Highest Rated Resources in "Funding"
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The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers
- Chronicle of Higher Education , September 2007. "[F]or many of today's graduate students, the future could not look much bleaker. They see long periods of training, a shortage of academic jobs, and intense competition for research grants looming ahead of them. 'They get a sense that this is a really frustrating career path,' says Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. So although the operating assumption among many academic leaders is that the nation needs more scientists, some of brightest students in the country are demoralized and bypassing scientific careers."
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Cancer Immunology or General Immunology training
- "[S]upports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centers around the world who wish to receive training in cancer immunology or general immunology"
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Life Sciences Research Foundation
- "LSRF awards fellowships across the spectrum of the life sciences: biochemistry; cell, developmental, molecular, plant, structural, organismic population and evolutionary biology; endocrinology; immunology; microbiology; neurobiology; physiology; virology.... Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M. or D.D.S. degrees. Awards will be based solely on the quality of the individual applicant's previous accomplishments, and on the merit of the proposal for postdoctoral research."
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Be Careful What You Wish For
- ScienceCareers.org - "Between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) rose from $13 billion to more than $27 billion in a plan known as "the doubling. Now that the tsunami of cash has receded, many life scientists--especially those in the early phase of their careers--have found conditions no better, and in some ways worse, than before the process began."
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NIH Pathway to Independence Award
- "This initiative will develop and implement a new Pathway to Independence Award Program (PI) designed to facilitate receiving an R01 award earlier in an investigators research career. The primary, long-term goal of the PI Award Program is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented, NIH-supported independent investigators."
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Cargo Cult Science -- Revisited
- by T. M. Georges. " So now we see scientists whining in the journals about 'the present climate of budget cutting in Washington,' and a coalition of 23 scientific organizations calling for a 7% across-the-board increase in research funding for fiscal 1998, as though we were experiencing some kind of temporary political aberration. As though cold war levels of funding for science might miraculously return, if only the politicians would come to their senses! Like the cargo cults, they don't understand the underlying cause of their predicament: The cold war was the aberration, a funding 'bump' for many branches of science. "
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PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants
- "At the present time, US funding is frequently below 10% for a given grant program. Today, more than ever, we need all the help we can get in writing successful grant proposals. We hope you find these rules useful in reaching your research career goals."
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Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA)
- "For U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are training at the postdoctoral level in the National Cancer Institute"
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Energy Research at the Department of Energy
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Postdoctoral Fellowships in Complex Systems Studies at the Santa Fe Institute
- " The Institute's multidisciplinary research program is devoted to the study of complex systems, especially complex adaptive systems. Topics currently under study include nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation; measures of complexity; learning algorithms; agent-based modeling and simulation tools; evolutionary biology; models of the immune system, cellular regulation, and other biological systems; models of economic, political and social interactions, and others. Postdoctoral Fellows work either on existing research projects or on projects of their own choosing. "
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AMS Centennial Fellowship
- Early career award for young mathematicians.
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End of a Golden Era
- Inside Higher Ed, July 5, 2006. "When the National Institutes of Health budget doubled between the 1999 fiscal year and the 2003 fiscal year, many research institutions found themselves awash in funding as yearly budget increases of 15 percent became the norm. But many researchers and institutions were unprepared, financially and psychologically, when the windfall ended."
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Environmental Fellows at Harvard University
- The Harvard University Center for the Environment will award eight two-year post-doc research fellowships to start Sept. 2006 to oustanding scholars in any field related to the environment. Each Environmental Fellow will work with a host faculty member in his or her department. The fellowship will provide a generous salary and benefits. Applications are due Jan. 15, 2006; details are posted at environment.harvard.edu.
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Young scientists hit the hardest as US funding falls
- Boston Globe, January 23, 2006. "After years of steady support for science funding and a spurt in health sciences research over the last decade that drew many young people into research labs, federal funds are now flat or declining in many areas."
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NIH Postdoctoral Index of Openings
- Current postdoctoral opportunities at the NIH
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National Research Council Research Associateship Program
- The goals of the program are " (1) to provide doctoral scientists and engineers of unusual promise and ability opportunities for research on problems, largely of their own choice, that are compatible with the research interests of the sponsoring laboratories; and (2) to contribute to the overall research efforts of these laboratories and to the national scientific and technological welfare of the United States. "
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- " The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Its emphasis is on the career development of outstanding scientists and on advancing areas in the basic medical sciences that are underfunded or that have a shortage of qualified researchers. " The fund has a number of fellowships for postdoctoral work and for early career scientists.
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Scientific World's Low Tolerance For Controversy May Be What's Excluding Young Investigators
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in FundingThe Scientist , Vol:8, #24, p.13, December 12, 1994. " Of all the information recently brought out on sponsored research, one fact is truly alarming. This is the decrease in the number of young scientists who apply for grants. According to a new report by the National Research Council (NRC), applications for National Institutes of Health funding from researchers under 36 years of age declined about 55 percent between 1985 and 1993.... If this trend continues, it will lead to the decline, if not the extinction, of academic research in the United States. "
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AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships for Scientists and Engineers
- One and two-year program. Congressional internships, fellowships in global stewardship, diplomacy, risk-assessment, technology policy, defense policy, and environmental policy.
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How Has the Field Mix of Federal Research Funding Changed Over the Past Three Decades?
- NSF Issue Brief 99-328. " This Issue Brief examines how the overall research emphasis of the Federal government has changed between 1970 and 1997. It analyzes shifts in S & E field shares of total Federal research obligations and changes in the contribution of key funding agencies to the Federal research effort. "
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National Institute on Aging, Employment Opportunities
- Postdoctoral opportunities at the National Institute on Aging
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NSF Launches Major Initiative in Mathematics
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in FundingNotices of the AMS , February, 2001. " The National Science Foundation has announced an initiative intended to increase dramatically its support of the mathematical sciences. If the initiative is funded at the level now being discussed, in six years NSF spending on the mathematical sciences will be four or five times the current budget of its Division of Mathematical Sciences. "
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A Practical Guide for Writing Proposals
- by Alice N. T. Reid, Instructor of English, Delaware Technical and Community College, Wilmington Campus
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NIH National Research Service Award application
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Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA)
- Postdoctoral IRTA Fellowships provide the opportunity for recent doctoral degree recipients to enhance their research skills in the resource-rich National Institutes of Health (NIH) environment.... Trainees pursue both basic and clinical research free from the demands of obtaining grants and teaching, although opportunities to do both are available. For U.S. citizens and permanent residents with less than five years of relevant research experience since receipt of the doctorate degree.
