In 2011-12, the U.S. spent $621 billion on education, or about $12,401 per student. Relative to other countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the U.S. spends 35% more on K-12 education and nearly twice as much on post-secondary education. Also, since 1970, education spending in the U.S. has more than doubled. …
Across the nation, school buildings are aging and in need of significant repairs and renovations. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a report in 2014, asserting that 53% of the 1,800 public school buildings they surveyed have repair needs that will require $197 billion to address. That averages out to about $4.5 million …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dr. John Spink, Director & Assistant Professor, Food Fraud Initiative, Michigan State University, spinkj@msu.edu , www.FoodFraud.msu.edu , Phone: (517) 381-4491 MSU’s Food Fraud Initiative Director Dr. John Spink is pleased to announce being included as a Co-Investigator on a research team that was awarded a £500,000 grant to tackle global Food …
The Maximizing Investigators Research Award (MIRA) program recently proposed by the National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS) at the NIH is a huge step in the right direction to increase the fairness and efficiency of funding scientific research. See this link. http://loop.nigms.nih.gov/2014/07/comment-on-proposed-pilot-to-support-nigms-investigators-overall-research-programs/comment-page-1/#comment-7121 The basic idea is that researchers will be funded based on their …
On January 27th, 2014, the MSU BEACON Center graduate students held a panel on how to review. The panel was organized by Emily Weigel (@choosy_female) and Jory Schossau, Bjorn Ostman (@CarnyEvolution), Kristin Parent, Rich Lenski (@RELenski), and Arend Hintze were panel members, together with me. I put together the following notes, somewhat amended in response …
I compiled my promotion and tenure package to associate professor at Michigan State last fall. A major component of this package is to list all of the grants I had applied for during my first five years as a faculty member. Luckily, I started this process early as it took a long time and a …
I did a Reddit/r/IAmA AMA yesterday and got a huge amount of questions. Some of them were repeats, so I post them here with answers. I’m planning to do another AMA perhaps next month, so this can serve as a reference. Update 11/12/13: Randy’s interview about this AMA is featured on BEACON’s blog. Q. What …