From btedmond at fsu.edu Tue May 7 13:54:18 2019 From: btedmond at fsu.edu (Willard Edmonds) Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 17:54:18 +0000 Subject: [Isl] ISL's Bradley Gordon honored by the American Society for Nutrition Message-ID: <6FB78867-05BD-41DE-82E7-33DC859B31FA@fsu.edu> [cid:image001.jpg at 01D504DC.5AA88F10] Bradley Gordon, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Science and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has received a prestigious early career award from the American Society for Nutrition. Gordon has received the 2019 Vernon R. Young International Award for Amino Acid Research. The award is given to an early career researcher ? within 10 years of postgraduate training ? for outstanding research related to amino acids. Gordon will receive his award at the ASN meeting in Baltimore in June. READ MORE Bill Edmonds, Ph.D. Institute for Successful Longevity Florida State University 850-933-7960 btedmond at fsu.edu [cid:image001.png at 01D47128.6CBD68D0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 112341 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 54996 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: From charness at psy.fsu.edu Fri May 17 17:07:09 2019 From: charness at psy.fsu.edu (Neil Charness) Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 21:07:09 +0000 Subject: [Isl] FW: Good news for those who nearly missed getting a NIH grant In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Folks: Interesting article for junior scientists to consider as you apply for NIH research grants. Best, Neil Neil Charness, Ph.D., William G. Chase Professor of Psychology Director, Institute for Successful Longevity www.isl.fsu.edu Department of Psychology, Florida State University 1107 West Call Street, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 32306-4301 Phone (office): 850-644-6686; Fax: 850-644-7739 E-mail: charness at psy.fsu.edu; http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~charness/ Please Note: Due to Florida's very broad public records law, most written business communications to or from FSU staff and/or any public college or university employee are public records, available to the public and media upon request. Therefore, this e-mail communication may be subject to public disclosure. From: Karl Ericsson Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 4:53 PM To: dl-psy-psydept Subject: Good news for those who nearly missed getting a NIH grant See the summary of the research published in this week's issue of The Economist (below) and/or read the complete paper that I attached. For full reference https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06958 The Economist | Never give up https://www.economist.com/node/21763807?frsc=dg%7Ce Science and technology Success in academi. Never give up New research confirms the value of an old proverb In 1968 robert merton, a sociologist at Columbia University, identified a feature of academic life that he called the Matthew effect. The most talented scientists, he observed, tend to have access to the most resources and the best opportunities, and receive a disproportionate amount of credit for their work, thus amplifying their already enhanced reputations and careers. Less brilliant ones, meanwhile, are often left scrambling for money and recognition. Or, as St Matthew puts it (Chapter 13, verse 12), "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath." The Matthew effect is undoubtedly real. But a more recent piece of research, by Yang Wang, Benjamin Jones and Dashun Wang of Northwestern University, in Illinois, suggests Matthew's verse is not the only relevant aphorism. Another, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again", also seems to be true. The Drs Wang (who are unrelated) and Dr Jones discovered this by collecting data on grant applications. In particular they examined those submitted between 1990 and 2005 to America's National Institutes of Health (nih) by junior-level scientists. Rather than analyse every proposal, they focused on two groups of applicants: those who received relatively high scores on their submissions but just missed getting a grant, and those who scored similarly well but just succeeded in being awarded one. The three researchers found that, rather than automatically holding the failures back, as the Matthew effect might be thought to predict, an early-career setback of this sort was sometimes associated with greater academic success in the long run. Those in the sample who missed out on funding were more likely to drop out altogether from the nih system than those who won it. That came as no surprise. What did surprise was that those in the near-miss group who persevered and continued to apply for grants after their initial failure outperformed their counterparts who had succeeded first time, as measured by the number of citations of their research that they received over the subsequent ten years. On average, they garnered, over that period, 36% more citations and published 39% more "hit" papers (those with citations in the top 5%) than their near-win counterparts. True grit While some of this can be explained by the weakest scientists in the no-grant group giving up, something else is going on as well. The three researchers showed this by removing the lowest-performing scientists from the group that had won grants until its dropout rate matched that of the group that had not. That done, they found that there was still a significant gap between the subsequent performances of the two groups. They thus conclude that other, unobservable, characteristics are at work-the sort of stuff that laymen refer to as "effort" or "grit". [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/gr2owzqlt4kzavr/headshot.png?dl=0] TRILLIUM ROSE | MA, PGA, LPGA Director of Instruction Woodmont Country Club 1201 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852 C: 917-669-0695 | W: 301-424-8496 ex.438 www.TrilliumRose.com [Facebook] [Linkedin] [Youtube] [Twitter] [Instagram] Sent from my iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Collaborating with Co-PI Art Raney in the College of Communication and Information, Dr. Ai will collect preliminary data among Hurricane Maria evacuees and their extended family members currently living in Florida, the largest resettlement site for Puerto Rican victims of the 2017 storm. With the IRB approval, a sample of Hurricane Michael was added. The project will consider how the storm affected the mental health of evacuees, how individuals used media during the storm and how positive media may affect resilience in the aftermath. The Fahs-Beck Fund supports research that contributes to a greater understanding of and solutions for problems affecting individuals, families and communities. ?No one has yet explored the crucial role that media can play for people recovering from the trauma of Hurricanes Maria and Michael,? Dr. Ai said, ?and media also remain primary tools for escape and reflection after the traumatic event. The ultimate is to inform better disaster relief.? 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Best, Neil Neil Charness, Ph.D., William G. Chase Professor of Psychology Director, Institute for Successful Longevity www.isl.fsu.edu Department of Psychology, Florida State University 1107 West Call Street, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 32306-4301 Phone (office): 850-644-6686; Fax: 850-644-7739 E-mail: charness at psy.fsu.edu; http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~charness/ Please Note: Due to Florida's very broad public records law, most written business communications to or from FSU staff and/or any public college or university employee are public records, available to the public and media upon request. Therefore, this e-mail communication may be subject to public disclosure. From: Feldman, Jean I. <0000004ab0529922-dmarc-request at LSW.NAS.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 9:07 AM To: FDPMAIN-L at LSW.NAS.EDU Subject: "For Comment" version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide published in the Federal Register The following message will be of interest to your membership and we would greatly appreciate your disseminating as quickly, and as widely, as possible. Thanks much, Jean >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dear Colleagues: NSF published a notice today in the Federal Register announcing the availability of a "For comment" draft of the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). The Foundation is accepting comments from the external community until cob July 29, 2019. The draft PAPPG is available on the Policy Office website. To facilitate review, revised text has been highlighted in yellow throughout the document and explanatory comments have been included in the margins, where appropriate. 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