Welcome
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Welcome back Faculty! We wish
you a successful Fall 2006. Please keep in mind
that the staff at the Division of Research are here to
better serve you with all of your proposal and/or grant
needs.
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Dr. George E. Walker
Arrives on September 1!
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We are pleased to
welcome our new Vice President for Research and Dean of
the University Graduate School, Dr. George E.
Walker.
Dr. Walker
comes to FIU from The Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching where for the past five years he
has served as Senior Scholar and Director of the
Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate. For twelve years
prior to that, he was the Vice President for Research
and Dean of the University Graduate School at the
Indiana University. Dr. Walker was responsible for
oversight of research and graduate education at all
eight campuses of the Indiana University. The
Indianapolis campus is a rapidly developing urban
research university with a major medical center.
The Bloomington campus is a
traditional major research university that is a member
of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an
elite group of the top 62 research universities in the
US and Canada. Dr. Walker has served as President
of the Association of Graduate Schools of the AAU, as
Chair of the Board of Directors of the Council of
Graduate Schools, as Chair of the TOEFL Board of the
Educational Testing Service, and as Chair of the
Executive Board of the Council on Research Policy and
Graduate Education of the National Association of State
Universities and Land Grant Colleges. In addition to
these leadership roles, he has served on the Woodrow
Wilson Deans' Advisory Board, the Center for the
Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning National
Advisory Board, and the National Survey of Student
Engagement National Advisory Board.
Dr. Walker is a
theoretical nuclear physicist who obtained his
Undergraduate education at Wesleyan University, his
graduate education at Case Western University and his
post-doctoral education at Los Alamos and Stanford
University. Most of his research career was at Indiana
University where he had National Science Foundation
support for his research and that of his graduate
students for the better part of two decades. He was
twice honored by Physics graduate students with the
"Outstanding Contributions to Graduate Education" award,
and by his peers through election as a Fellow of the
American Physical Society. He led the establishment of a
Nuclear Theory Center at Indiana University. He
continues in scientific leadership as Chair of the
Physics and Advanced Technology Directorate Advisory
Committee and Chair of the N
Division Advisory Committee, both at Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory.
Dr. Walker's
experience as a Vice President for Research and Dean of
the University Graduate School at a major AAU research
university, and his leadership of many national
associations focusing on research and graduate education
make him an outstanding choice for providing the
leadership required for FIU to reach the next level of
excellence. We look forward to
working with him to better serve the FIU
community.
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2006
Faculty Research Awardees
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Congratulations to
Faculty who received Faculty Research Awards this
year!
We encourage all of you who
were not funded this year, to pursue alternate ways to
fund your ideas. OSRA is at your service to help
you locate promising external funding sources and to
assist you to write successful proposals. We
would like to thank the Faculty and FIU Foundation
Review Panel for all of their time and effort to
help make the process a success.
Click
here to see the list of Awardees.
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What's New!
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The Division
of Research has undergone various changes to provide you
with better assistance. Below are the additions
and changes to our Team:
Andres Gil, Ph.D., formerly Director
of Research Development for FIU’s College of Health and Urban
Affairs, has joined our staff as Associate Vice
President for Research
Development.
Robert
Gutierrez, formerly Assistant Director for
Pre-Award, has been promoted to Associate Director of
the Pre-Award section within
OSRA.
Barbara
Llaneras, formerly a Coordinator for Research
Programs within the Pre-Award section of OSRA, has been
promoted to Assistant Director for Research Integrity
within the Office of Research
Integrity.
Aida Reus,
formerly a Senior Grants Financial Manager, has been
promoted to Associate Director of the Post Award section
within OSRA.
Eduardo Serrano, formerly a Coordinator for Research
Programs, has been promoted to Assistant Director
of the Pre-Award .
Saudie Feliz, formerly
Senior Computer Support Specialist, has been promoted to
Coordinator for Computer Applications within the
Division's Office of Systems.
Victoria
Paz, formerly Grants Specialist, has been
promoted to Assistant Financial Manger
for Post Award within OSRA.
Desiree Mesa, formerly
Senior Clerk, has been promoted to File Manager for
the Office of Systems and
Budget.
Yvonne Mejias
has joined the Division of Research and will be
working on Special Projects.
Sara
Honores and Karla Forti have
joined the Post Award staff. Both Sara and
Karla are responsible for billing and collection
of sponsored projects.
Gabriela Gonzalez has
joined the Office of Research Integrity in an
administrative support role.
Aileen
Alfonso has joined the Office of Sponsored
Research and will be assisting Yvonne Mejias with
special projects and Diana Oliva with legal matters
while pursuing a Law Degree here at FIU.
We
congratulate our recently promoted staff and welcome
aboard our new Vice President, Associate Vice Presidents
and staff.
On another note, after six years
of hard work and dedication, Suzanne
Rodriguez, Assistant Financial Manager for Post
Award, will be leaving South Florida. We wish her
only the very best on her new life endeavors.
A
final thanks and farewell to Carolina
Wong, formerly Animal Care Facility Supervisor,
for providing a safe and organized environment at the
Animal Care Facility. We wish her great success
always!
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Travel
Abroad
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Travelers are strongly advised to review
their medical insurance for applicability and benefits
available outside the United States
and to consider purchasing international medical and
medical evacuation insurance for their foreign
trip. For information regarding
additional insurance coverage available for foreign
travel as well as additional helpful information to
consider when traveling abroad, see the Environmental
Health & Safety website link
below.
Click
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New and/or
Updated Forms
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Please be aware the latest version of OSRA's
forms can be found online at the link below. The
following forms are new or revised:
- Payroll Transfer Form
- Non-Payroll Transfer
Form
- Internal Clearance
Form
-
Material Transfer Agreement Form
- Advance for Research
Participants - This is a new process available
to
pay research
subjects for participating in research programs.
The process
requires
researchers to request a cash advance to pay the
participants.
Click
here to go to OSRA Forms.
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Cost
Share
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All cost sharing pledged on
sponsored projects must be tracked and documented by the
department or college who pledged the cost
sharing. The PI must ensure that all cost sharing
is properly documented. On some ocassions, Post
Award is required to periodically include the cost
sharing when billing the agency. In these specific
instances OSRA - Post Award will request from the PI the
cost share for the period being billed. Please
note that it is essential to document all cost
share in order to comply with the sponsoring agency's
requirements and failure to do so will result in the
repayment of sponsor funding.
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