Research Bulletin
UF Research Reminder: New State Requirements for Researchers and Universities
The State of Florida recently enacted a foreign influence law, HB7017, which imposes new requirements on the university and its researchers. This legislation, passed unanimously in both the House and Senate, seeks to identify and prevent undue foreign influence on...
UF Research Reminder: Disclosure Requirements for Current UF Employees
As a reminder, researchers must continue to adhere to university and federal requirements, particularly as they relate to international engagements regarding disclosing all outside activities to the university and other support to federal agencies per agency-specific...
UF Research Reminder: NIH Requires All Financial and In-Kind Support to Be Disclosed in Other Support
Effective May 25, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires that all financial and in-kind support for any research that UF key personnel perform whether that is performed as part of their UF appointment, an outside activity, as consulting, or as part of...
10 Tips on Grant Writing from a Seasoned Reviewer
Excerpted from The Chronicle of Higher Education by Jude P. Mikal, June 18, 2021 Here are 10 tips to help you write your grant application and guide reviewers to the information they need to advocate for your research. Pay close attention to your summary statements....
UF IT Provides Proposal Support for Researchers
UF IT is committed to doing everything possible to enable the research community. In addition to providing high performance computing consulting, UF IT staff can help make your sponsored funding proposals more competitive with letters and templates related to the...
UF IRB Best Practices: What Is the Difference Between a Minor and a Major Revision?
Why is it important to distinguish between minor and major revisions? Question 3.0 on the Revision Smart Form asks teams whether the revision they are submitting is a minor revision or a major revision. Giving the best answer to this question is important because...
NSF 101 Blog Series Provides Answers to FAQs about Applying to NSF Funding Opportunities
The National Science Foundation (NSF) provides an informational blog series NSF 101 to answer frequently asked questions for applicants who may be new to applying for NSF funding opportunities or who want to learn more about communicating with NSF. NSF101 collaborates...
UF Research Launches New Research Lifecycle Website
UF Research has launched a new Research Lifecycle web environment designed to help all users — principal investigators, research administrators, study coordinators, and other staff — easily navigate to the information they need most at any stage of a project. The web...
UF/IFAS 4-H Program Invites COE Faculty Collaborations
The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Florida 4-H program annually engages approximately 200,000 young people ages 5-18 in developmental and educational programs. These youth are guided and mentored by more than 7,000...
NVIDIA Deep-Learning Institute Offerings
NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) online courses are available free to UF faculty, students, and staff. The course examples can easily be ported to the HiPerGator AI cluster and integrated into a researcher’s work or professor’s classes. Students, faculty, and...
Research Spotlight: Wei Li
Q & A with Wei Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education What basic questions does your research seek to answer? I am a quantitative researcher. My research centers on the development and application...
New Framework Provides Guidance for Broader Impacts in Research Proposals
A new framework for articulating broader impacts in research proposals is now available from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. NSF's existing criteria for evaluating research proposals through both...
UF IRB Best Practices: Documents and Changes
The UF Institutional Review Board (IRB) receives approximately 3,000 new submissions and 5,000 revisions annually. The UF IRB staff and reviewers work hard to make sure that each submission is carefully and efficiently evaluated, but there are things you can do to...
UF IRB Best Practices: The Revision Smart Form
Submitting revisions in myIRB is more than just modifying your study. The UF IRB offers tips from IRB staff for filling out the out the myIRB Revision Smart Form. The first two Smart Form questions are about getting the reviewer(s) the information needed to quickly...
NSF Offers 5 Tips on How to Work with a Program Officer
Excerpted from NSF Science Matters blog February 23, 2021 by Vincent Tedjasaputra, PhD Whatever the phase of your research career, it is a good idea to reach out to a National Science Foundation (NSF) program officer as the first step in the NSF application process....
NIH Program Officers Discuss Developing a Research Plan
In the latest All About Grants podcast, National Institutes of Health (NIH) program officers discuss Considerations for Developing a Research Plan, including the relationship between the specific aims and research strategy. They also provide helpful suggestions and...
NIH Provides Video on the Peer Review Process
In a recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) video, NIH Peer Review: “Live” Mock Study Section, NIH scientists gather to review three fictional grant applications in response to a fictional Request for Applications (RFA). The reviewers discuss how applications are...
NIH Launches Improved Functionality of RePORTER Site
Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched its RePORTER (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) website to provide reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities. The site’s functionality has been updated, including a new version of...
UF Research Provides UF-Preferred Template Agreements
UF Research provides template agreements with UF-preferred language ready to send to any potential partner. Using a UF-preferred template and language cuts negotiation time as these templates use predetermined favorable terms on behalf of the Principal Investigator...
U.S. ED Offers New Open Data Platform
The Open Data Platform (ODP), at https://data.ed.gov/ is the U.S. Department of Education’s comprehensive data inventory, including metadata and other documentation describing the data. The ODP makes it easier for educators, researchers, and the public to access the...
NIH Releases New Policy for Data Management and Sharing
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released its Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing representing a commitment to share and make broadly available the results of publicly funded research. The new requirements were formed over many years with...
Updating Consents in myIRB
When revising consent forms, assent forms, and information sheets, click on the link to the document (listed under Attachment ICF, circled in red) to revise or update an existing consent form so that changes can be tracked. Only use the Add button to add an additional...
10 Things to Know About ED/IES SBIR
Excerpted from Seed Funding for the Next Generation of Education Technologies Presented by SBIR Program Manager Dr. Edward Metz, September 3, 2020 #1 What is SBIR? • The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program is America’s Seed Fund operated by the U.S....
Developing Teams for Collaborative Grant Proposals
On September 22, 2020, Hanover Research presented a webinar on Developing Teams for Collaborative Grant Proposals, discussing the differences between a traditional collaboration and an integrated research team. In a customary collaboration, each member typically works...
UF Faculty Insights Tool Helps Locate Potential Collaborators Across Campus
UF Faculty Insights is an online portal into the research portfolio of UF. This new collaboration tool is available to provide information on the research expertise of UF faculty. The tool is set up with two views: one for faculty, staff, and students and one for the...