MRAM-Announcement

Greetings Colleagues,

NSF has extended the deadline for CAREER proposals from July 27th to August 11th, 2020.
Please note:

The Federal Government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued memo M 20-26 to federal agencies.

This new memo:

Greetings Colleagues,

NIH announced immediate changes to the process for post-submission updates made in their Human Subjects System (HSS). These changes could impact preparation and submission of NIH Research Project Progress Reports (RPPRs) due today. Please see the above link for detailed information, including screenshots.

Dear Colleagues,

A few updates have been made to research guidance in the past two weeks. I am sending you a summary with links, so you have these available. Please forward to others as appropriate. Please be sure to let the Office of Research know if you have any questions.

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to announce that we now have guidelines and tools for fieldwork posted here.  Many thanks to Stephanie Harrington, Suzanne Hawley, Greg Miller, and Mari Ostendorf for putting this information together, and to many at EH&S for providing important input.

MRAM Administrators,

The purpose of this email is to make you aware of new and updated procedures and tools for managing capital equipment and government-owned property, which will be going into effect on June 1, 2020. 

Greetings Colleagues,

NIH announced re-issuance of some Parent Announcements for FORMS-F are anticipated by June 25, 2020. In the meantime, FORMS-E will continue to be available for some opportunities and for some, FORMS E should continue to be used until the FOAs are reissued.  

Continue to use FORMS-E forms for the following FOAs until they are reissued:

Greetings Colleagues,

NSF has delayed required use of the NSF-approved formats for the biographical sketch and current and pending support   until October. It continues to encourage use of these approved formats at this time and welcomes feedback.

Greetings Colleagues,

Thank you all for continuing to include "C19" in your eGC1 short titles and email communications so we can keep track of this important work. Here are the number of COVID-19 related items that have come through OSP to date:

Effective May 22, some temporarily-halted human subjects research is now allowed to begin or resume.

See this Human Subjects Division (HSD) webpage for a description of the allowed research.

A summary of changes: