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Curious About Electronic Research Administration Tools? Here’s What You Need To Know
How do you figure out which of all the different research administration tools will actually help speed up your processes? Here’s what you need to know.
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Developing an In-House Time and Effort Reporting System? Beware of Hidden Costs
Organizations routinely underestimate the real cost of building and operating in-house research administration systems, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers for ADP.
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Should You Enforce Internal Grant Proposal Deadlines?
We all know sponsor deadlines govern research administration, but what about your own internal proposal deadlines? How strictly should you enforce such policies? Here’s what two Cayuse customers said.
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Top 3 Financial Management Challenges in Research Administration
Here are the top three challenges we hear most often and how Cayuse Financials can help ease the administrative burden of managing grant funds.
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Facilitating Better Fiscal Oversight by Principal Investigators
Institutions should provide tools that facilitate proper PI stewardship of sponsored funds. Research administration offices have had great success improving fiscal monitoring and reporting by using software solutions such as Cayuse Financials.
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2018 SRA International Annual Meeting Retrospective
What We Learned From SRA 2018 While there continues to be a refinement of government regulations around things like tech transfer, at the moment there aren't any new substantial government policy changes causing angst in the research community. However, four themes...
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Rounding Up the Round-Up for Research Administration Day
Well, how do Cayuse Customers Round Up the Round-Up? We believe each day is National Research Administration Day and proof was found all around at the Cayuse Round-Up, our annual customer event. So, how do Cayuse customers round up the Round-Up? It’s simple. With...
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An Inside Look at a High-Volume Research Office
Cayuse recently had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Cotton, Assistant Vice President of Sponsored Programs at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB). UAB handles over $480 million in awards each year.
In an ever-changing research environment, research offices of all sizes are continually being forced to evolve. With mounting pressures on campuses to increase their funding when there is less funding overall to be won, large and small research…
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Chris Harker and the Story of Cayuse, From 1994 to Today
The Cayuse Research Suite is centered on the Cayuse solutions first developed by Dr. Chris Harker in 1994. At the time Dr. Harker was a medical researcher, faculty member, and Laboratory Director at Oregon Health Sciences University. He wanted to develop an easier way to…
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5 Tips for Surviving the Next Big Proposal Deadline
I don't need to tell you how stressful proposal deadlines can be. Here are five tips to help you make it through: 1. Eat Lunch Let’s face it. It’s a miracle on a normal day to eat lunch away from your desk, let alone out of the office. And, now that you have a big...
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Reflections on Research Administration
At Cayuse, we understand the amazing yet thankless work that research administrators do on a daily basis. If it weren’t for them (and the great researchers they serve, of course) we wouldn’t benefit from many of the societal and scientific advancements that enhance...
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Why Cayuse Loves Research Administrator Day
It’s safe to assume that for most people September 25 is just another regular day, unless it’s your birthday or you’re a fan of National One-Hit Wonder Day or National Comic Book Day. But thanks to our friends at the National Council of University Research...
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Top 5 Reasons Your Principal Investigators (PIs) Will Benefit from eRA
Principal investigators (PIs), the people at your institution ultimately responsible for generating and carrying out sponsored projects, will benefit significantly from electronic research administration (eRA). In our blog posts and public presentations, we offer...
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5 Reasons to Love IACUC
IACUC, the latest solution in the Cayuse Research Suite, is here! We love IACUC, and we’re sure you will, too. Here are five reasons why: It’s All About the Animals IACUC was designed to put the humane care and use of animal research subjects first. With built-in...
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Standard Reporting – How Standard are Sponsored Projects Reports?
“I’m interested in getting some reports out of your office.” If you’re in charge of data and reporting for a Sponsored Programs Office, has there ever been a more anxiety-provoking statement? What do they want to know? How reliable is the data I have? Am I capturing...
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Tips to Combat Declining NIH Award Success Rates
It’s no secret that NIH proposal acceptance rates have declined significantly since the turn of the century: -14% from 2001 to 2016, to be exact, according to NIH. Additionally, NIH budgets have remained fairly constant, averaging $30.18 billion from 2008-2015...
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Promoting Collaboration in an Office of Sponsored Programs
In my 20 plus years in research administration, you could say that I saw and did it all. As the Director of Contracts & Grants in the Office of Sponsored Programs at UCSF, a common issue we ran into, and a common issue among many research organizations, was...
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What Does Going Paperless Really Mean for Research Administration?
No more cross-town drives, couriers and wet signatures. Yes, you read that right. Going paperless with automatic notifications and electronic routing can make your life easier.
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