Dear EMBRIO Students and Postdocs,

A reminder that today's Weekly Update is dedicated to session 3 of the Grants Writing development for students and postdocs only using the regularly scheduled Weekly Update time 3pm ET and zoom link.

February 20^th : Students present draft Aims page for Peer-Feedback (Jazzmin Owens and Peter Brumm share their aims pages)

Session 3: Demystifying the Craft of Developing an Aims Page

Monday, February 20, 2023, 3pm ET

Zoom link:

https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/99819751005?pwd=UVlvWVpxRDB0cDVXbmxBU1NUTEZGZz09&from=addon

Instructions for Session 3:

Review one or both Jazzmin’s and Peter’s Aims pages available on the Box account folder here: https://app.box.com/s/8ajo994qt51m14rzd3g3anj03ocjfcvq

Using different shades of color coding, highlight the following key components for unmarked aims pages:

What is the problem?
What has been done already to address the problem?
What is the gap that remains?
How do you propose to address this gap?

Small Groups/Volunteers: Share what you identified for each section. Orally state the hypothesis. Is it clearly testable?

In 1-2 sentences describe the importance and impact of the work and any other feedback* for Jazzmin and/or Peter.

*Guidelines for providing critiques/feedback:

Make sure to highlight strengths
Offer specific critiques WITH suggestions for improvements

e.g. avoid saying something is unclear or vague. In what way is it unclear or vague? How could it be improved?

Critique the product, not the person

e.g. 'I am unsure of what X means in the gap statement' is better than 'I don't know what you mean when you wrote X in the gap statement

Consider providing feedback with the 'compliment sandwich' (i.e. complement then a constructive critique followed by another complement)

e.g. I like the way that X was stated and I think that Y is really strong. I was unsure about A and B and you might consider doing Z to strengthen those. Overall, great draft and exciting work!

Brent T. Ladd, Senior Research Program Manager, EMBRIO Institute

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Purdue University

laddb@purdue.edu