1. Research Administrators’ Forum
Elizabeth H. Adams
Assistant Vice President of Research Administration
January 26, 2017

2. OSP Staffing Update Karin Smith, Grants Assistant
Wendy Charlton, Grants Assistant
Bill Schoelwer, Contract Negotiator
Dette LaRobardier, Contracts Administrator
Offer pending for Director of Pre Award
Several positions posted (join us )

3. FY17: Mid-year update
Research funding is increasing at UVA at impressive rates in a hypercompetitive environment (8% dollar value growth from FY15 to FY16; ~11% dollar value growth after 2QFY17)
SOM and SEAS are leading the way
Awards from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy show unusually significant growth
Spending at federal agencies for the 2017 government fiscal year, which began last October, is currently frozen at 2016 levels through the end of April under a continuing resolution; agency awardmaking naturally tends to be more conservative under continuing resolutions

4. ResearchUVA: Major Objectives Achieved in FY17
Strategic Investment Fund proposal awarded; selected by President Sullivan as model SIF application
ResearchUVA now captures proposal data (as of 7/1/16)
Number of proposals submitted
Dollar value of proposals submitted
Data definitions developed; data quality measures implemented
“Hit rate” methodologies developed
ResearchUVA now captures all project key and senior personnel
Underpins reporting on “interdisciplinary research”
Underpins “credit” considerations related to the business of interdisciplinary research
ResearchUVA now captures effort commitments
Critical compliance issue
Currently there is no reliable, enterprise-level source of current and pending information for investigators
Platform to daily reconcile information between ResearchUVA and Oracle; our preaward and postaward systems do not currently talk (!)

5. ResearchUVA: Major Objectives Remaining in FY17
Capability to document, route and track non-funded agreements (NFAs) such as NDAs, DUAs, MTAs; rolling out January 2017
No process for this segment of work in the past; no reporting on this segment of work in the past
Limited cost recovery models for this increasing segment of work
Sponsored programs “dashboard”/data visualization and analytics platform; rolling out February-March
Optical character recognition of all documents in ResearchUVA
Evaluate integration with other UVA systems/business functions such as ResearchNET, COI, IRB, ACUC, CRISP, etc.
Establishment/redevelopment of standard operating procedures governing major transaction types in ResearchUVA
Redevelopment of ResearchUVA security model
ResearchUVA must meet web accessibility standards
Review vendor-supplied preaward enterprise system solutions