Tag: grant proposal

NSF CAREER Awards

An NSF CAREER award is a coveted jewel for many young investigators. It’s not too early to get started before the next submission dates.  Sometime ago, in an internet search I stumbled on a doctoral dissertation in communications that analyzed the features of successful NSF CAREER awards. You can find it here to download and …

Reading Requests for Proposals, Grant Solicitations, Applications, and Guides

The first rule of research grant proposal preparation is: Read the Request for Proposal (RFP).  Then read it again. In fact, as a principal investigator or project director, you should probably read it three or more times and refer to it regularly throughout the proposal writing process. Q: Why should you read it multiple times …

Storytelling With The Scientific Method

Scientists are lucky storytellers.  Lucky, because they have the logic model of the scientific method as a framework for telling science stories.  That framework has the plot, subplots, the characters, and possible outcomes already in place.  Science stories are in every new idea, every new result, every unusual result, and new approaches to old ideas.  …