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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
Join us for a web conference on the National Institutes of Health AREA Program Thursday, Nov. 5 from 1 to 3 p.m. in 213 East Bartlett Hall. The AREA (Academic Research Enhancement Award) program focuses on supporting faculty research at campuses that have not received much NIH support in the
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 -
OSP will present an informational session on the current grant opportunities with the Iowa Energy Center and the Iowa Power Fund Thursday, Sept. 24 from 12:00-1:00 PM in the SIAC Room in Maucker Union. Pre-proposals for research and demonstration projects from the Iowa Energy Center are due Oct
This is the first proposal solicitation under the new Iowa NASA ESPCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) program since the state became ESPCoR eligible in December 2008. The goal of this competition is to ultimately select up to two Iowa research proposals to be
The UNI Graduate College and Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) are pleased to announce a small grant competition to support interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional program development. Through these awards, the University seeks to encourage, assist, and support
The National Science Foundation will present a one-day workshop at the University of Iowa on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. at the University of Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa City.
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
Throughout May, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will host a series of webinars related to research funding opportunities through the National Center for Education Research (NCER) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). Information on the webinars is