New Scoring System for Proposals Submitted in 2025 Why? The NIH announced that proposals submitted after January 2025 will be scored using a new system. Why, you may be asking yourself, are they changing a system that worked pretty well?…
(Meaningfully) Improving Your Diversity Plan in 2024 I recently read a set of reviews for a proposal that scored well on the scientific sections, but very low on the diversity plan, and was not funded. This got me thinking about…
How to Help Your Grad Students Succeed This winter I taught a proposal writing course for graduate students wanting to pursue careers in research, and many of them were looking for postdoc positions for next year. This newsletter contains links…