Announcing the 2026 RISE Program Awardees
Eight interdisciplinary teams will receive a year of seed funding for their early-stage, high-risk/high-reward projects.
Dear fellow members of the Columbia research community,
We write to express our appreciation for the resilience of the Columbia research community over the past year. Even in challenging and uncertain times, researchers continued to submit proposals, conduct research, publish, and mentor the next generation of researchers. Administrators and staff continued to process, manage, document, and take often invisible but timely action to support our research. Students and postdocs continued to pursue their curiosity, probe experiments and theories, and build professional relationships with mentors and…
Our Researcher of the Month is Nataliya L. Wright, PhD, Assistant Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
Eight interdisciplinary teams will receive a year of seed funding for their early-stage, high-risk/high-reward projects.
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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…
Dear Members of the Research Community,
We write to remind you of two important federal legal requirements related to sponsored projects:
- Certification of current and pending/other support (per Section 223 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021)
Federal law requires principal investigators and senior/key persons to:
- disclose the amount, type, and source of all current and pending research support received by, or expected to be received by, the individual as of the time of the disclosure;
- certify that the disclosure is current,…
Our office will be hosting a town hall on Wednesday, December 14th at 2pm EST to review very important upcoming changes to NSF proposals and awards, taking effect for proposals submitted or due on or after January 30, 2023 as stated in NSF’s revised version of the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 23-1).
To register for the town hall on December 14th, register here, using a Columbia-affiliated email address.
The town hall agenda will include, but is not limited to:
- Revisions to the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support formats to require…
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community,
We write to reiterate Columbia University’s commitment to integrity in scholarly research, and to remind you of key policies and resources that support your research endeavors. In particular, if you conduct research, or if you support people who conduct research, please be sure to read the information below.
- The University’s conflict of interest and conflict of commitment policies affirm that a researcher’s outside activities may stimulate and nurture scholarship. These policies also address how real or perceived conflicts may cause…
NIH’s new Data Management and Sharing Policy (NOT-OD-21-013) takes effect January 25, 2023. For a high-level overview of the Policy, see their PowerPoint presentation, Data Management & Sharing Policy Overview (June 2022).
NIH will be offering a two-part webinar series to prepare researchers and administrators for the policy implementation:
- Thursday, August 11, 2022 / 1:30 - 3:30 PM EDT; Understanding the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
- Agenda: In this webinar, you will learn about DMS policy expectations, the applicability of the policy, how to prepare a Data…