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How to be a successful principal investigator

JUL 09, 2010
Physics Today
Chronicle : Writing in the Chronicle, David Stone, who directs Northern Illinois University’s Office of Sponsored Projects, offers general and insightful advice on grant proposals—how to write them, how to get them accepted, and how to manage the resulting projects. According to Stone:
Grant writing is the end of a process, not the beginning. Long before you make the decision to write a grant proposal for your research, you should be taking concrete steps to raise your profile in the eyes of reviewers.
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