Category: Science Research IT
November 18, 2010
TCG Spreads the Word at the Society for Neuroscience Conference
TCG is helping its clients get the word out about the projects we manage for them. TCG staff worked alongside scientists to present two of our scientific-collaboration projects to the 30,000 people attending the Society for Neuroscience conference in San…
August 25, 2010
LAMHDI News
The LAMHDI project (http://lamhdi.org) held its second invitation-only Animal Models and Human Disease Conference August 17–19 in Bethesda. A total of 23 scientists from universities across the country, NIH project officers from several Institutes and Centers, and TCG staff discussed ways…
June 16, 2010
LAMHDI News
LAMHDI has a new release, and has included information from the Rat Genome Database in its searchable animal models, and has added functionality that allows users to search PrimateLit for information on non-human primate models. LAMHDI has a booth at the Zebrafish…
February 12, 2010
Global Warming Can Cause Snow!
Watching the evening news, I saw yet another person ponder the unusually cold weather and claim “I thought global warming was supposed to be a bigger deal…”. Here’s the fun fact: global warming causes amazing new patterns of snow and heat, consistent…
October 27, 2009
“Facebook” for scientists to be developed
The NIH has funded a new initiative to create a “Facebook for scientists.” The $12.2 million/2 year grant was awarded to a consortium of seven universities, led by the University of Florida, to develop a web resource that will pull together information about…
April 15, 2009
Presentation of NITRC’s Excellence.gov Award
We took a little video of (some of) the NITRC team accepting their Excellence.gov Award yesterday. Included in the video are James Luo, Nina Preuss, David Kennedy, Christian Haselgrove, and Dan Turner. Shoddy camerawork is by me (for which I apologize!).…
April 14, 2009
NITRC projects wins Excellence.Gov Award!
I have some very exciting news: One of our projects has won the overall, top 2009 Excellence.Gov Award! The NIH’s Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) project was recognized for its achievements in helping researchers collaborate to develop even…
March 17, 2009
Grants.gov to be updated in 90–120 days
Jason Miller at Federal News Radio posted an update to our story last week about OMB’s concerns over Grants.gov’s ability to handle the expected surge in grant applications:
“The Department of Health and Human Services expects to upgrade the Grants.gov…
January 23, 2009
Transparency is the watchword, and already a practice
President Obama is already speaking to a large choir with this particular hymn:
In one of a handful of memorandums released during his first full day as president, Obama said he planned to issue an open government directive, which will instruct agencies…
September 23, 2008
100% of TCG Project Managers Now PMP Certified
TCG achieved yet another milestone this week: every single one of our project managers is now Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute. Nina Preuss crossed the line (in a good way) — good job, Nina! You can…