The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully online transmittal system for proposal submission.

We developed GrahamCracker TSS (GC TSS) to save you time and expedite proposal submissions. GC TSS fulfills all the roles of the current paper transmittal, from summarizing the project to collecting approvals and authorizations. Additionally, this system collects attachments for narrative, budget, CVs, etc. so that your ORSP Program Development Specialist (PDS) can readily access all components of your submission.

Currently GC TSS is available as an optional alternative to the existing paper-based transmittal form, but this system will soon supplant the paper forms altogether. In this stage you can use the system to save yourself time and help us by providing feedback so we can make any adjustments to ensure the product is as robust and useful as possible.

The system has help text and links throughout to guide you, and your ORSP PDS will gladly assist you.

System Overview

When you are preparing to submit a proposal to a sponsor, begin by creating a new transmittal record. Based on your input, the appropriate routing will take place electronically to ensure that participants, administrators, and other appropriate approvals are collected by WebID confirmation. Once the approval process is complete, simply schedule a visit with your PDS to submit to the sponsor.

GC TSS uses your existing WebID username and password and only requires confirmation to register. Once registered, you will be able to create and manage transmittals.

Creating a transmittal requires a minimum set of proposal data. Please note that you may provide a nickname to help distinguish between multiple transmittals with similar names.

The transmittal consists of four main sections: Project, Attachments, Budget, and Verifications.

The Project section collects details included on the initial create screen as well as the sponsor(s), appropriate deadlines, participants, supervisors and directors.

The Attachments section collects whatever documents you need to provide with your proposal package such as a narrative, detailed budget, CVs, and other supporting documentation. The system permits uploads up to 50MBs; however, please make sure that you follow any format guidelines set by the sponsor.

Speaking of COS

Query Track in COS Funding Opportunities

COS Funding Opportunities has a Query Track feature that logs your most recent searches from the COS database. To see a list of all the searches you have run in your browser session, simply click on the “Previous Searches” link at the top of any COS Funding Opportunities results page.  Your queries will continued to be tracked as long as your browser remains open. You can even use File / Save As to save this web page and run the searches again in the future.

Don’t know about COS?

Check out our COS page, the January 2005, September 2006, and March 2007 newsletter articles, and/or the COS home page. COS is for all UM faculty in all academic disciplines and research areas.

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American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships ~ Deadline September 30

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. The ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to 12 continuous months to full-time research and writing. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant that will take the form of a monograph or other equally substantial form of scholarship. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.

• Sponsor Website
• COS Record