Click here to read some general reminders from Dean Kempel regarding international travel, outside companies, outside work for pay, RSVM, and project budgets.

The Office of the Sr. Vice President for Research and Innovation, along with the MSU Center for Interdisciplinarity, Spartan Innovations, and Red Cedar Ventures, is pleased to offer an upcoming workshop titled “Lessons Learned in Writing SBIR/STTR Grants” on February 14 at 2:00 p.m. in the Red Cedar Room in the Kellogg Center. Click for more information.

Sergey Baryshev has received a prestigious Accelerator Stewardship Award from the Office of High Energy Physics at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering will use $225,000 to design and establish a high power X-band nanosecond pulse microscopy system.

DER congratulates Dr. Xuefei Huang (Chemistry/BME) on receiving a William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award, as well as Dr. Yadu Pokhrel (CEE) and Dr. Erin Purcell (BME) on their Teacher-Scholars Awards.

Click to read about the fifty-fourth edition of OSP’s Kuali Coeus System Implementation Update. The contents of this edition include: New web form for adding ORCiD ID’s and additional guidance on the new PI certification question.

Please note: A rule change is coming on January 25 that will require ORC IDs for all faculty to be added to KC for some proposals moving forward.

The Grand Rapids-based Van Andel Research Institute, which was accused of failing to disclose Chinese government grants to two of its researchers, has reached a $5.5 million settlement, the Justice Department announced Thursday. Click here for more information.

NIH (including help desks) will be closed on Monday, January 20, 2020, for the federal holiday (Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.). If a grant application due date falls on a federal holiday, the application deadline is automatically extended to the next business day.

The Travel@State Project Team has posted the project update for this month. The mileage reimbursement rate decreased to 57 cents per mile for 2020.

Please make special note that the MSU Travel and Accounting Offices are moving to East Akers on January 8.

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