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February 2024

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Rutgers University Libraries Announce Transformative Open Access Agreement with Elsevier

Rutgers University Libraries announced a historic, transformative open-access partnership with Elsevier, a global leader in information, scientific research, and analytics. The five-year arrangement will provide the Rutgers community with read access to over 4,600 journals, 1,400 of which are fully open access.


Researchers with a current Rutgers appointment, including graduate and undergraduate students, will be able to publish open access in any of Elsevier’s 1,700 hybrid journals that include both open access as well as traditional subscribed content, without incurring Article Processing Charges (APCs).



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News and Announcements


As part of our celebration of Black History Month and commitment to our values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, the Office for Research is highlighting three members of its incredible team who represent key areas of the services we offer to our community of researchers as part of our mission to support the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of ALL Rutgers faculty. Malica DockTunisia Lipford, and Vivian Thomas-Mcclain tell the story of their professional journeys, including their experiences, achievements, mentors, and what inspires them.


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Rutgers Joins NTIA Consortium to Lead the Next Generation of Wireless Network Innovation 


Rutgers has joined a diverse consortium led by AT&T and Verizon of U.S. carriers, foreign carriers, universities, and equipment suppliers, with a goal of catalyzing the global adoption of interoperable infrastructure in wireless networks.


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Examining the Role of Virtual Reality in Climate Change Communication

A recent study by SC&I Ph.D. Candidate Shravan Regret Iyer examining twelve United Nations Virtual Reality (UNVR) content productions, created as part of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to utilize experiential media (EM) in climate change communication, has found that all twelve utilized limited qualities of EM.


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Student Entrepreneurs Aim to Capture Carbon Emissions and a Shark Tank Win


Concerns about global warming gnawed regularly at Aryan Gurusamy, but they kicked into high gear as high school graduation approached last June, and plumes of acrid gray smoke from Canadian wildfires cloaked the Northeast.


By fall, as a first-year student at Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick, Gurusamy had come up with a concept for removing carbon dioxide from the central ventilation systems at schools. He shared the idea with fellow first-year business school student Atharva Kulkarni, his friend from Montgomery High School. The startup CarbonX took root.


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OfR Hosts Pitch Events to Support Emerging Rutgers Startups


The Office for Research's New Ventures team hosted a pair of pitch events recently to provide faculty and alumni founders who license university-owned IP opportunities for investment and funding support. On Jan 17th, Rutgers faculty, graduate students, and alumni co-founders pitched their startups to investors from Tech Council Ventures and Evonik Ventures seeking Seed to Series A funding. Then on January 30, the OfR partnered with Golden Seeds, NJEDA, and the Rutgers Foundation to host a private Angel Investing Forum for seven Rutgers startups.


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NIH Enforcement of Unilateral Closeout Reporting


The NIH is strengthening enforcement of longstanding closeout requirements. NIH has consistently reminded recipients of their responsibility to submit timely, accurate final grant expenditure, progress and invention reports. Without prior approval from the awarding institute or center for a delay in closeout, NIH will initiate unilateral closeout for all awards that fail to meet closeout requirements within 120 days as required by Section 8.6 of the NIH GPS. 


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NIH Final Updated Policy Guidance for Subaward/Consortium Written Agreements


Effective January 1, 2024, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) requires international subrecipients to provide access to copies of all lab notebooks, all data, and all documentation that support the research outcomes as described in the progress report to the primary recipient with a frequency of no less than once per year, in alignment with the timing requirements for Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) submission. 


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Recent Awards

Congratulations to Our Researchers 


PI: Shin-Heng Chiou

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute


PI: Alok Choudhary

Sponsor: Office for Research TechAdvance®


PI: Timothy Eatman

Sponsor: Newcombe Foundation


PI: Jonathan Dietz

Sponsor: United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation

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Upcoming Events

Webinar: Commercialization Pathways for Basic and Applied Research

Research, both basic and applied, can be commercialized. However, there is no single path to commercialization. Hear from experts about their entrepreneurial journeys and the tools and resources available to you as you strive to impact the world with your discoveries.

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I-Corps Novus at Rutgers

Learn about the impact your research or innovation could have in solving real-world problems by attending our Novus I-Corps Program at Rutgers University on Wednesday, April 10, co-sponsored by the Northeast I-Corps HubRutgers Office for Research, and the Hatchery Innovation Studio.


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