Louisiana Board of Regents

The Board of Regents Support Fund’s 2011-12 competition is underway, with proposal received during October and November across three programs and nine subprograms. The Board has received a bumper crop of proposals, including 199 in Research & Development (Research Competitiveness, Industrial Ties, and Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars), 235 in Enhancement (Traditional, Undergraduate, and Two-Year), and 37 in Graduate Fellows (Traditional, Graduate Fellowships for Teachers, and BoR/SREB Graduate Fellowships to Promote Diversity). In total, the proposals request approximately $37.4 million in first-year funds, more than four times the $8.7 million projected in the FY 2011-12 Plan and Budget to be available for these competitive programs. Review panels have been selected and are already reading proposals. These panels will meet via teleconference and in Baton Rouge over the coming months, to develop funding recommendations for the Board of Regents by mid-spring. Panel reports, which include funding recommendations and individual proposal assessments, will be posted on the Sponsored Programs website (http://web.laregents.org) in early April, and taken to the Board for action at its April 2012 meeting.

Final Invoices Due June 30, 2011

Annual Invoices due June 30, 2011

 

Memo: Deadline for Annual and Final Project and Expenditure Reports

Annual Project and Expenditure Reports for Support Fund Contracts Due June 30, 2011

Final Report for Support Fund Contracts Due 06/30/2011

 

 

 

 

All Board of Regents Support Fund potential contracts to begin in 2011, as well as instructions, forms and the Board memo to Research Directors, are now available in each institutional LOGAN account.

CONTRACT COMPLETION DEADLINES

Private Institutions (R&D and ENH contracts only): Monday, May 16, 2011
Public Institutions: Friday, May 27, 2011
All GF Contracts: Friday, May 27, 2011

 

• Memo

(This memo contains important information about BoRSF funding limitations and PI/campus responses to funding recommendations. Please read in tandem with the panel reports.)

• Endowed Chairs
• Industrial Ties Research Subprogram (ITRS)
• Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS)
• Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (ATLAS)
• Undergraduate Enhancement Program
• Traditional Enhancement Program:
  • Multidisciplinary
  • Business
  • Chemistry
  • Education
  • Mathematics
  • Physics and Astronomy
• Enhancement Program for Two-Year Institutions
• Graduate Fellows/Graduate Fellowships for Teachers
• Board of Regents/Southern Regional Education Board Graduate
  Fellowships to Promote Diversity Program (SREB)

Deadline Date for Receipt of Requests to Amend Contracts and/or Revise Budgets for all BoRSF Contracts

 

March Spotlight

All components of the Board of Regents Sponsored Programs section – the Support Fund, Louisiana EPSCoR, and LaSIP/LA GEAR UP – use an extensive peer-review process to assess, rate and rank proposals submitted to our competitive programs, and to provide funding recommendations for the Board.  While the review process is tailored to each program’s specific requirements, all rely on out-of-state reviewers who have been carefully screened for both appropriate expertise and impartiality. The Board has adopted a stringent conflict-of-interest test to assure reviewers bring no personal or professional biases, positive or negative, to proposals. Proposals are rated and ranked based on criteria established by the Board and published in the RFPs.

After independently reviewing all assigned proposals, subject-area and final panels meet as a group either in Baton Rouge or via online/telephone conferences to discuss preliminary assessments and thoroughly weigh and rank proposals. Some programs even include interview sessions during which reviewers to meet with project teams to discuss proposals prior to making recommendations.

Across all programs in all components, each submitted proposal receives a written analysis from expert reviewers which is provided to the Board and disseminated to campuses and project personnel through formal reports or as post-recommendation debriefings.  The Regents review reports and making final funding determinations based on consultant recommendations. Emphasizing the objectivity of the process, the Board has never rejected the recommendations of expert reviewers.

On November 1-2, 2010 in New Orleans, the Louisiana Board of Regents and Louisiana EPSCoR program, in partnership with Mississippi and Alabama EPSCoR, hosted a national conference entitled “Collaborative Scientific Research in Relation to the Gulf Oil Spill.” The overriding purpose of the Conference was to promote and sustain interdisciplinary, collaborative research in areas related to the Gulf oil spill and its aftermath. To achieve this goal, the Conference was organized around four broadly drawn research strands:

• Engineering Aspects and the Transport and Fate of Spilled Oil
• Coastal and Ocean Environments: Damage, Remediation and Recovery
• Human Communities: Disaster Management, Sustainability and Health
• Economics, Policy and Decision Support Systems

Over 350 people attended the Conference, representing universities throughout the Gulf Coast region and the nation, government agencies, private industry, and community groups. Presentations and discussions across the research strands took place throughout the conference, and forty-six posters, many highlighting NSF RAPID-funded research, were presented detailing ongoing research related to the oil spill.

The Conference energized researchers, providing them with a venue to share their work and explore partnership opportunities with scientists from widely diverse backgrounds. The Conference proceedings, to be published in 2011, will further help to broaden understanding of collaborative research in the context of the Gulf oil spill.

More information about the Conference, including speaker presentations, is available at http://web.laregents.org/program-evaluations/oilspill2010/.

• BoRSF NOI & PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DATES & ELIGIBLE DISCIPLINES, FY 2010-11
• Traditional and Undergraduate Enhancement Program
  • Download RFP (PDF)
• Two-Year Institutions Enhancement Program
  • Download RFP (PDF)
• Research and Development Program
  • Download RFP (PDF)
• ATLAS Program
  • Download RFP (PDF)
  • Download Forms (Rich Text Format)
• Graduate Fellows Program
  • Download RFP (PDF)
  • Download Forms (Rich Text Format)
• BoR/SREB Graduate Fellowships to Promote Diversity Program
  • Download RFP (PDF)
  • Download Forms (Rich Text Format)

Dr. Tabbetha Dobbins is the kind of renaissance woman universities and students love.A dedicated teacher and a celebrated researcher who holds appointments through EPSCoR’s Joint Faculty Appointments Program (JFAP) at Louisiana Tech and Grambling, Dr. Dobbins radiates a vitality and commitment to all aspects of her work. This is reflected in the remarkable breadth of her success. As a junior researcher, she received funding for her project “Engineering Dopant Local Atomic Structures in Complex Metal Hydrides” through the BoRSF Research Competitiveness Subprogram, designed to both enable her to pursue her cutting-edge research and assist her in becoming competitive for federal funding. In addition, Dr. Dobbins has served as a Co-PI for Traditional Enhancement awards which have provided essential equipment and support for education and training programs at Louisiana Tech and Grambling. Clearly BoRSF funding has proven to be an excellent investment. Her twin dedication to cutting-edge research and student learning has helped Dr. Dobbins to achieve one of the most prestigious awards available to a young university scientist: the NSF CAREER award.