Kuali Live in 2018!                   

UMBC is now live with Kuali!  Kuali is a new software system aiming to significantly improve the process of proposal submission and several other critical extramural related activities for our faculty and department administrators.

Kuali is partnership between the Kuali Foundation and a community of R1 institutions, including the University of Maryland Baltimore and College Park. The system was designed by university research administration subject matter experts specially for universities.

It provides a web-based, single resource for proposals, all extramural award types, compliance, and unfunded agreement information while providing a solution for many complex workflows as part of the review and approval process. Kuali allows for Administrators, Principal Investigators, Co-Investigators, Chairs and Dean's one cloud-based portal to their individual, unit, college or center information.

 Easing the burden of extramural funding submissions, Kuali provides tools to assist in collaboration, budget and compliance approvals. The system provides the UMBC community an electronic approval and submission process, and eliminates the requirement to create Federal Agency form packages. Kuali submits automatically to System-to-System Grants.Gov. The system also has compliance tracking, for example, COI financial disclosures tied directly to proposals, awards and IRB.

 UMBC is joining sister system campuses who are committed to the transition of the research management format from PeopleSoft to the cloud-based Kuali system. The alignment presents a unique opportunity for UMBC to benefit from a system-wide initiative sharing of resources.          

 UMBC funded proposals and awards will be managed in Kuali. Future functionality will include tracking negotiations, reporting, compliance and finally the close-out process.

 For questions, just email us at OSP Team at the following:  http://OSPA@UMBC.edu.

 For further information and to sign-up for Kuali training, go to UMBC Kuali Website at:

Kuali is a new software system aiming to significantly improve the process of proposal submission and several other critical extramural related activities for our faculty and department administrators.

Kuali is partnership between the Kuali Foundation and a community of R1 institutions, including the University of Maryland Baltimore and College Park. The system was designed by university research administration subject matter experts specially for universities.

It provides a web-based, single resource for proposals, all extramural award types, compliance, and unfunded agreement information while providing a solution for many complex workflows as part of the review and approval process. Kuali allows for Administrators, Principal Investigators, Co-Investigators, Chairs and Dean's one cloud-based portal to their individual, unit, college or center information.

Easing the burden of extramural funding submissions, Kuali provides tools to assist in collaboration, budget and compliance approvals. The system provides the UMBC community an electronic approval and submission process, and eliminates the requirement to create Federal Agency form packages. Kuali submits automatically to System-to-System Grants.Gov. The system also has compliance tracking, for example, COI financial disclosures tied directly to proposals, awards and IRB. 

UMBC is joining sister system campuses who are committed to the transition of the research management format from PeopleSoft to the cloud-based Kuali system. The alignment presents a unique opportunity for UMBC to benefit from a system-wide initiative sharing of resources.    

UMBC funded proposals and awards will be managed in Kuali. Future functionality will include tracking negotiations, reporting, compliance and finally the close-out process.

For questions, just email us at OSP Team at the following:  http://OSPA@UMBC.edu.

For further information and to sign-up for Kuali training, go to UMBC Kuali Website at:

http://research.umbc.edu/kuali-research-at-umbc/

 Kuali training classes available

The Merit Scholarship Unit reviews scholars’ academic standing each fall and spring semester to ensure they are maintaining their scholarship requirements. Recipients failing to meet these requirements will lose their scholarship and be notified by mail of their award discontinuation.

(Only first-semester freshmen are granted an automatic “warning” period if they fail to meet their terms).

Once a scholar has been discontinued from their merit scholarship, their award will not be reinstated regardless if the student is  able to meet the terms of their scholarship in a future semester. 

Scholars with extenuating circumstances may appeal their scholarship discontinuation by submitting a Scholarship Discontinuation Appeal.

The deadline for all Scholarship Discontinuation Appeals is 4:00PM on Thursday, January 25, 2018 (for Fall 2017 discontinuations only). 

Please note: If the appeal is denied or no appeal is submitted by the published deadline, the scholarship will be permanently discontinued and cannot be reinstated.

For additional information on the appeal process, click here.

• Maleda Belilgne, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and English, presented on James Baldwin's Speculative Imagery with her paper, "Nobody Escapes Anything: Proleptic Sound in Sonny’s Blue."
• Lindsay DiCuirci, Assistant Professor, English, presented on Nathaniel Hawthorne with her paper, "A Is for Archive: (Un)Dead Things in Hawthorne’s ‘Custom-House.”
• Jessica Berman, Professor and Director of the Dresher Center, presided over a session sponsored by the MLA’s Publication Committee on the creation, preservation, digitization, and critique of archives.

• Kate Brown, Professor, History, was the featured speaker at the AHA Modern European History Section Luncheon. Her lecture was titled, "The Great Chernobyl Acceleration: How Writing European History has Changed in the Age of the Anthropocene."
• Christy Ford Chapin, Associate Professor, History, participated in the round table, "Late Breaking: Revolt against Regulation in the Time of Trump: Historical Perspectives.”
• Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor, chaired the round table, "After War: Recognizing, Representing, and Remembering Veterans in American Society, 1945-2016.”
• Scott Casper, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Professor of History, chaired the "Teaching with Material Culture and Historic Site" roundtable.