Dear MRAM Colleagues,
Please see the communication below from Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S).
Thank you,
Kirsten DeFries
Executive Director, Research Compliance & Operations
University of Washington
206-543-2597
Greetings Colleagues,
Thank you for your patience. It has been brought to our attention that a couple of updates and a correction were needed to the Q&A in the China Telecommunications Restriction section.
A presentation on Executive Order 13950 Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping was made at the October 2020 MRAM. This Executive Order would, among other things, have prohibited the inclusion of concepts such as critical race theory, systemic racism and racial bias in diversity training programs. While UW’s position has always been to continue to engage in diversity work and to remain committed to building a more equitable community and world, it was unclear how EO 13950 might eventually affect diversity training specifically.
Members of the UW Research Community:
The Office of Research invites applications to the Spring 2021 round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. Proposals are due Monday, March 1, by 5:00 PM. Awards will be announced by June 15, 2021.
Greetings Colleagues,
NSF has begun to require Research.gov for proposal preparation and submission of some funding opportunities. The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) now requires Research.gov for proposal preparation and submission in response to core programs that do not have deadline dates.
Greetings Colleagues,
On January 12th, 2021, the eRA Commons homepage login and landing screens will look a little different. These new designs will still provide links and resources but with a streamlined fresher look and feel.
Helpful NIH Resources for this Release
Greetings Colleagues,
The recording of our 12.10.2020 meeting and materials from the session are available on the December MRAM page. Q&A from the session are included here for reference.
Federal Relations Update
Greetings Colleagues,
Q&A and follow ups sent on behalf of MRAM from our November meeting included here for your convenience.
Sponsored Programs Annual Data - Fiscal Year 2020
In June 2020, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Memo 20-26 which extended the flexibilities for salary expenditures and costs to resume research that was impact by COVID-19. Those flexibilities have expired as of 30 September 2020. This means that any flexibilities exercised due to COVID can only have taken place between 16 March and 30 September 2020.
Effective Oct. 5, 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is making the following updates to the Research Performance Project Report in Research.gov.
New Question for Project Reports with Active Other Support Changes:
Edit Participants screen: Has there been a change in the active other support of the PI/PD(s) since the last reporting period?