NIH Center for Scientific Review "Meet the Experts in NIH Peer Review" Webinar

NIH Center for Scientific Review is hosting "Meet the Experts in NIH Peer Review" Webinars, including one focused specifically on the R15 (AREA) competition, onTuesday, November 4, 2014.

http://public.csr.nih.gov/Pages/csrwebinar.aspx

ORSP Weekly Update June 23-June 30, 2014

This week's Grant Weekly can be found here.

The opportunities highlighted in this week focus mainly on Human Services, Art, and Mathematics because faculty members within these areas directly inquired about available funding opportunities. If you would like to see more of your department or college's research interests highlighted, please encourage your faculty and staff to contact ORSP today. 

DID YOU KNOW? PIVOT not only pulls private, public, and federal grant funding opportunities, but it also is a great source of undergraduate and graduate students scholarships and award opportunities for faculty, staff, and teams. To learn more about PIVOT, take the time to contact ORSP and ask what PIVOT can do for you. 

It is important to note that due to the Year End Travel Alert put out by the VP for Finance and Administration on June 30, all travel requisitions using MG/FRG funds MUST be received by travel ON or BEFORE 5 p.m., August 21, 2014, with all approvals to be processed on approved MG/FRG applications.

If received after that time, the department will need to cover the expenditures out of FY15 funds.

Grant Opportunity Weekly for June 17-23, 2014

The new Grant Weekly for the week of June17-23, 2014 can be found here.

We are posting this a day early because ORSP will be conducting staff training on June 24, 2014 and unavailable for direct contact.

Additionally, the July 15 deadline for Fall Semester's Research Pilot Studies and Research Grant Development applications is fast approaching. Please have applications and supporting documents into ORSP by this date for consideration. Applications can be found here for Research Pilot Studies and here for Research Grant Development funds.

If you have any questions regarding internal or external funding opportunities, guidelines, and applications please contact ORSP today.

Grant Opportunity Weekly June 11-16, 2014

The Grant Opportunity Weekly for June 11-16, 2014 can be found here. 

This is the first week that the weekly email will not contain the PDF attachment. If you have not registered to receive email updates of new postings on the ORSP Blog, do so here in order to stay up to date on all the funding opportunities available to you as well as important news regarding grants and funding.

If you have received the weekly email in the past, I have already signed you up. Please check your SPAM folders to make sure the confirmation email from Google was not routed there. 

If you are having summer staff retreats to prepare for the upcoming Fall Semester and want to make sure your faculty and staff are informed, please contact us at ex.6606. Orientation on the grant process; PIVOT introduction and overview; proposal searching and identification; pre-proposal preparation; effort reporting, and budget training and creation, are just a few services offered by our staff. Don't miss out on anything and schedule a time today. 

External Funding to Establish Clean Energy Incubator

The Comptroller of Public Accounts invites proposals from Public Higher Education Institutions for the creation  of Clean Energy Incubators  for the Emerging Clean Energy Technology Program.

If you are interested in this Opportunity or no someone that is, the official posting is found here.

Performance of the contract will begin on or about September 1, 2014, or as soon thereafter as practical.

The anticipated schedule of events is as follows:

• Issuance of RFP – June 13, 2014, after 10:00 a.m. CT
• Non-mandatory Webinar – June 18, 2014 
• Questions Due – June 20, 2014, 2:00 p.m. CT 
• Official Responses to Questions posted –June 27, 2014 
• Proposals Due – July 11, 2014, 2:00 p.m. CT
• Contract Execution –August 15, 2014, or as soon thereafter as practical 
• Commencement of Services – September 1, 2014

Grant Opportunity Weekly June 3 - June10, 2014

This week's grant opportunities can be found here.

As of today the Grants Weekly will no longer be emailed out, but posted every Tuesday on the ORSP Blog.

You are able to register your email address with the Blog, so that you stay on top of new postings regarding grants, compliance, training opportunities, and project highlights.

Your feedback on the Blog, the grant opportunities found here, and anything else regarding ORSP outreach would be greatly appreciated. My contact information is fischers@sfasu.edu  I look forward to hearing from you, and working with you in the future.

Grant Opportunity Weekly May 27 - June 1, 2014

The fourth installment of the Grant Weekly. This weekly posting highlights just a few of the grant opportunities that exists for faculty, staff, and departments across all disciplines.

The majority of the opportunities come from PIVOT, which is a paid subscription service available to anyone on the SFA Network. If you are unfamiliar with what PIVOT can do for you, contact ex. 1151 to set up a training session or request more information.

If you have found an external opportunity that you are interested in; want to refine the search criteria to meet your research and creative activity interests; or have an opportunity that you've found yourself, just email or call ORSP today. We are here to serve you.

FDA launches openFDA to provide easy access to FDA public data

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched openFDA, a new initiative designed to make it easier for web developers, researchers, and the public to access large, important public health datasets collected by the agency. 

Summer 2014 – EPAF Assignment Processing & Payment

Summer 2014 – Assignment Processing & Payment

On April 24^th an announcement was sent to all department heads, chairs, deans, and vice presidents regarding Summer 2014 assignments. 

Please visit the HR website to view a copy of this announcement in addition to the EPAF Origination Request and EPAF Change Request forms referenced in the announcement.  

 Kaleigh Arnett and Christen Myles will coordinate summer assignment processing for faculty and graduate assistants this year.

Call Human Resources at ext. 2304 (or email hr-epaf@sfasu.edu) with any questions.

Managing your expenditures - Reviewing Encumbrances

Reposted from the Purchasing email list.

Please review all open encumbrances on your various ORGs. One quick way to see these in Banner is by accessing Form FGIOENC and viewing by Fund/Org or Org only. Or you can access On-Line Services and select menu option “Encumbrance Query” to identify your org or fund/org.

Examples of things you might be looking for:
1. Purchase requisitions that have not been converted to a PO and that need to be
        cancelled;
2. Travel requisitions for a trip that was not taken and requisition needs to be cancelled;
3. Purchase Orders that won’t be fulfilled by the vendor and need to be cancelled;
4. Purchase Orders that are paid in full, but are still encumbered.

If there are any encumbrances that need to be cleared, please contact your buyer.

February is your month for Grantunity!!

Join ORSP for sessions designed to help get your projects funded! Workshops are open to faculty and staff – just register via MyTraining. All workshops are held in the Wyatt Room of the Steen Library.

February 6, 2014 at 2 pm

Internal Funding

Learn about the revisions to our 2 internal funding programs (faculty research grant and mini grant) that allow more options for faculty and decrease the wait time between applications and awards. Eligibility requirements, application instructions and competition deadlines will be covered in this session.

February 13, 2014 at 2 pm

Steps to Submitting a Grant at SFA

Did you know all grants submitted on behalf of the university (no matter the value, $5 or $50 million) must receive institutional approval prior to submission? This session details the internal processes and forms that are required during the proposal process.

February 20, 2014 at 2 pm

Tops for Successful Grant Writing

Want to know the dos and don’ts of grant writing? This session is for you! Learn how to develop for your grant concept, the difference between a good and bad abstract, and reviewer's pet peeves. All you need to know to help write a winning proposal!

February 27, 2014 at 2 pm

Budget Development & Management

Learn how to develop and manage a budget that meets both sponsor and university requirements. This session will cover salary, fringe benefit calculation, capital outlay and more. Also covered are SFA's guidelines for items such as matching/cost sharing and faculty compensation.