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Effective immediately, Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) will send only one notice of award to the principal investigator. Principal investigators will receive an award package via email from their grant administrators. This package will be sent to the investigator after the grant account has been set up and will include the following project management forms: Notice...
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Staff from Sponsored Programs Administration will host brown-bag lunches throughout the academic year to chat informally with researchers about their interests. The first is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, in Room 304 of Lowden Hall. No registration is required; faculty and any others interested in the research process need only bring...
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The Office of Sponsored Projects has posted its spring newsletter. Features include an OSP Campus Support Survey and a listing of NIU’s third quarter (FY) 2015 awards. Other articles cover a number of topics relevant to sponsored projects, including: a federal budget update; Uniform Guidance: Federal Changes for Budgets and Project Management; agency updates from...
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NIU’s Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships will host an introductory workshop on “Research and Innovation @ NIU” from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in the University Suite of the Holmes Student Center. The workshop will acquaint faculty and staff with the broad range of support and programs available through the division...
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Have an idea for a short-term project with the potential to improve the state of manufacturing in Illinois? NIU’s Division of Research and Graduate Studies invites faculty and staff to submit such proposals to the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC), which since 1996 has helped more than 2,500 Illinois manufacturing companies to achieve more than...
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The Office of Sponsored Projects’ New Faculty Workshop is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4,  in the University Suite of the Holmes Student Center. This event is intended for new faculty, but will be useful to any faculty member looking for a refresher on how the sponsored projects and grants process...
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NIU has placed 57th on a newly created Washington Monthly list: “America’s Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges.” The honor is “pretty exclusive,” the magazine editors write. “Out of the 1,572 colleges and universities in our broader rankings, only 349 made the cut as best-bang-for-the-buck schools.” Colleges ranked must meet four criteria: At least 20 percent of their students...
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Proton Computed Tomography. STEM education. Aerospace job creation. NIU’s significant accomplishments in advancing the creation and application of knowledge will move into the spotlight today in Washington, D.C., where federal lawmakers and their representatives will participate in the university’s first Research Roundtable. Led by President Doug Baker, Board of Trustees Chair John Butler and immediate...
In Washington, D.C. … On Monday, Jan. 21, President Barack Obama was inaugurated for a second term. The president’s inaugural speech advanced a more liberal agenda, calling for action on immigration reform, climate change and clean energy technology, gay rights, as well as calling for the need to find common ground and end the bitter...
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Mary Quinlan, a professor of art history in the NIU School of Art, has been awarded a full-year fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Quinlan’s fellowship will support the research and writing of a book on Leon Battista Alberti’s 1435-1436 “De pictura” (“On Painting”), and its impact on Renaissance art. Her project is...
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NIU’s Office of Sponsored Projects will offer two workshops in October to help researchers with collaborative proposals and managing change while working on federally funded scholarship. Both sessions are part of the Fall OSP Faculty and Staff Chat Session. Presentation slides and other related hand-outs for each of these sessions will be available on the...
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As the competition for research funding has intensified, institutions such as the University of Michigan, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) have developed specialized service units that help faculty improve the quality of the design, analysis and statistical sections of their grant proposals. Now, thanks to funding...
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