Research Revealed: Game-changing data source now available at BU

December 2021 | Information & Support for the BU Research Community

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NEW DATA SOURCE:
- 2.3 Billion Voter History Records Now Available to BU Researchers: BU has acquired a three-year subscription to a national voter file that includes records on over 200 million voters plus 2.3 billion voter history records. This data is available to the entire BU academic community, including faculty, grad students, and undergraduates.

Plus:

Reflections on barriers and privilege from an international researcher (Science)
Tips for telling a compelling story in a scientific presentation (Nature)
Database of clinical and biomedical research studies (Boston Medical Center)

Early Career Funding: Trainees, graduate students, postdocs, and early career faculty may be interested in the recording of a presentation from the 2021 NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration, in which leaders from the National Institutes for Health (NIH) offer advice and discuss funding targets for junior investigators.

Grant Management How-to: A new instructional library provides best practices on a variety of grant management topics, from after-the-fact reporting to subawards. You can view the full list of topics and browse best practices on the Research Support website.
Proposal Summary Form Update: Sponsored Programs has released an updated and streamlined Proposal Summary Form Proposal Summary Formthat clarifies guidance in the cost share, facilities and administrative (F&A) waiver, and signature sections. Please begin using the new form as soon as possible. As of January 1, 2022, Sponsored Programs will require the revised form for all proposals.

Clinical Trial Registration and Reporting:Enhanced checks on non-compliance with clinical trial registration and reporting came into effect in eRA’s Human Subjects System on October 1. These checks could delay your Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) submission if you are late on either front. All NIH-funded clinical trials are expected to register and submit results information to Clinicaltrials.gov, as per the NIH Policy on Dissemination of NIH-Funded Clinical Trial Information. These new checks will now result in an error for grant recipients upon submission of an RPPR when clinical trial registration (required 21 days after enrollment of first participant) and/or results reporting (required 12 months after trial completion date) is overdue.

Strategic Communications Videos: BU’s Strategic Communications Series, co-hosted by the Office of Research and the PR | Social Media team, is designed to empower our faculty and community to communicate in effective, compelling, and accessible ways. View recordings of past events on the Research Support website, and stay tuned for new event offerings in 2022.

The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering’s Red Hat Collaboratory awarded more than $2.3 million in funding to recipients of theRed Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award. The 16 open source projects, led by BU faculty and industry collaborators, focus on problems of distributed, operating, security, or network systems.
Assistant Professor Alexander Green, Biomedical Engineering (ENG), and Assistant Professor Maria Kamenetska, Chemistry and Physics (CAS), were recipients of Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards as part of Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell, a joint initiative of Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Wiley Hundertmark (CAS’20) was named a finalist for a Sustainability Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, in the campus sustainability category. His research investigated how much biological fluxes contribute to campus CO2 emissions and was conducted by a Campus Climate Lab team overseen by Professors Lucy Hutyra, Earth & Environment (CAS), and Pamela Templer, Biology (CAS).

Video recordings and other resources from recent events:

Early Career Funding: Secrets of Early Career Funding Success
Federal Funding: Behavioral & Social Sciences at the NIHNational Institutes of Health
Research on Tap: Data Science for Racial Equity
Research on Tap: Human Flourishing in Diverse Populations and Contexts