Transcript New Faculty Orientation 2012

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
New Faculty Orientation
Fall, 2012
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
ORSP Staff
John McGrath– Vice President for Research
Mary Montoye – Director, ORSP; management of all contracts
Deb Clark – Research Program Officer, Pre-award
Lenora Calkins – Research Program Officer, Pre-award
Rick Middleton – Research Program Officer, Pre-award
Melinda Brakenberry – Research Program Officer, Post-award specialist
Chris Bailey – Administrative Secretary, FRCE budget/staffing and IACUC
(animals in research) staff
Deb Stanek – Executive Secretary, budget management, IRB (human subjects)
committee staffing
Sue Klumpp – Executive Secretary, administrative wizard
Lisa Boyd-Devers – Undergraduate research and SRCEE Manager
Roop Jayaraman – IRB (human subjects) research coordinator
Carol Stevens -- Coordinator of HP Animal Care Facility
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Overall Objectives of ORSP
•Improve the quantity and quality of all types of research, scholarship and
creative work at CMU
•Help faculty members secure increased external support by:
o Alerting faculty to funding opportunities for research and programmatic
activities
o Doing targeted fund searching of databases for faculty (SPIN/SMARTS)
o Offering grant writing workshops
o Assisting faculty with budget preparation and grant submissions
o Helping faculty form research communities to seek major funding
o Assist faculty in filing patents and seeking licensing opportunities
o Providing and managing an array of internal funds to serve as seed sources for
both scholarship and external grant seeking
o Providing matching money for acquisition of major instruments
o Providing undergraduate funds for assisting faculty on projects
•Help publicize internally and externally the scholarly, creative, research and
service activities of CMU’s faculty, staff and students
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Internal Funding Programs
• ORSP competitions
o Early Career (EC)
o New Research Initiative (NRI)
o Creative and Scholarly Support (CSS)
• Research Incentive Awards (RIA)
• Proposal match (together with colleges and departments)
• Undergraduate support
o Summer scholars
o Research and Creative Endeavors
o Presentation
• VP Discretionary funds
•Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors (FRCE)
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
FRCE Funding
• Faculty Committee appointed by Academic
Senate
o Premier Display -- presentations at national meetings
o Research Type A and B ($3,500 and $8,000 maximum)
o Page Charge
$204,800 base budget
• Portion F&A recovered (approx $80k) may be
used to augment FRCE funds
ORSP Staff Responsibilities
Deborah Clark: Pre-Award Program Officer
•College of Education and Human Services
•College of Graduate Studies
•College of Science and Technology: Biology
•Institutional Diversity
•Volunteer Center
Lenora Calkins: Pre-Award Program Officer
•College of Communication and Fine Arts
•College of Science and Technology: Computer
Science, Geography, Engineering, Physics
•College of Humanities, Social and Behavioral
Sciences
•First Year Experience
•Library
•Global Campus grants, Residence Life
•Generate SAP Grant Management reports
Rick Middleton: Pre-Award Program Officer
•College of Business Administration
•College of Health Professions
•College of Medicine
•College of Science and Technology: Chemistry,
Math, Geology and Meteorology
•Public Safety