Greetings Colleagues,
The Grants Oversight and New Efficiency act (GONE Act) requires all federal agencies to report their outstanding closeouts to Congress by December 31, 2017.
For the 30 oldest grants in an agency's portfolio, they must also explain in detail why they have not been closed out. This is why you may have received delinquency notices from agencies for grants that ended as far back as 2012.
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Many of you may be aware September 25th is Research Administrator Day. In a top ranked organization with over $1.3 Billion in total research funding, our staff are required to have a high level of knowledge, expertise, and training to keep up with the complex requirements along with a very heavy workload. |
All CPAs in Washington State are required by the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants (WSCPA) to complete four CPE credits of ethics training every three years. This year UW is pleased to offer two options open to CPAs from any campus needing training this year in order to remain in compliance:
Greetings Colleagues,
NIH recently released their policy supporting the Next Generation Researchers Initiative with NOT-OD-17-101.
This initiative prioritizes Early Stage Investigators (ESI) and Early Established Investigators (EEI) applications and is designed to support these investigators as they compete for NIH grant funding.
Greetings Colleagues,
NIH announced they are hosting a Research Performance Progress Reporting (RPPR) webinar Wednesday, August 30th, 11am-12pm PST (2pm-3pm EST).
Registration is open, but space is limited, and NIH highly recommends group viewing. The webinar is designed for anyone responsible for the development and submission of progress reports to the NIH. Review the NIH RPPR webpage before attending.
Dear Colleagues,
Effective 8/10/17, the Office of Animal Welfare (OAW) has eliminated the review of:
This does not change the requirement that all animal use activity must be reviewed and approved by the University’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). As has always been the case, before sponsored program funding is accepted by the University, proposed animal use activity must be reviewed by OAW and deemed congruent with IACUC protocol(s).
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services has resumed premium processing for H-1B visa petitions from institutes of higher education.
Starting 7/24/17, eligible petitioners can file Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service for Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker. Form I-907 can be filed together with an H-1B petition or separately for a pending H-1B petition.
Resources:
This is a reminder that GCA has scheduled a Q&A Brown Bag for this Wednesday, July 19, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM in Foege N130A.
The topics to be covered during this session are:
Hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
The Grant Analyst Group
Grant & Contract Accounting
Grant Tracker will be down from 7:00pm on Friday, July 7th, until Sunday evening for biennium crossover activities.
On Monday when Grant Tracker is back up and running, you will notice the following changes:
1) The IDC Rate will be added to the Financial Information section for parent-sub budgets.
2) All Grant Tracker search result links will open in a new tab/window.
3) The Department View will show as Org Code Reports (Department View).
The TRANSPASU feature in Grant Tracker has also had some updates: