The College of Arts and Sciences Research Office serves to foster and facilitate innovative and interdisciplinary research as well as scholarship and creative activities for the purpose of enhancing discovery, knowledge, and progress within the UAB community and beyond.
The Research Office is here to help faculty, staff, and departments secure external funding. This includes help locating funding sources; crafting grant submissions; dealing with the forms, paperwork, and other requirements of the funding process; and grant management support once funding has been secured. We also facilitate Data Use Agreements, Confidentiality Data Agreements, Pre-Proposals, and other ventures and projects.
All College of Arts and Sciences research proposals are required to be routed to and reviewed by the Research Office prior to submission.
Services Provided by the Research Office
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Pre-Award Management
If you would like to utilize any of the following services, the Research Office requires a minimum of 1-2 months notification prior to the submission due date. If this minimum notice is not given, we reserve the right to determine that the notification time is not adequate for proposal preparation and thus that the proposal cannot be submitted.
- Complete all UAB administrative paperwork related to grant submissions:
- Extramural checklists
- RPL
- Cost sharing commitment forms
- IDC revenue redistribution forms
- Subcontract documents and forms
- Develop project budgets in consultation with PI
- Work with CIRB to ensure all required disclosures are documented and current
- Navigate federal sponsor portals to include Grants.gov, ASSIST, eRA Commons, and Research.gov.
- Navigate non-federal sponsor portals to include proposal central and other foundation specific portals
- Prepare facilities documents
- Collect letters of support required for applications
- Serve as liaison between sponsor/OSP/PI
- Read and review all funding announcements to ensure all guidelines are being met
- Read, review, and track all CAS grant submissions
- Complete all UAB administrative paperwork related to grant submissions:
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Post-Award Management
- Manage all financial aspects of funded grants including, but not limited to:
- Account set up
- Provide monthly reconciliations including projections
- Set up employees/faculty grant funding (Oracle HR functions)
- Re-budget requests
- Cost transfers
- Payment requests/purchase order requisitions/reimbursements
- Journal entries
- Account close out
- Annual/final grant reporting
- Monthly/quarterly sponsor invoicing
- Fee-for-service contracts
- Monitor and facilitate effort reporting (compliance and training)
- Process grant transfers in/transfers out
- Manage all financial aspects of funded grants including, but not limited to:
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Other
- Facilitate Data Use Agreements
- Facilitate Confidentiality Data Agreements
- Facilitate Faculty Development Grants
- Manage CAS Innovation Awards
- Set up account
- Provide monthly reconciliations including projections
- Close out account
- Assist faculty in setting up SMARTS/SPIN and Pivot-RP in order to locate funding opportunities
Proposal Submission
Please email your grant proposals to
As all submissions will now be submitted electronically through email, you will need to work with your chairs on their review before submitting your proposal. The chairs will still sign off on the checklist before submitting to the Research Office. If the time frames are not met, the office reserves the right to inform the principal investigator (PI) that there is not adequate time for proposal review and thus the proposal may not be submitted. All submissions to OSP will now flow through
Read more about proposal submission protocols.
Get in Touch
To help meet your specific needs, please select your department or program from the dropdown below for the appropriate contact.
Contacts
Dr. Yogesh K. Vohra
Associate Dean for
Research and Innovation
Heritage Hall 560
(205) 934-6662
Monica Stinnett
Director of CAS Research Operations
Heritage Hall 510
(205) 934-5128
Mo Harbin
Grants Administrator Specialist
Heritage Hall 510
(205) 975-5392
Meg Bruck
Grants Administrator Specialist
Heritage Hall 510
(205) 996-0983
Elizabeth Gambrell
Program Manager I
Heritage Hall 510
(205) 934-3985
Kyle Hall
Program Manager I
Heritage Hall 510
(205) 934-5152