Passage of the FY 2018 federal budget bill suggests that federal funding for research remains a priority for legislators. Appropriations highlights of the budget affecting some of UW’s significant research sponsors include:
New personal data protections will impact multiple areas of UW operations with data on prospective and current students, employees, alumni, human subjects, patients, etc. who live in the EU.
Researchers may want to attend one of the following information sessions to learn about new UW resources for units to address EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):
* March 30, 10:30-11:30, HUB 340
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is making significant changes to NSF account registration and management in FastLane and Research.gov.
As of March 26, 2018, according to NSF:
The March 15th MRAM presentation material has been published.
Follow up notes and a correction on the SAGE Budget functionality for overriding benefit rates below.
Benefit Rates for Proposals Overview
Fringe Benefit rate estimates are available on the Financial Reporting page.
Proposed FY 2019 Payroll Load Rates (i.e., fringe benefit rates) have been published as of February 23rd on the Financial Reporting page.
Once the proposed rates are provided to Department of Health & Human Services Division of Cost Allocation (DHHS DCA) for approval, they are available as “preliminary” rates on the Institutional Facts & Rates page and within the SAGE Budget module.
The Annual Report and Research Fact Sheet for Fiscal Year 2017 are available on our Research Stats & Rankings webpage. We now offer a dynamic PDF of the Annual Report for easier navigation.
Research Annual Report FY17 Highlights
You should have received an announcement from UWIT regarding UW network security. Please note that this security change may impact all persons who connect remotely to equipment in their laboratories, or who use remote file system connections, such as to a file server in the laboratory.
The Executive Level II salary limitation was increased from $187,000 to $189,600 effective January 2018.
While we highly recommend that Full Institutional Base Salary (IBS) be used when calculating the salary request in proposals, preparers may choose to use the new $189,600 rate for NIH salary cap.
In all cases, the individual’s IBS should be reflected in the proposal budget or budget justification section.
Greetings Colleagues,
GCA wanted to highlight some current updates in Grant Tracker and let you know about another release coming later in February.
You can expand or collapse all or individual items to determine what you want visible.
Attachments now correspond to the relevant note instead of being in two separate sections.
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