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UTHSC RESEARCH NOTES # 20070831

1. Article: NSF, NIH Emphasize the Importance of Mentoring

2. You’re invited: The Third Frontier Program Overview

3. Funding Opportunities through your UT Portal

4. FastLane changes to reduce the use of Social Security Numbers (SSNs)

5. The Table Of Contents Of The August 31, 2007 NIH Guide

1. Article: NSF, NIH Emphasize the Importance of Mentoring

An initiative to help postdocs learn their profession while having the freedom to pursue their own ideas and studies at the same time has been adopted by NIH and NSF. The two funding organizations will require researchers to include mentoring plans in their grant applications, to ensure that postdocs won’t be considered simply as workers. 

For more information, read this article by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

2. You’re invited: The Third Frontier Program Overview

The Third Frontier Program Overview is an Ohio program to support R&D and technology commercialization

Friday, September 14th at 10 AM
The Toledo Hilton
3100 Glendale Avenue
The Grand Ballroom-Oak/Pine/Willow

President Jacobs will introduce Dr. Norm Chagnon, Executive Director of the Third Frontier Commission, who will discuss the various Third Frontier programs and answer questions.

The State of Ohio has budgeted $207.5 million to support a wide-range of R&D and technology commercialization activities in the coming year.  If you are interested in obtaining additional research funding or need money for prototype development or commercialization, you will want to attend this presentation. Opportunities for project funding in all fields are abundant.

A listing of Third Frontier programs is at:  http://www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/third_frontier_project/programs.cfm

Third Frontier Website URL: http://www.ohiochannel.org/your_state/third_frontier_project/index.cfm

Ifyou have any questions, please contact: Frank J. Calzonetti, frank.calzonetti@utoledo.edu

Did you know that you can subscribe to NIH and COS Funding Opportunities via your UT Portal?

Here’s how:

1. From the My UT portal page, select the “Content/Layout” option in the top left corner.
2. Select the tab you would like your funding opportunities to appear on, and the desired location and click the button “add Channel”
3. Select a category (such as resources) and this will propagate a list of channels available to you. Highlight the desired channel and complete the process by selecting the add channel button under step 3.

Channels that may be of interest to you:

1. Funding News from COS (RSS)
2. Health Science Funding News – COS RSS
3. Humanities Funding News –COS RSS
4. NIH Funding Opportunities

Continue to browse the UT portal channels and find the many ways you can personalize your home page to better work for you.

4. FastLane changes to reduce the use of Social Security Numbers (SSNs)

Inorder to comply with Government directives, FastLane has introduced the following chages which began on August 4th, 2007.

 

FastLane Registration:

 

Registration modules, for new individuals, contacts, and organizations, will be modified to remove the request for SSN data. A pseudo-SSN, soon to be renamed "NSF ID," will be generated for all new users.

The Registration modules affected include:

• New Individual
• New Organization
• New Contact
• New Postdoctoral Fellowship
  

FastLane Coversheet co-PI Assignment:

Currently, co-PIs may be added to a proposal coversheet by a PI entering either the co-PI's email address or SSN. As of August 4th, only email address or NSF ID will be accepted.

Existing FastLane users will NOT be affected, except for those adding a co-PI to a proposal coversheet.

5. The Table of Contents of the August 31, 2007 NIH GUIDE

The previous static listings for browsing published NIH Guide announcements have been replaced with real-time database query listings that retrieve only active Requests for Applications ( RFAs ) and Program Announcements ( PAs ), based on the expiration dates stated in those announcements. The new listing for NIH Guide Notices displays Notices published over the last two years, by default, since expiration dates are not currently assigned to these announcements. Links to these new resources are available from the main NIH Guide Funding Opportunities and Notices page, at:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html

All announcements (active plus inactive) in each category may also be viewed by using selections in the drop-down box at the top of each listing page. Clicking on header links allows re-sorting of lists. In addition, a new Ad Hoc NIH Guide Database Search page http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/search_guide.htm is available, which allows for individualized queries with various selection criteria.

Ifyou have any difficulty obtaining the information you need from the Guide, contact Carol Reichenbach, carol.reichenbach@utoledo.edu, at HSC extension 4252, or Rick Francis, rick.francis@utoledo.edu, at MC extension 6193.

NIH Guide For Week Ending August 31, 2007

[Use The Link Below To Access Table of Contents of Guide]

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/WeeklyIndex.cfm?WeekEnding=8-31-2007