The TGSO (Training Grant Support Office) is a central service unit providing official institutional data for federal or state grant proposals and reporting.

We also do more than just T32 submissions. With expertise from different areas, we can also help with institutional data for any grant narratives that require data about students, courses, programs, faculty/instructors. These include enrollment, retention rates, graduation rates and time to degree.

Our goal is to provide official institutional data that match, or are consistent with, other data reported externally, whether for federal or state compliance (IPEDS and ACHE), to the UA System Office, or in other grants.

We can provide:

• Table 1 (participating departments/programs)
• Table 2 (participating faculty)
• Table 3 (overlapping faculty)
• Tables 6A, 6B (predoctoral and postdoctoral entrants and characteristics)
• Tables 8A, 8B, 8C (predoctoral, postdoctoral, and program outcomes)

We are aware that our current outcomes data has been limited for predoctoral trainees outside of GBS, and as of summer 2025 are actively working to supplement the UAB data from other approved sources.

No, we also provide official institutional data for other federal or state grant submissions, supporting narratives and interim reporting. Data we provide can include enrollment, retention rates, graduation rates, or time to degree.

If you have a need for student, course, program or faculty/employee data, please reach out to us—if we can help, we will, or we can help connect you with the right area.

TGSO can provide you with a list of your predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees for Table 2, using the official systems of record. Trainees are associated with faculty/mentors in the following ways:

• Active dissertation committee member in Banner (predoctoral)
• Supervisor in Oracle (postdoctoral)

We ask for a 12-week lead time to get all NIH data tables to your team, and will send each table as it is completed and validated. This timeline includes getting updated data for applications and outcomes, which are manually collected/maintained by other offices.

Our Tables Roadmap shows the order in which we typically produce data tables.

If you do not need all the tables, or need one out of order, please let us know as soon as possible so we can adjust our workflow for you!

"Participating faculty" are required for every table we produce.

• Table 1 uses it to associate trainees with faculty members and departments
• Table 2 shows the distribution of participating faculty by rank, research interests, training role and and department
• Table 3 shows the overlap between participating faculty on this grant and other projects
• Table 6 is about the associated trainees (predoctoral and postdoctoral) from Table 1
• Table 8 shows the outcome of associated trainees for each participating faculty member

Yes, but there are some caveats.

It is best to finalize your faculty list before making your request, but if you're within 4 months of the submission deadline, we recommend including all likely faculty. It is generally easier to remove faculty from tables than it is to add them later on, however please notify us of any changes to your participating faculty as soon as possible.

Please note that multiple or late changes to the faculty list will delay completion of your tables, since participating faculty determine data for all the tables.

UAB defines "disadvantaged" as students meeting two or more of the following:

• Ever offered the federal Pell grant
• Graduated high school in a designated HRSA rural area
• Ever identified as first generation at UAB

NIH also includes those who were or currently are homeless/in the foster care system, eligible for the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program for 2 or more years, and/or received support from WIC as a parent or child, but UAB does not have those data available.

NIH identifies the following racial and ethnic groups as having been shown to be underrepresented in biomedical research on a national basis:

• Blacks or African Americans
• Hispanics or Latinos
• American Indians or Alaska Natives
• Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders

Note: UAB's definition of "underrepresented", for the strategic plan and other purposes, is different. It includes Asian, U.S. Nonresident (formerly known as nonresident alien), and those with two or more races.

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These definitions come from the data tables themselves (NIH), standard institutional definitions from IPEDS, and TGSO-specific definitions based on available UAB data.

The UAB Integrated Research Administration Portal (IRAP) has a report you can use. From this link search for table 4 to find the "Training Grant Table 4" report. You will need a comma-separated list of BlazerIDs for each faculty member to be included.

UAB's official system for publication data is Profiles or Scholars, and all faculty and postdocs are encouraged to claim their profile and keep it up to date, as this is used for accreditation (SACSCOC) and may be used for annual reviews as well as grant reporting.

If your faculty/trainees do not yet have a current list of publications in Profiles, you can also try PubMed or Google Scholar.

NIH provides this information via xTRACT for renewal/revision application, and offers guidance for using xTRACT here: www.era.nih.gov/help-tutorials/xtract.

NIH provides other answers in their own FAQs: grants.nih.gov/faqs