Archive for September, 2008
September 22, 2008 at 11:25 am · Filed under General
The latest issue of the Mío Cid - the R&D Center Newsletter - was published and is now available. Just click on the following link to access it: rdc_newsletter_aug_08. It contains the following sections:
- BioSEI 2009-2010: RFP Now Open
- R&DC Statement of Values
- New “Indirect Costs” (Facilities and Administration (F&A)) Rate
- Carvajal Foundation Funds “Knowledge Democratization” Project
- Research Administration Academy: Fall 2008 Calendar
- NSF Grants UPRM $5 Million for Nanotechnology Center
- UPRM goes three for three for the second time in the NSF-MRI proposals approved
- Meet Our Personnel: Human Resources Office
- Meet Our Researchers: Catherine Mazak (English)
- Office of the Director Moves
- Quick R&DC Quiz: What is IRB?
We invite you to read it and provide us with your feedback and recommendations for future editions, by emailing Prof. Yuri Rojas at yuri_rojas@math.uprm.edu.
September 9, 2008 at 4:06 pm · Filed under General
The Board of Trustees of the University of Puerto Rico approved last May 2008 the UPR POLICY ON CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS AND DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL INTERESTS IN RESEARCH AND OTHER SPONSORED PROGRAMS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO.
For a copy of the Policy, click here:
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September 8, 2008 at 3:05 pm · Filed under General
The R&D Center processes all professional service contracts associated to research activities. In order to facilitate the processing of those contracts, particularly those which require further filing at the Comptroller’s Office of Puerto Rico, it is recommended to bring an electronic copy of the contract in Word format to our office. For additional information on how to process these contracts, you may contact the R&D Center Legal Advisor, Griselle Hernández, Esq. (email: hernandezg at uprm.edu).
September 8, 2008 at 11:12 am · Filed under General
Finally, UPRM has been officially informed of the completion of the Indirect Costs negotiations with the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS), UPR’s Cognizant Agency. New Indirect Costs rate were negotiated after a throrough evaluation of UPRs facilities used for research which involved an specialized company, Maximus, Inc, who helped UPR prepare a successful multiyear proposal to DHHS. As a result, new Indirect Costs Rate were approved for UPR, to be effective immediately until June 30, 2011.
The indirect costs which apply to UPRM are:
In-Campus: 50%
Off-campus: 26%
This Indirect costs rate applies to the Modified Total Direct Cost of Proposals, consisting of all salaries and wages, fringe benefits, materials, supplies, services, travel and subgrants and subcontracts up to the first $25,000 of each subgrant or subcontract (regardless of the period covered by the subgrant or subcontract). Modified total directs costs shall exclude equipment, capital expenditures, charges for patient care, tuition remission, rental costs of off-site facilities, scholarships, and fellowships as well as the portion of each subgrant and subcontract in excess of $25,000.
For copy of the new agreement, go to R&D Information section: Indirect Cost Agreement 2008-2011.
September 5, 2008 at 4:58 pm · Filed under General
The Internal Competition Process for the DOD Program for HBCU/MI’s ended last Thursday, August 28, 2008. Eleven (11) letters of intent were received. UPRM is allowed to submit only two proposals. The researchers whose projects were selected to compete on behalf of UPRM are:
Dr. Samuel Hernandez, Chemistry: “Laser Enhanced detection of weapons of mass destruction”
Dr. David Suleiman, Chemical Engineering: “Supercritical CO2-assisted Fluoroelastomeric Nanostructured Membranes for Fuel Cells and Sensor Applications”
Proposal due date: September 18, 2008 via Grants.gov.
September 5, 2008 at 2:12 pm · Filed under General
The American Council of Learned Societies was founded in 1919 to advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and related social sciences and to maintain and strengthen relations among the national societies devoted to such studies. Organized as a private, nonprofit federation of 70 national scholarly organizations, ACLS is the pre-eminent representative of humanities scholarship in the United States. Awarding peer-reviewed fellowships to individuals is at the core of ACLS activity. Click on the link to access the 2008-09 ACLS Competitions:http://www.acls.org/uploadedFiles/Fellowships_and_Grants/0809_ACLS_Competitions.pdf
