• Administrative Support
• Infrastructure Development and Support

Services

The Institute provides two primary sets of services to help encourage and support interdisciplinary research efforts as well as other efforts to obtain external funding: The first set includes pre-award and post-award services.  The second set includes infrastructure development and support.   These services are provided to any COE R&D Center, academic department, Study Group, or individual investigator.

Pre-Award and Post-Award Services

• Pre-Award Services: These services include the following:
  • Provide support in organizing interdisciplinary teams of researchers for the purpose of exploring external funding possibilities.
  • Provide support in identifying external funding opportunities, linking faculty interdisciplinary research interests with available funding opportunities.
  • Provide support in writing grants, preparing the documents, graphics, on-line submissions, budget development and analysis
  • Advise PIs on budget strategies and policies and guidelines
  • Assist PIs in final negotiations with UGA and funding agencies
  • Provide PIs with information on cost sharing

  Contact Grace Thornton, gthorn@uga.edu or Kim Wright, kawright@uga.edu for more information.

• Post-Award Services: These services include the following:
  • Financial management assistance for Centers, Study Groups, or individual projects
  • Ensure compliance with federal, state, sponsor and University regulations regarding sponsored project administration
  • Advise PIs on financial management of research projects
  • Prepare monthly financial status reports for PIs
  • Coordinate human resource activities in the Institute

  Contact Kim Wright, kawright@uga.edu or Teresa Melton, tmelton@uga.edu for more information.