1. Office of Research and Creative Activity Mission: Support faculty and student research. Office of Research and Creative Activity

2. Role: Submit and implement all external funding requests. Protect faculty, staff, students, and the university. Office of Research and Creative Activity

3. Units Sponsored Programs and Research Internal Research Resources UNO Innovation Accelerator Office of Research and Creative Activity

5. Compliance IRB IACUC Institutional Biosafety Conflict of Interest Export Control Responsible Conduct of Research Office of Research and Creative Activity

6. Intellectual Property Protection. Disclosure, patents, licensing. Contracts and legal agreements. Office of Research and Creative Activity

8. INTERNAL FUNDING FUSE: 3 yrs, 225 subs, 162 awards, $410,529 GRACA: 2 yrs, 120 subs, 65 awards, $315,627 UCRCA stud: 3 yrs, 137 subs, 75 awards, $35,711 FRI/FISS: 2 yrs, 50 subs, 26 awards, $178,388 UCRCA fac: 3yrs, 124 subs, 63 awards, $240,006 FIRE: 3 yrs, 39 subs, 15 awards, $417,323 – PI submits last 1.5 yrs $55M, awards $1.97M Office of Research and Creative Activity

9. Other Opportunities Nebraska EPSCoR: Early Career awards $20K, only NSF-funded fields. Yearly ad hoc programs. NRI: $100,000 collaborative awards. Science and technology, collaborative with other NU campuses. Water for Food Institute: pending Rural Futures Institute: Dec. 2013, Jan. 2014 NU Foundation grants: indefinite hold Office of Research and Creative Activity

10. Other Opportunities National Strategic Research Institute: One of 14 university affiliated research centers nationally. DoD and IC sole source projects. Center for Urban Sustainability. Office of Research and Creative Activity

11. External Funding AY2012-2013. $11.6 million awards AY2011-2012. $11.8 million awards AY2010-2011. $17.0 million awards AY2012-2013. $91.0 million submissions AY2011-2012. $77.7 million submissions AY2010-2011. $71.9 million submissions Office of Research and Creative Activity

12. MavGrants is coming! UNO’s new electronic pre-award management system Office of Research and Creative Activity

13. MavGrants Office of Research and Creative Activity

14. The Need The current process is: Heavily paper-based Antiquated Burdensome & inefficient Labor intensive Office of Research and Creative Activity

15. The Solution Electronic proposal management and storage software system No more signature pages Allows for remote electronic approvals Save time!! Save travel!! Office of Research and Creative Activity

16. MavGrants Campus-wide implementation by July 1, 2014 Look for training opportunities in the spring semester Office of Research and Creative Activity

17. UNO Innovation Accelerator To assist faculty and students in commercialization of intellectual property. Partnership with UNO and Innovation Accelerator. Funded by NU Central Entrepreneur in Residence Program. Office of Research and Creative Activity

18. Peter Kiewit Institute Work in collaboration with IS&T and Engineering deans to implement their visions and strategic plans. Facilitate faculty research. Enhance student opportunities. Office of Research and Creative Activity