The R&D Center is enforcing UPR Regulations on Travel Expenses ) as established in Certification No. 78, 2005-06 (”Reglamento de Gastos de Viaje de la Universidad de Puerto Rico”). Follow these four simple steps to comply and expedite your travel documents. Click here for tips: travel-tips-for-researchers.doc; or travel-tips-for-researchers.pdf.
UPRM R&D Center announces its Research Administration Academy for the First Semester of the Academic Year 2008-2009. These are a series of workshops and seminars for researchers and research administrators on topics pertaining to pre-award issues such as preparation of proposals, budgets and electronic submission; and post-award topics concerning budget and human resources, purchasing, receiving, corporate card use and accounting issues. For specific dates, click on Dates - Research Academy -pdf or access the blog’s R&D Center Information page entitled: Academy on Research Issues.
NSF Division of Institution and Award Support Policy Office – Quarterly Newsletter
In This Issue:· Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request· America COMPETES Act –Update· Research.gov: Powering Knowledge and Innovation· Desk Reviews Under NSF’s Award Monitoring & Business Assistance Program· NSF Spring Outreach
“The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently proposed a FY 2009 investment of $6.85 billion to advance the frontiers of research and education in science and engineering. The Budget Request includes an increase of $822 million (14 percent) over the FY 2008 level. NSF investments in the development of new knowledge and talent are vital to advance the frontiers of discovery and to ensure that America remains a global leader in science and technology. The Administration and Congress have conveyed their clear determination to build on America’s history of success in leading-edge discovery and innovation through increased federal investments in research and education as evidenced by the President’s American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) and the America COMPETES Act (ACA) of 2007…. ”
For the whole newsletter, access: NSF Policy News.
The National Endownment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends Program provides $6,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. Recipients must work full-time on their projects for these two months, and may hold other research grants supporting the same project during this time. For full program announcement and contact information link to: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html. NEH will be accepting only online applications via grants.gov between August 1 and October 1, 2008.
“Grants.gov is a Federal wide system developed to allow organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is the single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.”
MICROSOFT VISTA AND OFFICE 2007 COMPATIBILITY: Grants.gov is currently incompatible with both the Microsoft (MS) Vista Operating System and the Microsoft (MS) Office 2007 versions of Word, Excel and Power Point. If you attach a file created using MS Office 2007, you will not get an error message when you submit the application, however your entire application will not be able to be processed or accepted at Grants.gov and will not reach the agency.
VERY IMPORTANT - Grants.gov is currently transitioning to phase out of PureEdge software to using Adobe Reader 8 1.2 software exclusively for application completion and submission. Meanwhile, you must download the PureEdge Viewer and Adobe 8.1.2 to open application forms and instructions.
NSF Career deadlines are the week of July 22 - 24, please, see the program announcement for details: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08557/nsf08557.pdf. Please, allow SRO access to your proposal in FastLane and contact us (x 5235, ealbino@uprm.edu, y_rojas@math.uprm.edu) on or before Wednesday, July 16.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
For Immediate Release, Friday, June 6, 2008
“National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., announced today at the 96th Meeting of the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) critical changes to enhance and improve the NIH peer review system. This marks the end of a year-long effort to determine ways to further enrich the process. …. There was a remarkable response to the director’s call-to-action by both the internal and external NIH communities. The initiatives presented to the ACD by Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) and co-chair of the two peer review working groups, reflect NIH’s response to thousands of comments, opinions, and criticisms received throughout the year. Taken together, these proposals bring to fruition the original charge, “to fund the best science, by the best scientists, with the least administrative burden.”…
For the full text, access: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jun2008/od-06.htm
“The NIH Roadmap is intended to be an “incubator space” for programs that, due to their cross-cutting relevance and/or complexity, warrant concerted attention from NIH as a whole. Consistent with its “incubator” function, the Roadmap stimulates research or the development of research resources with the expectation that the programs will either be completed within a 5–10 year timeframe or will transition out of the “incubator space” as they become integral to Institutes and Center’s (IC) activities.” For information on NIH’s roadmap initiatives see: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/commonfundupdate.asp
As of May 25, 2008, NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports must include the PubMed Central reference number when citing a paper that falls under the NIH Public Access Policy. This policy includes applications submitted to the NIH for the May 25, 2008 due date and subsequent due dates. http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm
The second issue of the R&D Center Newsletter - Mío Cid - is here: Mío Cid -May 2008. Inside this issue: R&DC Strategic Plan Approved for 2008-2016; Relay for Life: R&DC Team; Biorefinery Inaugurated in Lajas, R&DC Officials Attend NIH Research Administrator Workshop, UPRM receives visitors from PUC-Rio Grandedo Sul (Brazil); Meet Our Researchers: Alexandra Medina-Borja; Meet Our Personnel: Budget Office; ORE has Moved; Meet Our First Director: Manuel Hernández-Ávila; Quick R&D Quiz.
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