Save the Date: UF Offers NSF Grants and CAREER Award Workshop

The UF Office of Research is sponsoring an NSF grants and CAREER award workshop April 1, 2020 from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm in the Reitz Union Chamber Room. The workshop is for early-career tenure-track faculty hired between 2017 and 2020 and will be expanded to include more participants if space constraints will allow.

Attendance at the morning session is a prerequisite to participate in the afternoon CAREER award session. The registration fee is $75 and will include an NSF-focused grant-writing workbook. Registration details are coming soon.

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NIH Updates Human Subject Research Decision Tool

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced updates to its human subjects research decision tool to reflect changes effective in the 2018 Revised Common Rule. The tool consists of answering a few questions to determine if proposed research could be considered human subjects research or if it may be exempt from federal regulations.

This tool is only for use in the research planning phase of an NIH grant submission. According to University of Florida policy, regardless of what this tool determines (i.e., even if the tool determines that for NIH purposes the research is non-human or exempt), all research involving humans, human tissue, or human data must be submitted to a UF IRB for approval before engaging in the research.

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Zoom Offers Automatic Transcription Feature

Cloud recording is automatically enabled for all paid Zoom subscribers, and Zoom can automatically transcribe your meetings. You can follow the basic steps below to generate a transcript. For more detailed instructions, including how to edit and search in a transcript, visit the Zoom Help Center Automatically Transcribe Cloud Recordings webpage.

  • Sign in to your UF Zoom account (https://ufl.zoom.us/). Cloud recording and audio transcript features should be enabled. You can check by navigating to Settings.
  • To begin generating a transcript, start a meeting and click on Record. Then choose Record to the Cloud. Once you end the meeting, Zoom will send you a notification email when the recordings are available.
  • Zoom will generate up to five files depending on your settings with a minimum of two files audio (.m4a) and transcript (.vtt).
  • Click on the link in the notification email or navigate to Recordings in your Zoom account to access and download your files.
  • The transcript will be generated as a .vtt file. To open, right-click on the file once it is downloaded (or open before it is saved) using Word. If Word does not appear in the “How do you want to open this file” pop up box, click on “More apps” where you can choose Word from the list.

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UF IT Offers Free R Programming Course

To support the research community’s application training needs, UF Information Technology is offering a free, face-to-face training series on R Programming. Enrollees must have completed at least one graduate-level course in statistics prior to the start of the training series. To register, visit https://training.it.ufl.edu/training/ and search on “programming” in the “Search by title” box. Visit the R Programming Training webpage for more information.

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Awarded Projects for January 2020

Congratulations to Lynda Hayes for her award from the Florida Department of Education.

For more details, see the Awarded Projects table.

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Submitted Projects for January 2020

Best wishes to Pasha Antonenko and Andreas Keil for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Chris Curran and Christopher Redding for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Chris Curran for his proposal to the National Science Foundation; Angela Kohnen, Danling Fu, Kara Dawson, and Jonathan Mundorf for their proposal to the Spencer Foundation; Anne Corinne Huggins-Manley for her subcontract proposal Spencer Foundation Flow Through from the University of Helsinki; Justin Ortagus and Isaac McFarlin for their proposal to the Helios Education Foundation; Justin Ortagus for his subcontract proposal W. T. Grant Foundation Flow Through from Pennsylvania State University; Philip Poekert for his proposals to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education; Paige Pullen for her proposals to Bright from the Start Georgia Department of Early Care & Learning; Darbianne Shannon for her proposal to the San Diego County Office of Education; Ross Van Boven, Christopher Anthony, and Kathrin Maki for their subcontract proposal National Science Foundation Flow Through from the University of Iowa; and Wanli Xing for his proposals to the National Science Foundation.

For more details, see the Submitted Projects table.

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Happy New Year from Your OER Team!

Welcome Back! We want to congratulate the COE faculty for their accomplishments in 2019 and look forward to continued success in 2020. We are constantly on the lookout for opportunities for external funding to share. Contact us. We are here to help!

Listed below are some noteworthy statistics from the 2018 fiscal year:

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U.S. Congress Releases Text to Finalize FY 2020 Appropriations

In December, the U.S. Congress released text for two conference bills to finalize FY 2020 appropriations, including the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill.

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) received a total of $623.5 million, an increase of $8 million, or 1.3%, over FY 2019:

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U.S. Department of Education Announces Newly Proposed Discretionary Grant Priorities

The U.S. Department of Education (US ED) has announced several proposed priorities for discretionary grant programs.

First, the Final Priority for Discretionary Grant Programs supports alignment between the US ED discretionary grant investments and the Trump Administration’s Opportunity Zones initiative in an effort to support students, teachers, and parents in economically distressed communities officially selected as Opportunity Zones.

Second, six Administrative Priorities for Discretionary Grant Programs expand the department’s flexibility to support a broader range of applicants with varying experience in managing federal funds (Priorities 1 and 2), applicants proposing to serve rural communities (Priorities 3 and 4), applicants demonstrating a rationale for their proposed projects (Priority 5), or applicants proposing to collect data after the grant’s original project period (Priority 6).

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Important Reminder: UF Policy on International Travel

When planning for international travel, COE faculty should complete their departmental approval process and follow these steps:

  1. Review the guidance on the UF Research International Travel webpage and contact the Division of Research Compliance and Global Support for assistance with export licenses or other authorizations.
  2. Register your travel with the UF International Center.
  3. Request pre-approval from UF Asset Management if you are traveling with any UF-owned equipment, including your laptop.

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Important Notice: Exchange Visitor Services English Proficiency Requirements Are Changing

To better uphold the U.S. Department of State’s requirement for proving appropriate English proficiency for sponsored exchange visitors within the J-1 Program and to strengthen UF’s compliance with the federal guidelines for English proficiency, the UF International Center Exchange Visitor Services (EVS) will be instituting new options for English proficiency for scholar, professor, and student intern category DS-2019 requests.

The new options go into effect on February 17, 2020.

Current English proficiency options will be accepted until 5pm on Friday, February 14, 2020. Please note the current “Required Documents” PDF indicates the faculty confirmation letter is accepted only until 01/01/2020; this has changed to February 14, 2020. The PDF will be updated shortly.

See the following for a list of the upcoming changes:

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NSF Is Changing Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Documents

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently finalizing a revised Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) for use in 2020, and anticipates that the revised PAPPG will be released in the coming months. As is standard practice, the PAPPG will be effective 90 days after its release. This new version incorporates changes to the preparation and submission of the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending documents using SciENcv: Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae.

Use of the SciENcv NSF-approved format for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending documents will be required upon implementation of the PAPPG.

The UF Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP) strongly encourages proposers to begin using SciENcv now for preparation of the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending documents in anticipation of the upcoming NSF requirements.

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Application Is Open for 2020 Strategic Communications Academy for UF Leaders and Scholars

UF’s College of Journalism and Communications and UF Training & Organizational Development are pleased to offer a unique professional development program for faculty and staff ready to take their communication and leadership skills to the next level.

Participants will be selected via a competitive application process. The deadline to submit an application for the 2020 program is January 22, 2020.

Please see the Strategic Communications Academy Application webpage to apply.

For more information, see https://leadership.hr.ufl.edu/programs/sca/.

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Request for Information: American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in February

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will hold its annual meeting Thursday, February 13, 2020 – Sunday, February 16, 2020, 8:00am – 8:00pm in Seattle, WA.

UF would like to know beforehand which UF faculty are attending the AAAS meeting in order to help promote their research. Department chairs or faculty can contact Dr. David Reed directly at dlreed@ufl.edu if they know of someone who is attending. Dr. Reed will be reaching out to all AAAS Fellows directly including the new inductees for this year. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Advance registration rates are available now through January 24, 2020.

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Call for Proposals: Spring 2020 NAFSA Research Symposium

NAFSA: Association of International Educators is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the eighth one-day Research Symposium, A Critical Discussion of Theories, Methodologies, and Practices in International Education to be held Friday, April 24, 2020, at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

The deadline for paper submissions is January 26, 2020. Please submit your 1-page proposal via the online form for proposal submissions.

The deadline for poster submissions is March 1, 2020. Please submit your poster presentation with a 250-300 word research summary via the online form for poster submissions.

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