CropScientist

I see some lurkers out there, so I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

Still haven't heard anything. Anyone else still waiting?

Me too, em829. Did you apply for the postdoc fellowship like I did? Or the predoc grant?

Hmmm, I'm still waiting, too.

I heard last winter that the director wanted to increase the number of fellowships, so my guess is that they're looking for funding for additional grants.

Hmmm, this is bizarre. Could there be funding issues that are driving the delay?

Mine encompassed several priority areas but was primarily plant health and production.

Hope spring eternal

I assume this means they're updating the status.

Interesting. So I went on grants.gov, which I've done repeatedly before even though it's really no help in tracking progress on grant applications because it appears they don't update it until a decision has been made, and I'm now getting an error message telling me the tracking number is not valid. ???

My online snooping indicates that at least some predoc and postdoc awards have been made. See this webpage, for example, congratulating a grad student on receiving a predoc fellowship grant on July 18. https://pages.wustl.edu/jezlab/lab-news I fear that at this point we may just be waiting to receive the review package and a thanks for applying message in late August.