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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We will be hosting a webinar on Friday, September 18th, 2:00pm – 3:00pm for faculty and staff to review the latest updates concerning NSF Current & Pending Support and Biographical Sketches. Click here to register, using a Columbia-affiliated email address.
Agenda will include:
- Latest clarifications from NSF and FAQs
- Walk through of the PDF-fillable forms
- Demo of SciENcv
As we have previously communicated, the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1) went into effect for proposals submitted or due on or after June 1, 2020. The PAPPG contains…
NSF released revised NSF Award Terms and Conditions (see this link to original email). The revised terms and conditions will apply to all new NSF awards and funding amendments to existing NSF awards made on or after October 5, 2020, with a few exceptions noted in the original announcement.
To highlight the more commonly used NSF grant mechanisms:
- Grant General Conditions (GC-1), effective October 5, 2020:
- Cooperative Agreement Financial & Administrative Terms and Conditions (CA-FATC), effective…
On Friday, NSF announced its decision to delay the requirement to use NSF-approved fillable PDF or SciENcv-generated forms for the biographical sketch and current and pending support sections of NSF proposals until October 1, 2020 [subsequently changed to October 5, 2020 after this email was sent]. However, applicants must continue to complete the biographical sketch and current and pending support sections in accordance with the revised PAPPG requirements (see PAPPG sections II.C.2.f and II.C.2.h).
This delay relates only to the format used to provide the biographical sketch and current and…
NSF made updates to their PDF-fillable Biographical Sketches and Current & Pending Support forms on May 1, 2020. A summary of the changes, which are mainly technical in nature, can be found in these FAQs.
They are still encouraging questions related to SciENcv, or questions technical in nature regarding the NSF fillable PDF formats, to be directed to their NSF Help Desk at 1-800-673-6188 (7:00 AM - 9:00 PM ET; Monday - Friday except federal holidays) or via [email protected]. Questions regarding the instructions or about policies should be directed to your SPA Project Officer.
We will…
The Shared Research Computing Advisory Policy Committee(SRCPAC) is offering researchers an opportunity to purchase nodes in a new shared High-Performance Computing System.
TIMING
We are taking orders between Wednesday, April 29, 2020 and Monday, June 15, 2020. Please specify the number and type of nodes (servers), and amount of storage. All orders will require a Chart String account code. The system will launch in late Fall 2020.
CONTACT
For any questions or to schedule an information session please contact George Garrett, Manager of Research Computing…
Dear NSF Principal Investigators,
Even with the current research ramp-down and COVID-19-related disruption, NSF policies continue to apply to current projects and proposals. In January 2020, the National Science Foundation released its updated Proposal and Award Administration Policies and Procedures Guide (“PAPP Guide”). The revised PAPP Guide takes effect June 1, 2020. The revised PAPP Guide includes two important changes to information that you include in your funding applications:
- Current and Pending Support
Current and Pending Support must include “all…
We wanted to bring to your attention that there are various funding opportunities dedicated to COVID-19 research available on our newly designed website, COVID-19: FAQs and Resources Relating to Research. You can find these opportunities, as well as other resources to support researchers within the section Conduct COVID-19 Research.
Select funding opportunities are available on this website, and there are instructions on how to use Pivot, a funding opportunity database, as a one-stop shop to identify COVID-19 opportunities from federal, private, and global sponsors. You will be able to view…
Dear Colleagues:
As you plan for the ramp-down of your laboratories, the Office of the EVPR is available to assist you in any way that we can.
As a start, we have attached a Laboratory Ramp-Down Checklist prepared by EH&S to help you to understand the tasks that are needed to ramp-down your research laboratory. Not all of the items will be applicable to all laboratories. EH&S is an important resource to help you to manage the ramp-down in a way that is safe for those essential personnel who are required to maintain permitted research functions and that is protective…
The Offices of the Executive Vice President for Research have collected FAQs relating to COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) and its impact on research activities. These can be found on the Research homepage, or directly at COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus): Frequently Asked Questions Relating to Research.
These FAQs contain information about COVID-19 as it relates to the conduct of research, research operations, and sponsored projects. This webpage will continue to be updated frequently as new information is received. As always, if you have questions about sponsored projects, reach out to your assigned…
Dear Colleagues,
We write to remind you of three important NIH requirements: (1) disclosure of “Other Support;” (2) prior approval for “Foreign Components;” and (3) disclosure to Columbia of all Financial Interests related to your institutional responsibilities, including honoraria or other compensation and sponsored travel provided by non-U.S. institutions of higher education.
Other Support
The following is NIH’s definition of Other Support, as clarified in the recently updated NIH Grants Policy Statement (GPS) for FY 2020:
- “Other support includes all resources…
The slides and webinar recording are now available of the NIH Rigor & Reproducibility Policy webinar that took place on Friday, September 27th, 2019.
You will need your Columbia UNI and password in order to access the slides and video. Please feel free to contact us with any questions.
Michelle C. Benson, PhD email at [email protected]
Stephanie F. Scott, MS, CRA email at [email protected]
NIH & AHRQ issued announcements that their salary caps increased from $189,600 to $192,300. See NIH Guidance NOT-OD-19-099 and AHRQ Guidance NOT-HS-19-013. The effective date of this increase is January 6th, 2019.
In summary, this is how the $192,300 salary cap can be applied:
- Proposals: NIH and AHRQ proposal budgets may be submitted using the new cap.
- Active Awards: Can rebudget funds to allow for increase in rates. It is a good time to verify all salary allocations, and adjust salary distributions as appropriate.
If you have any questions, please feel free…
More Department of Defense (DoD) Funding Opportunities have been released since I sent the original announcement on February 28th, 2019. There are opportunities for postdocs all the way through the full professor level. Pre-applications are required for most programs. Take a look at the following recently released announcements:
The Opioid Crisis and the Need for Research
As you may know, the US is facing a crisis with opioid abuse, with over 47,000 deaths in 2017. In response, many federal agencies are providing funding opportunities to research that addresses this crisis. The opportunities are broad in scope and inclusive of many scientific disciplines.
Columbia’s Response to the Opioid Crisis
The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research is dedicated to addressing this national crisis, and strongly supports multi-disciplinary research and new collaborations to examine all aspects of the…
NIH continues to update the Fellowship Parent Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) with information on participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs). See the latest list of updates in the March 8th version of their Weekly Guide:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=03-08-2019
There have been corrections made with regards to NIAID, NIBIB, and NEI. Therefore, it is possible you saw that an IC was not participating in a fellowship, but now they are!
The important thing to note is if you are not sure, or have other questions, review the Table of IC-Specific…