On the Complementarity of Crowdfunding and Traditional Grants
Aditya Rao Note by Jai: Aditya is a #SciFund Challenge participant and he is pursuing his doctorate in cellular and developmental biology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Check out his great...
View ArticleFeatured Project: Urban Butterfly Blues
Zen Faulkes Musicosis, [myoo-zik-OH-sis], noun. The infection of neural pathways with a song or tune that the listener continues to “hear,” involuntarily, after the music has stopped. I had musicosis...
View ArticleFeatured Project: Mapping a Bornean Soundscape
Zen Faulkes When was the last time you were away from a city, a highway, or other trappings of human civilization? If you haven’t been lucky enough to do that lately, one of the best things about it is...
View ArticleFeatured Project: Serengeti Live
from Jennifer Schmitt This afternoon’s featured #SciFund project is Serengeti Live. 200 camera traps, 1,000 square kilometers, over 1,000,000 pictures a year! Only one problem…the pictures are sitting...
View ArticleFeatured Project: Turtles in the Deep
from Jennifer Schmitt This morning’s featured #SciFund project is Turtles in the Deep. Today dolphin safe tuna… tomorrow turtle safe seafood! At least, that is the hope for this project’s creator,...
View ArticleRuins of the 19th Century Maya
This is a repost of Kirstina Kilgrove’s excellent discussion of Send John to the Jungle over at her blog As part of the #SciFund Challenge, John Gust, a doctoral student in anthropology at UC...
View ArticleSuccess is more than money alone
Note from Jai. This post is by Kalani Kirk Hausman, one of the participants in the first round of the #SciFund Challenge. You can see his #SciFund project here and you can find him on Twitter at...
View ArticleCrowdfunding funds v. traditional grant funds in the university system
Today’s guest post comes from round 1 participant Rebecca Rashid Achterman whose round 1 project was Athelete’s Foot in Worms. This is an abbreviated version of her excellent post at her blog...
View Article“What happens if I don’t reach my funding goal?”
As someone who raised $611 in Round 2 of the SciFund Challenge — about 20% of my $3000 goal — I’m hardly a crowdfunding guru. That said, my mediocre fundraising performance makes me highly qualified to...
View ArticleMore than Money
Today’s post is about how having a crowdfunding project, such as Serengeti Live from R2 of #SciFund, can lead to opportunities larger than you may have ever imagined. If it inspired you, check out the...
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