RAMP is the method UWSP uses to track and report pre-award and post-award processes. It’s used to upload documents and obtain proposals. Full approval of RAMP records is required prior to submitting an application to grant sponsors so the applicant’s college can review and approve, Grant Accounting can review budget, and Authorized Official can review for any institutional restrictions.

A RAMP record should be created with all required attachments uploaded and ready to begin approvals 2 weeks (or more) prior to the submission deadline date. 

If you can’t meet the timeframe, please notify your Department Chair, Dean’s office, and the ORSP as soon as possible. In this situation, efforts will be made to obtain the appropriate approvals but is not guaranteed.

UWSP faculty and staff with an ongoing appointment can be listed as PI on grant applications.

For UWSP students, some internal funding is available for student research projects through University College URSCA.

If you are UWSP emeritus status and are interested in applying for a grant, contact our office to review options: orsp@uwsp.edu

For internal grant applications for the University Personnel Development Committee (UPDC), view their webpage for application forms, guidelines, and due dates.

When developing any grant proposal, keep the following in mind:

• If selection criteria are stated, include each heading/statement in your narrative and then answer each completely.
• Clearly describe the research or program design and state the objectives, methods, and activities that will be funded.
• Design objectives to conform to the interests and guidelines of the funder. 
• Demonstrate a convincing need for the proposed activity, i.e. the research fills an important gap in existing knowledge, the project serves the needs of a specific group of concern to the funding source. 
• Demonstrate project management abilities by including timelines, organization charts, and evaluation guidelines.
• Demonstrate the Principal Investigator and project staff’s ability to carry out the research or project with brief bio-sketches or attach brief updated curriculum vitae if allowed. 
• Review the scoring criteria and make sure that your narrative, budget, and documentation speak directly to those areas.

Fringe benefits are a real cost to the university. Depending upon employment classification, fringe benefits may include retirement, health insurance, social security, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, income continuation insurance, and life insurance.

​Indirect costs, although not readily identifiable with specific projects, are real costs charged to individual grants or contracts to provide reimbursement for certain institutional expenses that cannot be directly charged since they result from shared services, such as libraries, plant operation and maintenance, utility costs, departmental support, research administration expenses, and depreciation or use allowance for buildings and equipment. At UWSP, indirects assist with institutional costs related to grants, liability insurance, University Personnel Development Committee funds, software, and more. 

Indirects are non-negotiable and cannot be waived. If a granting agency has a lower published rate that applies to all applicants​, UWSP often can accept that rate​.

UWSP’s current rate is 38.3%. It is based on Modified Total Direct Costs (MTDC), see Indirect Cost Rate Agreement.

The cognizant federal agency that negotiated the indirect cost rate is the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

MTDC consists of all salaries and wages, fringe benefits, materials, supplies, services, travel, and subgrants and subcontracts up to the first $25,000 of each subgrant or subcontract (regardless of the period covered by the subgrant or subcontract).

Modified total direct costs shall exclude equipment, capital expenditures, charges for patient care, rental costs, student tuition remission, scholarships and fellowships, participant support costs, as well as the portion of each subgrant or subcontract in excess of $25,000.

Funding opportunities can be found here, or through funding searches.

You may also reach out to our office for more information, orsp@uwsp.edu  

Each committee has an inbox for questions, websites also listed below:

irb@uwsp.edu

iacuc@uwsp.edu

Grant Accounting handles the post-award process, including Workday information and processing expenses. Visit our Award Setup page and the Grant Accounting department’s website to learn more. Email gift.and.grantaccounting@uwsp.edu for questions, or attend their office hours on Fridays from 10am-2pm. 

Payable to: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Mailing & Billing Address:
UW-Stevens Point
171 Student Resource Center
900 Reserve St
Stevens Point, WI 54481

The Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity​​ fund (formally known as OSCAR) within University College will be able to assist you further. 

See the Payment Services website or reach out to the office of​​ Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity​ (formally known as OSCAR), ursca@uwsp.edu.