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Why don’t more panels fund Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants?
What if you write a proposal and get told it does not fit in this panel or in any panel for your kind of proposal? Wouldn’t that be frustrating? It is true that just writing the proposal is a very … Continue reading
Posted in Grant proposals
Tagged DEB, Funds, Graduate school, graduate students, grants, IOS, National Science Foundation, NSF, Research
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Teaching graduate students to write, Memphis style
Isn’t it a shame that some people think writing is a born talent, not a learned trade? We writers know that is not true, so we all have our methods for helping others also become writers. There is a lot … Continue reading
Posted in The joy of teaching, Writing
Tagged graduate students, Research, sociology, teaching, university, University of Memphis, writing, writing workshops
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You will be judged; your large team research grant will be reviewed
Once I was involved in deciding who would get an important mentoring prize. One of the candidates was from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He had many students supporting his nomination. They pointed out how empathetic he … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Group leadership
Tagged Attention, evaluation, evolutionary biology, Finnland, Finns, graduate students, international programs, Michigan State University, postdocs, Research, Rice University, Richard Dawkins, science, Shepherd School of Music, Social Sciences, United States
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