Life After Grad School: What Matters and What Doesn’t

Interesting stuff for New Investigators!

http://thegradstudentway.com/blog/?p=874

(suggested by Marc Jacobs)

Funding Opportunity Announcement – Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

New funding opportunity from AHRQ:

AHRQ Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-13-181.html

Description: The primary purpose of the AHRQ PCOR Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) program is to prepare qualified individuals for careers utilizing complex comparative effectiveness research (CER) methods to clinical and health systems PCOR issues, involving stakeholders, as appropriate, in the design, execution,and dissemination of the research. 

(info sent from Bellinda King-Kallimanis) 

a useful phrase source for academic writers

http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/links.htm
This page has links to sources that will help you improve your academic writing. On this page, see also (on left side bar) the links to the lists of example phrases for describing research methods, results, etc.  Looks very useful!