CRIS Forms Assistance and New MAES Projects (including HATCH)

The Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) is required to account for all Federally funded research. A method for such accountability is the Current Research Information System (CRIS) ?a unit of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). The CRIS database currently includes information covering over 95% of all publicly supported agricultural and forestry research

This database enables our faculty to identify and describe their comprehensive research programs, monitor related activities and progress, and analyze and report research funding. Tenured and tenure-track faculty with a research appointment should have at least one MAES project for A 3-5 years duration. New faculty with a percentage of research appointment should develop a project within the first year of employment. It is the responsibility of faculty to submit such research projects through the MAES for approval and processing. Once the project is approved, the PI is also responsible for submitting Progress Reports annually throughout the term of the project.

AD- 416 is the "Research Resume" - completed by the PI or designee when submitting a new project
AD- 417 is the "Classification of Research" - completed by the PI or designee when submitting a new project

PLEASE NOTE: There may be some delay in your ability to access or submit your Form 417. Until your Form 416 has reached the "electronic worktable" at the MAES Associate Director's office from the CSREES server, you are unable to access or submit your Form 417. The amount of time for this to occur could be anywhere from 1 minute to 1 day, depending upon the national dabase usage.

IACUC-Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee policies and protocol approval procedures and forms can be found at: http://www.umresearch.umd.edu/IACUC/

IRB -Institutional Review Board policies and protocol approval procedures and forms can be found at:

PLEASE NOTE: When submitting Form 2008, if you indicate that your project is pending approval from the Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)or IRB -Institutional Review Board , you must forward a copy of the protocol approval to the MAES Associate Director's office, c/o Theresa Simmons, FAX 301.314.9089,immediately upon receipt in order for your project to be processed and approved.

Faculty may choose to participate in a research project as follows:

As the PI on a new individual research project;
As a cooperating PI on a current Multi-State project;
As a cooperating PI on a Departmental "Umbrella Project."

*417 - PLEASE NOTE Possible Delay: There may be some delay in your ability to access or submit your Form 417. Until your Form 416 has reached the "electronic worktable" at the MAES Associate Director's office from the CSREES server, you are unable to access or submit your Form 417. The amount of time for this to occur could be anywhere from 1 minute to 1 day, depending upon the national database usage.

**2008 - PLEASE NOTE: When submitting Form 2008, if you indicate that your project is pending approval from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or the Institutional Review Board (IRB) , you must forward a copy of the protocol approval to the MAES Associate Director's office, c/o Ruth Flynn, FAX 301.314.9089, immediately upon receipt in order for your project to be processed and approved.

Annual Progress/Termination Reports (CRIS form AD-421) are required to be submitted electronically no later than 15 February of each year. Click on ?Use CRIS Web Forms to submit data to CRIS? from the CRIS Forms Assistance homepage located at http://cwf.uvm.edu/cris/ Select the AD-421 form. Remember your site is 'MD. - Ag Experiment Station, University of Maryland.' Contact Theresa Simmons for the password to access the site.

REQUESTS FOR EXTENSIONS:

All requests for project extensions should be forwarded via email to Theresa Simmons. This request need not be more than a paragraph or two describing what progress has been made to date and why an extension is needed. You must identify your project by full project title and project number.

As always, we strive for ease of operation, so please feel free to provide comments and suggestions to Theresa Simmons