HOORAY!

A few minutes after my previous post, I received an email from the director of the training grant:

Lisa:

I am sending you a formal letter awarding you a second year of support on the (deleted name) Training Grant, which you should receive in several days. However, I wanted to email you the letter now so you would know that you were awarded the second year of support, congratulations.

The Training Grant Steering Committee was very pleased with your progress and is happy to see that you will be submitting an application for an individual NRSA this summer. Please let us know when you have submitted it and what the outcome is after review.

We also wanted to suggest that you give a seminar at the (place deleted) this year about your work. As there are several scientists who study (subject deleted) at (place deleted), we feel that you would receive very useful input on your studies regarding (subject deleted) by presenting your work at (place deleted). (Name deleted) will be contacting you to schedule a time for a seminar.

(name deleted)

I am so excited. It is rare to get a second year of support on this training grant.