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Instruction on Gender in Data Collection Per Executive Orders

The U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice is providing the following instruction and procedures and is seeking award information on or related to surveys, forms, or other data collection tools that ask about “gender” or “gender identity.”

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2025 Federal Changes

April 21: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Notice, effective immediately, with a new Civil Rights term and condition that modifies the current terms and conditions for all National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, cooperative agreements, and other transaction (OT) awards. 

2025 Federal Changes

Sponsored Projects Lifecycle

Sponsored Project Services is comprised of experts from our Proposal Development Office, Collaborative Grant Services and Office of Sponsored Projects Administration. Our goal is to provide efficient, consistent and effective award services – from proposal development, proposal and budget drafting, proposal submission, award activation and project closeout – to enable principal investigators to focus on research goals.

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Comply with Regulations

Researcher Agreements and Contracting

  • General Information
    • Signature Authority
    • Memorandum of Understanding
    • Handling Confidential Information
    • Types of Confidential Information
    • Intellectual Property
    • Research Data Retention & Ownership
       
  • Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)
    • Consulting Agreements & Other External Activities
    • Research Consortium Agreements
    • Non-Indemnification
    • Research Business Associate Agreements
    • Emergency Use Investigational New Drugs (INDs) and Investigational Device Exceptions (IDEs)
    • Home Health Exemptions
    • Interdepartmental Agreements
    • Unfunded Collaboration Research Agreements
    • Chat GPT/Use of Generative AI for Research Purposes
    • Software Licensing for Research & In-Licensing of Software
    • Agreeing to Terms & Conditions of Software, Websites, etc.
    • Interacting and Engaging with Certain Foreign Entities/Persons/Countries
    • Controlled Substances Research
       
  • Technology Commercialization
    • Material Transfer Agreements
    • Research Related Non-Disclosure Agreements
    • Research Data Use/Transfer Agreements
    • Inter-Institutional Agreements
    • Licensing Agreements (or options to license)
    • Invention Disclosures
       
  • Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA)
    • Clinical Trial Agreements
    • Human Subjects Research with External Funding
    • Animal Research with External Funding
    • Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Agreements
       
  • Collaborative Grant Services
    • Pre- and Post-Award Grants Administration Support
       
  • Office of Research Integrity
    • Certificates of Confidentiality
      Submitting Your Study to the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
       
  • University of Kentucky Purchasing
    • Purchase Agreements and Vendor Relationships
       
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Foster Faculty Research Success

  • For Junior Faculty: Research Scholars Program (RSP)

    A one-year, multi-component investment in the research success of junior faculty and their mentors. RSP integrates strategies from national, evidence-based programs with existing campus programs.

  • Research Leadership Academy

    RLA is an immersive program focused on research leadership career development, complex programmatic grant proposals, and emerging themes in research and creative work.

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Research Video Library

Log in with linkblue to view videos of the Office of the Vice President Lunch and Learn series, Orientation to Research, E-IRB training, CRSO, OSPA, Proposal Development, Scholars@UK, SciVal & Scopes, and archival OVPR workshops.

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Search Grants and Contracts

Visit the Sponsored Project Search Portal for access to Spifi, Scholars@UK, or to search by keyword.

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