Office of Sponsored Programs
°µÍøÊÓÆµfaculty and staff are encouraged to visit OSP for training opportunities and additional resources.
The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) serves a dual role of facilitating and promoting the research and sponsored projects mission of °µÍøÊÓÆµwhile protecting the institution by maintaining compliance related to fraud, waste, and abuse. We assist faculty and staff throughout the life cycle of external funding, with services provided through Pre-Award and Post-Award functions.
Pre-Award staff can be reached at uaa_preaward@alaska.edu and Post-Award Staff can be reached at uaa_postaward@alaska.edu
Pre-Award offers these services:
- Provide information about potential federal, state and private sources of funding
- Assistance in the development of high-quality proposals that meet sponsor criteria
- Assistance with proposal preparation
- Assistance with budget preparation
- Working with faculty and staff to solve pre-award problems before proposals are submitted to agencies
- Providing training to faculty and staff on pre-award regulations and policies
- Acting as liaison between the university and sponsors
- Providing final °µÍøÊÓÆµauthorization on all proposals submitted to sponsors
Post-Award offers these services:
- Awards, cooperative agreements, and contracts negotiation and acceptance
- Awards accounts setup and oversight
- Sub-contracts negotiation and initiation
- Sponsor billing invoices processing, and bills posting
- Technical and financial reports management and effort certification
- Award modifications and changes negotiation and filing
- Closing awards
- Policy and regulatory auditing of the research expenditure financial management to ensure financial compliance and integrity
- Responding to statewide and external audits requests