SPONSORED RESEARCH INFRASTUCTURE PROGRAM (SRIP): EARDA TRANSITION

描述（由申请人提供）：在摩根州立大学的校外协会发展奖（EARDA）的努力的总体目标是取得重大进展，加强在大学赞助的研究企业，并建立一个高质量的研究行政基础设施。特别是，它旨在利用EARDA的支持与机构资源，以增加大学的研究活力，特别是在生物医学和行为科学。自EARDA支持成立以来，大学投入了大量的内部资源，以加强其物理和方案基础设施。它已经实现了在总校外资金和研究申请提交的数量显着增加;它已经在生物科学，公共卫生和工程开设了博士课程。目前的继续申请是EARDA过渡支持的两年请求，以帮助我们在上一个资助期取得的进展的基础上再接再厉，并将已经实现的基础设施改进制度化。具体目标是：（1）向学院研究人员发放探索性研究的小额补助金，这是一项旨在吸引新的研究人员和研究想法的策略，从而扩大我们活跃的研究人员库，并吸引更多的校外资金申请;（2）提供应用开发讲习班、研讨会和技术援助，这在过去已被证明能有效地激发对资助研究的兴趣，将研究发展的基本原理传授给初学者或缺乏经验的教师;（3）免费提供以用户为基础的研究资助数据库，例如科学共同体（COS）和赞助项目信息网络（SPIN Plus），这有助于积极主动地寻找筹资机会，确定潜在的外部合作者，以及建立新的跨学科伙伴关系;（4）促进电子研究管理的技术改进;（5）建立研究中保护人类受试者的结构和程序。我们的EARDA驱动的举措将由咨询委员会，机构赞助的研究咨询委员会（ISRAC），由高级管理人员和教师组成的投入，提供有关公共卫生相关的研究机会和研究发展战略的建议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the Extramural Associates Development Award (EARDA) effort at Morgan State University is to attain significant progress toward strengthening the sponsored research enterprise at the University and to establish a high quality research administrative infrastructure. In particular, it aims to leverage EARDA support with institutional resources to increase the University's research vitality, especially in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. Since the inception of the EARDA support, the University has invested significant internal resources to enhance both its physical and programmatic infrastructure. It has attained significant increases in total extramural funding and the number of research application submissions; and it has inaugurated doctoral programs in the biological sciences, public health and engineering. The present continuation application is a 2 -year request for EARDA transitional support to help us build on the progress we have made during the previous funding period, and to institutionalize the infrastructural enhancements already attained. The specific aims are: (1) to award faculty researchers mini-grants for exploratory research, a strategy designed to attract new investigators and research ideas, and thereby enlarge our pool of active researchers, and generate more applications for extramural funding; (2) to offer application development workshops, seminars and technical assistance, which have proven in the past to be effective in stimulating interest in sponsored research, and transmitting research development fundamentals to beginning or inexperienced faculty; (3) to provide free access to subscriber-based research funding databases such as Community of Science (COS) and Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN Plus), which facilitate proactive searches for funding opportunities, identification of potential external collaborators, as well as forging new cross-disciplinary partnerships; (4) to contribute to technology enhancements for electronic research administration; and (5) to establish structures and procedures for human subjects protection in research. Our EARDA-driven initiatives will be informed by input from an advisory board, the Institutional Sponsored Research Advisory Committee (ISRAC), consisting of senior administrators and faculty, to provide advice on public health related research opportunities and research development strategies.