Columbia Wins National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center for the Third Consecutive Time
Building on discoveries from its prior iteration, the center will shift its focus to developing advanced electronic materials for semiconductors, quantum devices, and more.
The Department of Energy mission aims to integrate artificial intelligence into transformative scientific discovery.
Building on discoveries from its prior iteration, the center will shift its focus to developing advanced electronic materials for semiconductors, quantum devices, and more.
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Dear Colleagues,
We hope the new academic year is off to a good start. We are writing to all of you, who have a role in the academic personnel leave process, to let you know about a new requirement for faculty and officers of research who plan to take an unpaid leave from the University with a duration longer than three months.
Funding agencies, and Columbia policy, require the principal investigator and other senior/key persons to obtain prior approval from the agency before disengaging from a project for more than three months. When faculty or officers of research take…
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will mandate the use of SciENcv for the preparation of the biographical sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support information, effective with new proposals submitted or due on or after October 23, 2023. On that date, NSF applicants will no longer be able to use the NSF fillable-PDF forms, and they will no longer be accessible.
If you are planning to prepare an NSF proposal and haven’t already begun to use SciENcv we strongly recommend you become familiar with it now. Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA) will offer three webinars to researchers…
Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA) hosted a webinar on July 26, 2023 featuring Dr. Stephanie Rolin, a researcher at Columbia and recipient of an NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRP) award. Dr. Rolin is also an LRP Ambassador. The slides from that webinar are available at NIH LRP webinar, 7/26/2023.
Dr. Rolin will be hosting a six-week online workshop from August 16th – October 11th to provide direction and strategy to prospective applicants. This workshop is ideal for first-time applicants (though all are welcome to participate) and will provide practical resources to ensure…
Dear NSF Researchers,
If you plan to submit an NSF proposal on or after July 31, 2023, please read this message carefully.
Congress has mandated a new training requirement in responsible and ethical conduct of research (RECR) for all NSF-funded faculty and senior personnel. This message contains important information about how to meet this new requirement.
What is the new RECR training requirement?
In 2022, Congress mandated that faculty and senior personnel supported by NSF must complete RECR training. This training requirement has applied to NSF-funded undergraduates, graduate…
Dear Colleagues,
NIH has issued importance guidance that prohibits the use of ChatGPT or other similar programs in the peer review process:
NIH prohibits NIH scientific peer reviewers from using natural language processors, large language models, or other generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for analyzing and formulating peer review critiques for grant applications and R&D contract proposals. NIH is revising its Security, Confidentiality, and Non-disclosure Agreements for Peer Reviewers to clarify this prohibition. Reviewers should be aware that uploading or sharing content…
We are writing to let the research community know there are two new templates that can be used to create NIH Data management and Sharing (DMS) Plans that are in DMPTool. NIH plans to implement one of these templates across all NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices (ICOs) sometime next year.
Background:
Columbia University is a member of the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP), an association of universities, research institutions, and federal agencies collaborating together to examine ways to reduce administrative burden associated with the management of federally funded sponsored projects…
The Shared Research Computing Policy Advisory Committee (SRCPAC) is happy to offer the Columbia research community the option to buy into the next shared high performance computing cluster. For more details and pricing, see the full 2023 HPC Buy-in Announcement.
Please fill out our shared HPC order form between Monday, May 22, 2023 and Friday, June 16, 2023. All orders will require a chartstring account code. Please ensure that your chartstring is properly budgeted and will be valid until the end of the calendar year. We plan for the…
Dear Members of the NIH Research Community,
In preparation for the upcoming NIH proposal deadlines, we are resuming Data Management Office Hours. Office hours will be available to address questions and concerns related to writing a data management and sharing plan, selecting repositories, and general consultation about the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. Registration is not required for these sessions, which are held over Zoom (link below).
- Next session: Thursday, 5/25/2023; 1:00pm – 2:00pm Eastern Time
Zoom link to join the call
Meeting ID: 990…
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago via our listservs, NIH is going to launch a newly redesigned xTrain on March 30th. xTrain is used to manage appointments, reappointments and terminations for institutional training grants (Ts), individual fellowships (Fs), institutional career development awards (K12), and some research education awards (such as the R25).
NIH released additional information about the new xTrain, which can be read here. In addition, they created a high-level, six-minute video walking through the new xTrain. Their detailed, online user guide won’t be available until after the…
This is a reminder that Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA), in collaboration with Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT), will be launching Rascal Proposal Tracking 3.0, anticipated to be released the start of April. We will be hosting webinars beginning next week.
What is Rascal Proposal Tracking?
Rascal Proposal Tracking is currently required to register any new or competing renewal grant or contract proposals with SPA. It captures critical proposal and compliance details used by your SPA Project Officer for proposal review and submission to a sponsor. Rascal Proposal…
Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA), in collaboration with Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT), is excited to announce Rascal Proposal Tracking 3.0, anticipated to be released the end of March 2023.
What is Rascal Proposal Tracking?
Rascal Proposal Tracking is currently required to register any new or competing renewal grant or contract proposals with SPA. It captures critical proposal and compliance details used by your SPA Project Officer for proposal review and submission to a sponsor. Rascal Proposal Tracking is also used to register proposal resubmissions, transfer…
We have two important clarifications for PIs regarding: (1) the use of DMPTool and NIH’s formatting requirements, and (2) when the Resource Sharing Plans are required in addition to the Data Management and Sharing Plan.
- DMPTool - When using DMPTool to create the DMS Plan, the Plan must comply with all of NIH’s formatting requirements. Otherwise, the application is at risk of getting withdrawn. This includes font size, margins, and no URLs or hyperlinks are allowed. You should download the Plan created in DMPTool as a Word document to make sure you can meet all formatting requirements…
The new NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 23-1) took effect this week for proposals submitted on, or due on or after, Monday, January 30, 3023. To assist with the creation of NSF’s new Biographical Sketches and Current & Pending (C&P) Support formats, we provide you with the following:
Resources
- Have I Included…? - a questionnaire to assist you with ensuring all projects and in-kind contributions are included in the C&P form.
- The Rascal Other Support Tool - a starting point to assist researchers in identifying current…
Dear NSF-funded Researchers and Applicants,
As we have previously communicated, as of today (January 30, 2023) all NSF proposals that include off-campus or off-site research must have a plan to ensure a safe and inclusive work environment for that specific project, and must share the plan with all participants. NSF defines “off-campus or off-site research” as “data/information/samples being collected off-campus or off-site, such as fieldwork on research vessels and aircraft.”
To support principal investigators in meeting this new requirement, we have created two templates that…