The Office of Grant Support (OGS) opened in May of 1998.  It is located in Room 913 of the Belfer Educational Center at 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461.  The OGS may be reached by phone at 718 430-3642 or fax at 718 430-8822.  The Director of the OGS is Charles Hathaway, Ph.D. (hathaway@aecom.yu.edu).

   The concept and organizational structure for the OGS as developed by the Subcommittee on Grant Management Systems and approved by the Division of Research is presented below. 

Function

1. Funding opportunity identification and notification:

a. Development and implementation of web-based and other systems for identifying and notifying faculty members of new federal and non-federal funding opportunities in their field, including the preparation of a key word file for each user to aid in timely notification.

b. In consultation with the Graduate Office and the Belfer Institute, development and implementation of systems to identify both federal and non-federal fellowship opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral investigators and to notify potential eligible applicants, including the preparation of a key word file.

c. Accessing and maintaining current information about NIH operations, including research aims, award rates, eligibility requirements, due dates, model budgets, the composition of study sections, funding levels at different institutes, changes in regulations concerning applications, etc.

d. Development and maintenance of information, as described in 1.c., about other federal and non-federal funding sources. Compilation of this information for funding sources represented in the extramural support of AECOM faculty will be emphasized.

2. Technical assistance:

a. Development and maintenance of up-to-date "boilerplate" descriptions of AECOM, its demographics, its departments and centers, its core research facilities and other standard information for use in the grant applications of multiple investigators and centers.

b. Development and maintenance of a list of faculty who are willing to assist new investigators with grant applications; for example, senior faculty, preferably with study section experience, whose research has common themes with those of the new investigator requesting assistance.

c. With the assistance of Grant Accounting and MIS as appropriate, development of special reports that will help investigators identify AECOM faculty who have experience with various funding agencies as grant recipients, study section members and/or board members.

3. Education:

a. As requested by individual investigators, provision of one on one guidance on any or all topics related to grant acquisition, including information about the NIH structure and functioning, the grant submission process at AECOM for both federal and non-federal funding agencies, budgeting procedures and strategies, how to use web-based sources of information described in 1 above, etc.

b. The design and maintenance of a faculty handbook on grants to be distributed to new faculty. This handbook will contain essentially a summary of the database described in 1. above, directions for the in-house grant application procedure, and boilerplate descriptions useful in assembling applications as described in 2.a.

4. Coordination:

a. Coordinate interaction among departmental administrators in the preparation of interdepartmental applications including center, program and training grants, site visits and awards committee applications.

b. Act as a centralized data base for college wide faculty grant activities.

1. The Director of the Office of Grant Support will have a dual reporting relationship:

a. To the Chair of the faculty steering committee for matters related to the priorities of the OGS and the development of its activities in response to the needs of the faculty.

b. To the Assistant Dean for Research Management for administrative matters.

This site was last updated  August 28,  2008
AECOM OGS, Rm 913 Belfer