- NIH News: New Webinars Connect Applicants to NIH Peer Review Experts
Do you want to learn how to make NIH peer review work for you? Sign up for one of the four Meet the Experts in NIH Peer Review webinars brought to you by the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR)!
CSR is the portal for receipt and referral of NIH grant applications, and, for ...
- Productivity Tip #2: How to Set Up Your Desk for Your Best Day at Work
You may have your work routine down to a science, from where you prefer to grab some quiet space to the exact time you take a lunch break. But there's one very important element you may be forgetting when it comes to success in the office: Your desk.
How you use your works...
- Face It: Your Decks Will Never Be Cleared
One of the most widespread myths in academic writing is that you can, and should, try to “clear the decks”—that is, finish all of your other obligations before you can focus on your scholarship.
The reality is: Things never clear up. They don’t even reliably settle down. Your ...
- Interruptions Are Even Worse Than We Thought
Jane Austen, legend has it, was continually interrupted by visitors while she sat in her family’s living room secretly writing the novels that would make her famous. Most of us, though, probably wouldn’t do our best work in that setting.
"Now it's a fact. A team of researchers...
- Rock Talk: How Do Multiple-PI Applications Fare?
Do multi-PI applications stand a better chance of being funded than single-PI proposals? Not really, according to the NIH's Deputy Director for Extramural Research. In fact, the rates of funding have been just about equal over the past four years. Check out the data at Dr. Sal...
- Office Hours in the Pool Hall
Teaching this semester? Wondering about ways to connect to your students? It might be time to try meeting them somewhere unusual.
Holding office hours in different places helped me reach certain students, drive home points I had made in class, and get students to campus facili...
- Job Seekers, Don’t Curb Your Enthusiasm
For those of you heading on the job market this year, take some advice from Allison M. Vaillancourt, VP of institutional effectiveness and HR at the University of Arizona:
This candidate’s job talk got attention because it is so unusual for candidates to express such obvious ...
- Working Backwards: Digna Velez Edwards
Digna Velez Edwards, PhD, can’t remember never doing science. Whether through research initiatives or attending science programs as a child, she always sought to feed her love of nature and observational science. After working in a zebrafish lab as an undergraduate student, she h...
- Getting Over Procrastination
The tendency to procrastinate dates back to the very beginnings of civilization. As early as 1400 B.C., Steel told me, ancient Egyptians were struggling with basic time management. 'Friend, stop putting off work and allow us to go home in good time,' read some hieroglyphs, transl...
- How Humor Can Transform Your Classroom
Do you think a little amusement might brighten up your teaching? Want to be funny in front of a classroom, but not sure of the best way? Natascha Chtena has you covered.
Although I’d discovered the power of self-deprecation by accident, it made its mark on me and on my teach...
