Grant Connections | September 2017 Notes

Attached are the meeting notes from the September meeting. 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Please plan to join us for our next meeting on Wednesday, October 25^th at 11:00 a.m.  Our topic will be on “When should your Investigators engage MU Information Technology”.  Presenters will be attending from MU DoIT.

Grant Connections - September 2017

Wednesday, September 27^th, 2017

11:00 a.m. – Noon

Room 171 of the Bond Life Sciences Center

Agenda

• Hot Topics
• Grants.gov Workspace --- Have you heard?  Grants.gov legacy PDF applications are retiring in December.  It’s time to learn how to prepare your proposal application in the new Grants.gov web-based submission solution called Workspace.   If you prepare or plan to prepare proposals to federal sponsors (e.g. U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Department of Labor), please join us as we learn the steps necessary to prepare your next proposal in Grants.gov Workspace.  You will get instruction in registering, creating, completing, and submitting your proposal. 

Mark your calendars! Meetings are scheduled for the following dates:

·         Wednesday, October 25, 2017

·         Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Grant Connections Organizational Crew (send your suggestions for future topics and questions to this group):                                 

Liz Bent, Grants & Contracts Administrator, CAFNR

Marty Carter, Senior Business Operations Associate, School of Medicine

Craig David, Director, OSPA

Shelly Hilton, Manager, Engineering Research Office

Sheryl Koenig, Grant Proposal Manager, Bond Life Sciences Center

Brenda Leuenberger, Senior Compliance Manager, OSPA

Cameron Purves, Business Support Specialist, Orthopedic Surgery

Julia Rodriguez, Grants & Contracts Administrator, Bond Life Sciences Center

Jamie Szabo, Associate Director, OSPA

We ask that meeting attendees refrain from using products that contain fragrance when attending these meetings. In particular, we ask that employees avoid using perfumes, scented hand and body lotions, scented hand soaps, cologne, and aftershave. Thank you in advance for your assistance in creating a scent-free environment for all employees.

Please forward this email on to anyone else associated with research who you think might be interested in attending.

Processing of legal agreements related to sharing materials and confidential information with outside collaborators

To: All MU Research Faculty,

Effective Monday, September 25^th, responsibility for oversight and processing of Confidentiality Disclosure/Nondisclosure Agreements (CDA, NDA), and incoming/outgoing Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) will occur at the Office of Sponsored Programs Administration (OSPA). Foremost in this effort is the continued protection of investigator’s confidential information and the preservation of information being shared, as well as the protection and ownership of intellectual property. 

Please continue to send these documents with relevant and appropriate contact information directly to MU’s central processing inbox for these agreements at agmts@missouri.edu.   

If you have an in-process agreement currently pending, the Office of Technology Management & Industry Relations (OTMIR) will work with you to finalize those documents.   New agreements and inquiries following Monday’s effective date will be administered in the Office of Sponsored Programs.  

Chase Bunger, Senior Compliance Manager in OSPA will serve as your point of contact beginning on Monday.  He can be reached at bungerc@missouri.edu, or (573) 882-0275.