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Please pardon our construction! The Office of Sponsored Programs webpages are currently under going revisions. We apologise for any inconvenience during the transition. Our goal is to create the most user-friendly and informative resource we can.  Thank you for your patience!

News and Announcements

Please join OSP in welcoming our new Grants and Contracts Administrator, Paul Below. Paul brings more than 20 years of pre-award and post-award grants and contracts administration experience to his new position at UNI. His first day will be Monday, Nov. 16.

The Biology Department is the winner of OSP's October PI Database Update contest. 45% of Biology's faculty and research staff updated or created new profiles in the PI Database during the month of October. Kudos as well to Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology for their second place finish

The Request for Proposals for this year's Title II Grant Programs is now available from the Iowa Board of Regents. Required letters of intent for the program are due Nov. 20, 2009.  The Title II Programs include Title IIA -

UNI's new federally negotiated indirect cost rate is 31.5% of modified total direct costs for on-campus programs and 13.5% for off-campus programs. The new rate should be used for all projects with start dates of July 1, 2009 or later. Project directors with off-campus projects should contact

For past events and announcements, please see: News and Announcements Archive