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Department of Energy - Important message regarding personally identifiable information

National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program

OGCS Changes to Pre-Award/Post-Award
Effective September 1, 2007 the Office of Grant and Contract Services will change it’s organizational structure to a Pre-Award and Post-Award model to serve you better. Each department will be assigned both a pre- and post- award specialist to assist in the administration of grants and contracts. To find out who your specialist is click the button on the left hand tool bar of the OGCS website entitled Contact GCS Specialist

Your Pre-Award Specialist will provide assistance in: locating funding opportunities, proposal and budget development, assistance with the blue sheet and other internal forms, proposal submission, award and subcontract negotiation.

Your Post-Award Specialist will help you with account set-up, budget modifications, RTP forms, amendments, award extensions and account close out requirements and procedures.

Please contact us by email or by phone (817) 272-2105 if you have any questions or would like additional information. We look forward to working with you.  

NSF has adopted a change in their merit review process to enhance support of transformative research

NSF Announces the new NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide

FDP - NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Announce Limits on Appendices: NIH, AHRQ, and NIOSH have announced that there will be limits on appendices submitted with grant applications. Please see the notice in the NIH Guide for me information.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-018.html

NIH Announces New Deadline Dates: In notice OD-07-001 NIH announced a change in the deadlines for proposals submitted to the general review cycles. Please review and be aware of this change. This notice does not go into effect until January of 2007. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your specialist.

NIH Announcement: Non-Competing Grant Awards Under the Current Continuing Resolution to be Issued at Lower Levels

Nursing Innovation The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is sponsoring three distinct grant-making initiatives: Hospital Partnerships, Academic and Clinical Partnerships and Conference on Partnerships in Nursing Education with deadlines in October and February.

NIH Clarifies Instructions | NIH Clarifies instructions on how to submit publications as appendix materials to NIH. Click here to view in detail.

Effective April 1, 2006 | Change in Submission Time for NIH Applications Through Grants.gov

The purpose of this Notice is to inform applicants of a change in the time that electronic grant applications must be successfully received by Grants.gov in order to be considered “on time.” Effective April 1, 2006, applications must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. local time (of the applicant institution/organization) on the submission date(s) described in a funding opportunity announcement. Please note that the Grants.gov timestamp will continue to be expressed in Eastern Time. [read more]

Advanced Research Program, Internal Deadline: 10/16/07 5:00 pm CST
In this ARP competition for the first time, each PI has an opportunity to upload one additional illustrative PDF page to his/her pre-proposal. If you notice a pre-proposal that you previously submitted to the Coordinating Board (status = “Received”) is suddenly back in your hands with a status of “Returned to OSP,” it is because the uploaded PDF page does not meet program guidelines. Please send the pre-proposal back to the PI for revision. The automated e-mail system will notify the investigator that the pre-proposal has been returned to him/her, but will not note a reason. (read more)

Awards and Accolades Search and sort grant and contract awards

Awards Announcements for Joint Institutional Seed Research Program

Collaborative UT Arlington-SPRING Research and Nanotechnology Transfer Program
See all internal funding opportunities

The annual report, Research Expenditures, September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2005, which summarizes research expenditures at Texas universities and health-related institutions, is available on the Coordinating Board's web site at
https://www1.thecb.state.tx.us/apps/ResearchExpenditures/ or
http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/reports/pdf/1211.pdf.

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Crosscutting Programs NSF Wide Programs

MRI Proposal Submissions to NSF for Jan 2006 | Click here to view list of selected projects

THECB ARP 2006 | Pre-proposal Evaluation Announcement.

Hurricane Katrina:

  • A Message from NSF: The Foundation pledges strong and continuing sponsorship of research and education in the areas affected by the storm and its aftermath.
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  • DOE turn matchmaker for scientists displaced by Katrina - The US Department of Energy has set up a program to help scientists displaced by Katrina. The scheme will match interested students and faculty researchers with research programs that currently receive grants from the DOE's Office of Science. Displaced students and researchers may be eligible for assistance whether or not they are currently funded by the department.
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  • The NIH website dedicated to post-Katrina “Research Community Information” (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/katrina/index.htm) contains information about actions that NIH may take to assist with recovery and also lists scientific and other organizations that are helping to make the connection between investigators needing a temporary home to continue their research and those offering a temporary home.

Submit your Manuscripts to NIH: PubMed Central Submission System Now Available
Principal Investigators (PIs) can now submit their peer-reviewed final manuscripts to NIH's PubMed Central (PMC) at http://nihms.nih.gov/.
For more information about NIH Public Access Policy, please visit: http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/.

We are pleased and excited to announce that The University of Texas at Arlington has taken a subscription to ResearchResearch.com. ResearchResearch is a U.S. & International funding opportunity and news services for research professionals.

We no longer use Spin Smart/Genius.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces its policy on enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research.
Additional information on this policy is available at http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm

Office of Naval Research (ONR) is discontinuing efforts on the ProposalWeb project and will therefore shut down the website at (http://navris.onr.navy.mil/pwebapp/) on December 3, 2004 at 3pm (EST).
Further ONR efforts to receive electronic proposals will be conducted in association with the Grant.Gov program. Inquiries relative to this action may be directed to the following e-mail account: 02_AWAuthor@onr.nay.mil
This action will align ONR efforts with the other Federal Grant-Making activities and should be beneficial to both grantor and grantee organizations.

Check New Funding Opportunities for latest updates

Federal Demonstration Partnership information and terms (click to read more)

Export Control Laws at UTA (click to read more)

UTA Facilities & Administrative Costs Rate Agreement (click to read more)

Grant Writing Tips

NSF Guide to Grant Writing (FY04)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?gpw

NIH Grant Writing Tips
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/grant_tips.htm

Department of Justice:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/quality_proposal.pdf
This is very DOJ specific in parts, but there is a lot of general useful
information.

The Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/seahome/grants/src/grant.htm

Catalog of Domestic Assistance:
http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.GRANT_PROPOSAL_DYN.show

The Foundation Center:
http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html
I found this one through Penn

This is from the UNC School of Medicine:
http://www.med.unc.edu/toxicology/students_webpage/advice-students-grant
manship-jacob-kraicer.pdf
Pretty good.  I think a good primer for an overall understanding.

Science Magazine: Next Wave:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/1999/09/20/2
A good overall resource I think.  Main site:
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/

University of Nebraska:
http://www.unl.edu/nepscor/newpages/noframes/pubs/winners/writing.html
Fun and fairly easy read.  Some formatting issues though.