Category: Announcements
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Tips for Internal Grants Transfers
What Account Codes should be used for Sponsored Grant internal transfers? If funding deficits on a sponsored grant, the expense should be moved through the journal entry process from the grant to a departmental fund. The Account Code used should reflect the underlying expense. (i.e. Supply Labs/Technical expense – 53300) If an Emory department is…
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Adding Additional Projects
ADDING ADDITIONAL PROJECTS When should I establish my projects for a new award? It’s best to include all the projects needed for a new award at the proposal stage, before the award is set up or before DMG generates the award. What if the project was not added at the proposal stage and the award…
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Effort with UTBG Suspense Charges
Recent reviews of effort forms have revealed some effort forms certified with charges still on UTBG suspense smartkeys. Effort should never be certified with charges showing on a UTBG smartkey. When reviewing an effort form, the smartkey description will contain “UTBG” if this is the case. If a form has a charge on a UTBG…
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SBIR & STTR Proposals
Part 1: July 21, 2011 – • SBIR and STTR: Are these the right grants for you? As popular as they are, SBIR & STTR are just not right for every applicant – only 1 application in 9 wins funding; and the odds of winning just got worse. Many who do apply, never should have…
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Emory Contracts Tracking System (eCTS)
The Emory Contracts Tracking System (eCTS), is an electronic contract management and tracking system that provides the status of incoming agreements handled by the OSP Contracts Group: clinical trial agreements data use agreements confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements related to clinical trials research service agreements government sponsored agreements eCTS allows Emory faculty and staff to track the status…
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NSF Modification to Graduate Research Fellowship Policy
On May 20, 2011, the National Science Foundation (NSF) clarified its position on activities allowed while in Graduate research Fellowship (GRFP) service. In NSF 11-050, NSF GRFP FAQ about GRFP Fellowship Terms and Conditions, the NSF reverted back to its previous policy, which permitted “Fellows to engage in teaching or similar activity that is a…
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Emory – Date Changes Page, Campus now has Access
Why was this page created? This page was created in order to be able to change dates in one area, somewhat of a short cut, in which it would feed the changed date to 14 other areas in PS. In addition, this is the only area where users can see the KK date (which drives…
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Request to put a Project on Hold
A request for a project to be put on HOLD should be made when… The master department of an award needs to prevent further transactions from hitting a particular project; when a department needs to prevent further transactions from hitting one of their own projects; when a research sponsor submits a ‘stop work order’ on…
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DOD 35% F&A Limitation is Eliminated
The Council on Government Relations (COGR), an association of research universities, announced on April 15th and then further clarified in its spring announcements , that the DOD (Department of Defense) F&A limitation on basic research funding was being eliminated for new proposals. “As the FY 2011 final budget bill (Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing…
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Many Proposals Successfully Submitted Through Cayuse, Use Becomes Mandatory on June 5, 2011
As previously announced, Emory University is implementing the use of the Cayuse 424 system for submission of electronic grant applications to federal granting agencies, including proposals to the National Institutes of Health. The system was intended to replace the use of Adobe form kits downloaded from grants.gov. since the implementation of Cayuse 424 in February…