What is Cayuse?

Cayuse is a cloud-based web application for submission of Sponsored Projects. It is used in proposal preparation, routing, and submission of grants, as well as award management.

Rice faculty, staff, and students can log in to Cayuse using the Rice NetID and password (Single Sign-On); however, if you are a visitor to Rice or have not received your Rice NetID, please submit the Cayuse User Access Request Form to gain access.

If you are a research administrator and/or manage research proposals and awards in Cayuse, which requires access to:

  • view Cayuse proposals and awards; or
  • review and approve proposals on behalf of the department as the Cayuse IPF approver, and/or the pre-award/advanced spending approver; or
  • receive the Cayuse automatically generated award notification via email; or
  • add and/or remove the Cayuse data access roles and functional roles for departmental personnel within Cayuse; or
  • view specific Cayuse proposals and awards not managed by your department for a specific PI or project;

Please also use the Cayuse User Access Request Form to submit such requests.

Cayuse Research Suite consists of the following modules:

  • Cayuse SP: Sponsored project lifecycle management from proposal creation to award close-out
  • Cayuse 424: Web-based system with a direct portal to Grants.gov that provides grant proposal submission
  • Cayuse IRB: Electronic System for IRB (human subjects research) protocol submissions