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Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

CRIS

Current Research Information System (CRIS) provides documentation and reporting for ongoing agricultural, food science, human nutrition, and forestry research, education and extension activities for the United States Department of Agriculture; with a focus on the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant programs. Projects are conducted or sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, land-grant universities, other cooperating state institutions, and participants in NIFA-administered grant programs, including Small Business Innovation Research and Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. The Planning, Accountability, & Reporting Staff office of NIFA is responsible for maintaining CRIS.

Why Use CRIS?

The mission of CRIS is to document the research and education activities of the USDA/State agricultural research and education system for various reporting purposes, as well as to provide ready access to information which can help users to:

  • Keep abreast of the latest developments in agricultural and forestry research and education
  • Plan future activities
  • Avoid costly duplication of publicly-funded work
  • Establish valuable contacts within the research and education community

Search the online CRIS database to obtain current project information for your site and all USDA funded research documented in the CRIS system.

What are the CRIS Web forms?

The CRIS Web forms are available to collect and submit forms data to CRIS electronically.

  • Application forms:  AD-416, AD-417 and CSREES 2008 Assurance.
  • Reporting forms:  AD-419, AD-421

CRIS Access and Service

Cris information is available to the public through the CRIS web site, the Research, Economics and Education Information System (REEIS) web site, and NIFA program web pages. This date collecton provides descriptive information, on a project level, of research, education, extension and integrated activities supported by federal funds.  Progress information is also available.

Cooperating state partner institutions have full access to the data submitted by their individual institution through the CRIS Forms Assistance site as well as the Partnership Leadership Management Dashboard maintained by NIFA.

A CRIS manual as well as the Manual of Classification of Agricultural and Forestry Research, Education, and Extension is available electronically to assist in the date entry process of CRIS reporting. Also, click here for Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station CRIS forms instructions.

News and Events

 

CANR 2011 Highlights of Research and the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

2011 Highlights of Research

Grant Reviewer Opportunities

15 AGENCIES SEEKING GRANT REVIEWERS

One great way to increase the likelihood of getting funding is to become a grant reviewer. Current research suggests that you can improve your odds by as much as 30% by serving first as a reviewer and then submitting a proposal to the agency for which you reviewer at a later competition cycle.  Many benefits exist for becoming a grant reviewer. You quickly learn what turns reviewers on – and off. Equally important, you become and “insider” and establish contacts and networks that will prove valuable later in your continued grantseeking efforts. Federal agencies are especially looking for grant reviewers because they receive so many proposals that must be critiqued. In our latest blog, we have identified 15 federal grantmaking agencies that are looking for grant reviewers – now. Which one is right for you?

15 Agencies Seeking Grant Reviewes

 

Recent Grant Awards

 

Congratulations to the Research Foundation’s spring Faculty Large Grant award recipients:

Maria-Luz Fernandez, Nutritional Sciences 

Reversal of Hepatic Steatosis by Manipulation of Dietary Carbohydrates and Fat in Guinea Pigs, $17,500

Huan-Zhong Wang, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Secondary Wall Formation, $21,000

 

Archived grant list

 

 

Current Multistate Proposals Inviting Participation

  • NE_TEMP2001, Project proposal entitled, "Ovarian Influences on Reproductive Success in Ruminants." Please submit Please submit the Appendix E no later than 05/21/2012
  • NE_TEMP1921, Project proposal entitled "Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals."  Please submit the Appendix E no later than 05/21/2012

Instructions to join a Multistate Project

 

 

USDA Integrated Grants and Logic Model

A logic model is a conceptual tool for planning and evaluation which displays the sequence of actions that describes what the science-based program is and will do.

 

 

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