The resources below have been compiled to support and enhance our culture of grant-seeking and grant administration excellence.
- Charging Administrative Costs to Federal Grants
- Direct charging of administrative and clerical salaries and other administrative items may be appropriate when it can be demonstrated that they largely meet Uniform Guidance standards. Contact the Associate Dean of Research for more information.
- Early-Career Faculty Resources
- Office of Research offers several resources.
- Finding funding
• General resources from the Office of Research (OR)
• Search the Pivot database (see the Pivot tutorial)
• Attend the OR Team Research Forums
• Apply for an Interdisciplinary Research Catalyst award
• Consider the LDRD program at the National Labs
• Watch three must-do items for kick-starting your research at UC Davis.
• See the Research Development Box folder including archives to grant writing bootcamps, and the grant writers workbook.
- Grant Process Overview
- Grants Templates
• Templates available in Box for numerous granting agencies (NSF, DoD, NIH, etc.)
• The UC Davis Libraries offers templates for data management plans.
- HPC needs, cost share, and other policies
• If your proposal involves High Performance Computing (HPC) or any special IT needs contact the Associate Dean of Research.
• For cost share requests initiate a conversation with your department chair. We encourage PI's to use Academic Year Cost Recovery (AYCR) to generate funds that can be used in this manner.
• Information on AYCR and NSTP to come shortly.
- Monthly Budget Templates
• Monthly Budget Summary Status Report Template
• Monthly Budget Summary Take-Away Sheet Template
To use the above templates, click the link and sign in to Box to download.- Proposal Preparation and Submission
• Cayuse Research Suite (Direct link to the Cayuse portal)
• Application Phases and Types
- Responsibilities and Compliance
• Responsibilities of the investigator and the research administrator