Mail Stop 2404 • College Station, TX 77843-2404 • (979) 862-9166 • [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CPI Newsletter – June 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Included in this issue: ⎯ Update from the CPI Chair ⎯ Huffines Faculty Research Seed Grants – Deadline June 15, 2018 ⎯ Potential Opportunity for NSF and NIH Supplements to Existing Grants ⎯ Export Controls Designated Liaison Network ⎯ 3rd Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium – September 19, 2018 ⎯ Sign Up for Notifications about Limited Submission Proposal Opportunities ⎯ Bulletin for Principal Investigators 2017-18 CPI roster: Chair — Penny Riggs , COALS ● Vice Chair — David Threadgill , Veterinary Medicine ● AgriLife Extension — Craig Carpenter, Gaylon Morgan ● AgriLife Research — Michael Brewer, Ambika Chandra, Fugen Dou, Lee Tarpley ● Architecture — Ergun Akleman ● Bush School — Kent Portney ● COALS — Fuller Bazer, Russell Cross, Martin Dickman, Micky Eubanks, Elizabeth Pierson, David Stelly ● Education – Oi-Man Kwok, Jeffrey Liew ● Engineering — Jorge Alvarado, Ulisses Braga-Neto, Zachary Grasley, Melissa Grunlan, Tony Hsieh Sheng-Jen, Daniel Jiménez, Jodie Lutkenhaus, Ramesh Talreja ● Geosciences — Alejandro Orsi, Pamela Plotkin, Brendan Roark ● IBT/PHARM/RCHI — Julian Hurdle ● Law – Susan Fortney ● Liberal Arts — Sandra Braman, Steve Maren, Harland Prechel ● Mays — Korok Ray ● Medicine —Vytas Bankaitis, Kayla Bayless ● Science — Darren DePoy, Michael Hall, Christian Hilty, Alexei Safonov, Frank Sottile ● SPH — Jane Bolin ● TAMU at Galveston — R.J. David Wells ● TAMCD— Jay Groppe ● TAMU at Qatar— Othmane Bouhali ● TEES —Dean Schneider ● TTI —David Bierling, Mike Lukuc, Dennis Perkinson ● University Libraries — Bruce Herbert ● Veterinary Medicine — Loren Skow The CPI is sponsored annually through funding from Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute Update from Dr. Penny Riggs, CPI Chair -------------------------------------------------- June CPI News – For this June 13th General CPI meeting, we welcome Dr. Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni, Assistant Provost for External Awards and Professor of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences to discuss her approach to this project, and how her office can also be a resource for department and college award committees. At a recent CPI meeting, a discussion arose about deferred maintenance. This month CPI is pleased to host Dr. Jerry Strawser, Executive Vice President for Finance and Operations and Chief Financial Officer, along with members of his team (Ms. Jane Schneider, Mr. Ralph Davila, and Mr. Richard Gentry), to address maintenance and building related topics and procedures. CPI Contacts – The complete list of all CPI Representatives and the executive council for 2017-2018 can be found on the CPI website at http://cpi.tamu.edu/membership. All PIs are encouraged to communicate with their representatives to bring forward items of concern or interest for the research community. Please continue to bring research-related issues (and solutions) to my attention at [email protected], or contact me directly at [email protected] or 979.862.7015. Reminder: CPI Vice Chair elections are ongoing. Don’t forget to vote. No general meeting will be held in July. The next CPI General Meeting will be Wednesday, August 8, 2018 in Rudder 601. The newly elected CPI Representatives for 2018 are invited to join the currently elected CPI Representatives. Contact Rebecca Luckey, [email protected] or 979.862.9166, for more information. Thanks for newsletter comment and suggestions during the past month. Huffines Faculty Research Seed Grants – Deadline June 15, 2018 -------------------------------------------------- Sydney and J.L. Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance FY2018-19 Faculty Research Seed Grant Program Purpose The purpose of the Huffines Institute Seed Grant program is to provide limited financial support to Huffines’ Affiliate Faculty members for research that contributes to the mission of the Huffines Institute and that will provide data leading to proposals for extramural funding. Eligibility To be eligible, you must be a faculty affiliate member of the Huffines Institute of Sports Medicine and Human Performance (go to HuffinesInstitute.org to apply for Affiliate Status). These grants ARE NOT limited to faculty in HLKN or CEHD. Funds from this award will begin July 30, 2018 and must be spent by June 30, 2019, or be returned to the Institute. For additional information and the application to apply visit the website at http://huffinesinstitute.org/portals/0/images/faculty_research_grant_RFA_2018-19.pdf, or email [email protected]. Potential Opportunity for NSF and NIH Supplements to Existing Grants -------------------------------------------------- Because FY18 appropriations were approved late in the cycle, potential exists that funding agencies, such as NSF and NIH, may rely on distributing some money through supplements to existing grants. Faculty with existing NSF and NIH grants are encouraged to contact their program officers very soon to inquire about potential supplements (up to $1 million) to either buy a piece of equipment that had to be eliminated from a previous project budget or to expand the scope of the project to include another element/facet, or to add on REUs and RETs. A suggested way to begin conversations with program managers could be as simple as calling to let them know how the project is going (let them know about any recent successes from the project) and then telling them that it would be great to do “x or y” to augment these findings, etc. Council of Principal Investigators | June 2018 Newsletter CPI 2 Export Controls Designated Liaison Network -------------------------------------------------- The University’s Export Control Designated Liaison Network consists of TAMU offices with responsibility for administering components of TAMU’s export control compliance program. The department/unit representatives coordinate with the Export Controls Office on export control compliance. The group meets on a periodic basis to discuss export control issues of concern, ensure coordination of compliance efforts, assist each other on developing enhancements to existing processes, procedures, and to share training resources and best practices. Mr. Ray VanNorman ([email protected]), the Director of the TAMU Export Controls Office ([email protected]), is chair of the Network. In addition to representatives of TAMU offices with responsibility for administering components of export control compliance program, faculty representation through the CPI was requested for the group. The faculty representatives do not serve as department/unit designated liaisons, but do provide input to the group from a faculty perspective. Some points from the May 24 meeting: (a) Iranian sanctions changed; (b) Updates from the University Export Control Officers’ Conference in Madison: common issues include mis-categorization of technologies and a lack of understanding of deemed exports; (c) Processes being used by our EC offices if a commodity code in AggieBuy triggers a possible export code; (d) Application of General License and License Exceptions to non-U.S. citizens – must be handled on a case-to-case basis; (e) Changes in how violations in status of F, M, J visa holders are being handled; and (f) General discussion items included possible implications of the new data protection standards and IT compliance issues in various international travel situations. Lee Tarpley ([email protected] ), AgriLife Research, Beaumont; off-campus representative Darren Depoy ([email protected]), TAMU, Physics & Astronomy; campus representative 3rd Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium – September 19, 2018 -------------------------------------------------- PIs, please forward the information about the 3rd annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium and encourage all your postdocs participation on September 19, 2018. See attached flyer at the back of the newsletter or email Shannon Eyre at [email protected]. Sign Up for Notifications about Limited Submission Proposal Opportunities -------------------------------------------------- The list of current Limited Submission Proposal (LSP) opportunities, maintained by the Division of Research, are available at https://u.tamu.edu/LSP. To receive notifications about new LSP opportunities as soon as they are announced, email Ms. Shelly Martin at [email protected]. Bulletin for Principal Investigators -------------------------------------------------- The Division of Research at Texas A&M University issues a brief weekly bulletin for Principal Investigators. The bulletin accepts news items about researchers and their teams from the colleges, schools, campuses and agencies within the Texas A&M research enterprise, including honors, funding, publications, presentations, and appearances in news media. Click here to subscribe or unsubscribe to the bulletin. Council of Principal Investigators | June 2018 Newsletter CPI 3 Read Building Huffines Institute, 356 Blocker Bldg. TAMU 4243 College Station, TX 77843 [email protected] Sydney and J.L. Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance FY2018-19 Faculty Research Seed Grant Program Purpose The purpose of the Huffines Institute Seed Grant program is to provide limited financial support to Huffines’ Affiliate Faculty members for research that contributes