Welcome to the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is the centralized unit charged with the coordination of research and sponsored programs activities on a campus-wide basis. The Office provides leadership, information, services, and support to the university community: faculty, research associates, students, and staff in the acquisition and administration of externally funded projects in furtherance of the instruction, research, and public service mission of the University. It is the function of the Office of Sponsored Programs to ensure the integrity of the accounting and administrative information and to ensure that the University complies with the regulations and guidelines of sponsoring agencies and institutional policies and procedures

Please click here to share your ideas on how to improve sponsored program administration from grant writing through project accomplishments to close-outs.

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SRA International Launches Sequestration Resource Center | If you have any questions, please contact Kerri McGovern kmcgovern@srainternational.org.

PHS 398 Required Application Instructions

It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the PHS 398 Application Guide except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. While some links are provided, applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.

Looking ahead: NIH is committed to transitioning all grant programs to electronic submission using the SF424 Research and Related (R&R) format and is currently investigating solutions that will accommodate NIH's multi-project programs. NIH will announce plans to transition the remaining programs in the NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts and on NIH's Applying Electronically website.

New Human Subjects Research (HSR) Refresher Courses - The CITI Program is pleased to announce the successful transition from its previous HSR refresher offerings in biomedical research (101, 200, and 201 courses), and social and behavioral research (101 and 201 courses) to its updated HSR refresher courses. View a listing of the new HSR refresher courses via this link:

http://www.citiprogram.org/citidocuments/forms/New Human Subjects Research (HSR) Refresher Courses.pdf

Attention Faculty & Staff:  HBCU-Centered Museum Internship Opportunity

Who Should Participate:  

Administrators/Faculty who are interested in museums, museum studies, museum internships and research opportunities; university/college administrators and staff who work in/with campus museums, supervise interns; and any other interested parties such as Career Placement Administrators.

What do I Need to Know Now?

Principal Investigators (PIs) and co-PIs must stop submitting new project reports in FastLane starting on February 1, 2013. On March 18, 2013, NSF will transfer its current project reporting service from FastLane to Research.gov<http://Research.gov>.  You should pay particular attention to your reports that are currently in progress and reports previously submitted and returned by your NSF Program Officer.

Project reports that are in progress as well as those reports that are returned by NSF Program Officers should be revised and resubmitted prior to February 1. To assist the research community with this transition, the overdue dates have been extended for all project reports originally scheduled to become overdue between January 31 and April 30, 2013. Starting March 18, 2013, you can use Research.gov<http://Research.gov> to submit project reports.

Foundation restructures application requirements.

Subject terms:

Careers
Government
Peer review

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has changed some of its grant-submission requirements, effective from 14 January. The project-summary section of the submission now asks applicants to use separate text boxes for their proposal overview, their description of the project's intellectual merit and their explanation of its broader impacts. Submitting these sections as one document will cause the application to be rejected. NSF spokeswoman Maria Zacharias says that reviewers were spending too long teasing out the merits and impacts of proposals. Applicants may also now list research products such as patents, data sets or software in addition to publications — a boon for junior investigators, says Zacharias. The changes stem from a review by the NSF's oversight board, and a federal directive that the agency recognize the broader impact of research it supports.