Although that is a scaled back version of an earlier Harris plan that would have required that NIH bring down the average age of a first-time grantee, it could still draw concerns about such a set-aside.
Documentary filmmaker Penny Lane, a two-time grantee of the Tribeca Film Institute, had written an open letter to the festival, saying that it had a made "very serious mistake" in hosting Wakefield's film and calling him a "widely discredited and dangerous anti-vaccination quack".
In February, one of our long-time grantee's offices in Nicaragua were broken into and their computers were stolen -- computers which held sensitive information about women human rights defenders, as well as women and girls they work with who had survived sexual violence, placing their security at risk.
The panel also criticizes how NSF monitors large awards, especially to first-time grantees, and directs the agency to draw up a plan to look more closely at the entire process, from before an award is made through its completion.
The task force also identified several ways to make life easier for ERC-funded scientists—for instance by abolishing timesheets for full-time grantees and reducing the number of audits.
This hope springs from the fact that the Task Force includes two individuals representing long-time grantees of Chicago Foundation for Women, Maria Pesqueira, President and CEO of Mujeres Latinas en Acción and John Bouman, President of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
The average first-time NIH grantee is getting older, NIH budgets are nearly flat, and science has grown more complex.
The average age of a first-time National Institutes of Health (NIH) grantee is well into the 40s.
Earlier this month, the agency announced that it will, for the first time, offer certain grantees a chance to participate in boot camps like the one offered by UCSF.
At the same time, the brothers' grantees have been particularly critical of environmental safeguards on the books as well as proposed ones, such as a carbon emissions cap-and-trade system, which would certainly have a significant impact on Koch Industries' bottom line.
This was more than 1 yr older than the average age for first-time R01-equivalent grantee with M.D.-Ph.D. degrees (37.0 yr).
