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Internal Funding Opportunity
UM RESEARCH BOARD

FY2014 Proposal Deadlines: Oct. 8, 2013, and Feb. 11, 2014

The purpose of the UM Research Board is to enhance the long-term quality and quantity of scholarship throughout the University by supporting meritorious research projects. An important goal is to leverage external funds by UM faculty by supporting promising new faculty and funding high-quality new initiatives of senior faculty.

Award limit: $75,000

Information & Guidelines

Contact Brenda Stutte (314-516-5897) with questions.

 UMSL JUNIOR FACULTY TRAVEL GRANTS
 
FY2014 Proposal Deadline: Oct. 28, 2013

Junior Faculty Travel Grants are open to full-time, untenured tenure-track faculty. Awards up to $1,000 are given for expenses to attend professional conferences at which the applicant will be making a presentation.

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Latest News

How the Federal Government Shutdown Affects Your Grants

The federal government’s FY2014 fiscal year begins today, but no funding agreement is yet in place. Therefore, noncritical and nonessential services of the federal government are shut down for now.

How will this affect your current federal funding? Granting agencies will not take any actions on grant or contract awards, and some agencies will send a notice to their grant awardees stating that no payments will be made during a shutdown.

National Institutes of Health: Regarding administration of current NIH grants, HHS' NIH staff will not be available to provide routine administrative services. HHS will, however, maintain the Payment Management System in an operational status to continue processing grant drawdown requests. Given that you have received your award prior to the gap in funding, you may be able to continue drawing funds from prior awards during an appropriations lapse. If you received your notice of grant award with restrictive terms and conditions, or if your drawdown request triggers one of the Payment Management System edit checks and/or the drawdown limit controls, you will not be able to drawdown funds.

If you are considering submitting an application for additional HHS federal assistance funding, please be advised that the Grants.gov system will be operational during a lapse in funding and will be accepting applications from prospective grantees. However, for NIH applications the Grants.gov system will only accept and store applications. Applications will not be processed further until such time as the authority and funding to return to normal business operations are restored.

All Federal Government Agency Contingency Plans are posted online. The page will be updated as more plans are posted.

Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH), Fall 2013 Newsletter

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New Year, New UMSL Researchers

More than three dozen new faculty started work at UMSL this fall, representing a wide range of academic areas from biology and chemistry to art, economics, English, accounting, nursing and more. Several are transferring research grants from the previous institutions to UMSL, including Dr. Elaine Doherty, associate professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Dr. Bettina Casad, assistant professor, Psychology. While Doherty and Casad represent two distinctly different academic fields, both are conducting research on human behavior. → Read More

Catalyzing Scientific Study

Eike Bauer receives NSF grant to improve important catalytic procedure for life sciences research, work that also will expand the pool of students in science and improve scientific literacy across disciplines. → Read More

How Did We Get Here? 

UMSL researcher, Dr. Erika Gibb, associate professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, studies distant solar-mass stars for origins of Earth's molecules. → Read More

Senator Blunt Speaks on Mental Health

U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) spoke about mental health services in Missouri during Research & Innovation Week at UMSL. → Read More

UMSL’s ITE incubator welcomes E.K.G. Life Science Solutions

E.K.G. Life Science Solutions is the latest tenant to join Innovative Technology Enterprises, an incubator for startup companies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. → Read More

SUCCEED: A new two-year certificate program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Post-secondary education and the experience of college living offer many opportunities for growth and a foundation for future employment in both the general population and among people with intellectual disabilities. → Read More

UMSL Research Working on Third-Generation Biofuels

Dr. Xuemin "Sam" Wang, Biology, is working with a consortium of scientists under a DOE grant on third-generation biofuels. → Read More

Pivot to Release New Database Interface

(Posted 01/16/2013) The new Pivot interface will be released Saturday, January 19, around 7 p.m. Central time. Pivot will not be available during the interface update, which should take less than one hour. The look and feel of Pivot has been improved (based on customer feedback) making it easier to navigate and use Pivot. The new interface also paves the way for improved profile updating and other enhancements coming later this year.  Free webinars will be offered during the last two weeks of January to take you through the new interface.  View the webinar schedule.  A YouTube video also is available.

UMSL Technology Transfer and Innovation Marketplace LinkedIn Group Launched

(Posted 01/04/2013, ORA) This group highlights and features technology developments and licensing opportunities for discoveries and inventions developed at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Hosted by the UMSL Technology Transfer Office, this group provides an opportunity for early access to leading edge technologies available for licensing and commercialization. Members are able to comment and discuss these developments and offer guidance to the University regarding commercialization ideas. → Join the Group

Time to Take Another Look at Bayh-Dole

(December 2012 - January 2013, Innovation: America's Journal of Technology Commercialization, by Darrell West, Allan Friedman and Walter Valdivia) In a paper released recently, three fellows at the Brookings Institution identify promising policy ideas to encourage entrepreneurship and innovative growth in the technology industry. → Read More

Projects Planned for Benton-Stadler Science Complex

(Posted 12/10/2012, UMSL Daily) The fate of the University of Missouri–St. Louis science complex (pictured) is back in the hands of university administrators, who seek funding to construct a building and renovate existing space. → Read More

NIH Considers Anonymity for Grant Applicants

(Posted 12/10/2012, Chronicle of Higher Education, by Paul Basken) The National Institutes of Health, the largest provider of basic research money for universities in the United States, has long struggled with both the reality and the perception of bias in its grant awards. The agency said on Friday that it was considering a pilot program that would force its reviewers to evaluate grant applications without knowing who had submitted them. → Read More

Plagiarism in Grant Proposals

(Posted 12/10/2012, Chronicle of Higher Education, by Karen M. Markin) "It's not news that software exists to check undergraduate papers for plagiarism. What is less well known is that some federal grant agencies are using technology to detect plagiarism in grant proposals." → Read More

FLARES: Reducing the Impact of Traumatic Stress in Kids

Jerry Dunn and colleagues receive SAMHSA grant to increase access to high-quality mental health services for Missouri children and families. → Read More

Electronic Signature Page Approvals Coming Soon

(Posted 11/01/2012) The University of Missouri sponsored projects offices (including the ORA) are developing the workflow for electronic signature page approvals (EA), which will significantly streamline the process and eliminate the need to carry printouts of the signature page from office to office to get approvals. In the next few weeks, the ORA will ask PIs and others who help with signature pages to test the electronic process to make certain routing has been correctly set up. More details coming soon.

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