The OER is currently completing a draft of its annual report outlining data on externally funded projects and grants activities. Faculty productivity has been sustained, and efforts toward securing external funding remain active.

The following represents a summary of accomplishments for Fiscal Year 2013-2014:

• COE faculty members in all schools and centers have submitted a total of 70 proposals, requesting $32.2 million in grant funding. Proposal submissions included one to the National Institutes of Health, two to the U.S. Department of Justice, eight to the U.S. Department of Education (including one to the Institute of Educational Science [IES]), six for IES subcontracts, ten to the National Science Foundation, seven to the Florida Department of Education, and two to the Spencer Foundation.
• COE PIs and Co-PIs had 30 new proposals funded totaling over $8 million in new awards, including two awards from the National Science Foundation. This represents a 36.4% percent increase in the number of newly funded awards as compared to the previous fiscal year.
• Finally, COE schools and centers have 70 currently funded projects totaling over $74 million. This represents a 4.5% percent increase in the number of currently funded projects as compared to the previous fiscal year.

Congratulations for another great year!

The final version of OER’s annual report will be available through the OER website soon.

Do you need to learn how to develop surveys and analyze respondent data? Learn all of the ins and outs of survey development by signing up for the free three-part Qualtrics workshops. Offered at the HUB, the series explains how to use Qualtrics, the online survey tool provided free to all faculty and staff.

The three workshops in the series are Qualtrics Basic, Qualtrics Moving On, and Qualtrics Advanced. Each 2 hr 30 min workshop features a hands-on learning experience. The series covers everything from creating and distributing surveys to editing surveys and analyzing the results.

A new Qualtrics for Mobile Devices and Offline Surveys workshop is also available for faculty and staff interested in using the Qualtrics app on their mobile devices. Workshops are scheduled as needed. If you’re interested in participating, please e-mail Jose Silva-Lugo with your name, college or department affiliation, and UF employee affiliation (faculty, staff, master’s degree student or Ph.D. candidate). The workshop series will be scheduled once 15 participants express an interest, with a maximum of 20 participants per workshop.

UF requires the destruction of old data on any electronic equipment that is discarded, transferred, or reused. UF has an on-site media disposal and shredding service available for faculty and staff. The service is available at the Health Science Center (in the Communicore Building) and at the Hub. Items accepted for secure disposal include the following: CDs and DVDs, USB flash drives and memory sticks, cell phones, camera memory cards, microfiche and film, external hard drives, floppy disks, tapes, and removed internal hard drives. If you have any items with stored data that you want to discard, this is the way to do it safely and quickly. Learn more about the process in this UF Information Technology news article.