OSPRA Workshops

OSPRA will offer 8 workshops throughout the 2025-26 academic year. All workshops will be held in the Life Sciences building, Room# 116, from 12:45-2pm.

This workshop series is designed to guide new and existing faculty through the basics of the grant lifecycle from finding funding to post-award reporting. Sessions will include the various regulatory changes for 2025 and provide guidance to ensure familiarity with university policies & procedures and federal regulations. Instructors will continue to encourage early communication/collaboration with OSPRA to ensure timely and accurate submissions, and advance UDM sponsored research activities.

Workshop Series Objectives: To foster a foundational, understand of the grant process, regulations, resources, Cayuse, forms and tools, while encouraging a mindset of early collaboration with OSPRA and advanced preparation of all common data/documents. Thereby, streamlining the proposal process allowing more time and focus on the narrative/budget while reducing the burden of collecting ancillary data.