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| Year | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Event title | Not confirmed in the public sources we checked |
| Dates and venue | Not confirmed |
| Related series | TWD Program Directors' Meetings and Postdoctoral Preparation Institutes |
What was 2018RR?
2018RR was a 2018 event section on this domain, alongside the 2018 PPI-2 pages, but we have not been able to confirm from public sources what the letters stood for, when it took place or where. It had the same page layout as the other meeting sections (about, who should attend, speakers, travel, program, registration, contact), which tells us it was a meeting with its own registration rather than a report.
We don't publish guesses about real events. This page exists so that old links land somewhere useful instead of an error.
What was happening in training programs in 2018?
The year sat between two biennial directors' meetings, and several topics were moving fast:
- NIGMS's revised predoctoral T32 expectations, previewed at the 2017 meeting, were reaching applicants, with new emphasis on rigor and reproducibility, career development and inclusive training environments.
- Training communities ran workshops on how to meet those expectations. One example: a free February 2018 workshop in Washington, D.C., co-hosted by FASEB, AAMC, HHMI and the Council of Graduate Schools on the new NIGMS training guidelines.
- Program evaluation and outcome tracking became a bigger part of applications.
Our guides on rigor and reproducibility training, writing a training grant application and program evaluation cover those topics as they stand now.