Grants Office

Sponsored Research and Grants Home Page

Welcome to the Southern Utah University Office of Sponsored Research and Grants website.The Office Sponsored Research and Grants serves the faculty and staff of the university in obtaining external funding for research, professional development, academic programs, curriculum development activities and community service projects.

  All proposals for external funding need to be

submitted 10 days prior to agency deadline

to the Office of Sponsored Research and Grants

In addition, a new funding program for faculty is available, which is designed to support large research and institutional projects. The Faculty Incentive Grant program is scheduled to provide active funding. The purpose of the program is to encourage faculty to write and submit proposals for large grants to be submitted to an external funding agency or to a foundation.

SUU's Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Program (UGRASP)   now has a website! http://www.suu.edu/ugrasp/ On the site, you'll find links to apply for UGRASP grants. Click on the link and bookmark it!

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Recent Awards to SUU Faculty

• Fiscal Year 2007 
• Fiscal Year 2006
• Fiscal Year 2005
• Fiscal Year 2004
• Fiscal Year 2003
• Fiscal Year 2002
• Fiscal Year 2001
• Fiscal Year 2000
• Provost Faculty Development Grant Awards

Other Internet Resources

National Council of University Research Administrators - (NCURA)

Society of Research Administrators (SRA)

Grants.gov

Announcing Electronic Submission through Grants.gov

Through the www.grants.gov website, the Whitehouse Office of Management & Budget has established a process and streamlined computer access to increase the electronic submission of grants.  Grants.gov enables organizations to find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from the federal government's 26 Federal grant-making agencies.  It is designed to be the one-stop-shop for applying for Federal funding. 

One part of OMB's plan is to move proposal submission from existing federal agency computer servers and computer access to grants.gov.   This means, if you have plans to propose, for example, to NSF or to the U.S. Dept. of Education, there is a very good likelihood you will have to be registered on grants.gov in order to submit.  It's quite possible that the electronic submission for your funding agency has been scheduled to be directed to grants.gov and not through a particular funding agency's computer server.

Please NOTE:  The Grants.gov website is highly secure one, with servicing capabilities beyond what you may be familiar with at the NSF and U.S. Dept. of Education websites.  Therefore during the registration process, please be prepared to provide a birth date or social security number.  This data is stated to be kept secure on the grants.gov server.

Definition of the Grant Project for Accounting Purposes

OSR&G and the Controller's Office use federal definitions to code for our chart of accounts. The following definitions are for: Organized Research, Instruction, and Other Sponsored Activities - as taken from federal regulation 2CFR215, and from USU's website. From the information you provide this office for your grant activities and information from OSR&G's interaction with you and your department, the appropriate definition is chosen and subsequent associated coding is entered in SUU's chart of accounts.

Definitions of Grant Activities

Organized Research - means all research and development activities of an institution that are separately budgeted and accounted for. Sponsored Research means all research and development activities that are sponsored by Federal and non-Federal agencies and organizations. This also includes activities involving the training of individuals in research techniques, commonly called research training, where such activities utilized the same facilities as other research and development activities and where such activities are not included in the instruction function.

Instruction - means the teaching and training activities of an institution. Except for research training, this term includes all teaching and training activities, whether they are offered for credits toward a degree or certificate or on a non-credit basis, and whether they are offered through regular academic departments or separate divisions, such as a summer school division or an extension division.

Other Sponsored Activities - means programs and projects financed by Federal and non-Federal agencies and organizations, which involve the performance of work other than instruction and organized research. Examples of such programs and projects are health service projects, and community service programs