COMP 918: Research Administration for Scientists

Lecture Notes, Selected Readings & Assignments
Fall 2008

Course syllabus (revised 11/10/08 - please clear your cache to ensure you have the most recent version) (MS Word format)

Lecture Notes - downloadable as PDF documents.

• Lecture 1: History of Research Funding in the US
• Lecture 2: The Federal Budgeting Process & Federal Funding of Research
• Lecture 3: The Art of Grantsmanship
• Lecture 4: Contracts, Grants and Cooperative Agreements: What’s the Difference?
• Lecture 5: OMB Circulars: A-21 Cost Principles
• Lecture 6: OMB Circular A-110 Administrative Requirements
• Lecture 7: Review of Budgets
• Lecture 8: Electronic Proposal Processing – Grants.gov and UNC Campus Initiatives (Hamilton Brown)
• Lecture 9: Sponsored Research Administration: Institution Level – the UNC-Chapel Hill Experience!
• Lecture 10: Sponsored Research Administration: the Department/Lab Level
• Lecture 11: Project Management: Supervising People
• Lecture 12: Research Ethics
• Lecture 13: Human Subject Testing: History, Informed Consent and IRB’s
• Lecture 14: Laboratory Safety for Research Administration (James Gilbert)
  
• Lecture 15: Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyrights, Trade Secrets and Trade  Marks
• Lecture 16: Intellectual Property: Copyrights, Trade Marks and Trade Secrets
• Lecture 17: Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software and Business Methods (Greg Hunt)
• Lecture 18: Licensing (Trude Amick)

Selected Readings - downloadable as PDF documents

Report of UNC Sponsored Programs Study Committee (PDF)

Special Issues of Departmental Administration (PDF)

MacGregor Case Study (PDF)

Patent It Yourself Readings (PDF)

Intellectual Property Agreements Readings (MS Word format)

• CDA Two Way
• Copyright and Permission Notice
• Interinstitutional Agreement
• License Copyright Commercial
• License Exclusive (Equity Startup)
• License Exclusive (No Equity)
• License Non-exclusive
• License Tangible Property
• MTA Incoming for Profit
• MTA UBMTA
• MTA Outgoing for Profit
• MTA Outgoing Not For Profit
• MTA UBMTA Implementing Letter
• Option-Collaboration Agreement

Assignments - downloadable as MS Word documents

First Budget Exercise

Second Budget Exercise

Patent Claims Writing Assignment

Final Project