New to UW Research
Understand Research Administration at UW
Enroll in Training
- SAGE Classes - offered by the Office of Research Information Services (ORIS) Regularly scheduled training, online e-learnings, and customized onsite courses to help UW researchers and administrators with the grant proposal submission process in SAGE.
Apply for Funding Electronically
- About SAGE The System to Administer Grants Electronically is UW's electronic research administration system.
- Grants.gov at UW
Find Answers to Your Question
- FAQs - Office of Sponsored Programs Includes FAQs regarding proposal development, clinical trials, subcontracts, facilities and administrative costs, sponsored projects and gifts.
- Glossary, Research Administration Research administration terms defined.
- Grant Writer's Reference Resources for how to compose a grant proposal.
- More Research FAQs
Funding for New Research
- Royalty Research Fund (RRF) The Office of Research supports UW faculty seeking to establish new research programs. Two times each year, a portion of the license and royalty fees received from UW-developed intellectual property is distributed through competitive grant awards from the Royalty Research Fund (RRF).
College, School, and Departmental Research Offices
Many schools and colleges provide detailed information about grants administration on their websites. Some of these include the following:

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