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April 19, 2012
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects is pleased to announce the Summer Research Fellowships and the Research Support Grants for the summer of 2009 and offer congratulations to the successful applicants.
View the announcement of recipients.
April 19, 2012
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects is pleased to announce the VERITAS recipients for the summer of 2010 and offer congratulations to the successful applicants.
Peter Busch, Center for Liberal Education, Augustinian Peace in the Modern World
Jesse Couenhoven, Humanities, Augustine's Doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination
Anna Bonta Moreland, Humanities
Robert DeFina, Sociology, Out in the Cold: Catholic Social Thought and the Attack on Public Sector Unions in Wisconsin
Eugene McCarraher, Humanities, The Intellectual and Political Condition of Liberation Theology
March 16, 2012
NSF Proposals: How Not to Get Funded (may contain traces of sarcasm)
An amusing take on the proposal writing process by NSF.
March 16, 2012
Fullbright NSF Collaboration - I-Corps
"I-Corps is a public-private partnership that targets current and recent NSF researchers for additional support - mentoring and funding -- to accelerate innovations and attract third-party funding. It's goals are to (1) development discoveries into useful technologies, products and processes that benefit society, (2) catalyze collaboration between academia and industry, and (3) engage our nation's students to transform scientific and engineering discoveries into innovative technologies."
Details can be found here: NSF Innovation Corps
February 10, 2012
2013 VERITAS Program Announcement
The 7th annual VERITAS Faculty Research Program is intended to support scholarly research projects that take inspiration from and/or reflect the values of Villanova University's Catholic and Augustinian heritage. Grants up to $10,000 will be awarded. Please find the full announcement here.
January 11, 2012
AAAS
"Basic and applied research and energy and environmental research scored significant increases in a 2012 budget bill signed recently by President Barack Obama, but overall research and development spending will decline by 1.3%, according to a new analysis by the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program."
November 11th, 2011
New Indirect Cost Rate: 75.4% of Personnel Costs
Department of Health & Human Services has approved and issued our new Indirect Cost Rate. The new on-campus rate is 75.40% of personnel costs, applicable to all programs.
Please use this rate on all proposals submitted to ORSP after 11/16/11.
October 7th, 2011
Banner Finance Training
Sarah Stover and Robb Mott will be holding a Banner Finance Training, focusing on using Banner Finance capabilities in NOVASIS. The training will be held on October 18th, from 11:00am – 12:00pm in the Chapel Room of TSB.
Sample Debarment Letter Available in "Forms"
A sample debarment status letter has been posted in the forms section. Direct link is here. Please use this to verify the debarment status of vendors that you will use on your awards.
If you have questions about this or any debarment issues, please contact the office.
August 5th, 2011
Obtaining Debarment Statements from Vendors; NSF Audit
NSF and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (which disseminates our annual audit) want all those who initiate purchases using federal funds to receive from the vendor a statement verifying that it is not at the time of the procurement suspended or debarred from doing business with the government. A copy of this statement, signed and dated by an authorized vendor representative, should be provided to ORSP and made part of the auditable award file.
This should be made routine for any and all purchasing activities done using federal funding.
Please contact ORSP if you have any questions about this new policy.
Link to NSF audit letter.
April 27, 2011
Annual Time and Effort Certifications
Once again it is time for us to review the time and effort spent on federally sponsored research projects to correct or verify that the time committed and the performance provided on your awards between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2011was accurately reported and compensated. Please have the attached forms completed and signed for all persons working on your projects who received compensation from governmental sources.
We would like these to be submitted to the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) by May 20, 2011.
Get the form here.
April 18, 2011
2011 Summer Research Fellowship Recipients Announced
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects is pleased to announce the Summer Research Fellowships and the Research Support Grants for the summer of 2011 and offer congratulations to the successful applicants.
View the announcement of recipients.
March 22, 2011
NSF Data Management Plan FAQ Available
Do you have questions about the new Data Management Plan required on all NSF proposals? Some of your questions may be answered here.
March 14, 2011
Principal Investigators responsible for checking vendors Debarment/Suspension status
Based upon FY 2010 audit recommendations the University has introduced a Debarment/Suspension policy to assure that University acquisition policies are in accordance with federal procurement requirements. Feel free to check with ORSP should you have any questions regarding this policy.
Please see the Procurement department's policy page for details.
March 4, 2011
BANNER Finance Training
Sarah Stover and Rob Mott of the Controllers Office will be holding Banner Finance Training on March 28th, 2011 from 11:00AM-12:00PM. This training will focus on the Banner Finance module capabilities in Novasis. Anyone who feels they would benefit from this training is welcome to attend.
March 1, 2011
New Web Request Form for NASA No Cost Extension
The NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) is pleased to announce that No-Cost Extensions (NCEs) may now be requested online by filling out an electronic form located at the following URL:
NSSC No Cost Extension Form
February 2, 2011
Sixth annual VERITAS Faculty Research Program Announcement
Please find the offical announcement from Father Kail Ellis, Vice President of Academic Affairs, here.
Grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded, and they may include a summer stipend equal to one summer school course (up to a maximum $7,000 stipend). Grants may be used for any reasonable research-related expense. All proposals are due to ORSP in Middleton Hall by Friday, March 18, 2011.
November 24, 2010
NSF Pre and Post Award FAQ
Do you have questions about preparing an NSF proposal? Have you been confused by some of the rules regarding post-award administration? NSF has released an FAQ that will assist you in pre and post award administration, and can be found
here. As always, ORSP is prepared to answer any questions you might have about our office's NSF procedures.
November 10, 2010
NSF Data Management Plan
Beginning January 18, 2011, proposals submitted to NSF must include a supplementary document of no more than two pages labeled
"Data Management Plan". This supplementary document should describe how the proposal will conform to NSF policy on the dissemination
and sharing of research results. See
Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) Capter II.C.2.j for full
policy implementation. You can view the original announcement here. Please note the new NSF Data Sharing Policy as well.
October 5, 2010
SRF/RSG Deadline Approaching! 11/12/2010
The deadline for the 2011 is November 12, 2010. Please see our research opportunities page for details and last year's awards.
October 4, 2010
2011 Environmental Education Grants Program
Applications for the 2011 Environmental Education Grants Program now are available from the Department of Environmental Protection
(DEP). The grants provide funding to schools, universities, intermediate units, environmental education centers,
county conservation districts, incorporated nonprofit organizations and associations and businesses to create or develop projects
that support environmental education in the Commonwealth.
Grants will provide environmental education on timely and critically important topics, including the following:
Sustainable Energy Sources and Technologies
Carbon Capture and Storage/Climate Change
Air Quality
Watersheds and wetlands
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education with a focus on nutrient and sediment loads, point and non-point source pollution reduction.
The Environmental Education Grants Program was established by the Environmental Education Act of 1993 (35 P. S. §§ 7521--7528),
which mandates setting aside 5% of the pollution fines and penalties collected annually by the Department for environmental education in this Commonwealth.
Grant applications submitted to the Department must be postmarked by December 17, 2010, to be eligible for consideration and are limited to no more than $7,500.
Applications are available online at www.depweb.state.pa.us and click on the Environmental Education button, then grants, or this direct link,
or by contacting DEP's Environmental Education Grants Program, P.O. Box 2063, Harrisburg, PA 17105-2063, calling (717) 772-1828 or replying through email.
June 24, 2010
Teaching Development Fellowships (up to $21,000)
The National Endowment for the Humanities will award Teaching Development Fellowships to support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at improving an existing undergraduate course that has been taught in at least THREE different terms prior to the application deadline.
The research undertaken as a part of the project may involve engaging with fundamental texts or sources, exploring related subjects or academic disciplines, or cultivating neglected areas of learning. Research in any area of the humanities is welcome.
Teaching Development Fellowships cover periods lasting from three to five months and carry stipends of $4,200 per month. Thus the maximum stipend is $21,000 for a five-month award period.
The application deadline is September 30, 2010. For more information and instructions, please see the grant guidelines at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/TD_Fellowships.html.
June 24, 2010
NEH Grant Opportunity -- Deadline September 15
NEH is offering grants of up to $25,000 for faculty to develop a new undergraduate course that fosters intellectual community through the study of an enduring question.
The application deadline is September 15, 2010.
New this year: An Enduring Questions course may be developed by up to four faculty members.
For more information, please visit the Enduring Questions Website.
May 24, 2010
2011 NEH Summer Stipends Guidelines
NEH is again holding its Summer Stipends competition,
and the revised guidelines have been posted on the Endowment’s website.
The deadline for this year’s competition is September 30, 2010. The grant award is $6000.
As in the past, NEH asks that each institution designate one person—usually an academic vice-president or dean—to coordinate the nomination process for its faculty.
NEH strongly suggests that prospective applicants, the nominating official, and others involved in choosing the institution’s two nominees familiarize themselves with the guidelines and application instructions located on the NEH website:
View the new stipends guidelines.
Only those faculty who are nominated should apply (unless they are exempt from nomination, as explained in the guidelines). Nominated applicants must include the name and email address of the appropriate nominating official.
After September 30 deadline, each nominating official will receive an email directly from the NEH asking for verification of the selected applicants. This verification must be received by October 20, 2010.
NEH accepts applications only through Grants.gov. However, if applicants encounter trouble with the grants.gov system, NEH encourages them to contact a member of the Summer Stipends staff, at stipends@neh.gov or 202-606-8200.
May 19, 2010
2010 VERITAS Recipients Announced
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects is pleased to announce the VERITAS recipients for the summer of 2010 and offer congratulations to the successful applicants.
Dr. Carmen Peraita, Modern Languages and Literatures, Thomas of Villanova and the Construction of a Civic Identity in Early Modern Valencia
Dr. Crystal Lucky, Africana Studies, On the Threshing Floor: African American Women's Piety in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
May 19, 2010
2010 Summer Research Fellowship Recipients Announced
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects is pleased to announce the Summer Research Fellowships and the Research Support Grants for the summer of 2010 and offer congratulations to the successful applicants.
View the announcement of recipients.
Jan. 9, 2010
NSF Research Ethics Requirement
The National Science Foundation (NSF) requires faculty members preparing NSF proposals to carefully select the graduate students who will be working on the project and to provide each student an orientation on the "right way" to conduct research.
As a supplement to this process the ORSP website is providing the material for Research Ethics orientation through a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) funded course development project with the University of Montana. We are still establishing a seminar format for instruction in this area and will let you know when that resource has been completed. Until then please advise your students as to their scientific and ethical responsibilities as contributors to research funded by the National Science Foundation using the provided material and your research experience as the instructional foundation. ORSP will be requesting from the PIs information on all students working on NSF awards funded from proposals submitted from January 2010, and review the orientation provided to each student.
Jan. 5, 2010
Major Changes to NIH Applications
All applications intended for due dates on or after January 25, 2010 require the use of new forms and instructions. Major changes include restructured forms to align with review criteria and significantly shorter page limits.
For more information, please click here.
Dec. 9, 2009
Compliance with US Trade Controls Laws
Please review our policy on compliance with US trade controls laws.
Oct. 7, 2009
E-VERIFY Employment Requirements
Since September 8, 2009 the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) E-Verify clause (73 FR 67704) has required every organization with a federal contract over $100,000 to utilize the electronic employment eligibility verification system, or E-VERIFY, to confirm that new employees are authorized to legally work in the United States. Villanova University qualifies as an employer required to utilize this system to screen prospective employees. Therefore, all persons hired to work on grants and contracts must report to Human Resources to complete a federal I-9 form before they are eligible to begin working at the University.
If you have any questions please contact ORSP, 9-4221, or Human Resources, 9-4238.
Sept. 9, 2009
Sponsored Research vs. Gifts
Please review our policy on how to distinguish between sponsored research and gifts.
August 11, 2009
Hiring Forms to be sent to ORSP, not to HR
Grant related hiring paperwork is to be sent to ORSP only, and not to HR. PAF's and Personnel Information Forms are handled through ORSP and not through Human Resources.
April 7, 2009
National Recovery Act Funding Opportunities
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) wants to remind Villanova University faculty members that the National Recovery Act has produced an overall research funding supplement to traditional federal funding programs. A listing of the affected agencies and general funding program guidelines can be accessed using the link offered below.
http://www.grants.gov/applicants/recovery.jsp
April 2, 2009
2009 VERITAS Recipients Announced
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects is pleased to announce the VERITAS recipients for the summer of 2009 and offer congratulations to the successful applicants.
View the announcement of recipients.
Feb 25, 2009
2009 Summer Research Fellowship Recipients Announced
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects is pleased to announce the Summer Research Fellowships and the Research Support Grants for the summer of 2009 and offer congratulations to the successful applicants.
View the announcement of recipients.
Aug 15, 2008
PAF's Needed to Reflect New Graduate Assistant Salaries for FY 08-09
Effective September 1, 2008, graduate assistant salaries will increase to $1,456 from the previous year's rate of $1,406.
All personnel on grants at the previous rate will require Personnel Action Forms requesting a salary adjustment in order to reflect September 2008's new rates. PAF's are available from the front secretary's offices.
View the fact sheet.
Aug 12, 2008
Mandatory Use of GRANTS.GOV for ONR Grant Proposal Submission
ONR has been using Grants.Gov for receipt of Grant and Cooperative Agreement proposals over the past two years and considers the system to be sufficiently reliable and responsive that other forms of proposal submission are no longer necessary or desirable. In that context, all ONR funding opportunities published as Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs) for FY 2009 and beyond will designate the Grants.Gov "Apply" function as the only acceptable means for submission of applications for Grants or Cooperative Agreements.
April 30, 2009
Fulbright Scholars Program
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering lecturing, research or combination lecturing/research awards in over 130
countries for the 2010-11 academic year.
Opportunites are available not only for college and university faculty and administrators but also for professionals
from business and government, as well as artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many
others. There are awards in 45 different fields or disciplines, and a variety of subdisciplines and interdisciplinary fields.
While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most Fulbright Scholar lecturing assignments are in English.
Nearly 70 percent of the awards include a lecturing component.
Application deadlines for awards are:
August 1, 2009 for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants or for Fulbright Distinguished Chair awards worldwide
November 20, 2009 for the summer German Studies Seminar and for spring/summer sessions in Korea and Japan for academic and international education administrators
Rolling deadline for the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program
For more information, please visit the CIES website, or contact :
Allison Lam
Research Information Officer
Office of Research and Sponsored Projects
Villanova University
610-519-6127
April 28, 2008
NIH Public Access Policy
ORSP would like to notify PI's working on NIH grants about NIH's Public Acess Policy.
It is outlined in the following letter dated April 28, 2008 from Norka Ruiz Bravo, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research:
Dear Members of the NIH Research Community,
I am writing to remind you that the mandatory NIH Public Access Policy (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html) applies to final peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. Making published research funded by NIH accessible to everyone, including health care providers, patients, educators and scientists, helps advance science and improve human health. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal, and I appreciate your efforts to make the NIH Public Access Policy successful.
The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (see http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm), which was signed into law late last year. Compliance with this Policy is a legal requirement and a term and condition for all active grants and contracts awarded as of April 7, 2008. Failure to comply may trigger one or more enforcement actions, depending on the severity and duration of the non-compliance.
Please see the Public Access Web site for the tools you need to comply with the Policy. The Web site houses Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), training information, and other resources.
To ensure compliance with the Policy, please remember to:
Address Copyright - Make sure that any copyright transfer or other publication agreements allow your paper to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Policy.
Submit Papers upon Acceptance for Publication
1. Some journals will submit the final published article on your behalf, without your involvement. See http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm for a list of these journals.
2. For any journal other than those on this list, please:
- When submitting a paper for publication, inform the journal that the final peer-reviewed manuscript is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy.
- Make sure that any copyright transfer or other publication agreement allows the final peer-reviewed manuscript to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Policy. For more information, see the FAQ Whose approval do I need to submit my article to PubMed Central? and consult with your Institution.
- Submit the final peer-reviewed manuscript to NIH upon acceptance for publication at http://www.nihms.nih.gov/. See the Submission Process for more information.
Cite Papers
- When citing your NIH-funded papers in NIH applications, proposals or progress reports, please include the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) for each paper.
- NIH will monitor compliance through citations. Effective May 25, 2008, when your NIH Program Officer reviews your progress report or application, he or she will be expecting a PMCID in the citation of every applicable paper that arose out of your NIH funding, or a manuscript submission system reference number (NIHMSID) if the PMCID has not been issued. See Section C of our FAQ for examples.
- If you publish through a journal listed under http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm, there might be a slight delay in assignment of a PMCID. That is okay. We have signed agreements with these journals that allow NIH to resolve submission with them without your involvement. To facilitate your Program Officer’s job, we ask that you indicate ‘PMC Journal- In Process’ until the PMCID is available.
April 8, 2008
New Online Course Satisfies NIH's Human Subjects Training Requirement
PI's applying for NIH awards which use human subjects must satisfy the NIH human subjects
training requirement. NIH's Office of Extramural Research's course "Protecting Human
Research Participants" replaces the National Cancer Institute's "Human Participant
Protections Education for Research Teams" course in satisfying NIH's human subjects training
requirement. This free online course can be obtained at http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php
For more information on the Requirement for Education on the Protection of Human Subjects,
please visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/hs_educ_faq.htm .
For assistance on the transition from the old course, please visit http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/learning/humanparticipant-protections .
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