Announcement: Since 1990, Congress has legislatively mandated a limitation on direct salary for individuals under NIH awards. The mandate appears in the annual appropriation act that provides authority for NIH to incur obligations for a given Fiscal Year. At this time, NIH has not received an FY 2022 appropriation and is operating under a Continuing Resolution, the […]
Announcements
Updated NSF Pre-Award and Post-Award Disclosure Table
Update: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued an updated version of the table entitled NSF Pre-Award and Post-Award Disclosures Relating to the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support. The updated table dated January 10, 2022, includes information regarding start-up packages provided by proposing organizations as well as outside organizations. Any questions regarding the contents of the […]
Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS)
Announcement: On December 17, 2021, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a revised Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS) that represents an update to the April 2021 version and is applicable to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements beginning on or after October 1, 2021. While the update does not introduce any new material for the first time, […]
Revision of NSF Cooperative Agreement Financial and Administrative Terms and Conditions (CAFATC)
Update: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement Financial and Administrative Terms and Conditions (CA-FATC) have been updated with additional information regarding NSF’s enforcement of Article 56, Ensuring Adequate COVID-19 Safety Protocols. The revised CA-FATC will apply to all new NSF cooperative agreements and funding amendments to existing cooperative agreements made on or after December 13, 2021.
Research Training Finder
Please see the below memo from the Office of Culture, Ethics, and Compliance.********************************************************************* Dear Colleagues, The Office of Culture, Ethics, and Compliance (OCEC) is collecting data on the use and awareness of the USC Research Training Finder, which can be found at: https://researchtrainingfinder.usc.edu/. The Training Finder is a website that assists researchers, research staff, and research administrators in determining what […]
Amazon Web Services Outage Impacting Cayuse Applications
Announcement: Please be aware that Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage this morning. As a result, some federal web applications, including eRA Commons, have been affected. So far, DCG has not received any reports of affected Cayuse 424 submissions, but please be advised that users may experience 504 errors when trying to login, navigate, and download funding opportunities from […]