Presented by Mike Sisco, Agricultural Experiment Station Kathy Scheibel, Research & Sponsored Programs

 1862 – Morrill Act - Provided Public Lands for Colleges benefiting Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts  1871 – The State of Arkansas created the Arkansas Industrial University – Now UAF  1887 – Hatch Act – Authorized Agricultural Experiment Stations  1914 – Smith Lever Act – Authorized the Cooperative Extension Service  1959 – UA System created the Division of Agriculture  1962 – McIntire-Stennis Act – Authorized the School of Forest Resources (housed at UA-Monticello)  1977 – AES Grants Office created to handle USDA grants

 Three Offices ◦ Research and Sponsored Programs  Office Size: Director, Assistant Director, 6 Grant Specialists, Administrative Assistant ◦ Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) Grants Office  Office Size: 2 Specialists ◦ Cooperative Extension Service (CES) Grants Office  Office Size: Director, 2 Pre-Award Specialists, 2 Post- Award Specialists

Processing Sponsored Research  AES ◦ All USDA grants ◦ Commodity Boards ◦ Research Foundations (AGRI related) ◦ Industry for AES faculty  RSSP ◦ All federal sponsors  NSF, NIH, DoD, DoE, etc. ◦ All State sponsors  ADHE, ADHS, ADE, etc. ◦ Industry for campus Faculty ◦ Foundations that are sponsored projects ◦ Undergraduate and Graduate Fellowships (i.e. SURF and NSF)

 0403’s, 0133’s, 0103’s, 0313’s, etc. ◦ CRIS project accounting (What is CRIS?)  How many proposals submitted in FY12? ◦ 340 Proposals  How much funding received in FY 12? ◦ $25,000,000 (1/3 USDA awards, 1/3 Commodity Boards, 1/6 Other Federal, 1/6 Industry) Some awards may include campus faculty  active grants at any given time  In Target Chain Approval ◦ All BASIS transactions go through AES ◦ All award project set ups (establish CCNs) are processed by AES for Research Accounting verification/approval

 0402’s, 0412’s, 0132’s, 0152’s  Processed 683 proposals in FY12  Received $47,523,240 in funded projects for FY12  453 total additional awards from FY12  RSSP prepares documents for Research Accounting to establish CCNs and process transactions ◦ Kathy is the approver for RSSP of all CCN transactions  i.e. new award, no-cost time extensions, any changes to the CCN

 NSF expenditures combines RSSP and AES  Annual FY awards include both RSSP and AES projects ◦ National rankings and goals to be top 50 Public Research University ◦ The purpose for showing these combined awards is to reflect the total awards from the University.