Research Resources

Office of Sponsored Programs: facilitates all aspects of funded research
BU Policies: policies that have a broad application throughout the University, including ethics and academic freedom
Office of the Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer: sets policies such as facilities and administrative costs and fringe benefits rates
Research Compliance
Institutional Review Board

Pivot-RP: regarded as the most comprehensive source for finding funding! Free registration with BU email address.
Foundation Directory Online (FDO): most complete source of private funds. Access the FDO via BU Foundation Relations with Kerberos login. Please alert Foundation Relations if you are interested in any requests for proposals.
BU Office of Foundation Relations (OFR): sustained, mutually beneficial partnerships between the University and the charitable organizations that share our research, teaching, and social service missions
BU Industry Engagement: BU strategic long-term relationships with industry
BU Humanities Fellowships and Grants: a searchable database of current, humanities-related fellowships
BU Center for the Humanities: provides a variety of fellowships and project awards
BU Humanities Research Fund: when annual needs exceed your research account

BU Libraries: your gateway to hundreds of existing sources of data for your research
College of Communication Twitter Collection and Analysis Toolkit: allows researchers to examine Tweets off the STREAM API (the so-called “gardenhose” access to Twitter) and then process the data for network analysis and visualization in Gephi

My Grant Expenses: a reporting tool that has been developed specifically for Principal Investigators to provide a consolidated, easy-to-access view of budget and expenditure data for grants in his or her portfolio
Involving Undergraduate Researchers (UROP)
BU Libraries: data Management Resources can help you plan the long-term management of your data

Statistical Practice Consulting Unit: provides statistical expertise and support, including free walk-in problem solving sessions, statistical application consulting, and long-term collaborative projects
Hariri Institute Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL): a professional software design and development lab that serves as a collaborative resource for computational and data-driven research
IS&T Research Computing Support: selecting systems and software; learning how to use computational and/or graphics algorithms, tools and packages; developing custom tools; connections to the supercomputing facility
BU Libraries Digital Scholarship Services: included in their services is a series of workshops on “digital fundamentals”

Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering: supports computational and data-driven research and training initiatives across the disciplines. Junior Faculty and Graduate Fellowships are available
Research on Tap: sponsored by the Provost’s Office, these events offer topical foci several times a year. Presenters provide very brief introductions to their work, and all participants have opportunities for conversation and networking – with wine and snacks
Tertulia: aka Junior Faculty Colloquium, sponsored by the Dean’s Office and the BU Center for the Humanities, provides a forum for junior faculty sharing research. Coordinators are Charles Chang, Merav Shohet and Christopher Schmitt
CAS News: regularly reports on research news.
Centers & Institutes: receptions, working groups, talks galore.