Author: Demetrice S. Bryant

Sponsored awards are often used as a source of funding for capital equipment purchases. In Fy12 alone, sponsored funds were used to purchase $7.3 million of the university’s $12.7 million investment in capital equipment. OMB Circular A-110 (Sections C.33 – C.34) provides guidance as to how universities must manage their equipment purchased using sponsored funds.…

Through the great work of our faculty, Emory’s research funding and activity has grown dramatically over the last decade,  while the administrative infrastructure, practices, and organization of labor to support research has not developed at the same pace. Emory is making significant and exciting improvements to the way that research administration activities are handled throughout…

Starting in the spring of 2013 the NIH will delay processing of non-competing continuation grant awards if publications arising from that award are not in compliance with the NIH public access policy. The award will not be processed until recipients have demonstrated compliance. This change will take effect in tandem with NIH requiring the use…

By March 15, 2013, the FastLane Project Reporting System will no longer be accessible.  PI’s will be required to submit their annual, final, and interim project reports using Research.gov starting March 18, 2013. There is no guarantee of transference of information.  Any reports that are prepared in but are not submitted in FastLane prior to…

These queries provide a tool similar to that provided by the “Scrub Report” that was available preCompass. A couple of new CAS queries are available in Compass: EU_GM_CAS_POSSIBLE_EXP By Fiscal Year, Period Range, Dept Range EU_GM_CAS_POSSIBLE_EXP2 By Fiscal Year, OU, Dept, Period Range These queries were designed to assist you in identifying charges that have…

NIH Public Access Policy In Spring 2013, NIH will begin requiring that all publications arising from grants be in compliance with acess policy. If publications are not in compliance, NIH will hold processing of non-competing continuation awards. For more details, see here. Substance Use, Abuse and Addiction-Related Research Release Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the  National…

Roles and Responsibilities for Post Award Management The following document outlines the current central and non-central roles and responsibilities for managing the set-up, project life and close-out processes for sponsored awards.  This list is intended to reconfirm and clarify current roles and responsibilities. NOTE:  This document does not incorporate upcoming changes in research administration from…