MRAM-Announcement

This email is to inform you about two upcoming changes to the Faculty Grants Management training. These changes are based on feedback from our evaluations and constituents, as part of our continuing efforts to enhance support of research administration at UW.

First, we are changing the name of the session to “Grants Management for Investigators” to reflect the fact that not all investigators are faculty.

Final Fiscal Year 2021 fringe benefit rate calculations and publication of new rates will be delayed.

Management Accounting and Analysis (MAA) has committed to submitting the rates in time for the first payroll cycle of FY21.

We will send an update the week of July 6.

Thank you,
Office of Sponsored Programs and Office of Planning and Budget

NIH and NSF have coordinated on their implementation of the flexibilities from OMB Memo M-20-26. This memo gives agencies the authority to extend certain flexibilities to award recipients affected by COVID-19. 

Please refer to the PAFC COVID website for more information on the OMB Memos.

MRAM Administrators,

A revised GIM 21 – Cost Share on Sponsored Programs, has been posted to the Office of Research webpage:

https://www.washington.edu/research/policies/gim-21-cost-share-on-sponsored-programs/

Changes made include the following:   

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.