professional duties.

Ad hoc reviewer for several grant agencies including: Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Medical Research Council of UK, Funding for Scientific Research of Belgium, National Research Agency of France, National Cancer Institute of France, the Broad Foundation for Scientific and Medical Research of USA, Health Research Board of Ireland, Italian Ministry of University and Research, Italian Ministry of Health, Italian National Institute of Health, Italian - German University, Italian National Research Council, Al Neelain University of the Islamic Republic of Sudan, Cancéropôle Grand Ouest of the French government, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Science, Technology and Space State of the State of Israel, Cancer Research Wales, Kuwait University.

He also serves as a peer reviewer for various scientific journals in the field of cancer research and immunology and as reviewer for grants in scientific review study sections of the NIH and National Cancer Institute (NCI).

I am an expert reviewer of AERES («Agence d'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur», France), reviewer of grant proposals for the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA and Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), as well as reviewer of several scientific journals.

For the National Institutes of Health, he has served as an ad hoc and standing reviewer member for a number of grant review study sections.

I am able to network with professionals from diverse disciplines, to interact with colleagues in other institutions across the nation, to match my interests and work skills to a good career, to be a peer - reviewer (and to be peer - reviewed), to learn about career and grant opportunities, to work in a team setting, to familiarize myself with the variety of available careers, and to have a very well - rounded experience outside of the lab.

In 2007, the last year for which figures are available, 19 percent of the grants awarded to individual scientists were made as exceptions, or given outside of rankings by scientific reviewers, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office provided to The New York Times.

Granted, this reviewer's a long - time fan of Crowe's work, but don't let that dissuade you - Jerry Maguire is one of the best character dramas of its decade, and what it's got to say makes even more sense in the current climate.

Eight schools received launch grants to support their opening this fall, and, in a smart new category of grants, 30 schools intending to launch programs in the fall of 2014 received funds to help them in their planning process (full disclosure: I served as a reviewer for the launch grants).

I've written previously about its role in creating proof points capable of scaling for the field that help propel the education system more toward a fully competency - based, student - centric one, and now NGLC is at it again (full disclosure: I serve as a reviewer for their grants).

I believe that grant reviewers should be required to explain, under oath, the single main point of the pages they just read.

The director of the institute, Edward A. Curran, has recommended that the nie expand its current list of grant - proposal reviewers to include at least 100 additional people — who would be paid by nie to evaluate unsolicited requests for a total of up to $ 1 million in grants for 15 to 20 federal projects.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

External Reviewer, Illinois State Board of Education, School Improvement Grant Applications (May - June 2014)