Applicants from Emory must identify a research mentor before applying and submit a mentor-approved proposal as part of the application as well as a letter of recommendation from the supporting mentor (a requirement that dramatically improved the quality of submitted proposals when we implemented it in the late 1990s).
The IDDS Steering Committee solicits and oversees summit proposals, provides mentoring to summit organizers, facilitates the coordination of and opportunities for the network, and more.
The NSF 09-29 revision changes the requirements for mentoring activities for postdocs, for proposals that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers.
A 2 August letter from the National Science Foundation's geosciences directorate asks grantees and grant applicants to spell out their postdoc mentoring activities in both grant proposals and annual and final reports.
We developed a program that encompassed a calendar year cycle (January December) that included bimonthly seminars, weekly meetings with faculty mentors, research proposal development, investigative research experience, and compilation of research into a final presentation and document.
But alumni noted that the University did not provide training that would have been helpful in managing budgets, writing funding proposals, managing people, and mentoring students.
Currently, the NSF 09-1 PreparationeparatInstructionsions require that mentoring activities be described in a separate section in the 15-page Project Description.
She suspected she had spent too much time teaching, mentoring undergraduates in her lab, and writing proposals for grants that were unrealistic at her early stage of career development.
The proposal also includes a job review, or "mentoring meeting" as the contract calls it, in the third year of teaching.
Many members have told us 'doing nothing was not an option' and these proposals show that the Liberal Democrats are serious about encouraging, training, mentoring and supporting candidates from under-represented groups.
