A Book on Viruses and Bacterial Hosts
Update: Quantitative Viral Ecology: Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts won the award for best postgraduate textbook from the Royal Society of Biology.
Research grant consulting has great benefits. Reviewing and editing the proposals keeps me current in across the life sciences. In fields outside the life sciences, I serve as your colleague and novice or lay expert reviewer from another department. About two years ago, a book editing opportunity came my way through Twitter. In a Twitter conversation Jung Choi @jung_gt was following, someone complained about not getting research grants funded or leaving science and replied “or hire my wife” @grantsciencelab. In less than five minutes, his colleague Joshua Weitz, who was also following the conversation and said, “What’s this about hiring your wife?”
It’s July: NSF Career Proposals Due Soon
It’s that time of year again. How did July arrive so fast? Deferred home maintenance and the necessary home improvement kept my attention for most of the Spring and away from consulting. Career proposals are due between 7/20/2016 & 7/22/2016 depending on the directorate, but you knew that already. Last year, I summarized a dissertation on successful NSF Career Proposals into a free 10 page guide, Secrets of Successful NSF Career Proposals. Just click on the title to enter your information to receive the report. Use this handy guide to polish your proposal narrative for submission later this month.
Enjoy the summer. It’s time to get caught up on all that deferred research, renovation, and most importantly rest. Don’t forget to have some fun too. The academic grind will begin all too soon in August for many. It’s also not too late to lock in review plan pricing for the rest of the year. My flat fees will go up on or around August 1. You can get on the list here.
Deb Cook PhD
Grant Professionals: International Style
Last week The Grant Professionals Association celebrated International Grant Professionals for the second time using social media. Danny Blitch (@grantprodanny) of the Georgia chapter of the GPA is the mastermind behind last week’s events. Wednesday, March 16 was our special international event – an all day video chat using the Blab Beta platform discussing grants and fundraising from an international perspective. I (@grantsciencelab; @DeborahCook6) had the privilege of interviewing Ruth McLean Dawson (@meRuthAnne) about how to connect with the folks on the ground working in international aid during the 12:00 to 1:00 EDT time slot. Since we could not break it up into shorter segments here is the topic schedule for the day covering nearly 8 hours of video chat.
Except for a few remarks of mine on the international and collaborative nature of science, we didn’t discuss research grants. It seems to me, and I’ve written about this before is that the academic grant writing and nonprofit grant writing occupy parallel universes. Two universes that have more in common with each other than either thinks. The video chat really demonstrates the scale of the nonprofit universe as it applies to international grants and fundraising. It also is a good introduction to that universe for the research grant community.
Deb Cook PhD
