The Office of Research invites applications to the Fall 2020 round of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) grant program. Proposals are due Monday, September 28, by 5:00 PM. Awards will be announced by January 15, 2021.
The purpose of the RRF is to advance new directions in research, particularly:
Effective August 12, 2020, there are some changes in how the Human Subjects Division (HSD) is identifying the human subjects research that is allowed during the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes draw upon improved knowledge about how to effectively manage the risk of COVID-19 infection.
NSF announced that as of July 27th, 2020, Research.gov enabled line M (cost sharing) for programs with mandatory cost sharing requirements. The proposal Cover Sheet and proposal upload screens also now support Single Copy Documents.
From: Joe Giffels, Associate Vice Provost for Research Administration and Integrity, and Rebekah Skiver Thompson, Associate Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
The Office of Research Information Services (ORIS) has recently updated MyResearch to include the following improvements:
Navigate to MyResearch from SAGE
We've included Q&A from the July MRAM as well as some additional resource links.
Department of Defense Cybersecurity Maturity Measure Certification (DoD CMMC)
Q: Do we anticipate these cybersecurity measures will trickle down to current awards, or only to new awards?
A: We expect the DoD CMMC requirement will only apply to new contracts. However, it is possible it will be integrated into a current DOD contract, by modification, should the Contracting Officer identify that CUI is involved.
The federal government has exhibited flexibility in some aspects of its management of research funding to universities during COVID-19, including extending deadlines for submission of applications, rebudgeting award funds for COVID-19 response-related activities and paying salaries from federal award funds to grant personnel who were unable to carry out research work due to the pandemic.
Final FY21 fringe benefit rates (i.e. payroll load rates) are available in the Benefit Rate Table and within SAGE budget. Use these updated rates on multi-year sponsored program proposal budgets to best reflect anticipated costs.
Periodically, we update our subaward certification forms. The latest subaward certification forms are always available on our website.
To ensure the most current version of the forms are used, we urge you to download them directly from the site instead of saving a local copy to reuse later.
We've included links and basic information about these forms for your convenience.
Subaward Project Certification
Greetings Colleagues,
Some of you may see notices from our federal sponsors that our System for Awards Management (SAM) registration expires on 7.31.2020. Please note that OSP will be renewing our SAM registration the week of July 6th.
Thank you,
The Office of Sponsored Programs