Proposal routing is now all-electronic

Put those paper forms in the recycling bin – NUgrant is now the only way to route proposals for official approval before they are submitted to external agencies.

The Office of Research created NUgrant to help faculty succeed in their research and creative efforts. During a 12-month transition period, faculty were encouraged to forego paper routing forms and submit proposals for routing via NUgrant. Now it's "all NUgrant, all the time."

Introduced in fall 2006, NUgrant is a secure electronic research administration system to help UNL faculty, staff and administrators manage research projects. NUgrant tracks sponsored program proposals (grants and contracts) throughout the proposal cycle and provides data and reports for administrative decision-making.

Within NUgrant's paperless environment, researchers or grant administrators submit routing forms online. This saves time, increases efficiency and creates an online record of faculty information for ease of use in creating future forms. Files can be attached to proposals for reviewers, submissions or historical purposes.

The streamlined routing process sends automated e-mail notices to all approvers and investigators to secure approval and provides current information on a proposal's routing status.

The Institutional Review Board (IRB) also has transitioned to an online IRB form submission process through NUgrant. Faculty can submit new IRB protocols, request continuing review and request modifications through NUgrant.

Faculty also now submit their annual generic and project-specific Disclosure of Interest forms via NUgrant.

For more information contact Mike Behne, assistant director, Sponsored Programs, mbehne1@unl.edu, 472-6323.


    




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