Category: Announcements
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Reading and Understanding the eNOA
The eNOA (Electronic Notice of Award) has changed a bit with the conversion to PeopleSoft. The following will provide some guidance for reading and understanding the changes, to make administering the award a bit simpler. If the award is based upon converted data, all of the projects (previously known as account number and associates) will…
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Effort System & RST's
The effort system (ERS) and the labor distribution system (RSTs) are still unavailable for use at this time. This means salary transfers cannot be done, neither by the departments nor by central administration. We are waiting for UTS to complete the conversion and testing so that these systems are compatible with PeopleSoft. They have not…
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Revised PHS 2590 (DHHS Public Health Service Noncompeting Continuation Progress Report) Now Available: Policy Changes Implemented
Per NIH notice number: NOT-OD-09-139, “The newly revised “Continuation Progress Report for a DHHS Public Health Service Grant” (PHS 2590, rev. 06/09) instructions and forms are now available and will be accepted immediately for all progress reports and are required for all annual progress reports due on/after October 1, 2009.” Significant Changes Include: New All…
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New HIPAA Rules: HITECH Act Breach Notification Requirements Take Effect September 23
Researchers who use protected health information in their research should be aware that the new HITECH Act breach notification requirements take effect on September 23, 2009. These requirements apply to “unsecured” protected health information (PHI) in electronic or paper form. Unsecured PHI is PHI that isn’t made unusable, unreadable or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals through…
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How Do I Determine if an Organization is a Subrecipient or Vendor?
A subrecipient relationship exists when a third party: performs a substantive portion of the programmatic work, which is defined as project activities that are a primary purpose of the prime award; has responsibility for programmatic decision making; uses the funds provided to carry out a program of the subrecipient as opposed to providing goods or…
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Important Date Definitions in PeopleSoft
There are Four dates that are really important to all grant administrators in PeopleSoft (PS). They are the Start Date, End Date, Closed Date, and the Closed Commitment Date. Start Date: This is the familiar “Start Date” that we currently use for awards. In the current and PS world, the Start Date is the date…
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Grants Management Tools: Project Forecast and Project Variance
While the highly anticipated Grants Report is in its final stages of development, there are a couple of tools currently available to help manage the grants budgeting process. Grants > Award > Interactive Reports > Project Volume. Project Forecast, pulling from the Project Resource Table provides: Begin and End Dates for a given project The…