No good deed goes unpunished. From the inbox:
Dear Faculty,
The staff in the Office of Research are compiling a database of faculty members with previous experience as peer reviewers for federal funding agencies. This will help us utilize the expertise of you, our faculty members, as we work with future researchers preparing proposals for funding opportunities.
It is our hope that with such a database, we can establish a culture of peer mentoring and internal expertise-based proposal development that will lead to more faculty members receiving funding for their valuable research projects here at Appalachian. ...
In addition to the unrewarded effort taken to review a proposal for a federal agency, now you can spend your scarce time helping one of your university colleagues receive a grant from the same agency.
