UMBC is continuing to transition its research related processes into the Kuali system. The Proposal Submission, Awards and Conflict of Interest modules handling funding submissions and financial COI disclosures are already live. The next steps in Kuali implementation are Protocols. Protocols will replace the current paper/email based submission process for animal care and use and human subjects research. For more information of the past integration efforts, see Kuali at UMBC.

The next step of transition involves the IACUC part of the Kuali Protocols module. The Office of Research Protections and Compliance (ORPC) is in the process of configuring the Protocols module to mirror the current animal research use protocol application process. Instead of submitting paper, Protocols allows for submission of protocol applications via the Kuali cloud-based system. Investigators can expect an improvement in review processing time and more efficient communication with the staff of the ORPC. In turn, compliance committee members will experience a more streamlined process to review and ultimately approve animal research studies.

Estimated Kuali Protocols Timeline

1. Kuali inputs current UMBC IACUC forms in to system to create on-line forms – September 2018
2. Kuali creates IACUC process configuration in the system- September 2018/October 2018
3. UMBC performs form testing and IACUC process review – October 2018
4. UMBC Identifies testing groups of IACUC stakeholders (department admins, investigators, IACUC committee member) – November 2018
5. UMBC develops training manuals – November/December 2018
6. IACUC protocols Go Live – January 2019
7. IRB Scheduled for implementation in mid 2019?

Regarding #4 of the timeline, the ORPC is in search of testers to help us ensure: 1) our investigators and research team members understand the process of protocol submission in Kuali; 2) the process runs smoothly and efficiently; and 3) that approvals of animal use protocols meet the expectations of our faculty to conduct animal research. All work is done in Kuali’s sandbox environment. If you’d like to help in this effort, or just kick the tires, please contact us at compliance@umbc.edu.

The next phase of Protocol evolution involves human subjects (the IRB). Stay tuned to this page for further developments.

For training information and to sign up for classes, visit Kuali Training

Hello fellow Research Administrators,

OSP is pleased to inform you that in the near future all existing subawards with issued PO # will no longer be a part of the procurement process. With the effective change, all subawards’ invoice payments will be processed directly by the Accounts Payable through People Soft payment request. Once the new process will be in place, there will be a step-by-step information included with the invoice email on how to process the payment.

Congratulations to the following faculty, students, and alumni for their recent accomplishments!  

Michael Bass, Psychology ‘12, and Andre Crawley, Visual Arts ‘09, were named Baltimore Rising Stars by the Baltimore Business Journal.

Danielle L. Beatty Moody, Psychology, shared her research on how racial discrimination affects women's health in Everyday discrimination literally raises women's blood pressure, in The Atlantic.

Amy Bhatt, Gender and Women’s Studies, discussed family separations in the Trump era, in the Academic Minute.

Tim Brennan, Public Policy and Economics, will discuss The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust Law at the November Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21^st Century.

Chris Curran, Public Policy, discussed law enforcement officers in k-12 public schools in “Academic Minute: School Resource Officers and Discipline,” in Inside Higher Ed.

Steven Dashiell, PhD student in Language, Literacy, and Culture, won the Best Student Paper in American Culture award at the Popular Culture Association of the South conference.

Rhiannon Dowling, M.A. ‘09 in Historical Studies (Advisor: Kate Brown), won this year's Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, “Brezhnev's War on Crime: The Criminal in Soviet Society, 1963-1982.”

Matt Fagan, Geography and Environmental Systems, conducted research which suggests tropical forests are rarely given a chance to fully regrow before they are cleared again, limiting their carbon-storage benefits, in the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Natural History of Ecological Restoration Blog.

Cathy Graham, Economics ‘81, was named to the 2018 Washington Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business list.

Nancy Kusmaul, Social Work, received the Distinguished Alumni Awardfrom the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.

Jane Lincove, Public Policy, discussed her research on understanding the link between school choice and transportation in How does school choice affect student commutes in New Orleans?, in EdWeek.

Christine Mallinson, Language, Literacy, & Culture, published the co-edited book Rural Voices: Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place.

Roy Meyers, Political Science, was awarded the Aaron Wildavsky Award for lifetime achievement, from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.

Erin O’Keefe, M.P.P ’10 and current Public Policy PhD student, will present at the October Coalition of Urban Metropolitan Universities conference on leading a place-based community engagement initiative. Her work is highlighted as one of five case studies in a new book, Place Based Community Engagement in Higher Education by Kent Koth and Erica Yamura.

Rebecca Postowski, M.P.P, received a fellowship to attend the Behavioral Energy and Climate Change Conference in DC.

Bob Provine, Psychology, weighs in on the lasting effects laugher can have on a person, both good and bad, in Christine Blasey Ford and the dark side of laughter, in the Washington Post, and in Beaumont Enterprise.

Susan M. Sterett, Public Policy, published “Data Access as Regulation,” in American Behavioral Scientist. She also co-authored “Symposium: Reflecting on the Profession” with Jennifer A. Diascro, in PS: Political Science and Politics.

Congratulations to the following faculty, students, and alumni for their recent accomplishments!  

Matthew Baker, Geography and Environmental Systems, published “Drones to track one of the largest dam removals on the East Coast” in The Conversation.

Amy Bhatt, Gender and Women’s Studies, published “India’s sodomy ban, now ruled illegal, was a British colonial legacy,” in The Conversation.

Nancy Kusmaul, Social Work, was named as Book, Media, and Resource Review Editor of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.

Tara McMullen, PhD '14, Gerontology, received the 2018 Carroll L. Estes Rising Star Award from the Gerontological Society of America.

Derek Musgrove, History, comments on Washington, D.C. in 1984 in the article, “Wonder Woman’s version of 1984 D.C. versus the real thing,” in the Washington City Paper.  

John Rennie Short, Public Policy, published “Campaign season is moving into high gear—your vote may not count as much as you think” in The Conversation. 

Susan Sonnenschein, Psychology, and Rebecca Dowling, M.A. '16, Psychology, Ph.D. '21, Psychology, published “5 math skills your child needs to get ready for kindergarten” in The Conversation.

Susan Sterett, Public Policy, published “Law's Presence, Law's Absence: Reporting Stories of Employment Discrimination in the Academy” in the journal Politics & Gender.