Electronic Research Administration

Dear ZOT IRB and ZOT hSCRO Users, This is a friendly reminder that the Stage environment refresh is scheduled for tonight, Thursday, July 23rd, beginning after 6:00 PM PST. Please anticipate approximately 1.5 to 2 hours of downtime, during which the Stage environment will be inaccessible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and…

Dear ZOT IRB/hSCRO Users, Please be advised that ZOT IRB and hSCRO will be unavailable on July 20, 2026, starting at 6:30 PM PST for approximately 30 minutes due to a deployment to improve email notification content in ZOT hSCRO. Please plan accordingly and avoid accessing the system during this time. The system will resume…

Dear ZOT IRB/hSCRO Users, Please be advised that ZOT IRB/hSCRO will undergo infrastructure maintenance on Saturday, July 18, 2026, starting at 8:00 AM PST , resulting in an extended maintenance window through 9:30 PM PST. The infrastructure work is being performed in a manner that is NOT expected to impact customer access or system availability.…

Dear Colleagues, Kuali Research (KR) will be down tonight from 7PM thru 8PM for the monthly deploy. One particular update we’d like to highlight is the change in the Annual Disclosure and the Personnel Tab in KR in order to satisfy the National Science Foundation requirement that institutions maintain records of foreign agreements of its NSF senior/key…

Dear ZOT IRB/hSCRO Users, Please be advised that ZOT IRB/hSCRO will be unavailable on June 22, 2026, starting at 6:00 PM PST for approximately 30 minutes due to a scheduled system patch to address a minor bug. Please plan accordingly and avoid accessing the system during this time. The system will resume normal operation once…

Dear ZOT IRB/hSCRO users, Please be aware that ZOT IRB and ZOT hSCRO will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on: Date: Saturday, June 20th, 2026 Time: 11:30 AM – 9:30 PM PST During this window, users may experience brief disruptions to the ZOT IRB and ZOT hSCRO systems, including short periods of unavailability and potential connectivity…

Dear Colleagues,   The fix for DWQuery has been deployed – the system is back up and running.   Thank you for your patience! The ERA Team     From: OR – Electronic Research Administration <era@research.uci.edu&gt; Sent: Monday, June 1, 2026 2:21 PM To: ‘Google Groups’ via Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research –…

Dear Colleagues,   DWQuery is currently unavailable – OIT discovered a serious security flaw in its code base. When trying to access any query link in DWQuery, users are seeing a prompt from “polyfill.io” asking them to enter in their credentials.   Please DO NOT enter in your login information in this prompt. Cancel out…