The Spin on Research Cayuse: Up and Running!

You may have seen the earliest posting about the option of Cayuse as thevendor for OSUs web-based proposal development and submission system. Just six weeks after signing the contract, Sponsored Programs successfully submitted a proposition to the U.S.Department of Education. Easy as Pie

From Sponsored Programs perspective, it was really gracious to be capable to see the first proposals work done the routing.

Yet I was yet more impressed with how rapidly the proposals were assembled in Cayuse. I am sure faculty will love two features: the error-checking, and the power to transmute a proposition into a new submission. One of my frustrations with Grants.gov forms is having to begin each proposal from scratch. Cayuse not only auto-populates common information such as name, address, e-mail, but it also allows you to purchase a submitted proposal for a new submission to another office or a re-submission to the same agency. Goodbye Back-Up Blues

Another significant facet of Cayuse: backing-up work. The organization has three separate mechanisms: nightly to a dedicated network, every 30 minutes at the hosting facility in the Portland, Oregon area, and every 30 minutes at the dedicated replication servers in North Carolina. The party also provides us unlimited storage for all activity, and their hosted facility has a dedicated power fee, and technology to deflect single points of bankruptcy in connectivity, power, fire or air conditioning. When Cayuse performs updates/upgrades or maintenance, they provide advance notice, and they do them over a weekend at off-peak hours. Onward

We now start Phase II of this project, which will offer more functionality for proposal development and submission, as good as insertion of the complementary modules for both the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) systems.

In our 1st steps to drift out Cayuse to the OSU research community,volunteering units will be voice of the beta group to use it: the OregonClimate Change Research Institute, and the Colleges of VeterinaryMedicine and Agricultural Science. Sponsored Programs staff will set uptraining for staff and staff .

Please note: Sponsored Programs staff has been re-organized into two teams designed to coordinate with divisions and Business Centers. Link here to see with whom youll be working.

I thank Dr. Teri Lewis in the Psychology Department for running with uson the first submission. She said she ground the system pretty smooth, much easier towork with than Grants.gov forms. I also thank Dr. Matt Ito in Pharmacy for working withus to take an NIH R15 proposal, and Dr. Banks in the CooperativeInstitute for Marine Resource Studies for running with us to submitseveral NOAA continuation proposals.

I live I talk for Rick Spinrad and Rich Holdren when I say the Inquiry Office is very mad to provide faculty and staff with this new and exciting instrument for creating successful proposals!

I welcome your questions and comments.

Pat Hawk

Director, Office of Sponsored Programs