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Your Help with December Financial Status Reports and Invoices
The University has financial reports and invoices due to our sponsors in December. We have a shorter working month to complete this, as we need to submit them to Shared Services by Friday, December 20, 2015.
Sponsored Programs always appreciates your diligence on these Financial Status Reports, and we ask for your continued responsiveness to our emails and questions this week so we can address issues appropriately.
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eRPM Updates Support New Business Processes
The eResearch Proposal Management system (eRPM) will be updated on Monday, December 21, 2015 with changes to better support our work in research administration.
Space for U-M Investigators
In response to a request from the Research Administration Schools Committee (RASC), project teams will now have an option to indicate that adequate space is committed. The eRPM Space for U-M Investigators page will be redesigned to allow for one of three options:
- No individual space required
- Adequate Space Committed, No Additional Space Identified
- Requested Room/Building
View the helpful What’s New page with additional information, step-by-step procedure, and video demonstration. Thank you ITS and RASC!
Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) Form updated
- For easier data entry, the questions on the Material Details and Transfer Activity pages have been reformatted from Yes/No to Checkboxes.
Honest Broker Office is now UMMS Data Office
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Sponsor User Type now in ORSP's eRA Commons Registration
Our updated eRA Commons NIH registration site now includes the role of Sponsor. If you need to add the Sponsor role to an existing account, please complete the registration for inclusion of the new role. If you are unsure about which "Type of User" to select please refer to the eRA Commons User roles (link is external) on the NIH website. C ontact Laura Cifor at 734-764-7234 or via email at orsp-nih-commons@umich.edu.
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NIH Updates
NIH Grants Policy Statement Available
National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the publication of the revised NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS). You can view a summary of significant changes.
There is one significant change: with the exception of K awards or other grant programs that require a specific effort level, or where terms and conditions prohibit such reductions, NIH will not require prior approval for the reduction in effort for Senior/Key personnel. Active awards must have a measurable level of effort.
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NSF Updates
Reminders and Recent Updates
New for on or after January 25, 2016:
NSF Transition to Research.gov
Post Award Change Process
NSF continues to transition post-award functions (called Notifications and Requests) on an ongoing basis from Fastlane to Research.gov. View a table listing of Notifications and Requests that have moved.
With this transition, NSF has reemphasized that Notifications and Requests is a function of a sponsored research office (such as ORSP). Therefore, as designed, the Research.gov system does not allow princicipal investigators (PIs) to initiate Notifications and Requests in Research.gov (as was allowed in FastLane)unless they are given Sponsored Research Office (SRO) privileges. ORSP is looking into these changes and will provide process details as we learn more.
The easiest way to process any post-award change at U-M is by using our helpful Post Award Change Request (PACR) Form, and your ORSP Project Representative (PR) will help you.
Keep apprised of this and other NSF issues on our Sponsor-Specific Resource pages.
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Annual Research Faculty Awards
Nominations are now being accepted for the annual Research Faculty Awards, established by the U-M Office of Research to recognize the achievements of research faculty at all levels. For detailed nomination guidelines and a list of recipients from previous years visit research.umich.edu. Nominations are due on February 17, 2016.
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Finding Research Funding for Your Projects
Interested in being more organized and efficient about identifying research funding? Overcome some of the challenges of finding funding through taking this workshop, where you'll learn techniques for searching funding databases and setting up alerts. If you can't make the session, be sure to visit the Research Funding & Grants Guide to schedule a personalized research funding search consultation with the information experts at the U-M Library.
Finding Research Funding
Friday 1/22/16, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
B001E NCRC Building 16, 2800 Plymouth Rd.
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Be sure to also check the University of Michigan Find Funding Portal: http://funding.research.umich.edu
Sponsor
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Michigan Mobility Transformation Center (MTC)
MTC is launching three pillar projects: Connected Ann Arbor, Connected Southeastern Michigan, and Automated Ann Arbor
For further information contact: Vicki Waters, watersvg@umich.edu.
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A wide array of research topics will be considered "beyond engineering" for these thrill pillar projects, including but not limited to: Automation; Business models; Congestion management and reduction; Connectivity; Cybersecurity; Data analytics; Energy; Human factors; Infrastructure design and urban planning; Insurance implications; ITS interoperability; Legal issues; Mobility/congestion; Public policy; Regulatory issues; Safety; Standards; and Social implications.
Submission Deadline: Proposals are due January 15, 2016, and should follow the prescribed structure found in the Request for Proposals document and should include the Proposal Cover Sheet provided. |
January 15, 2016
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National Comprehensive Cancer Network®
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Develop innovative studies of afatinib in lung and head and neck cancers. This is the first project approved for the NCCN which incorporates collaborations with multiple pharmaceutical companies.
A Request for Proposals (RFP) is attached and can also be accessed online by signing in as a member.
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Winter 2016 Opportunities
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ORSP Deadline:
January 6, 2016
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MICHR
Communities Engagement Program
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TeamWorks Collaborative Health Research Project Award (up to $40,000)
Funding to support a collaborative research project to address shared community health priorities
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Intent to Apply:
January 8, 2016
Applications:
February 5, 2016
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UNDERGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES
Pathways to Science
Paid Summer 2016 Undergraduate Research Placements
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Fellowships and graduate programs in a wide variety of STEM disciplines
Over 800 programs -- NSF REU, NASA and other paid summer research opportunities for undergrads.
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http://orsp.umich.edu/pcori |
LOI
February 1, 2016 |
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L’Oréal USA for Women in Science Program |
February 5, 2016 |
Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research Application
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Young investigators committed to basic research on gastrointestinal microbiota, probiotics and their role in health and wellness. Grant will start on July 1, 2016. Three grants in the amount of $50,000. |
February 12, 2016 |
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Third Round of Career Guidance for Trainees
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$30,000 - $50,000
Imaginative new ideas for how to better prepare doctoral and/or postdoctoral level trainees for success at the bench and beyond. Make an outsider think, “What a great idea! Could that work at my place?”
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March 16, 2016
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The RAP is a joint communication effort from:
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DECEMBER 2015 - ISSUE 13
