Need to Know

Your source for research and scholarly activity updates including news, research and policy information.

  • Research workshops provide a competitive advantage
    1/19/18

    Fine tune your grant proposals for greater success. Learn more about NSF funding priorities. Hone your budget-writing skills. ORA offers several workshops to help you achieve your research goals. 

  • Researchers think big through Germination Space
    1/8/18

    The Germination Space program allows SUNY researchers to think big about their research. They challenge traditional assumptions, explore unchartered areas and germinate high-impact, transformative research questions targeted at major societal challenges. 

  • Updates for NSF grants and proposals
    11/27/17
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) has revised its Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide.
  • NIH change for clinical trial submissions
    11/27/17
    The National Institutes for Health (NIH) is changing how they accept NIH-defined clinical trial applications.
  • New FORMS-E for NIH and AHRQ
    11/27/17
    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) have created new FORMS-E, grant application instructions.
  • Grants.gov workspace
    11/27/17
    Grants.gov is changing to be more effective in 2018.
  • Fostering entrepreneurship through Innovation Districts
    11/1/17

    UB is creating Innovation Districts to increase university research and student engagement with industry and other strategic partners.

  • Tune up your grant proposals with faculty workshops
    10/4/17

    The Office of Research Advancement supports faculty  grant proposals, including workshops to help with the preparation. Two left in the fall line-up: NIH specific aims and Proposal development - Working with an editor.