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PIs or Co-PIs are no longer required to mark on the No-Cost Extension (NCE) form whether effort will be reduced or stay the same during the award extension period.

The new NCE form is now available for use on the Office for Sponsored Programs website https://research.uga.edu/docs/forms/osp/pdf/No-Cost-Extension-Request.pdf

Additionally, there is no longer a requirement to complete the financial conflict of interest certification on the form; this can now be done through the eResearch Portal.

This is a first step in a continuing effort toward full functionality of the NCE request via the Portal, which will further reduce administrative burden for faculty.

Please contact your departmental administrator or OSP representative for more information.  If you would like to see more information on this and other current and completed business process improvement initiatives, please click here.

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MaryAnn Deom, M.S., has been named Interim Director of the Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP), effective January 21, 2015.

Deom replaces Dr. Regina Smith, Associate Vice President for Research, who recently retired from UGA after directing OSP for the past 14 years.  Deom joined UGA as an educational program specialist for the Department of Psychology’s Southeastern Center for Applied Cognitive Research in 1995, and began her career with OSP as a grants specialist in 1999.  She has served as Associate Director of OSP since 2005.  Since 2006, she has been UGA’s primary liaison for the Federal Demonstration Project, a cooperative initiative between federal agencies and institutions that receive federal funds to reduce administrative burdens associated with grants and contracts.

Chris King, DVM, replaces Dr. Smith as the institutional Research Integrity Officer (RIO), with responsibilities for Conflict of Interest and Responsible Conduct in Research, effective January 21, 2015.

Dr. King is Associate Vice President for Research Integrity and Safety, as well as Professor of Population Health in the College of Veterinary Medicine.  The addition of RIO to his responsibilities completes a Research Integrity and Safety portfolio that also includes animal and human subjects, biosafety, export control, and research safety.  Dr. King also serves as director of the animal care and use program, a role he has played since 2004.

“Besides directing Sponsored Programs, Dr. Regina Smith played a number of other important roles at the University.  We are fortunate to have individuals of the quality and experience of MaryAnn and Chris to fill these roles without missing a beat,” said Vice President for Research David Lee.

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Effective October 1, departments will no longer be required to complete and route an administrative action request form (AARF) to access federally funded projects with automatic carryover while waiting for the next increment of funds to arrive. The Office for Sponsored Programs and Contracts & Grants Division have revised their processes to allow continued spending for these types of accounts.

This change was implemented to ease administrative burden and ensure that Principal Investigators can continue to access award funds to support work on their projects. The change will be accomplished by using the same budget and project end dates when processing awards. The change only applies to projects funded directly by federal agencies, not projects funded by federal flow-through from other entities.

Projects that were awarded prior to October 1, 2014, will need to be manually adjusted. Please contact your OSP representative if you have accounts that need to be adjusted. https://research.uga.edu/spa/find-sponsored-projects-team/

 

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The first two modules of UGA’s integrated electronic research administration system, Grants and IRB, went live this summer.  The integrated system will simplify and streamline administrative processes, ease the burden these processes place on faculty, and serve the University community better via transparency and better communication.

The new eResearch Grants and Awards Portal (“Grants portal”) went live on June 11.  As of this date, users must login to this new system with MyID  to submit proposals of all types to Sponsored Programs.  This new portal will also handle all electronic  grants.gov submissions to federal sponsors. Weekly training sessions are offered. Find out more.

The new eResearch Portal for Institutional Research Board (“IRB portal”) went live on May 30. UGA researchers users must login to this new system with MyID  to submit new Human Subjects proposals, amendments and continuing reviews. Training is available online.  Find out more.