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News for All Faculty & Research Staff               December 13 , 2016
ORSP's Holiday Schedule, Submission Deadlines
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs will be closed for the holidays beginning Monday, December 26, through Monday, January 2, 2017. The office will reopen on January 3. The holiday schedule for submission deadlines is posted here . Best wishes for an enjoyable holiday season!
Se lected Events 
December 13
Lecture by President and CEO of HINJ
December 15  
Celebrating Caliburn, Rutgers' New Supercomputer
December 16  
Second Annual Rutgers Brain Health Institute Symposium

Research Contacts

A list of key research contacts, including staff in ORED and other units, is posted here. Send any suggestions to [email protected]
This Just In: ORED's 2016 Annual Report
The Office of Research and Economic Development's fiscal year 2016 annual report is now available and posted here. There are a limited number of printed copies; send requests to [email protected].
Engineering Professor Elected to National Academy of Inventors  
Richard Riman, distinguished professor  of materials science and engineering in Rutgers' School of Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.  He currently holds more than 10 U.S. patents and patents pending for the "low-temperature solidification" process he invented with Vahit Atakan, a former doctoral student, and post-docs Surojit Gupta and Qinghua Li. Atakan now works at Solidia Technologies, a local company Riman founded to commercialize the LTS technology. Read more here.
eIRB System Upgraded and Updated
As part of ORED's Excellence in Research Administration initiative, the  eIRB system  has been both upgraded and updated. The eIRB application has been streamlined to remove redundancy and increase efficiency. The system also incorporates the "Huron Toolkit" guidances to facilitate protocol writing and review.  Read more here.   
Funding Opportunities: Sign Up for Email Alerts Specific to Your Field 
The Research Development team has created five specific lists for funding opportunity alerts via email. The categories are computer science, health/life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and limited submissions. You can  s ign up here.   
RAPSS Update
User training for the Research Administration and Proposal Submission System  ( RAPSS) continues at New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden. The  schedule and registration details are here.  Quick Reference Guides are posted here.  If you need assistance, send a note to  [email protected] .
Grants and Gifts
Each week in the Rutgers Faculty & Staff Bulletin we run a small sample of the many grants awarded to Rutgers researchers. The archive is  here.
Accessing the Archive, Contributing Content and Email Addresses
You are invited to submit research-related news and events for this newsletter from the Office of Research and Economic Development. We send it to all Rutgers faculty and our list of more than 850 research staff. To add a staff member to the list, send the email address to  [email protected]  or go to the newsletter archive  here . 

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