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AURA

The new electronic research administrative system being developed by URA and NSIT to facilitate the pre-award research administration activities on campus. AURA is an acronym for automating university research administration. More Information »

AURA Reporting

The AURA-Grants reporting environment is available to authorized AURA users with the reporting role. AURA-Grants Reporting will provide authorized divisional, departmental and central administrative staff with secure access to data from the AURA-Grants application through the Business Objects WebIntelligence query tool.

The AURA-Grants data warehouse is refreshed nightly with data from the AURA-Grants module, University Research Administration’s electronic research administrative system. AURA-Grants reporting enables users to refresh pre-built reporting packages that allow them to enter specific date ranges and principal investigator names or funding proposal IDs (for example) to answer common business questions about grants and contracts.

In addition to the nightly refresh from AURA-Grants, the data warehouse also contains historical data converted from TRACS, University Research Administration's prior system, for proposals dating back to July 2001.

While most users have view-only access to refresh reports, users with interactive access can easily customize reports. Later in 2011 analyst users will be trained in creating new queries from scratch to answer tailored questions or conduct longitudinal analysis against historic data.

Email/Listserv sign-up

There are several URA managed lists that all administrators should receive. All administrators should sign up for:

Self subscribe to the listserv’s at the UChicago Mailing Lists Service website.

RSS Feed Sign up

An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Commonly used in blogs or online news sites, URA has enabled RSS in the Announcements section of the website as a way for those on campus involved in research administration to stay informed. Any time a new announcement is added to the feed, an email notification will be sent out. To sign up for the email RSS feed, click on the icon next to Announcements and Events on the home page.

NIH Newsletters and Other Periodicals

NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts – the official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities.

NIH Extramural Programs – Compendium of extramural programs; includes staff and contact information.

NIH Research Training and Career Development Opportunities – Contains links to award descriptions for all individual awards, such as the “K” awards and individual NRSAs.

NIH Peer Review Notes – Published by the NIH Division of Research Grants (DRG) three times per year to keep the NIH and scientific communities informed of developments in grant application policies and procedures

TRACS  - Archived Read-Only

URA’s database system for tracking proposals submitted by University of Chicago faculty to federal and non-federal agencies, and awards made in response to those proposals.