Category: Facilitating research
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Tips on facilitating your multi-institution research grant
Overview: To assemble a team that can both author a high-quality grant proposal and complete the outlined research, faculty often need to reach across institutions. Having researchers from multiple institutions brings horsepower, but it also brings administrative headaches. Knowing this, many funding agencies ask investigators to describe how the research team will operate during the…
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Five tips on facilitating an academic research group for new faculty
Overview: While I was part of a larger research group during graduate school, I did not mindfully consider how that group was structured to encourage communication, professional development, and research productivity. It seemed to me that everyone just thrived in that research group, and we never discussed a need for ‘pixie dust’ or new formats…
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Interview with Dr. Jennifer Carter, the founder of the Mesoscale Science Lab at Case Western Reserve
Overview: This post is part of series of interviews with 23 scholars about their research process and path that will be conducted until the end of 2023. Dr. Jennifer Carter founded the Mesoscale Science Lab at Case Western Reserve in 2013 and is now a tenured associate professor and director of the Case School of…