Dr. Cora Marrett, Acting Director of the National Science Foundation, recently distributed a Dear Colleague letter announcing that NSF has initiated the process for selecting “NSF Searching for New Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources”
Month: August 2010
NSF Announces New Grant Support for Digitization of Biological Collections
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new grant program, “Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections,” for scientific collections. According to NSF documents, the program “NSF Announces New Grant Support for Digitization of Biological Collections”
NSC Alliance Survey Looks at Impact of Economy on Natural Science Collections – Complete the Survey Online Today
Two years ago as the economy was entering recession, the Natural Science Collections Alliance launched a survey to gather data on the effects of the “NSC Alliance Survey Looks at Impact of Economy on Natural Science Collections – Complete the Survey Online Today”
NIH Updates Its Best Practices for Cancer Biospecimens
The National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has updated its Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources. Major revisions include the addition of “NIH Updates Its Best Practices for Cancer Biospecimens”
NSC Alliance Calls for Collections to be Included in NOAA Strategic Plan
On August 2, 2010, NSC Alliance submitted comments on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) draft Next Generation Strategic Plan. The comments identify the “NSC Alliance Calls for Collections to be Included in NOAA Strategic Plan”