Welcome the new Director of the Sponsored Programs Office!

It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of Justin M. Miller as the Director of the Sponsored Programs Office (SPO) effective July 1, 2012. Justin joined the SPO staff in 2007 and is well known to many on campus as an energetic and capable Proposal Manager. In his new role as Director, he will be responsible for all pre-award services related to sponsored program activity, including guiding SPO staff in information dissemination, proposal development and submission, campus education, incentive and internal grant programs, and alignment of data and procedures with the University ERP system.

Prior to his service in sponsored programs, Justin was Program Coordinator for the Arizona Humanities Council. His undergraduate degree from Ball State was in Environmental Ethics (within the Religious Studies major), and he received the Master of Public Administration degree from Arizona State University in 2007. His completion of the Ed.D. in Higher Education from Ball State University is anticipated in December 2012.

Please join us in welcoming Justin Miller to his new post as the Director of the Sponsored Programs Office!

COS Funding Opportunities conversion to COS Pivot to be completed as of June 30, 2012

COS Funding Opportunities, Expertise, and Scholar Universe became COS Pivot in August 2011.  Ref-Works will be completing the conversion and phasing out the legacy system. COS Funding Opportunities currently available at www.cos.com (or fundingopps.cos.com) will no longer be available after June 30, 2012. The same great funding information is available in Pivot, which you currently have access to. Anyone who logs in to cos.com after the 30th will automatically be redirected to Pivot.

To avoid any problems accessing the system, please update any bookmarks and log into Pivot at the new website: pivot.cos.com. Ref-Works will be posting warning notices to users throughout the legacy COS.com platform within the next few days.

COS Pivot is the most comprehensive database of funding opportunities, containing up-to-date grants, awards, fellowships, and other funding opportunities covering all disciplines, as well as identifing researcher expertise within or outside Ball State.

If you have any questions or concerns about using Pivot at Ball State, please feel free to contact Augusta Wray in the Sponsored Programs Office.