The STEM Crisis Is a Myth
Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians.
You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can’t find enough workers in those fields, and the country’s competitive edge is threatened.
16th Annual Gill Heart Institute Cardiovascular Research Day Scheduled for Oct. 11
The University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute and the UK Saha Cardiovascular Research Center will host the 16th Annual Gill Heart Cardiovascular Research Day, Oct. 11, at the Lexington Convention Center. Gill Heart Insitute Cardiovascular Research Day annually attracts preeminent speakers in the field of cardiology and cardiovascular research. It also features a symposium for trainee researchers, a scientific poster session, and the presentation of the annual Saha Awards for medical and nursing education. This year, speakers include Dr.
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Kentucky Homeplace Receives Gift from Anthem Foundation to Improve Diabetes Outcomes
Study in Hazard to combine weight control, smoking cessation
NIH Offers a Variety of Social Media Outlets to Help Stay Informed
NIH offers a large a variety of social media outlets to help investigators stay informed. Follow this link to a summary page of the many outlets NIH is using to increase communication.
UK Researcher Fights to End Congressional Ban on Needle Exchange Funding
NIH Gearing Up for Forms-C
From NIH Email - NIH eSubmission Items of Interest - August 21, 2013
Are you ready for our move to updated electronic application forms (FORMS-C)?
We’ve been busy preparing for our transition to updated application forms for most grant programs (NOT-OD-13-074). Our FOAs now have FORMS-C application packages and old B1 and B2 packages have been set to expire.
Here are some updated resources you may want to check out:
"Using ASSIST to Prepare and Submit Multi-Project Applications to NIH" Webinar Resources
The NIH webinar, “Using ASSIST to Prepare and Submit Multi-Project Applications to NIH,” as presented on August 13 is now available for viewing at the following link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/webinar_docs/webinar_20130813.htm. If you are thinking of submitting a multi-project application for an upcoming deadline, take some time to view this presentation and/or the associated PowerPoint slides also available at this link. NIH will require electronic submission for all P01, P20, P50 and U19 appl