The Center for Computational Research was recently approved by the full Faculty Senate, Vice President for Research and Economic Development Snyder and Interim Provost Beauvais with a mission to support, promote and grow high-level interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research involving computing. The Center’s funding model for the next few years – as agreed upon by Vice Presidents Rider and Snyder – is entirely based on 16% of indirect cost return on grant submissions routed through the new Center. This document explains why and how PIs may wish to route proposals via the new Center.
Q: Why should a PI route proposals through the Center?
A: For several reasons: (1) it doesn’t “cost” anything at all to the PI or the research grant — there is no change to direct or indirect costs, (2) it contributes resources directly towards the growth and sustainability of research computing i.e. resources PIs directly use for their research work, and (3) a portion (between 10% — 20%) of what the Center collects from each grant will be returned to the PI.
Q: What does a PI need to do to route proposals through the Center?
A: Simply select CCR as an “Associated Department” in the InfoEd “Internal Approval” form in Section 3. See an example here: InfoEd_Project_Questions_CCR.pdf
Email us at itrcs-group@uri.edu with questions, comments, suggestions — anything!