Process changed for internal competitions

Future internal competitions run by the UT Office of Research will no longer require a prescreening at the college level.

The UTK associate deans of research made that procedural change in their November meeting. The decision does NOT apply to internal competitions currently in progress, including competitions for the NSF MRI and the ORAU Powe awards.

In the future, all proposals to a funding program that have limits on submissions will be sent directly to the internal competition run by the Office of Research and will not be competed or prescreened at the college level. Proposers are still expected to notify their associate dean for research of their intent to propose.

In other policy changes, the associate deans for research

--gave the associate vice chancellor responsibility for ensuring that, when UT is submitting multiple proposals, the submissions are made across a variety of NSF directorates
--began planning to create working groups that will prepare multidisciplinary proposals for targeted specific major solicitations.