FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
We will be using FYI News to send you important updates on research resources at the U. In this issue, we have included an update on Research Portal (to begin to make your job easier when submitting and managing your e-proposals). Upcoming information will include announcements of new grant solicitations, how to make (free) conference calls at the U, and resources to help with grant writing and submission. Please take the time to glance through these updates in this FYI and those to come.
Thank you,
Thomas N. Parks
Vice President for Research
U RESEARCHERS—MORE ACTIVE THAN EVER
An incredibly productive year for U faculty and staff engaged in sponsored activity has made an eventful year for the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP). In FY 2009, OSP facilitated requests for external funds totaling more than $1.5 billion and received over $354 million in new awards, both of which are new records. The last several months of the fiscal year have been especially active, as faculty have responded with enthusiasm to several new funding programs available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Tracking and access to your proposals
Research Portal is being developed as the one-stop-shop activity management tool for U researchers submitting grant proposals. Key features of the current Research Portal include:
• Queries for generating proposal and award activity reports
• Access to real-time status of proposals and awards
• Various filters for sorting data by college, department, principal investigator (PI), and sponsor
• Facilitation of collaboration opportunities
• Online submission of limited competition pre-proposals (the only way pre-proposals are now accepted)
The latest upgrade provides information on awards by PI, department, or college. The amounts, dates, updates, and status of every proposal can be viewed quickly and easily.
Research Portal is accessed through the Campus Information System. Once you have logged in, scroll down to the “Research Administration” section on the left sidebar and select the link titled “Research Portal” to launch the application.
OSP will continue to enhance Research Portal and its current features. Coming soon are executive summary reports for administrators of large data collections, and new proposal development and collaboration assistance tools. Over the next few years, upgrades are planned to provide progressively more help for researchers including electronic signature collection and help with budgeting post-award accounting.
OSP will host demonstrations of Research Portal across campus as needed. Times, locations, and registration information is online. The demonstration is titled “Research Portal Demonstration.” For more information, contact OSP.
Brent Brown
Director, Office of Sponsored Projects
