NIH to fund development of K-12 neuroscience education programmes - September 28, 2011
Eight investigators across the US will receive funding over the next five years to develop innovative neuroscience education programmes for K-12 students and their teachers. Activities described within some proposals include using touch tablet technology to teach neurobiology, and the creation of a 1,400-square-foot interactive learning center. These grants… Read More
RSC raises queries on EPSRC’s Shaping Capability programme - September 15, 2011
The UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has stated that in recent weeks, since the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) made its first announcement in connection with its Shaping Capability programme, there have been many questions raised. These centre on how decisions were reached… Read More
NHGRI grant to help eMERGE network move closer to tailored treatments based on patients’ genomic information - August 18, 2011
Researchers in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network will receive $25 million over the next four years to demonstrate that patients' genomic information linked to disease characteristics and symptoms in their electronic medical records can be used to improve their care. The grants are from the National Human… Read More
BioMed Central looking to work with Dutch researchers keen to establish OA journals - August 15, 2011
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the main Dutch science funding body, has launched a €1 million open access (OA) fund to help Dutch scientists establish new OA journals or convert existing journals to OA. Publisher BioMed Central has stated that it would be interested… Read More
OCLC and ALISE invite proposals for 2012 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program - August 11, 2011
Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, and OCLC Research, in collaboration with the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), are inviting research proposals for the 2012 Library and Information Science Research Grant Program (LISRGP). Awards of up to $15,000 are… Read More
Indiana University’s Data To Insight Center to lead Sloan funded investigation of non-consumptive research - August 11, 2011
Indiana University's Data To Insight Center (D2I) will lead a $600,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund the first investigation of non-consumptive research for a major mass digitised collection of content. Partners with D2I on this include the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and… Read More
SPIE objects to House subcommittee decision to end James Webb Space Telescope - August 8, 2011
SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, is objecting to a decision by the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Space to terminate the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Ending the JWST project would waste billions of taxpayer dollars that have already been invested,… Read More
Digital Science launches new funding programme to encourage innovation - August 3, 2011
Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., unveiled its Catalyst Prize, an initiative to support innovators who wish to develop new software tools or technologies for scientific research. The programme will provide a series of awards up to £15,000 each (about $24,000) to the most… Read More
ACS President offers congressional testimony on NSF merit review - July 27, 2011
The President of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Dr. Nancy B. Jackson, testified before the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science Education on July 26, 2011, about the effectiveness of the merit review process used by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to… Read More
Florida State University and University of Florida receive $10 million NSF grant to digitise nation’s biological collections - July 11, 2011
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to Florida State University (FSU) and the University of Florida (UF) to coordinate 92 institutions in 45 states working to digitise the nation's biological collections. The grant is part of the… Read More
