Research Resources & Professional Development

Getting started with Grants

What does a grant cycle entail?

• Pre-Award:
  • Starts with an idea
  • Find funding
  • Prepare the proposal
  • Submit the proposal and secure approvals
  • Negotiate & accept the award
    • Anita Randle, Research Administration Advisor, Post-Award
    • Christy White, Contracts and Grants Specialist
• Post-Award:
  • Manage the award
    • Applied Sciences: Tessa Kilpatrick
    • Accounting
  • Closeout the project
    • Applied Sciences: Tessa Kilpatrick
    • Accounting

Types of Awards

• Grants (includes Cooperative Agreements)
• Contracts (includes Subawards, Subcontracts, State Contracts, Research Agreements and Clinical Trial Agreements)

Pre-Award

• Current Rates
• Form Bank (includes Proposal Budget Checklist, Request for Cost Share Assistance, Justification for Direct Charging of Normally F&A Cost, Proposed Budget Revision Transmittal Sheet, and Checklist for Determination of Sub-recipient or Contractor)
• Budget justification and budget spreadsheet (Need from Tessa)
• Transmittal
• ORSP Policies and Procedures
• IRB (Institutional Review Board)
  • Submit a Protocol Application
  • Mandatory Education
  • Form Bank
  • Policies and Procedures

Award and Post-Award

• Form Bank (includes Consultant, Equipment & Subawards)
• Accounting Office
• Export Control (regulations and implementation requirements for protecting information and technology, export license decision making steps, and forms)