Ta da!

[rivka]

My first independent federal grant, "Type C Coping, Emotional Expression, and Observed Emotion in Cancer Patients," is sitting in the FedEx box waiting to be whisked away to NCI's Small Grants for Behavioral Research in Cancer Control program. If they like it, they're going to send me a hundred thousand dollars - so let's hope they like it.

Also submitted today, within half an hour of the other one: "Attitudes and Beliefs About Pregnancy Among HIV+ Women," to a University of Maryland internal funding program in women's health. It's a tiny little grant, but if they like it, they'll buy me a laptop - so let's hope they like it.

And now, home. Food. Alcohol. Fluffy TV watching. Sleep.

Comments

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

Yay you for getting those dealt with and submitted. I lift my water bottle high in your direction! (I'm still at work so I do not have a more interesting beverage in hand.)

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Yay! I hope they (both agencies) like them (both grants).

[ororo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you earned your salary this week. :) Go you.

[nixve.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting the grants done! :)

And both those projects sound like really, really good reads.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Good luck.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

So I says to myself "Oh, that's right, Self! Rivka is, like, a doctor now and doing this kind of heavy research stuff!"

Congratulations; I'll keep good grant-granting thoughts going your way.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Cool! Hope they're both big hits.:)

Gessi

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Hope they're both big hits

Initially read as, "Hope they're both big hats", and tried to figure out where this new bit of slang had originated.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations. One benefit of them being both due at once? You don't have to do one of them, like, next month! :-)

-J

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

and flame wars! toasty smoky flame wars!

Honestly, if you can't come up with a publication endorsing the scientific method, how do you expect a self-respecting retired critical theory professor to take you seriously?\

Don't mind me. I'll go smack myself.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I can't stop snickering at this.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I hope they both get accepted. They sound interesting.

[trinker.livejournal.com]

whoo, accomplished!

[pameladean]

That's very impressive. You make me wonder if research foundations have slush piles, like publishers have.

Pamela

[grillghod.livejournal.com]

Go You!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Indeed they do. At the big federal agencies, like NCI, half the applications get the pure slush treatment.

Good proposals get a critique and a priority scoring - each reviewer scores you from 1 to 5 with 1 being the best, and then they multiply the average by 100. They start handing out money to the people with the lowest scores, and continue up the list until they run out.

The bottom half of the proposals are unscored. They don't bother to assign you a priority, because your true priority rating is "Never. Is never good for you?" You get a critique from the person who read your proposal, but they go out of their way to point out that no one will talk about you at the meeting.

But there's an even lower category than that: Not recommended for further consideration, otherwise known as, "We had to bring in the hazmat team to clean up the office after we read your grant. You should be ashamed of yourself."

NIDA says it best: "As noted above, a designation of "unscored" is not the same as "not recommended for further consideration." The former means only that the particular application was weaker than most. The latter means that the application lacked significant and substantial scientific merit."

Ow.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Good for you keeping it organized and getting those done! And good luck!

[pameladean]

Ow indeed.

Well, anyway, I certainly do know what kind of vibes to send your way.

Pamela

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

:::violet vibes:::

May they be floored by your eloquence and the elegance of your propsals, and chorus 'Yes!' to the awarding your grants.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I thought it said Hope they're both big tits.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

You are a grant-writing goddess.

Would you be burdened or offended if I asked you for thoughts on where I might scare up some dissertation funding?

[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

Wow -- fascinating research ideas. I hope you get the grants.