- Translational Research Forum October 13, 2017
Here’s a save the date for you uber-organized people who need to know what you’re doing in October. This year’s Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum will be Friday, October 13, at the Student Life Center.
More than 25 recently funded Vanderbilt researchers will give plenar...
- The Hierarchy of Learning
In medical school, there is a common saying: “see one, do one, teach one.” Generations of learners have taken pride in this statement and have passed it along, often smugly, as gospel. It has been considered wisdom, handed down from ancient Greece to modern times, as an essential...
- Can You (Really) Do Your Proposed Study?
…a deceptively simple question that can be interpreted in several ways.
For purposes of planning your proposed research study, answering the question (read: assessing feasibility) means looking at your idea from three perspectives—scope, cost, and time.
The scope of your projec...
- Labor Unions for students, postdocs and research track faculty
While I deeply understand the desire for job security for postdoctoral fellows and non-tenure track faculty, I do not feel that unions are the way to go. The best job security any of us has is doing an outstanding job with our chosen profession. Tenure itself has little guarant...
- The Olympics of Pain: Tag Me Out
I'm leaving for vacation tomorrow. Skiing. Here's a list partial list of of things I won't be doing:
Writing letters of recommendation.
Reading a fellow's application after we met about a better platform to do experiments.
Reviewing papers.
Working on grant applicat...
- Tired Reviewer Request: Set Your Models Free!
I just completed my thirty gazillionth study section and find myself hoping some trainees turned PIs out there will heed one bit of hard-won wisdom. Your model? The one where you spent your postdoc showing that you can make
rats poke their noses in a hole 26 instead of 27 times?...
- Fresh Ideas for Writing Innovation in Your NIH Grants
NIH information for grant authors prompts researchers to ask these questions as they describe innovation:
Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, in...
- 8 Reasons I Accepted Your Article
What do reviewers like to see in an article? Five of them from Elsevier answered that question with some of the following points:
1. It provides insight into an important issue – for example, by explaining a wide variance when numbers are spread out from the mean or expecte...
- Visiting Scholar’s Day with Dr. Janice Gabrilove, June 22, 2017
The 18th Annual Visiting Scholar’s Day Dinner will be held on June 22, 2017, in the Commons Center on the Peabody campus. Our guest will be Janice L. Gabrilove, MD, Director of Clinical Research Education Programs at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Associate Director o...
- Balancing on the Edge
As academics, most of us are in overdrive—racing from meetings to emails, writing to teaching, and maintaining some semblance of a balanced life.
Two fallacies about how we operate ourselves in overdrive:
I can multitask: Multitasking is a misnomer.1 When we multitask, we are...
