Research administration impacts the entire research community; i.e. faculty, students, and administrative staff, and spans the process of requesting funding from proposal development to award closeout, including related compliance aspects.

InfoEd will allow the University to enhance and better facilitate the processes associated with proposal submission and award management, and make it easier for the research community to submit proposals, manage awards and related compliance aspects associated with human and animal protocols and conflict of interest.

Most importantly, this new system will allow the University to redesign and implement more efficient business processes, reducing the administrative burden for the research community. Features include:

  • Electronic routing, review, and approvals associated with proposals, awards, protocols, and conflict of interest disclosures

  • Automatic data validation of proposals prior to submission

  • Efficient proposal, award, and protocol tracking processes

  • Pre-population of data to and from proposal, award, and protocol records and conflict of interest disclosures

  • PI and Department Administrator portals and dashboards

  • Interface with data warehouse to support various reporting needs

  • Proposal and award modules are integrated with IACUC, IRB, and Conflict of Interest modules

  • Flexible and robust platform that will allow the University to respond to additional needs of the research community through the implementation of additional InfoEd modules, such as Environmental Health and Safety and Animal Facilities Management.

The project scope has been defined and we have estimated an implementation time frame of two years. Throughout this period we will continue to provide high quality services and support to the research community. In addition, we will keep the research community informed regularly on our progress by providing regular updates on this website or you can subscribe to the InfoEd Project Listserv. We have members of the Brown research community involved in the development and implementation processes however we invite everyone from the research community to provide feedback about the project, share their ideas, and also share their concerns through our website’s feedback link. We appreciate your support as we implement InfoEd, and we look forward to continued improvement to research administrative support.