The Office of Sponsored Programs will be hosting open forums for the candidates for Director of Sponsored Programs next week. We hope you will join us and share any questions you may have. The sessions will be in the Provost’s Conference Room from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 16, for Sharon Smith. The forum for Neal Hunt will be from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 18. We would truly like your feedback on the candidates. Michael Aikens is chairing the search for this position. Please send your comments to him (maikens@tntech.edu). We have a number of other searches that are ongoing and we will be posting updates here on hiring and other candidates coming to campus. Please feel free to contact Jennifer Taylor (JenniferTaylor@TnTech.edu) if you have any questions. For those of you who need support from OSP currently, please direct all pre-award questions/requests for support to Mark Lynam (mdlynam@tntech.edu) and post-award questions to Jill Debord (adebord@tntech.edu).
Category: Research
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Office of Sponsored Programs to host open-forum for Director of OSP candidates
The Office of Sponsored Programs would like to invite faculty to an open-forum to meet the candidates for the Director of the OSP position. The meetings will be in the Provost’s Conference Room in Derryberry Hall:
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- Sharon Smith – Tuesday, August 16 – 1:45 – 2:30 p.m.
Neal Hunt – Thursday, August 18 – 1:45 – 2:30 p.m.
For more information, please contact Dr. Jennifer Taylor, Vice President for Research and Economic Development (jennifertaylor@tntech.edu).
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Assistant Professor VanNeste receives patent
Assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering Charles VanNeste recently received a patent for an omnidirectional sensing device that can help determine an object’s change in position, velocity or speed, which is important in fields ranging from robotics systems to electric vehicles. Other sensing devices are available in the market, but most require numerous sensing components and large amounts of energy. They are also expense, and few are omnidirectional. VanNeste also recently published a manuscript for this work, available online (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9827944), in the IEEE Sensors Journal. The Office of Sponsored Programs congratulates Assistant Professor VanNeste on this achievement.
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Office of Sponsored Programs establishes search committees for new positions
The Office of Sponsored Programs has established search committees for its three new upper-level positions: director of sponsored programs, director of research compliance, and post-award team manager. The committees represent a diverse set of research expertise from across campus. Michael Aikens will lead the first, with MK Karafonda, Jeanette Luna, Rory Roberts, and Gail Ligon rounding out the team. Karafonda will lead the director of research compliance search, with Steve Seiler, Steven Hayslette, Greg Holt, and Liz Humphrey. Karafonda will also lead the committee to hire the post-award team manager with Michael Aikens, Anysa Milum, Gail Ligon, Terri McWilliams, and Justin Murdock. For more information, contact Dr. Jennifer Taylor, Vice President for research, at jennifertaylor@tntech.edu. Our office will keep you informed as the search progresses for each of these roles that are integral in strengthening our research foundation.
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Audit or Review Reports Received from External Agencies
To comply with State Audit directives and Tennessee Tech Policy #130, any audit or review reports received from external agencies should be forwarded to Internal Audit when they are received throughout the year. If you or your department have received any audit or review reports from external agencies during FY 2021-22 that have not already been forwarded to Internal Audit, please send them to Deanna Metts (dmetts@tntech.edu) at this time.
Please note – this request does not cover accreditation reports.
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Office of Sponsored Programs announces progress in growing its team
The Office of Sponsored Programs announces progress in growing its team to enhance our support in the pursuit of external funding. New/revised positions include a post-award team manager, director of research compliance, director of sponsored programs, post-award specialists and a contract compliance specialist. These roles will be the basis of our new, expanded infrastructure to help grow the university’s research portfolio. As candidates are identified and interviewed, they will be able to meet with faculty and staff to provide input. If you know qualified candidates, please ask them to apply. Thank you for your assistance as we assessed the campus’s needs and built solutions to provide the foundation for further growth. We are committed to ongoing enhancements to efficiently and seamlessly meet the faculty’s research needs. Please email your input and suggestions to Dr. Jennifer Taylor, Vice-President for research. We will keep you updated on the progress of these hires.
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The Office of Research is Moving…?
As TTU moves closer to centralization and expansion of Research Administration and Compliance services, The Office of Research staff will be shuffling workspaces. Our various rooms are being renovated and subdivided in order to make way for additional staff. The space in Derryberry Hall Room 128 will be tackled first. During this next week, our computers, phones, and working papers may not always be together in the same space at the same time. Email is the most reliable way to reach us during this transition. Joe Driver, Jill DeBord, and Mark Lyman have moved to DH 155 temporarily. Mary Kathryn Karafonda will relocate to DH 326. Amy Hill remains in her space in Southwest Hall for the time being. Thanks so much for your patience during this time.
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Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Richard Mitchell (Physics)
We will have an Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar this week featuring work from Physics Major Richard Mitchell. The talk, Integral method for fitting nuclear decay chains, will present a new technique for determining radioactive half-lives from complex, low-statistics data sets. The seminar will be this Friday, April 22nd at 4pm in Volpe Library 248. It will be geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! For questions, contact aholley@tntech.edu.
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R101: Responsible Conduct of Research
Join the Office of Research in partnership with the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFÉ) for the final session in our Research 101 series: Responsible Conduct in Research. Responsible Conduct in Research is simply good citizenship applied to professional life. Important shared values for the responsible conduct in research that bind all researchers together are honesty, accuracy, efficiency, and objectivity. This workshop will build on the already required CITI training and offer insights into some conflicting situations that arise during the conduct of research. Register below to join us on Thursday, March 10th at 11 AM. Please contact the CAFÉ with any questions at cafe@tntech.edu.
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Office of Research implements specialized inboxes for efficient communications
The Office of Research has new email inboxes to enhance its efficiency. Please direct pre-award issues to preaward@tntech.edu, managed by Joe Driver who prepares budgets and proposals, and fields pre-award policy questions. Amy Hill remains our pre-award coordinator/submitter, editor, and communications manager. Please send agreements for review and official signature to agreements@tntech.edu, managed by Catherine Wallace, specialist for award negotiations, subawards, and non-monetary agreements. Please direct non-bookkeeping award issues to awards@tntech.edu, managed by Mark Lynam, contact on award report submission and compliance review for budget adjustments. Mark also provides support for revisions, extensions, and policy/regulatory issues along with CITI training, Visual Compliance checks, and tech transfers. The research@tntech.edu inbox will receive sponsor- and general submission portal-related correspondence. Thank you for your support during this transition!