This year's Wynne prize of A$25,000£15,00000) for "the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours" has been awarded to Proposal for a Landscaped Cosmos by Sam Leach.
This modest awards proposal has lately assumed a degree of urgency.
Follow its path from styrofoam to marble and don't forget to submit your award proposal!
Of the 103 major award proposals submitted last summer, only six were selected.
Participants also get to hear firsthand from faculty who have sat on K-award study sections and reviewed many K-award proposals.
At The Hutch, Peterson leads a training module that consists of U.S. National Institutes of Health Career Development (K -Award proposal-writing basics, a mocK -Awardsection where trainees can learn by critiquing proposals, and an opportunity to look at examples of successful K-award proposals.
Proposals for amateur time were stringently reviewed by a committee of amateur astronomers, and time was awarded only to proposals that were deemed to have genuine scientific merit, did not duplicate proposals made by professionals, and required the unique capabilities of the space telescope.
Eighty per cent (n=1662) of the 2085 grant proposals not originally awarded were never funded.
The Gates award is the second-largest to a single grant proposal at Notre Dame.
Grants are awarded based on proposals prepared and submitted by multisectoral Country Coordination Mechanisms, which are meant to include the major country stakeholders: governments, civil society and development partners.
