Newsletter for Scholarly Work and Research Activities
College of Liberal Arts
The Office of the Dean
Kimberly Fahey, Director of Research Administration and Gina Barnes,
Assistant Director, Pre-Award
Services CLA Office of Research
Funding Opportunities
Career Enhancement Fellowships for Junior Faculty (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) Deadline is 10.30.15. Please email Gina Barnes for a copy of the announcement.
For the project entitled, Using Developmental Science to Design a Computerized Preschool Language Assessment, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Psychology) has received an additional year of funding via a subcontract from the University of Delaware. The primary funder of the study is IES.
Hamil Pearsall (GUS) has received a renewal grant from the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership, Inc.-Globe Dye Works for Monitoring trash in the T04 outfall area near Tacony Creek.
The University of Pennsylvania has awarded an additional year of funding to Catherine Maclean (Economics) for her role in Evaluation of a Workplace Wellness Program Implementation. The primary sponsor of the project is the American Heart Association.
Anthropology doctoral student Dave Paulson has been awarded a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The grant will support his year-long doctoral-research project, Writing in the Margins: Indigenous Literacy, Childhood Socialization, and Rapid Modernization in a Vietnamese Village.
Research News
REMINDER: Deadline for CLA Research Awards is Rapidly Approaching
The Dean's Office will be accepting applications for the CLARA program through November 1st. All tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible. Additional information is available here.
Accounts Payable Invoice Requests for Payment
Approximately 2 years ago, Accounts Payable introduced the "Accounts Payable Invoice Payment Form" in TUmarketplace. This multi-purpose electronic form replaces your paper requests for:
Student refunds
Travel Advance
Upload invoice payments
Non-employee travel reimbursement
Starting December 1, 2015, Accounts Payable will no longer accept paper requests for payment, requiring all invoices and payment request be submitted through TUmarketplace "Accounts Payable Invoice Payment Form."
Utilizing this electronic form affords you several benefits:
Form Requisition Status
View invoice status
Payment status including check number and date when check has processed
Communication between you and Accounts Payable by way of comment emails
Document history always available through "Search" action
NSF New Grant Proposal Guidelines Released
Anyone who has applied for NSF funding knows that the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) is a vital source for how to pull together the various components of a proposal. These guidelines tend to change yearly and thus, should be reviewed with each release. The2016 NSF GPGis now available. We strongly encourage any NSF applicants to review these guidelines closely. The CLA Research staff will do the same as well so as to be able to offer guidance to our faculty members, postdocs and students when they are preparing to submit to NSF.
Temporary PI Form
The Grants Management Office (GMO) has requested that the Temporary Principal Investigator Status Request Form be completed when a graduate student or postdoctoral scholar will be named as PI or Co-PI on a research grant. The form can be completed and returned to Gina Barnes to obtain the college-level signature, after which time it will be returned to GMO. The form can be foundhere.
Training and Development Opportunities
Research Accounting Services Brown Bag Sessions
Tuesday, October 27th ~ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ~ Tech Center Room 111 ~ RegisterHere The course is designed to enhance the understanding among Business Administrators and or Managers, Principal Investigators and other staff involved in externally sponsored research, responsible for the management of Externally Sponsored Projects which comprises research compliance fundamentals, including: 1) roles and responsibilities 2) obligations for conducting research ethically and in compliance with applicable policies and regulations and 3) where to find resources and information that support the research enterprise which will help in the fulfillment of research-related duties. Sessions will be conducted by the Research Accounting Services Staff and Guests.
TU Marketplace 101
Wednesday, October 28th ~ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm ~ TASB: Hunting Park Ave, 1st floor, Training Rm 10 ~ RegisterHere The Purchasing Department will provide hands-on-training in the TUmarketplace. This session will include: Setting up your profile, managing your homepage, setting your default FOAPAL, quick search for a requisition or purchase order, placing non-catalog and catalog orders, requisition creation, approval workflow and Purchasing terminology and policies. Please note that access to TUmarketplace is required to participate in this course.
College of Liberal Arts, Office of the Dean
1248 Anderson Hall (022-01)
1114 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090
215-204-9148 (phone)
215-204-3731 (fax)