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New Scoring System for Proposals Submitted in 2025 Why? The NIH announced that proposals submitted after January 2025 will be…
Get your Diversity Plans in Shape for 2024 Submissions
(Meaningfully) Improving Your Diversity Plan in 2024 I recently read a set of reviews for a proposal that scored well…
Help Your Grad Students Succeed
How to Help Your Grad Students Succeed This winter I taught a proposal writing course for graduate students wanting to…
The United States has exceeded 31 million Covid-19 infections (a messy data point) and is approaching 570,000 Covid-19 deaths (a more robust data point). Yet despite the abundance of data about the pandemic, the best available information is not usually what guides policymakers.
Some policies are senselessly cruel, such as keeping family members from visiting loved ones dying of Covid-19. Others heighten disparities in income, health, and education.
Opinion: State’s overcautious COVID stance hurts students and their education
On June 30, Gov. Kate Brown dropped most COVID-19 restrictions in Oregon because she recognized the importance for Oregonians of…
Colleges Violate Their Promises to Vaccinated Students
Students who got the shots to help others are ordered to wear masks outside and stay out of restaurants
The Pandemic’s Toll on Teen Mental Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report last week warning that adolescent hospitalizations due to Covid-19 were on the…
As Omicron Hits, COVID-19 Case Counts Don’t Mean What They Used To
America has begun the gradual process of accepting that COVID-19 is going to be endemic—meaning it will always be present…