Archive for October 2010


National Festival Put Science in the Spotlight

Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 1:29 PM EST by Jilliene Mitchell Drayton | 1 Comments

Many kids (and adults) learned more about science and technology at the 2-week-long USA Science & Engineering Festival this month in Washington, D.C. The event featured hundreds of activities, including performances, workshops, demonstrations, tours of mobile labs and interactive games. A number of these were hosted by NIH, which was also one of the event [...]

Filed under: Meetings/Events, News
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/10/28/national-festival-put-science-in-the-spotlight/

Nation’s Top Science Honor to Benkovic, Lindquist, Others

Wednesday, Oct 20, 2010 10:50 AM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

Last week, President Obama announced the 2010 recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation . The 10 winners of the National Medal of Science include long-time NIGMS grantees Steve Benkovic from Pennsylvania State University and Susan Lindquist from the Whitehead Institute, MIT. As always, I am pleased [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, News
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/10/20/nations-top-science-honor-to-benkovic-lindquist-others/

Changes in NIH Application Policies

Friday, Oct 8, 2010 11:17 AM EST by Paul Sheehy | 0 Comments

Here are several new NIH Guide notices regarding applications: New Time Limit for NIH Resubmission Applications Revised applications must be submitted no later than 37 months after submission of the preceding version. In most cases, the clock will start at the original receipt date. For special cases, please refer to NOT-OD-10-140. NIH to Require Use [...]

Filed under: Research Administration
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/10/08/changes-in-nih-application-policies/

Nobel News

Wednesday, Oct 6, 2010 3:37 PM EST by Jeremy Berg | 0 Comments

(Download the free Windows Media Player to view) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that long-time NIGMS grantee Ei-ichi Negishi from Purdue University will share the Nobel Prize in chemistry with Richard Heck from the University of Delaware and Akiri Suzuki from Hokkaido University in Japan for “palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.” [...]

Filed under: Director’s Messages, News
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/10/06/nobel-news/

Nominate Your Outstanding Graduate Students to Meet Nobel Laureates

Friday, Oct 1, 2010 2:57 PM EST by Mike Rogers | 2 Comments

It’s the 1st of October, and there’s a Nobel buzz in the air. We’re eagerly awaiting next week’s prize announcements and hoping to see more of our grantees added to the list. But we’re also feeling the Nobel excitement in another way: the opening of the nomination process for your graduate students to attend the [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Meetings/Events
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/10/01/nominate-your-outstanding-graduate-students-to-meet-nobel-laureates/

New Online Evaluation Resource

Friday, Oct 1, 2010 10:50 AM EST by Rosalina Bray | 0 Comments

At the recent NIGMS Council meeting, I gave an overview of a new section of the NIGMS Web site called Evaluation: Measuring What Works. In addition to offering tips on planning and conducting evaluations, the section provides links to “how-to” guides, tools and other resources. I invite you to take a look at the material [...]

Filed under: Funding Opportunities, Resources
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2010/10/01/new-online-evaluation-resource/