Join the Center for Social Science Scholarship for a virtual social science coffee hour!

Bring your own beverage and stay connected with the social science community.  This will be our last opportunity to get together this semester, so please join us to share your Fall 2020 successes and challenges, as well as your hopes and plans for Spring 2021.

DATE:  November 23, 2020

TO:  Business Managers/Department Chairs/Center Directors/Faculty

FROM:  Stan Jackson, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs

RE:  OSP deadlines over the Winter Break, Dec. 24, 2020 – Jan. 2, 2021

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This is a special announcement concerning the OSP schedule for reviewing/approving proposals with deadlines to federal and other agencies that occur during Winter Break this year. 

Please note:

1. All proposals with submission deadlines occurring between December 25, 2020 and January 3, 2021 must be fully routed, ready for submission, and released to the OSP office by close of business on December 18, 2020; and
2. All proposals with submission deadlines occurring between January 4thd and 6th, 2021 (the first 3 business days after the break) will be due to OSP by 9:00 a.m. on December 21, 2020.

This schedule is consistent with our current policy, which requires the submission of complete proposals to OSP at least three business days before the agency submission deadline. Since UMBC is closed during the Winter Break, OSP will also be closed. 

The campus closure during Winter Break will cause a heavy workload on OSP staff, so we will enforce our current policy more consistently.  Proposals received after the OSP deadlines specified above will be reviewed on a first-come/first-serve basis and will be submitted only if time permits.  In keeping with the deadline enforcement policy of OVPR, any proposal not fully routed and ready for submission by 9:00 a.m. of the deadline date will not be submitted to the agency.  If the deadline occurs over Winter Break this deadline is the last working day before the break.

Thank you for your understanding.

Russell Sage Foundation: 
New Presidential Authority Grants 

RSF recently approved nineteen Presidential Authority grants and one supplemental grant in the foundation’s programs on Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political, and Economic Inequality. Additional grants were made in its special initiatives on Decision Making and Human Behavior in Context and Immigration and Immigrant Integration.

Letters of Inquiry are due by May 4, 2021.

Click here to apply and for more information.

For researchers pursuing external funding, the Center for Social Science Scholarship maintains a list of general social science RFPs as well as those specific to COVID-19.  More information is also available here.

For assistance with proposal preparation and submissions:  Social science PIs generally obtain pre-award and post-grant management assistance from MIPAR. To set up an appointment, email mipar_info@umbc.edu. For faculty submitting proposals to foundations, please consult Bruce Lyons in UMBC’s Office of Institutional Advancement.  

MEMORANDUM

DATE:            November 23, 2020

TO:                 Business Managers/Department Chairs/Center Directors/Faculty

FROM:           Stan Jackson

Director, Office of Sponsored Programs

RE:                 OSP deadlines over the Winter Break, Dec. 24, 2020 – Jan. 2, 2021

________________________________________________________________

This is a special announcement concerning the OSP schedule for reviewing/approving proposals with deadlines to federal and other agencies that occur during Winter Break this year. 

Please note:

1. All proposals with submission deadlines occurring between December 25, 2020 and January 3, 2021 must be fully routed, ready for submission, and released to the OSP office by close of business on December 18, 2020; and

1. All proposals with submission deadlines occurring between January 4thd and 6th, 2021 (the first 3 business days after the break) will be due to OSP by 9:00 a.m. on December 21, 2020.

This schedule is consistent with our current policy, which requires the submission of complete proposals to OSP at least three business days before the agency submission deadline. Since UMBC is closed during the Winter Break, OSP will also be closed. 

The campus closure during Winter Break will cause a heavy workload on OSP staff, so we will enforce our current policy more consistently.  Proposals received after the OSP deadlines specified above will be reviewed on a first-come/first-serve basis and will be submitted only if time permits.  In keeping with the deadline enforcement policy of OVPR, any proposal not fully routed and ready for submission by 9:00 a.m. of the deadline date will not be submitted to the agency.  If the deadline occurs over Winter Break this deadline is the last working day before the break.

Thank you for your understanding.

The Landscape of Geospatial Data & Social Sciences in Baltimore City:

Please see below changes or revised procedures implemented by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).    Please take a moment to read the full Notice by clicking the link(s) below:  

NIH Summary Statement Available to the Signing Officials (SO) through the eRA Commons

Notice Number: NOT-OD-20-126

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-126.html

New process:“To facilitate award management and communications with applicant organizations via Authorized Organization Representatives (AORs), NIH has modified the system of records by adding a new routine use to clarify that information may be shared with applicant organizations.  Effective June 24, 2020, the overall impact score and the NIH Summary Statement will be made available in the eRA Commons to the Authorized Organization Representatives (AORs) of the applicant organization with the Signing Official (SO) user role in the eRA Commons.”

Upcoming Changes to the Notice of Award (NoA) Beginning October 1, 2020

Notice Number: NOT-OD-20-155

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-155.html

Changes to NoA effective 10/1/2020: “The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has developed a standardized Page One of the NoA and, effective October 1, 2020, this will serve as the first page of every HHS NoA for all discretionary awards.  The new Page One captures key award information for grant recipients in an intuitive and digitally accessible format and provides consistency across HHS to require fewer unique formats for HHS to manage.”

Should you have any questions, please contact OSP.