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UCI School of Education
Facilities & Resources Text for Grant Proposals
This document is meant to be exhaustive and it is likely that not all of the text will apply for all proposals. Investigators should choose the text that applies to their proposals. Funding agencies generally want to know only about resources that the proposed project will use. Note that the required information and category labels may vary across funders.
Text highlighted in yellow requires revision for the specific proposed project.
Office, Lab, and Conference Space
The UCI School of Education provides investigators and research staff with secure individual offices, and secure storage space for project records. Dedicated project lab space is available and can be used for task development, project meetings, data analysis, and paper writing.
The School offers three conference rooms that accommodate groups ranging in size from 8 to
25 people with additional seating available on the perimeter of the largest room. The conference rooms can be arranged for formal presentations, roundtable sessions, and small group work.
The largest conference room is equipped for audio and video presentations and for teleconferencing.
Computer/Computing
The UCI School of Education provides investigators with a powerful computer and printer.
Additional computers available for project use are located X, Y, Z [e.g., Dr. Vandell’s office, research staff offices] . T he School’s Technical Services Group provides support for all investigator and research staff computers. The Group offers Windows 2008R2 as a primary research file server supporting approximately 1 TB of data space and providing for collaborative sharing of files and programs for research; data are backed up daily.
The broader UCI campus offers further collaboration tools for research environments. For example, the Teaching, Learning & Technology Center provides professional level audio, video and teleconferencing services to the campus, including fully professional studios and editing services for production-quality media. The California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology offers research-grade network, computing, audio and video services, including extreme network (CENIC, CalREN, Internet2), extreme computing (OptIPuter), and extreme video (HIPerWall) capability.
The campus Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides computing, networking, and data warehousing services in support of research at UCI. OIT provides central computing services, computer laboratories, machine co-location in data centers, departmental and research group support services, and campus-wide technical coordination. The campus network infrastructure maintained by OIT makes available wireless and/or wired network access to the internet in virtually every area of the campus. OIT provides all faculty, staff, and graduate students with access to Webfiles, a file storage system that allows each user 1 gigabyte of disk space for storage of important documents and facilitates collaboration with colleagues. OIT also offers multiple campus cluster computer systems for research computing, including the Broadcom
Distributed Unified Cluster, a distributed group of computing nodes unified by running under a single Sun Grid Engine Resource Manager; and the Medium Performance Computing Beowulf
Cluster, consisting of 16 full-time and 96 part-time nodes. Additionally, OIT offers fee-based

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The UCI Social Sciences Computing Cluster offers five 2.4Ghz AMD Opteron 248 dual core machines for batch processing. The machines are racked in the Office of Information
Technology Academic Data Center, where 24/7 cooling, humidity control and power conditioning (with generator backup) are present. The main interactive front-end server has 8GB of main memory, and the other four systems have 4GB each. The main server also houses four
1TB disk drives shared in partitions to each system. The shared disk provides common storage for all user home directories and applications software. A reserved portion of the 1TB drives is used for nightly backups of all work except secured research. Security provisions are strong and the system has been certified for use of confidential data files by groups such as the National
Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Major Equipment
The UCI School of Education offers several Xerox WorkCentre 7855 machines for project use at cost. These multi-function machines print, copy, FAX, and scan, and have full color capability.
Other Resources
Statistical consulting: The UCI Center for Statistical Consulting provides statistical and intellectual support to University researchers, including all aspects of the design, analysis and interpretation of investigations in science and industry. Statistical expertise is offered for issues of design, choice of methods and developing a detailed plan of analysis. The Center also assists clients with data analyses and the preparation of reports, abstracts, papers and formal presentations.
Library resources: Electronic and paper-based library resources are available through the
School of Education Resource Center and the University’s Jack Langson Library, Ayala Science
Library, and Grunigen Medical Library. The Langson Library holds general collections in the humanities, fine and performing arts, social sciences, social ecology, and management, as well as special collections and government documents. It also features a state-of-the-art Multimedia
Resources Center and a technology classroom for hands-on research instruction. The Ayala
Science Library centralizes the science and technology collections for physical and biological sciences, medicine, computer science, and engineering. The libraries at UCI are part of the larger University of California library system, which is the largest research/academic library in the world with over 35 million volumes in holdings and significant digital collections. Most of these holdings are available electronically or through interlibrary transfer.
Pre- and post-award management: The UCI School of Education faculty is active in research and the School infrastructure is heavily weighted to support the research mission of the unit.
The School’s Business Services Office comprises a financial manager, a financial analyst, two contracts and grants analysts, a personnel manager, and two administrative assistants. The office provides projects with grant administration services including budgeting, forecasting, accounting and financial management, and human resource management. A dedicated Director of Research supports the preparation of funding proposals and advises on human research protocols for review by the Institutional Review Board.
Research administration: On the larger UC Irvine campus, the Office of Research
Administration (ORA) consists of Sponsored Projects, Human Research Protections, Research
Assurances, Conflict of Interest and an ORA Training group. ORA is the office of record for

6-18-14 extramural proposals and awards supporting research, and education and public service activities of UCI faculty, staff and students. Staff manage faculty-based regulatory review functions as required by federal and state regulations and UC policy. ORA personnel act as administrative officials with external sponsors, regulatory agencies, higher education organizations, and professional societies regarding regulatory changes, institutional policy developments, and implementation of regulatory requirements and enhancements. ORA staff members are expert resources for policy and program information. Post-award administration is provided primarily by Contracts & Grants Accounting under the direction of the campus
Controller. The Contracts & Grants unit is responsible for financial reporting and administration of extramural funding.
Early Stage Investigator Support
Applicable only where the PI is an Early Stage Investigator; add or revise text as appropriate to the particular investigator’s hire package or experience
UCI demonstrates institutional investment in the success of junior faculty as Early Stage
Investigators. The university provides hire packages that include a reduction in teaching responsibilities during the first year to provide protected time for research, summer salary during the first two summers, and start-up funds for establishing research labs. Additionally, the university offers a mentoring program in which all junior faculty members are paired with a senior internal (same department) and external (other department) mentor. UCI also offers annual workshops on navigating the tenure process and has unique funding opportunities for junior faculty with young children to attend academic conferences and training. In the School of
Education, there is a full-time Director of Research who works with new investigators in submitting and managing external grants.
Scientific Environment
NIH proposals that follow PHS 398 instructions require information about the scientific environment. Some “starter” statements appear below; select what works for your proposal and elaborate as needed. The specific PHS 398 instructions are:
Describe how the scientific environment in which the research will be done contributes to the probability of success (e.g., institutional support, physical resources, and intellectual rapport). In describing the scientific environment in which the work will be done, discuss ways in which the proposed studies will benefit from unique features of the scientific environment or subject populations or will employ useful collaborative arrangements.
UCI offers a dynamic learning and research environment grounded in the philosophy that applied fields must rest on a solid theoretical and empirical base. The University also emphasizes strong ties to the community in research, education, practice, and service. As an institution, UCI encourages multidisciplinary work and provides regular funding opportunities and workshops for interdisciplinary discourse and research. Campus support of multidisciplinary
(and transdisciplinary) research provides the ideal context for the proposed project.
Research and training grants led by UCI School of Education faculty support interdisciplinary research collaborations with a number of other departments and schools across campus. For example, NIH-funded studies and IES-funded training grants involve faculty in Economics,
Sociology, Psychology & Social Behavior, Criminology, and Public Health. NSF-funded studies

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Sciences.
Faculty in the UCI School of Education have doctorates in diverse academic disciplines, including Education, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Applied Human Development, and
Neuroscience. Many of the School’s faculty have joint appointments in other academic units on campus, including Sociology, Psychology & Social Behavior, Economics, and Informatics.
Similarly, faculty in other units, including Cognitive Sciences, Anthropology, English, Psychology
& Social Behavior, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Sociology, Informatics, and Criminology,
Law, & Society have joint appointments in the School of Education.
The UCI School of Education conducts weekly brownbags and colloquia featuring speakers from other academic units on campus and from other institutions who discuss their work in diverse academic disciplines.