CASE STUDIES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK

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CASE STUDIES FORINTERDISCIPLINARY WORK

• Robin Hexter, Assistant Dean, CMES
• Dave McCarren, Assistant Director, DBI
• Cindy Panchisin, Contract Grant Administrator,
  OVPRGS

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INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK

• Interdisciplinary research brings together
  faculty from two or more
• disciplines to address multifaceted
• programs or projects.

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SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL WITH MULTIPLE UNITS
INVOLVED

• The department of the Lead Principal Investigator
  does the following
• Communicates with OVPRGS
• Establishes the PeopleSoft record
• Communicates with the various departments
  involved in the submission
• Determines how many projects are needed
• Is a separate project necessary?

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SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL WITH MULTIPLE UNITS INVOLVED

• Who is responsible for loading the budgets and
  cost share into PeopleSoft?
• Department of lead PI can load all of the budgets
  or allow the individual departments to load their
  budgets
• Who sees what information in the PeopleSoft
  record?

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WHAT IS INVOLVED WHEN OVPRGS SETS UP AN AWARD
WITH MULTIPLE PROJECTS

• Each project must be assigned a PeopleSoft
  purpose code and a legacy account code.
• The process for setting up a project must be
  repeated for each individual project.
• Amount of time involved in setting up multiple
  projects.

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TOOLS TO HELP MANAGE AN AWARD WITH MULTIPLE
PROJECTS

• Queries
• GMQs
• EZQs
• BUDDY Bringing University Data to You
• LAM Labor Allocation Module
• PI Snapshot

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CASE STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
DELAWARE SEA GRANT PROGRAM(DESG)
College of Marine and Earth Studies (CMES)
DESG
21 Match
2005-2007 SG Award 6.2M (11 Match)
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CASE STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCHDESG
Dean, CMES DESG Director
Executive Officer
Sea Grant Advisory Council
DESG Coordinator
Director, Marine Public Education
Assoc. Director, Research Grad. Educ.
Director, Marine Advisory Service
Ecosystems
Environmental Technologies Engineering
Marine Commerce Transportation
Biotechnology
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CASE STUDIES INTERDISCIPLINARY
RESEARCHDELAWARE EPSCoR/INBRE

• What is DBI ?
• Why do we do this ?
• What grants do we have ?

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The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive
Research (EPSCoR) is a joint program of the
National Science Foundation (NSF) and 27 U.S.
states and territories including Delaware. The
program seeks to develop a more equitable
distribution of Federal RD funds across the
country by promoting the development of a state's
science and technology (ST) resources through
partnerships involving the state's universities,
industry, government, and the Federal research
and development (RD) enterprise.
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A Statewide Partnership
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Delaware INBRE

• The purpose of the Delaware INBRE is to deliver,
  over the five-year term of the grant, a statewide
  pipeline of capable and competitive medical
  research personnel who can compete for and win
  NIH-funded research grants.
• The primary goals of the Delaware INBRE are to
• ?support junior and early career faculty in
  mentored biomedical research
• ?involve undergraduate institutions and their
  students in the research process
• ?strengthen the existing biomedical research
  infrastructure
• ?improve biomedical workforce development.

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PRE-AWARD PROCESSDESG

• Two year funding cycle
• All aspects of proposal submission centrally
  coordinated in CMES
• State-wide Competition
• Request for Pre-Proposals Due 14 months prior to
  new funding cycle (External/Internal Reviews)
• Full Proposals Submitted for External Peer Review
  and Two Day External Review for Ranking Proposals
• Internal Review and Final Selection for Inclusion
  in grant application submitted to federal
  government (National Oceanographic and
  Atmospheric Administration NOAA
• CMES prepares all budgets, loads all budgets into
  PeopleSoft, and submits proposal to NOAA through
  Grants.gov

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PRE-AWARD PROCESSINBRE

• Five year funding cycle
• Proposal submission centrally coordinated in DBI
• Seed grant part of the proposal - re-competed
  through life of the program.
• DBI prepares all budgets, loads all budgets into
  PeopleSoft, and submits proposal to NIH.

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POST-AWARD ADMINISTRATIONDESG/INBRE

• Award Setup
• One award with multiple projects
• Overhead generated by project
• Expenditure Approvals
• Delegated to unit with program oversight
• Expenditure Monitoring
• Re-budgeting
• Financial and technical/progress reports
• Program Specific Management

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AWARD CLOSEOUTDESG/INBRE

• Closeout process is a collaborative effort with
  primary responsibility in CMES/DBI
• Transaction Review
• LAM
• Cost Share
• Subcontracts
• Final Reports
• Inventions/Intellectual Property
• Expenditure Documentation

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AWARD CLOSEOUT WITH OVPRGS

• Who does OVPRGS communicate with regarding the
  closeout of the award?
• Department of the Lead Principal Investigator
• What are the responsibilities of the lead PIs
  department?
• Communicate with the other departments associated
  with the award
• Resolve all issues regarding overexpenditures and
  after end-date charges
• Request and obtain all documentation for cost
  share and technical reports
• Oversee everything involved with the closeout