How Long Can the US Stay on Top? Universities are increasingly tied to #philanthropy vs federal & state #funding
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6139/1394.summary
Robber Baron University: Stanford, JHU, Rockefeller, CMU, Vanderbilt, Rice, Drexel
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-11-203.html
interesting mechanism that seems to involve NIH, DOE, NSF, &c
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/20/breakthrough-prize-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs Lander, Botstein, Vogelstein and Cornelia Bargmann…Lewis Cantley, "I almost fell over. I didn’t even know this prize existed." He turned 64 on Wednesday.
Comparatively low spending on chemistry at Yale
http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i43/2010-Academic-RD-Spending-Trends.html http://cen.acs.org/content/dam/cen/90/43/09043-scitech1.pdf
cites Greenbaum et al. PLOS CB (’11)!
http://www.bridgew.edu/sponproj/SigInnovApproachSections.pdf
http://www2.astate.edu/a/research-transfer/Docs/TipsonWritingaCompetitiveNIHGrantProposal.pdf
Option 1, pending any clarification
* Significance
* Innovation
* Approach
– Preliminary Studies supporting Aims
– Aim 1
– Aim 2
– Aim 3
Option 2
* Aim 1
– Significance, Innovation, Approach
* Aim 2
– Significance, Innovation, Approach
* Aim 3
– Significance, Innovation, Approach
* Preliminary Studies/Progress Report
Option 3
* Aim 1: Preliminary studies, Significance, Innovation,
Approach
* Aim 2: Preliminary studies, Significance, Innovation,
Approach
* Aim 3: Preliminary studies, Significance, Innovation,
Approach
12 pages for Sig. + Innov. + Approach
1 pages for Spec. Aims
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