New deadline for
grant submissions

In working with the new PS Grants system we are discovering that "it just takes longer." Hopefully speed will improve over time. In order to meet campus and agency deadlines, all standard proposals should be submitted to Martha Jones' office five working days prior to the deadline. This one additional day will allow time to review the proposal and complete the PS module. Please don’t hesitate to call Martha at 882-0095 with any questions. We are ALL learning!

Resources

• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (the single, most comprehensive source of information about federal governmental grants)
www.cfda.gov

• The Patents and Trademarks website (which is the best source to look at U.S. patents and trademarks)
www.uspto.gov

People Soft Grants Module is here!

The PeopleSoft Grants Module went live on December 16, 2002. We are now entering all proposals into the system. As we have discussed in previous issues, all personnel must complete the training for PeopleSoft Grants in order to have access to the module.

Faculty members are welcome to attend the classroom training session but a web-based training has been developed and is available. It can be accessed through —
asp.umsystem.edu/Training/training

This training will be sufficient to enable faculty the access they need. While staff will have access to the web-based training, they must attend the classroom training sessions in order to receive access to the PS Grants Module. To sign up for classroom training go to —
iats.missouri.edu/iats/servlet/ASPRegTraining

We strongly encourage everyone to either complete the on-line training or attend the classroom training.

Once you start on this help is available! OSPA has developed a “Rapid Response" team to assist faculty and staff in working with this module. If you have problems in navigating within the PS Grants panels you can call for assistance.

The team can be reached through OSPA at 882-7560. If they cannot solve the problem within a few minutes over the phone a member of the team will come to your office to assist in solving the problem.

Office of Research orientation workshop Feb. 20

The Office of Research has scheduled its next orientation workshop for new faculty for February 20, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Adams Conference Center, Veterinary Medicine Building. We will appreciate your help in avoiding scheduling conflicts that would prevent new faculty from attending and in getting the word out on this. Besides new faculty, we've found that some departments like to have their grants personnel attend one of these workshops to learn about campus processes and services.