The University launched a new research administration website Tuesday to allow faculty members to better track research proposals and awards.

The myResearch platform allows faculty members to create research proposals, view new awards like federal grants and easily address reviews from other faculty members in one location. Pamela Norris, the vice provost for research, announced the website’s launch as part of multiple “enhancements” that officials will implement to increase the University’s research output.

The new website replaces Cayuse, the University’s previous electronic research administration platform.

“We look forward to celebrating our complete transition and our successful transition from Cayuse to the much more user-friendly and comprehensive Huron platform of myResearch,” Norris said at a Faculty Senate meeting Friday.

The new website addresses 10 recommendations that faculty propose in a 2020 research ecosystem report, including streamlined communication, greater transparency with workflow activity and flexible, consistent project budgets, according to a video on the University’s Office of Sponsored Projects website. Some of the new features on myResearch include a comment section for feedback to research investigators submitting proposals and a budget-creation tool that allows the researchers to set their own project budget, according to the video.

Researchers needed to enter, review and submit their proposals in Cayuse by last Wednesday before a blackout period shut down the platform from last Thursday to Monday to complete the data transfer process, according to the University’s website. Users could not access or edit research proposals during this time period.

Researchers will be able to log into Cayuse, download documents and view previously submitted proposals until the end of March, but officials are encouraging users to start viewing their proposal statuses and creating new research agreement requests on myResearch, according to the video.