The Controller’s Office is offering various DMAS/FRS Beginners training sessions during April on the Coral Gables and Miller School of Medicine campuses. The classes provide an informative three-hour overview session recommended for DMAS/FRS users who are new to the systems or have not had Controller’s Office training in the financial systems. Depending on their access and needs, individuals may register for the class via ULearn.miami.edu. For more information, e-mail vkaye@miami.edu or call 305-284-5509.

Coral Gables Campus
DMAS/FRS for Beginners: Tuesday, April 6 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Max Orovitz Building, Professional Development and Training Office, room 139.

Miller School Campus
DMAS/FRS for Beginners: Wednesday, April 14 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Miller School Professional Development and Training Office Training Room, Dominion Towers Parking Garage Building, first floor, room 155.

UM’s College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities will host the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Workshop on Monday, March 29. Ann Meyer, senior program officer, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, will lead the workshop. The day-long event, to be held on the Coral Gables campus’s Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies, 5030 Brunson Drive, in the Executive Board Room, will provide information to scholars concerning fellowships for their research and/or teaching. Faculty, graduate students, and administrators from South Florida colleges and universities are invited to attend. Meyer will also conduct a mock panel, during which participants will evaluate sample applications and will offer a limited number of consultation appointments for participants to discuss their projects with her.

“We are grateful to the NEH and Dr. Ann Meyer for providing information about the grants it administers to South Florida humanities faculty as well as for offering opportunities for faculty to have individual consultations,” said Mihoko Suzuki, director of the UM Center for the Humanities.

To pre-register for a consultation, e-mail humanities@miami.edu. There is no charge for the workshop, which runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., but registration is required. Parking passes and lunch reservations are available to visiting participants for a nominal fee. To register and for further information, visit www.humanities.miami.edu/workshops/neh or call 305-284-1580.

Terry Diaz, assistant controller, and Vivian Kaye, training specialist for financial systems, will present a two-hour session focusing on the DMAS and FRS systems. The session is designed for current system users who need a quick review or have questions about particular screens. It is not for new users who are not that familiar with the systems yet or those who do not have current access to the systems. Share your questions regarding DMAS or FRS to ensure that they will be addressed appropriately by e-mailing them to pdtogables@miami.edu or vkaye@miami.edu.

To enroll, visit http://ulearn.miami.edu/. For more information, call 305-284-5110 or 305-243-3090. The event takes place on the Coral Gables campus on Tuesday, March 23 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Max Orovitz Building, room 139.

Are you submitting an NIH proposal soon? Are you submitting electronically? Learn how to use the InfoEd proposal development system to prepare and submit your proposal electronically to the NIH.

InfoEd streamlines the proposal development process. It is Web-based and accessible almost anywhere by Mac and PC users; no additional software is required. InfoEd pre-fills agency forms, includes built-in agency validations, stores proposals in a secure environment, and provides a database of all proposals submitted.

In this interactive, hands-on computer workshop, participants will learn how to create, route, submit, and track a proposal using InfoEd. The workshop is scheduled Wednesday, March 17 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the tenth-floor training room of Dominion Towers, located on the Medical Campus.

Registration is required through ULearn. For more information, e-mail ResEDU@med.miami.edu or call 305-243-5092.

The integrity of scholarship and the scientific record requires that scholars and researchers uphold the highest scientific and ethical standards. Current policy and practice at UM reflects our shared commitment that the design, conduct, and reporting of scholarly activity and research will not be biased. As relationships between academic institutions and private industries become increasingly complex, we must continually reassess the manner in which we assure that scholarly activity and research at UM are unbiased.

On February 1, 2010, a new process was implemented to identify potential conflicts of interest (COI) in sponsored research at UM. Faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to attend a training session to review the current UM COI policy for sponsored research and to learn about the new process for identifying potential COI in sponsored research. The sessions will take place on:

• March 15: 9 to 10 a.m., McArthur Annex Auditorium – Room 202 (Coral Gables campus)

• March 23: 2 to 3 p.m., Clinical Research Building (CRB) Room 989 (Medical campus)

• March 26: 12 to 1 p.m., RSMAS Auditorium (RSMAS campus)

• April 13: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Flipse Building, Room 502 (Coral Gables campus)

• April 14: 1 to 2 p.m., Lois Pope LIFE Seventh-Floor Auditorium (Medical campus)

Please register through ULearn.

For questions on the training sessions, please contact the Office of Research Education and Training at 305-243-5092 or at ResEDU@med.miami.edu.