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Updated Summer Salary Form
July 14, 2024

A communication was distributed to the Academic Managers Group (AMG) on Monday regarding the updated summer salary form – please see below for details which have also been added to page two of the updated form. Questions can be directed to the contacts as noted below. 

Dear Colleagues,

ODoF, working with the…

Peter Schiffer, Dean for Research: Reminder of the five-day rule for grant proposal submissions
April 2, 2024

Peter Schiffer, Dean for Research, distributed the below memo yesterday regarding the 5-day grant proposal submission timeline.

Should you have any questions, please contact your Grant & Contract Administrator at the Office of Research and Project Administration (ORPA). 

To:         …

ORPA Welcomes Aaron Collie, Research Data Security Manager
Oct. 25, 2023

ORPA is excited to welcome Aaron Collie, Research Data Security Manager, to the Research Security group of the Office of Research and Project Administration. Aaron officially begins on Monday, October 23, 2023, and will be responsible for developing, managing,…

May 11, 2023: ORCID Workshop for Researchers
April 17, 2023

Below are some details around a new ORCID workshop on May 11, 2023 at 2 – 3 p.m. being offered by Lyrasis.

As a reminder, the NSF ORCID/ SciENcv requirement is October 2023 for proposals and progress reports. Other federal sponsors such as Department of Energy are following NSF’s requirements.  Additional resources can…

Princeton Research Activity Hits New Milestone
April 12, 2023

Princeton University marked the highest level of research activity in its history as measured by spending on research in areas ranging from cancer to climate change to pioneering quantum sciences. The University conducted research activities with associated expenditures of more than $404.4 million in fiscal year 2021, according to the most…

Coffee with ORPA: Everything You Want to Know About NCE’s!
Feb. 10, 2023

This hybrid session will take place in the Convocation Room at the Friend Center, or virtually at your desk! [Registration via the Employee Learning Center is required to receive the zoom link, or attend in-person]

This session will focus on:

How to initiate an extension request Timing on requesting an extension Tracking…
ORPA Welcomes New Contracts Manager, Liz Powell
Jan. 17, 2023

Liz joined ORPA on January 3rd and most recently was the Director of Contracting in the Office of Sponsored Programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC conducts more than one billion dollars of sponsored research from all sources annually, making it the 13th largest US research…

Resources for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Plan Requests from Sponsors
Dec. 20, 2022

More and more sponsors are requesting a DEI plan as a component of grant proposals and featured in the December 2022 issue of The Princeton Researcher, a new DEI Resource page on the Office of the Dean for Research website…

Sponsored Research Administrator Mentoring Program - Enrollment Now Open!
Nov. 22, 2022

It is our pleasure to announce a new round of applications for the…

NSF Update: Preparing Supplemental Funding Requests in Research.gov and Upcoming FastLane Proposal Decommissioning Deadlines
Oct. 25, 2022

The below was distributed by Jean Feldman at NSF:

We are pleased to announce that supplemental funding requests including Career-Life Balance requests can now be prepared in Research.gov. Supplemental funding requests can be submitted in Research.gov regardless of the system used (Research.gov, FastLane, or Grants.gov) for proposal…