2011 Winter News Bulletin
Looking forward, SR-PD continues to implement ways to improve daily
research administration efforts, the application submission process, and
to develop new resources and strategies to benefit our research
community. This issue of our News Bulletin outlines accomplishments of the last six months, as well as plans for the months
ahead.
From July through December 2010, 193 grant applications were submitted through SR-PD, 108 to public and 85 to private sponsors (3.6% Collaborative/MultiPI, 44.0% Single PI, 51.3% Career/Fellowships and 0.5% Instrumentation). The University received 56 awards which started during this period; 27 from public and 29 from private sponsors (23.2% Collaborative/MultiPI, 41.1% Single PI, 33.9% Career/Fellowships, and 1.8% Other-NonResearch).
On the NIH front, SR-PD continues to manage awards from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (details in a Newswire article), and to coordinate the reporting process with Principal Investigators (PIs) and participating University administrative offices; the fifth and sixth reporting periods were completed October 10, 2010 and January 10, 2011, respectively. Several NIH policy changes affecting e-submissions and peer review that will go into effect this month were recently announced on campus (see the November 24, 2010 notice for a recap of all the changes).
In keeping up with ongoing enhancements at Grants.gov, InfoEd (the University's online proposal management environment) continues to evolve in order to meet submission requirements, as well as improve related processes and functionalities. To make sponsored award data easier to monitor, and be more informative and usable, we recently introduced a Reporting Tool which enables PIs to view the current status and a summary of their SR-PD-administered proposals and awards.
SR-PD continues to develop its website and online resources in response to requests and emerging needs. In July we launched a new Training Area to support pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees' efforts. Since then, we have added an NIH Fellowship Checklist and an NIH Career Award Checklist. The Training Area was featured in a new SR-PD Spotlight section, which is designed to highlight key SR-PD developments and important grant-related topics. As our previous boilerplates have proven to be useful, we have updated and/or added new boilerplates for Data Sharing Plan, Responsible Conduct of Research, Budget Justification and Timelines/Milestones in grant proposals. The internal Routing Form annual review was completed in December in order to address all recent compliance and policy changes. In the fall, SR-PD implemented a new online feedback instrument to evaluate our services and to help ensure the relevance and responsiveness of our resources.
The Tri-Institutional Collaboration Network (TCN) continues to diversify its training scope. Since September, the monthly series has hosted 4 workshops: 2 on grant writing, along with a new one on research with rDNA (co-hosted with the Tri-Institutional Biosafety Committees), and the most recent workshop on commercialization (co-hosted with the University's Biotechnology Forum). Over 400 members of the Tri-Institutional community, including junior and senior faculty, administrators, and managers, participated in these workshops. Future events will address Core Facilities, Post-ARRA landscape, STAR METRICS initiative, and Conflict of Interest issues. Suggestions for TCN seminar topics and speakers, and for new online content for the site are welcome.
Geared towards new administrators on campus, our 8th SR-PD ResAdmin Forum provided an overview of SR-PD services with a focus on basic grant submission requirements and procedures, selected NIH submission issues, and research training resources. In addition, SR-PD now offers small group InfoEd tutorials for NIH fellowship and career award applicants.
We are happy to announce the newest SR-PD member, Kathleen Rutkin, who recently joined SR-PD in the position of Grants Management Specialist.
In the face of an especially challenging federal budget climate, our goals for 2011 include increasing the number of large scale collaborative grant submissions and awards, as well as sponsor diversity; seeking new tools and capabilities to improve the effectiveness of our searches for new funding opportunities; streamlining sponsored research efforts across campus units to better meet compliance and other requirements while decreasing the burden on investigators; further development of our online resources; and working with InfoEd and RU-IT to improve the capacity for robustness and redundancy of the University's InfoEd environment.
We encourage you to take advantage of our services and resources, and wish you a healthy and productive New Year!
Current News
Previous
2010 Summer News Bulletin
2010 Winter News Bulletin
2009 Summer News Bulletin
2009 Winter News Bulletin
2008 Summer News Bulletin
2008 Winter News Bulletin
From July through December 2010, 193 grant applications were submitted through SR-PD, 108 to public and 85 to private sponsors (3.6% Collaborative/MultiPI, 44.0% Single PI, 51.3% Career/Fellowships and 0.5% Instrumentation). The University received 56 awards which started during this period; 27 from public and 29 from private sponsors (23.2% Collaborative/MultiPI, 41.1% Single PI, 33.9% Career/Fellowships, and 1.8% Other-NonResearch).
On the NIH front, SR-PD continues to manage awards from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (details in a Newswire article), and to coordinate the reporting process with Principal Investigators (PIs) and participating University administrative offices; the fifth and sixth reporting periods were completed October 10, 2010 and January 10, 2011, respectively. Several NIH policy changes affecting e-submissions and peer review that will go into effect this month were recently announced on campus (see the November 24, 2010 notice for a recap of all the changes).
In keeping up with ongoing enhancements at Grants.gov, InfoEd (the University's online proposal management environment) continues to evolve in order to meet submission requirements, as well as improve related processes and functionalities. To make sponsored award data easier to monitor, and be more informative and usable, we recently introduced a Reporting Tool which enables PIs to view the current status and a summary of their SR-PD-administered proposals and awards.
SR-PD continues to develop its website and online resources in response to requests and emerging needs. In July we launched a new Training Area to support pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees' efforts. Since then, we have added an NIH Fellowship Checklist and an NIH Career Award Checklist. The Training Area was featured in a new SR-PD Spotlight section, which is designed to highlight key SR-PD developments and important grant-related topics. As our previous boilerplates have proven to be useful, we have updated and/or added new boilerplates for Data Sharing Plan, Responsible Conduct of Research, Budget Justification and Timelines/Milestones in grant proposals. The internal Routing Form annual review was completed in December in order to address all recent compliance and policy changes. In the fall, SR-PD implemented a new online feedback instrument to evaluate our services and to help ensure the relevance and responsiveness of our resources.
The Tri-Institutional Collaboration Network (TCN) continues to diversify its training scope. Since September, the monthly series has hosted 4 workshops: 2 on grant writing, along with a new one on research with rDNA (co-hosted with the Tri-Institutional Biosafety Committees), and the most recent workshop on commercialization (co-hosted with the University's Biotechnology Forum). Over 400 members of the Tri-Institutional community, including junior and senior faculty, administrators, and managers, participated in these workshops. Future events will address Core Facilities, Post-ARRA landscape, STAR METRICS initiative, and Conflict of Interest issues. Suggestions for TCN seminar topics and speakers, and for new online content for the site are welcome.
Geared towards new administrators on campus, our 8th SR-PD ResAdmin Forum provided an overview of SR-PD services with a focus on basic grant submission requirements and procedures, selected NIH submission issues, and research training resources. In addition, SR-PD now offers small group InfoEd tutorials for NIH fellowship and career award applicants.
We are happy to announce the newest SR-PD member, Kathleen Rutkin, who recently joined SR-PD in the position of Grants Management Specialist.
In the face of an especially challenging federal budget climate, our goals for 2011 include increasing the number of large scale collaborative grant submissions and awards, as well as sponsor diversity; seeking new tools and capabilities to improve the effectiveness of our searches for new funding opportunities; streamlining sponsored research efforts across campus units to better meet compliance and other requirements while decreasing the burden on investigators; further development of our online resources; and working with InfoEd and RU-IT to improve the capacity for robustness and redundancy of the University's InfoEd environment.
We encourage you to take advantage of our services and resources, and wish you a healthy and productive New Year!
Current News
Previous
2010 Summer News Bulletin
2010 Winter News Bulletin
2009 Summer News Bulletin
2009 Winter News Bulletin
2008 Summer News Bulletin
2008 Winter News Bulletin
