Events

Postdoc Workshops Archive

Archive of Postdoc Workshops organized by the BSD Postdoctoral Association 1999-2003.

We had our first workshop on grant writing  and the discussion was very informative and interactive. The discussion was enthusiastically led by Tony Mahowald, Harinder Singh and Chip Ferguson who are all faculty in the Molecular Biosciences cluster and serve on fellowship review boards (Tony-Life Science Research Foundation, Chip-ACS, Harinder-NIH). 

Interesting questions from several postdocs and graduate students, made this workshop highly animated.  The possibility of having sample fellowship applications which demonstrate good writing and content available for everyone was also raised, and we're coordinating this with the speakers.  Since time was limited, during the workshop, we're enclosing here a list of web pages useful to find funding sources. 

To get to a great search engine for finding postdoctoral or other funding opportunities, visit the following links: 

The University of Chicago Homepage 
Research & Teaching 
Research, Publishing, & Teaching 
Managing Research Grants 
Under the heading "Relevant University Offices" pick Office of University Research Administration 
Under the heading "Sponsors: Opportunities, Policies, & Forms" 
pick Search for Sponsored Funding (IRIS...) 
Illinois Research Information System 
IRIS Funding Opportunities 
IRIS (WWW version) 
Option 1.  IRIS Basic Search 
(http://carousel.lis.uiuc.edu/~iris/option1.html) 

Also, http://www.sciencewise.com/ and http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/feature/careercenter.shtml have helpful information.