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Grants Training in Gainesville

The City of Gainesville and Grant Writing USA will present a two-day grants workshop in Gainesville, February 26 – 27, 2018.  This training is applicable to grant seekers across all disciplines.  Beginning and experienced grant writers from city, county, and state agencies as well as nonprofits, K-12, colleges, and universities are encouraged to attend. This […]

Applications Invited for the Meta-Analysis Training Institute

The Meta-Analysis Training Institute is accepting applications for its upcoming session on state-of-the-art advanced meta-analytic methods. This training is funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) National Center for Education Research (NCER). Dates: August 5–11, 2018 Location: Loyola University Water Tower Campus, Chicago, IL Application due date: Monday, March 12, 2018 Workshop details and […]

Save the Date: Spring 2018 NSF Grants Conference

The Spring 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Conference will take place on June 4 – 5, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Registration will open on Thursday, March 15 at 12:00 PM EST. NSF anticipates the conference will reach capacity very quickly and encourages you to register as soon as it opens.

Application Information for the Summer Research Training Institute: Cluster-Randomized Trials

Northwestern University, with a grant from the Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Research (NCER), is accepting applications for its 10th Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials (CRT). Dates: July 30 – August 9, 2018 Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Application due date:  Friday, March 30, 2018, at 8:00 p.m. EST. Applicant […]

Spring UFIT Training Schedule Announced

The spring 2018 UFIT Training calendar includes online training, webinars, and face-to-face workshops. Training locations, times, prerequisites, and registration links are available on https://training.it.ufl.edu/. Technology training with UFIT is always free. Among the classes offered this semester are as follows:

Updated Options for Research Computing Storage

UFIT Research Computing recently updated its storage offerings. The UF prices, which are subsidized, have not changed. The new storage option ($25/TB/year) is called the “orange” option, while the existing /ufrc storage is now the “blue” option. The options support different use cases, summarized at Help > Getting Started > Storage. Replicated storage is no […]

Awarded Projects for January 2018

Congratulations to Donald Pemberton for his award from Lauren’s Kids; and Philip Poekert for his awards from Children First Professional Development Center and the Children’s Forum. For more details, see the Awarded Projects table.

Submitted Projects for January 2018

Best wishes to Pasha Antonenko for his proposal to the National Science Foundation; Pasha Antonenko, Benjamin Lok, Ellen Davis, and Andreas Keil for their proposal to the UF Opportunity Fund; Christopher Busey for his proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Maria Coady for her proposal to the National Science Foundation; Nicholas Gage, Ashley MacSuga-Gage, and Kristy […]

COE Accomplishments in 2017

Welcome Back! We want to congratulate the COE faculty for their accomplishments in 2017 and look forward to continued success in 2018. We are constantly looking for opportunities for external funding to share. Please contact us. We are here to help! Listed below are some noteworthy statistics from the 2016 fiscal year:

COE Research Event: 2018 Corporate & Foundation Relations Workshop

The COE Office of Educational Research (OER) cordially invites you to attend the 2018 Corporate & Foundation Relations (CFR) Workshop jointly sponsored by OER, COE Development Office, and the UF Foundation (UFF). The workshop will focus on funding opportunities from corporations and private foundations in the state of Florida and beyond. When: Tuesday, January 23, […]

UF Provides Courtesy Summaries of Research Training

The Office of Research, Enterprise Systems, and Training & Organizational Development are pleased to announce a new service for UF researchers: courtesy transcripts of research-related trainings. Anyone with active research training in the system will receive an email that lists (a) research trainings and (b) when they expire. This is a courtesy transcript and there is nothing that […]

NSF Proposal Preparation and Submission in Research.gov Begins in April

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has been involved in a multi-year initiative to modernize the proposal submission process and transition from using FastLane to Research.gov. Beginning in April 2018, proposers can choose to prepare and submit non-collaborative research proposals in FastLane or Research.gov. Collaborative proposals must still be submitted in FastLane. As always, the COE […]

NSF Updates Its Account Management System

This spring, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is implementing changes to the way the research community maintains account and user profile information in FastLane and Research.gov. NSF will centralize and streamline the account registration process for the external research community providing each user with a single profile and unique identifier (i.e., NSF ID) to be […]