Archives: Announcements

Published January 25, 2018 Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce some helpful changes that are being made to provide enhanced support to Washington University faculty and staff who participate in multi-site clinical research. The Center for Clinical Studies (CCS), in partnership with the Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS), is launching a new […]

Published January 18, 2018 The WashU Research Analytics team has developed two new dashboards for the suite of extramural funding tools, Insights*. NIH Study Sections Designed to assist collaboration, the new NIH Study Sections dashboard enables faculty to search WashU’s NIH-awarded projects by institute and the study section that reviewed and scored the grant application. NSF […]

Published January 12, 2018 For all NIH grant applications due on or after 1/25/18: SF424 Forms E will be required Clinical trials must be submitted in response to clinical trial-specific Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) Effective 1/25/18, WU’s Proposal Development System (PDS) via System to System (S2S) will not be supported: Any S2S proposals prepared in […]

Published December 18, 2017 For years Grants.gov has offered an Adobe (PDF) application package to apply for federal grants. The Adobe application package will be phased out on December 31, 2017, and Grants.gov will offer Workspace in its place: Applicants will no longer be able to download the older, single Adobe (PDF) application package of forms. […]

Published December 8, 2017 Sponsored Projects Accounting has developed a Sponsored Expenditures Guidelines document to assist all University faculty and staff who are involved with the budgeting and spending of sponsored research funding. This guidance provides a framework of direct charging costs to sponsored research accounts and includes the following sections: I. Introduction II. Cost […]

Published November 29, 2017 Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that I recently completed a review of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research administrative structure. While this review was prompted by Denise McCartney’s retirement, I believe that the changes I am introducing will sustain and enhance our services to faculty and staff […]

Published November 27, 2017 The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) is pleased to announce the publication of the fiscal year 2017 Annual Report. The report contains data and information on research funding and expenditures from the past fiscal year. The information in this Annual Report is compiled from a variety of offices, […]

Published October 27, 2017 Dear Colleagues, ​ I am writing to announce that after a 24-year career at Washington University, Denise McCartney is retiring as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Administration, effective December 1, 2017. While we are happy for Denise as she transitions to a well-deserved next phase of her life, the faculty and […]

Published October 26, 2017 Dear Colleagues, After serving as Washington University’s Research Integrity Officer (RIO) for the past eleven years, Aubrey Morrison, MBBS, MACP, has announced he will relinquish this position at the end of this fiscal year, effective June 30, 2018. To recruit a successor of the highest caliber, we are seeking nominations for […]

Published September 11, 2017 Dear Colleagues, Please join me in welcoming two new members to our Research Administration Leadership team. Meredith Moore, Ph.D., joined us on September 1, 2017, in the newly formed position of Director of the Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee (IACUC). Meredith will be responsible for managing the IACUC administrative office […]