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The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is an administrative office of the Provost designed to serve faculty and facilitate development of the University's life through the venue of sponsored research. OSP reports directly to the Dean of Academic Affairs.
OSP is comprised of three primary functions:
I. Pre-award support activity, including identification of potential sponsors, budget development, assuring compliance with sponsors' application requirements, proposal production and delivery, and support activities;
II. Post award administration, including sponsor negotiations, contractual and regulatory compliance, budget modification and project close-out; and
III. Compliance with federal, state, local and University policies and regulation affecting research activities involving human and animal subjects, radioactive and hazardous materials, and patent licensing.
In addition, OSP facilitates identification of individual award opportunities (Guggenheim, Fulbright, etc.) and hosts a variety of seminars designed to augment faculty knowledge of the individual awards and sponsored program opportunities.
OSP maintains a library in order to facilitate both the OSP staff and the AU faculty in the sponsored research process.
The OSP Library holds four main types of publications:
Periodicals, (e.g. Federal Register, Commerce Business Daily, Federal Grants & Contracts Weekly, Health Grants & Contracts Weekly, Aid for Education), which come out daily, weekly and monthly;
Foundation Files, which hold information on private foundations that could give the University funding;
Directories, which provide quick reference information on foundations and their funding; and
Government Agency files,(e.g. National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service) which hold information sent to us by the various government agencies with which we deal.
These holdings are designed to enable the user to maximize knowledge of both sponsorship opportunities from potential sponsors and compliance requirements of sponsors regarding contract administration.
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