National Postdoctoral Association (NPA), including its
founders and member institutions, have been in the news
Science Careers' staff writer Michael Price wrote about the NPA
founders in the article "NPA Founders Find Success." The article begins: "Postdocs who are interested in
advocacy activities typically receive the same advice from postdoc advisers,
so-called experts, and even their peers: Stay away." Fortunately,
for postdocs, the founders ignored that advice, as Price
notes: "At its annual meeting in San Francisco in early March, the
National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) celebrated its 10th anniversary with a
panel discussion featuring six of the organization's seven founders -- all of
whom ignored the conventional wisdom a decade ago and spent lots of time on a
cause they thought was important: improving working conditions and expanding
job options for postdocs."
President Obama
mentions the R03 award
Yesterday, in a
speech that the media are calling the
de facto start of his reelection campaign, President Barack Obama offered up a
bit of research arcana, the R03 award given by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). It popped up (without its name attached) in his attack on a
Republican proposal to lower tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. Read more
at the weblink below.
NIH’s Regional
Seminar in Indianapolis
Each year, the Office of Extramural Research (OER) sponsors
two NIH Regional Seminars on Program Funding and Grants. These seminars are
intended to help demystify the application and review process, clarify Federal
regulations and policies, and highlight current areas of special interest or concern.
The seminars serve the NIH mission of providing education and training for the
next generation of biomedical and behavioral scientist. Read more at the
weblink below.
Regional Seminar: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/seminars.htm
Strategic Planning for the NIH Common Fund
The NIH is hosting a public meeting in Chicago, IL, to
gather input from the broad community on the biggest obstacles to progress in
biomedical research or the greatest opportunities in biomedical science that
are ripe for exploration. Input gathered from this meeting will help inform
potential new program ideas for the NIH Common Fund. To sign up to be a
participant in this discussion, use the weblink below.
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