Volume 13, Number 12: June 6, 2007
CAMPUS NEWS
OSR Reminder about Application Submission Deadlines
During this time of summer vacations and holidays, it is important to remember that all proposals should be routed through RAMSeS to reach the Office of Sponsored Research or the Sponsored Programs Office at least five business days before the published due dates. Special consideration must be given to deadlines that are close to holidays (e.g., the Fourth of July holiday falls the day before the July 5 receipt date for R01/U01 resubmissions and revisions). Finally, keep in mind that after an application has been assembled on the eRA Commons, NIH allows project directors, principal investigators, and university signing officials a two-day window (including weekday holidays) to view and correct the application before it is forwarded for study section review.
Odum Workshop on Latent Trajectory/Growth Curve Analysis
Date: June 25–29
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Place: Manning Hall, Rooms 14 (morning session) and 01 (afternoon session)
The Odum Institute is hosting several courses of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research this summer. "Latent Trajectory/Growth Curve Analysis: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach" draws on the strengths of structural equation modeling, and has the primary goal of introducing participants to the theory and application of latent trajectory analysis. Click here for the summer registration form. Other upcoming summer courses at Odum:
- July 9-13: Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis
- July 16-20: Spatial Regression Analysis
OSR Organizational Changes
As the Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) continues its transition to a new organizational structure, the following is an update on the reorganization, the changing review responsibilities between OSR and the School of Medicine's Sponsored Programs Office (SPO), and how the review responsibilities will affect the submission of both hardcopy and Grants.gov research proposals.
- The Proposal Management staff in OSR, now solely dedicated to processing proposals, has three Grant and Contract Specialists responsible for National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposal submissions. To view the names of these specialists and the breakdown of their areas of responsibility, click here. Please feel free to contact these individuals with any questions you might have.
- SPO now manages and submits all NIH proposals administered by School of Medicine (SOM) departments. In the past, SPO was responsible for submitting just NIH R01s and a few other mechanisms for the school, but they will now be submitting SOM proposals for all series of mechanisms going to the NIH.
For details about the reorganization, including a list of all OSR contacts, the new organization chart, and Jim Peterson's PowerPoint presentation, click here.
Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health: Does Racism Make Us Sick?
Date: Monday, June 25
Time: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Place: Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History OR remote participation via Internet
The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health Minority Health Project and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs are sponsoring the 13th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health. The interactive session "Does Racism Make us Sick?" will be broadcast with a live audience in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center and will be available for viewing over c-band satellite and online.
To register for the live broadcast or to view additional information, click here.
Training Opportunities for Clinical Trials Administrators
The Office of Clinical Trials (OCT) offers several training sessions during the summer, including
- June 14: Lunch 'N Learn: Dealing with Difficult People
- June 21: Introduction to Budgeting (beginner)
- July 10: Orientation for New CRCs--Pt. I (beginner)
Click here to register or to learn about additional training opportunities.
Building Your Professional Image
Date: Friday, June 15
Time: 12:00 to 2:30 p.m.
Place: Chancellor's Ballroom, Carolina Inn
The Office of Postdoctoral Services offers several programs during the summer to UNC-Chapel Hill postdoctoral scholars and graduate students. If you are or will be invited to a professional luncheon in the near future, you may want to attend the "Building Your Professional Image" session. Attendees will be instructed on the finer points of business etiquette. Tipping, introductions, dining etiquette, and much more will be covered.
Click here to register.
Upcoming Sessions:
- July 11: Bottom-line Business Writing
- July 18: Networking 101: Getting to the Next Level in Your Career
OTD New License Agreements
The Office of Technology Development (OTD) executed four license agreements on research or inventions by UNC-Chapel Hill researchers in May:
- Two inventions licensed to Vascular Pharmaceuticals are “Method for Inhibiting Cellular Activation By Insulin-like Growth Factor-I” and “Method for Enhancing or Inhibiting the Actions of Insulin-like Growth Factor-I,” by David Clemmons and Laura Maile.
- An invention entitled "Mouse Monoclonal Antibody to AMPK alpha,” developed in the laboratory of Jay Brenman, has been licensed to AbCam, Inc.
- An invention entitled “Generation of PLU-1 Antibody,” by Yi Zhang, has been licensed to AbCam, Inc.
- A one-year option agreement for non-exclusive rights to an invention entitled “Better than Surgical Camera (BTSC): A Method for Display of Normally-Occluded Surfaces of Interest in Medical Images” by Russell Taylor, John Clarke, and David Borland, has been executed with a major medical imaging company.
To learn more about these new license agreements, please contact OTD at 966-3929. For other information on licenses and agreements, click here.
Carolina North Community Meetings
Date: Thursday, June 21
Times: 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. (duplicate sessions)
Place: School of Government, room 2603
UNC-Chapel Hill is hosting information sessions about Carolina North for the campus and local communities. University representatives will present potential uses for Carolina North and conceptual approaches to its development. Local residents, faculty, staff, and students are invited to participate. Click here to view comments about the information presented at previous meetings.