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Leadership and Education Advancement Program for Diverse Scholars (LEAP)

Karen Gottlieb — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:07:07 GMT

Call for Fellowship Applications 

Established for individuals who have attained their doctorate degree in a medical, social, or behavioral science who shows promise in research related to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) mission.  

The Focus for LEAP  

One-on-One Focused Mentorship by successful area-specific professionals 

$2,000 for Career Development and Research 

Grant Writing Training 

Leadership Development   

LEAP Goals  

Develop and implement a career development plan  

Draft a research proposal to submit to NIH or another funding agency  

Identify an appropriate funding mechanism  

Establish skills and a strategy for obtaining a leadership position   

Click here to apply!  

For additional application information check out: 

LEAP: https://www.apa.org/pi/mfp/leap

Facebook Live Information Session: https://www.facebook.com/APAMinorityFellowshipProgram/videos/2338251889663645/

More information regarding all Minority Fellowship Programs can be found here.   

NIH Postdoc RFI

Karen Gottlieb — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:10:12 GMT

NIH is seeking input from the community, particularly trainees, early-stage faculty, and others invested in the biomedical workforce, about challenges faced by the postdoctoral trainee community. An NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group has posted a Request for Information where you can share your insights on issues affecting and possible solutions to the recent decline in postdoctoral trainees. Your responses will be used to help develop recommendations to address this problem which impacts U.S. competitiveness in biomedical research and innovation. Please consider responding to the RFI, which closes on April 14, 2023.

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SBE | Videos | NSF - National Science Foundation

Karen Gottlieb — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:49:02 GMT

SBE | Videos | NSF - National Science Foundation

2022 Alan T. Waterman Award Distinguished Lecture. In this 2022 Waterman lecture, awardee Daniel Larremore of the University of Colorado discussed his lab's research using mathematical methods and network analyses to examine the academic employment and doctoral education of all tenure-track faculty at Ph.D.-granting U.S. universities from 2011 to 2020.

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