MRAM-Announcement

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The Research Fact Sheet for FY20 is available on our Research Stats & Rankings webpage.

Research FY20 Highlights

Dear Research Community,

The Office of Research Information Services (ORIS) is excited to announce the new advance budget request process will be available in SAGE on Wednesday, June 9, 2021.

Benefits of the new process include automated eligibility checks, online approvals for campus, and a new, more intuitive design. The new process also lays a foundation for future integrations between SAGE and Workday.

TO: UW Academic Departments

Greetings Colleagues,

Good morning,

Effective Monday, 5/3/21, the GCA Help phone line at 206-616-9995 will be open for business again! Our hours of operation will be:

M-F 9:00 AM – Noon and 1:00 – 4:00 PM

Those assisting researchers in filling out the Vertebrate Animals Section in grant applications may find it helpful to know what NIH staff reviewers and Scientific Review Group reviewers are responsible for verifying. The NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, OLAW, has released two new training resources for reviewers of the VAS in grant applications.

The NIH issued a revised Grants Policy Statement (GPS) on April 20th. The new GPS is retroactively effective to all grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, 2020. This new version incorporates updates, changes, and clarifications since the 

Greetings Colleagues, 

April 8th MRAM materials are published. Information here will be available with the other meeting materials shortly. 

NIH Child Care Allowance

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NIH issued a notification on upcoming changes to the NIH Biographical Sketch and Other Support Format Page, effective May 25, 2021. These changes primarily impact proposal submission, JIT, and RPPR submissions. We will cover these in more detail at the April MRAM. 

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The March 11th, 2021 MRAM materials are published for your review.  Q&A from our session are included here for reference and will be available with the other meeting materials shortly. 

Advance Budget Project Update