Grant writing is part art, part science. Therefore, it is very important that you know how to write a letter requesting funding from a foundation. You'll need to tug the heart strings of potential ...

To enhance your chances of success as a small business owner, learning more about related companies or the industry at large is often helpful. Most companies produce annual reports to summarize their ...

Your letter writer should be someone with whom you have had contact recently, not in the distant past. For academic references, ask professors who have taught you in a course and who think highly of ...

Associate professor Stephen Wheeler of the Environmental Design department and Ph.D. candidate Jake Dialesandro talk in his office on January 7, 2020. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) As you embark on your ...

Letters of recommendations are strange in that we all know what they are, but save for the people who are actually using them to evaluate a candidate, what happens with the letter is shrouded in ...

Undergraduates need them for graduate-school applications; PhD students and postdocs use them to apply for fellowships and jobs; senior scientists often have to have them to apply for awards and ...