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News for All Faculty and Research Staff      July 31, 2014

Development Begins on a Digital Grants and Contracts System

Rutgers' Office of Research and Economic Development has engaged Huron Consulting to customize and install its Click� Portal Solution for electronically managing grants and research contracts. It's been dubbed the Research Administration and Proposal Submission System (RAPSS), a name suggested by Nicole Nicholas, a research contract and grant specialist in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

 

Huron's personnel assigned to the project came to campus this week to meet with the university team working on RAPSS, which includes front-line users and research development professionals from numerous Rutgers schools and units. The project is being led jointly by Diane Ambrose, who directs the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs; Faizan Ahmed, associate director of IT in the Office of Research and Economic Development; and Steve Schipper, project manager in the Office of Information Technology. Read more here.
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Human Subjects Protection Training Being Upgraded

The highly regarded program for human subjects protection education currently used by every Big Ten university, which is provided by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI), is being adopted at Rutgers. As of Sept. 1, Rutgers' Human Subjects Certification Program (HSCP) online training through Sakai will be replaced by the CITI education modules. As in the past, this training is mandatory, but only a refresher course will be required for researchers who had previously completed the HSCP. Read more here.

Name Changes for Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

All of the Rutgers IRBs (Institutional Review Boards) fall under central administration's Office of Research Regulatory Affairs. To correctly convey their position within the university, the following name changes have been made. The RBHS IRBs (originally the legacy UMDNJ IRBs) will now be known as the Rutgers Health Sciences IRB-Newark campus and the Rutgers Health Sciences IRB-New Brunswick/Piscataway campus. The legacy Rutgers IRB in New Brunswick will now be known as the Rutgers Arts & Sciences IRB. Contact information and submission instructions all remain the same. For more, visit orra.rutgers.edu.

Cool Science: Researcher Follows Smokers to Get at the Root of Addiction

Psychology professor Danielle McCarthy says emotional triggers keep people hooked. More here.

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Grants and Gifts
Each week in the Faculty & Staff Bulletin we publish a small sample of the many grants awarded to Rutgers researchers. The archive is here.  
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