OSP Weekly 04/20/2022
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Academic Achievement Awards
Join this year’s virtual Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 21, at 3 p.m. via YouTube livestream.

The annual event celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of academic and administrative faculty from across the university.
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NIH Guidance to Win Awards

Avoid these common pitfalls when you prepare a NIH grant application. Reviewers in the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) cite these problems when they critique grant applications:

  • Lack of new or original ideas
  • Absence of an acceptable scientific rationale
  • Lack of experience in the essential methodology
  • Questionable reasoning in experimental approach
  • Uncritical approach
  • Diffuse, superficial, or unfocused research plan
  • Lack of sufficient experimental detail
  • Lack of knowledge of published relevant work
  • Unrealistically large amount of work proposed
  • Uncertainty concerning future directions

The Office of Extramural Research (OER) talks to NIH staff members about the ins and outs of NIH funding. Designed for investigators, fellows, students, research administrators, and others just curious about the application and award process. 

Topics Include:
  • Preparing to Apply
  • Developing a Successful Grant Application
  • Advice for New & Early Career Scientists
  • Submitting Your Application
  • Peer Review
  • Post-Award Activities & Requirements
  • Special Programs
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On NIH's YouTube Channel they have bingeable playlists all about grants! If you are looking for an introduction to NIH fundamentals, insight into the peer review, information on NIH policy and compliance or applying for grant funding, an orientation to special funding programs, eRA systems, or any of the grants administrative topics covered by NIH seminars and webinars, you can find it here.

Trainee, graduate student, post-doc, or faculty in the early stages of your career? Watch the presentation recordings from the 2021 NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration held November 1-4, 2021. Prominent NIH leaders offered a variety of tips for junior investigators and discussed funding targets for early stage investigators, kept attention on at-risk investigators, how to get that second R01, and more.
NIH's New Scientific Data Sharing Website
NIH announces a new website on Scientific Data Sharing. If you are involved in an NIH-funded project and want to understand which sharing policies apply to your research and how to comply or if you are a researcher looking for access to scientific data from NIH-affiliated repositories, the site is for you.

The site will regularly feature new and existing resources, events, and tools from across NIH. Check the Resource Highlights and the Latest News & Events sections on the homepage.
Althea Sheets, Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Development Manager, Office of Sponsored Programs, althea.sheets@unlv.edu, 702-895-1880