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.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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