Manage Research

Sponsored Programs

• Sponsored Programs manages the financial post-award activities of U-M's research enterprise and other sponsored activities to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws, as well as sponsor regulations. The university receives more than $1 billion annually in revenues from various government agencies and private sources for sponsored programs. There are many resources available across campus to assist U-M faculty and staff with their post-award fiscal responsibilities.

Facilities and Operations

• Facilities and Operations has primary responsibility for the stewardship of the university's physical properties, including 35 million square feet of building space. Its team is responsible for sophisticated and complex academic, research and clinical facilities, as well as associated environmental stewardship and regulatory compliance.

Michigan Research Cores

• Explore the many services, equipment and instrumentation that U-M offers across campus in its core facilities.

Biomedical Research Core Facilities

• Part of a vital and growing research program in the U-M Medical School Office of Research, the Biomedical Research Core Facilities help researchers economically take advantage of the latest technology and collaborate with top experts in the field.

Advanced Research Computing

• Advanced Research Computing at U-M provides a comprehensive ecosystem of services and support for investigators engaged in data-intensive and computational research across all disciplines:

  • High-performance computing resources, including software packages, that can be configured to meet specific research needs

  • Data science resources, such as research database hosting, data pipeline tools and computing resources for data-intensive tools, such as Hadoop

  • Computing environments, such as the Yottabyte Research Cloud, geared toward storage and analysis of sensitive datasets restricted by federal privacy laws, proprietary access agreements or confidentiality requirements

  • Storage and file transfer tools, including Globus

  • Consulting and workshops in computing and data science from Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR)

  • Two research institutes aimed at fostering cross-discipline research collaboration:
    • Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)
    • Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE)

Sensitive Data Guide

• A guide to help make informed decisions about safely storing and sharing sensitive university data.

Safe Computing at U-M

• Includes a listing of data privacy laws, regulations and standards.

Research Data Services

• The U-M Library offers a suite of services, including the Deep Blue Data repository, to help researchers better manage, share and preserve their data in ways that comply with federal mandates and publisher requirements.

​​Backup

• U-M Information and Technology Services provides backup services ranging from coverage of individual faculty and staff workstations to departmental servers.

Procurement

• Procurement Services manages a diverse selection of goods and services used by U-M. The team establishes and handles all supplier relationships with the university and has signatory authority for all supplier contracts. Procurement also is committed to providing exemplary service to the university and its suppliers, and to conducting U-M's purchasing initiatives in an ethical and sustainable manner.

Human Resources

• University Human Resources, in collaboration with U-M partners in schools, colleges and units, provides knowledge, service and excellence that transcend organizational boundaries to support faculty, staff, administrators and human resources professionals.

Student Research

• U-M promotes collaboration and interdisciplinary research initiatives that engage students in work that augments their education, transforms their lives and impacts our world. Student researchers can utilize classroom instruction in a real-world setting, gain an upper hand when applying for jobs and graduate schoolm, establish strong relationships with students, faculty and staff, and also earn academic credit, scholarships and compensation.

• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

  • The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) creates research partnerships between undergraduate students and U-M researchers. All schools and colleges are active participants in UROP, which provides a wealth of interesting research topics for program participants.

• Summer Research Opportunity Program

  • The Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) is designed for outstanding undergraduate students who are underrepresented in their field of study. The goal of this program is to provide students with the opportunity to conduct an intensive, graduate-level research project with faculty and graduate students at U-M.

Electronic Research Notebook

• The Electronic Research Notebook is a tool that provides a secure and compliant replacement for traditional paper lab notebooks. The pages of it may be digitally signed to help prove discovery in a court of law in patent disputes. As modern research and lab data is largely digital and not well managed by paper notebooks, a software tool is a much better-suited solution to the problem of managing modern research and laboratories.