Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station

IOW - Agriculture Experiment Sta, Iowa State University

CRIS AD-421
PROGRESS/TERMINATION REPORT
and
PUBLICATIONS

Use the World Wide Web to do this report!

For assistance, please contact Cathy Good
cgood@iastate.edu

You will be entering these data from the CRIS Forms Assistance Web pages. To access these pages, use your Web browser. Netscape 2.02 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 are minimum requirements.

Display the CRIS Forms Assistance home page located at http://cwf.uvm.edu/cris.

You can bookmark this page if you wish, but no subsequent pages can be bookmarked.

Select Accomplishments Report (AD-421)

Click on your state, then select: Agriculture Experiment Sta, Iowa State University. Enter " cyclones " as the password and then Proceed.

Enter your name to display the list of projects that require reports from you as the principal investigator.

NOTE: grants that started on or after 10/01/2005 are displayed in a separate list shaded in purple -- these require a report based on the anniversary of the project start date -- the due date for each is shown separately.

Select a project by clicking on the icon. The reporting form will be displayed with blue underlined links to additional information about each field to be entered.

Enter the following information:

1) Choose the appropriate report, either:

• Progress: If the termination date has not passed and the project was active during the current reporting year
• Termination: Only if the termination date has passed and the project will not be extended beyond the date shown

2) Progress/Termination narrative:

The progress report narrative should list findings and accomplishments with brief comments as to why the results are significant scientifically or practically. If it is too soon to report accomplishments, characterize the status or stage of the work.

The termination report narrative is a brief summary of accomplishments for the entire life of the project.

CRIS strictly limits the narrative to 3200 characters (spaces and punctuation are counted too), and cannot accept any characters not found on your keyboard. Do not use degree symbols, math symbols, Greek letters, italics, boldface, super- or sub-scripts, or underlines. Please substitute suitable words and alternate characters. Consider entering and spell-checking the text in your favorite wordprocessor (then paste it into the Web form), but do NOT include tabs or indents nor any other text formatting or graphic characters.

3) Impact:

In 2-3 sentences, use non-technical language to summarize your project's economic, environmental, and/or social impact.

4) Publications:

Publications that relate to your CRIS projects should be included. List significant publications issued during the reporting period. On a termination report, only include publications not previously submitted on a progress report. There is no limit to the number of publications, but no citation should be more than 600 characters.

Example:

Wu, J., Ullrich, R.C. and Novotny, C.P. 1996. Regions in the Z5 mating gene of Schizophyllum commune involved in Y-Z binding and recognition. Mol. Gen. Genet. 252:739-745.

Include only publications for the current reporting period, and only published works (journal articles, published abstracts, books, book chapters, and theses -- NO talks, NO presentations, NO newsletter or magazine articles). Do NOT enter authors in all capital letters and do NOT number the citations.

When all information is entered, select Check Data and note any errors. View the displayed information carefully. Corrections or additional edits can be made by using the BACK button on your browser toolbar. After each edit, Check Data again.

When the information is correct and complete, select Save Report. You should see a Confirmation Screen if your report was successfully saved in the site's collection file. You may want to print a copy of this page to keep for your records and or submit for departmental review.

When you are completely finished with the report and do not need to edit it further, select the Report Complete button. Once you select this button, you will not be able to edit the report again, and it will then be submitted to CRIS for you. You MUST "press" this button to indicate when the report is complete. Your report cannot be submitted to CRIS until you mark it complete.

You may want to print a final copy to keep for your records and / or submit for review using the button provided.

If you have more than one project, use the Return to Select Project button in order to select another project and follow the same steps as outlined previously.

Submit a report for ALL projects that are listed for you.

After Dr. Colletti reviews AD-421 reports, we will notify your DEO if further editing is needed. We can 'unmark' those projects 'marked complete', which will permit changes to the report before sending to CRIS.

FOR PROJECTS TERMINATING DURING THE YEAR OR REQUIRING ANNIVERSARY REPORTING,

ALL INFORMATION SHOULD BE ENTERED

WITHIN 90 DAYS OF THE PROJECT TERMINATION OR ANNIVERSARY DATE

FOR CALENDAR YEAR ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORTS,

ALL INFORMATION SHOULD BE ENTERED BY FEBRUARY 1, 2007