Expanding Research Capacity by Establishing an Office of Sponsored Research and P

描述（由申请人提供）：自2002年以来，史蒂文森大学（SU）一直积极参与寻求校外资助，作为有意扩大和加强教师和本科生研究和奖学金的努力的一部分。在一年内，赠款资金增加了100%，从344，000美元（2005年）增加到3，025，088美元（2006年），这催化了显着的学术举措（主要是在生物医学和健康科学领域），同时使该机构的研究管理职能紧张到令人震惊的程度。PD的EARDA项目，在2006年资助，建立了一个研究发展办公室（ORD），加强和支持教师/学生的研究活动，但随着研究企业的发展，所以也有操作的复杂性，最近的经验表明，提高史蒂文森研究能力的最大障碍是目前的组织结构，结构很明显，为了支持和奖励教师奖学金，简化工作，减少重复，误解和其他失败，大学必须建立一个新的基础设施，并实施员工培训，改善研究管理。布拉德的资金将使SU能够将主要具有奖励前功能的ORD转变为赞助研究和计划办公室（OSRP），对研究管理承担更全面的责任。业务战略更新项目将维持办公室主任办公室的所有现有职能，并纳入更多的人员和责任，包括促进和便利新的赠款提案;管理所有提案的拟订和提交;监测支出、计费、工作报告;网站开发;提供培训和专业发展;以及许多其他与提高和加强大学研究能力有关的授标前和授标后职能。除了改善基础设施和功能外，布拉德项目还将通过消除障碍，支持和奖励教师/学生奖学金来加强研究丰富的文化。在SU的学习环境是引人注目的，因为这么多的学生来自教育弱势背景。2012年秋季，38%的学生来自科学领域代表性不足的少数民族，67%是女性，30%是第一代，37%获得了联邦佩尔赠款。此外，34%的入学学生正在攻读生物医学，健康和行为科学专业。因此，SU处于有利地位，以确保弱势和/或代表性不足的学生的显着数量将有机会在影响这个国家的健康和福祉学科的研究机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Since 2002, Stevenson University (SU) has been actively engaged in seeking extramural funding as part of an intentional effort to expand and strengthen faculty and undergraduate research and scholarship. In a single year, grant funding increased by a thousand percent from $344,000 (2005) to $3,025,088 (2006), which catalyzed remarkable academic initiatives (largely in the biomedical and health sciences) while at the same time straining the institution's research administration functionality to an alarming degree. The PD's EARDA project, funded in 2006, established an Office of Research Development (ORD) that has strengthened and supported faculty/student research activities, but as the research enterprise has grown, so too has the complexity of operations, which now far exceeds the original scope of the ORD. Recent experience has revealed that the single largest barrier to enhancing research capacity at Stevenson is the current organizational structure. It has become clear that in order to support and reward faculty scholarship, streamline efforts, and reduce duplication, miscommunication, and other failures, the University must establish a new infrastructure and implement staff training that improves research administration. BRAD funding will enable SU to transition the ORD, with largely pre-award functions, into an Office of Sponsored Research and Programs (OSRP), with much more comprehensive responsibility for research administration. The OSRP will sustain all current functions of the ORD and incorporate additional personnel and responsibilities, including fostering and facilitating new grant proposals; managing the development and submission of all proposals; monitoring spending, billing, effort reporting; website development; providing training and professional development; and numerous other pre-award and post-award functions related to enhancing and strengthening the University's research capacity. In addition to improving infrastructure and functionality, the BRAD project will strengthen the research-rich culture by removing barriers and supporting and rewarding faculty/student scholarship. The learning environment at SU is compelling because so many students come from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds. In the fall of 2012, 38% of all students were from ethnic populations underrepresented in the sciences, 67% were female, 30% were first generation, and 37% received federal Pell grants. Further, 34% of enrolled students were pursuing majors in the biomedical, health, and behavioral sciences. SU is therefore well positioned to ensure that significant numbers of disadvantaged and/or underrepresented students will have access to research opportunities in disciplines that impact this nation's health and well-being.