About the Office of Research and Graduate Studies

Universitywide
Research Programs
and Units

Universitywide
Funding Opportunities

Undergraduate, Graduate and Post-Doctoral Research

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and Guidelines

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Welcome

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies facilitates research and development across the UC system and provides support to faculty and researchers at our ten campuses and three UC-managed National Laboratories.

Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies Steven Beckwith leads the Office of Research and Graduate Studies in these major activities:

• Develops University positions on major policy issues related to research;
• Identifies and develops major research opportunities and initiatives, and provides mechanisms to facilitate them;
• Coordinates activities in Sacramento and Washington D.C., concerning state and federal research projects and legislative matters related to research
• Establishes and oversees the University's policies relating to research and extramural funding programs;
• Fosters research collaboration between the campuses and UC-managed laboratories;
• Administration and review of Multicampus Research Units and Programs;
• Coordinates and staffs meetings of the systemwide Council of Vice Chancellors for Research and the Council on Research.
• Demonstrates the economic benefits and social utility of research to California and the nation.

What's New!

CCSIP Call for Proposals

Lab Fees Research Program Awards

Research Presentation-Regents' Committee on Long Range Planning

Multicampus Research Unit RFP Released

Lab Research Program RFP

WMRS FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Review/Approval Requirements for Research Proposals Seeking Funding from Tobacco-Industry Sponsors - Guidance to Campuses re: Implementing RE-89 (February 2008; and Guidance on Determining if a Sponsor is a Tobacco-Industry Sponsor.

More information about POWER Research Conference on Electricity Markets and Regulation in Berkeley on March 21, 2008

UC Responses to 2007 NSF Survey of R&D Expenditures

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies welcomes the UC-Cuba Academic Initiative to its multicampus research family.

New Matrix Showing Retention and Disposition Requirements for Administrative Records Related to Research

New UC Guidelines on Non-Competitive Funding

ICMJE Requires Registration of Clinical Trials: Important Information for Investigators

Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research Initiative

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