News and Notices

May 14, 2008

New Faculty Annual Salary and Effort Certification Policy

Please see the new policy document for more information.

April 2, 2008

NIH Public Access Mandate

Effective April 7, 2008 Principal Investigators must ensure that electronic versions of any peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funding and accepted for publication after that date are deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, and that the articles may be made publicly available by PMC no later than 12 months after publication.

To assist with this process, Harvard University has released a document outlining this new NIH Public Access Policy, and the steps investigators must take in order to comply. More information is also available on the Countway Library Website.

March 19, 2008

New Dean's Approval Form Posted

The Dean's Approval Form and Guidelines for Completion of the Dean's Approval Form have been updated to reflect the new fringe benefit rates for FY2009. Also, the rates for exempt and nonexempt personnel now include the vacation fringe assessment.

Please begin using the new DAF immediately for all proposal submissions.

March 11, 2008

New Fringe Benefit Rates

OSP Has announced Harvard's new rate agreement which includes the new fringe benefit rates which have been approved by DHHS. Please use these rates for all proposals going forward. We will be updating the Dean's Approval Form and budget templates to reflect these changes shortly.

March 10, 2008

New Workshop Scheduled - Spending Sponsored Funds: What May Be Charged to a Grant and Why

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
2:30 - 4:30 pm
The Fong Auditorium
Boylston Hall, Room 110

FAS Research Administration Services will present a framework to assess whether a cost can be budgeted and charged directly to a sponsored award. The session will use case studies to illustrate how to determine which costs qualify as direct costs and which do not.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP by Monday, March 17th by emailing Katie Sylor, ksylor@fas.harvard.edu

March 1, 2008

GMAS Basics Workshop

Date & Time: Tuesday, March 25th, 10-11:30 AM

Location: Division of Continuing Education, 53 Church Street, Room 202 (yellow building across from Dado Tea)

Facilitators: Simone Alpen from FAD Systems Solutions and Karen Woodward Massey

Preliminary Topic List:

• Navigating: Home Page, Searching, Breadcrumb Trail, Other Pages: Project, Segment, Revision, Request
• GMAS Terms: Project, Segment, Request, Notice, Revision, Document
• Downloading: Action Memos, Sponsor Notices, Proposals and HU internal documents
• Suggestions for other topics are very welcome!

Format: We'll talk a bit and ask people to run through exercises at their computers. We'll also distribute a workbook for people to take back to their offices to use as a reference.

RSVP to fasrsrch@fas.harvard.edu. Please also make sure that you are a GMAS user and have access to at least one Fund number.

January 17, 2008

CREW: Beyond the PER! Workshop - Download Workbook

The CREW: Beyond the PER! workshop was held on Tuesday January 15th. Participants said: "I was not aware that theses useful tools were available to me!" and "Content was great." They also found the overview and explanations of the different reports and the workbook very useful.

The workbook can be downloaded at the Training/Job Aids and Workbooks page under the CREW link. It is meant for intermediate CREW users and assumes that readers already have a familiarity with the Period Expense Report, Detail Listings, and Monthly Salary Certifications. Users should also be comfortable with Harvard's Chart of Accounts and with reading PDFs in Adobe Acrobat and manipulating data in Microsoft Excel. Illustrations and step by step instructions help guide users at their own computer.

Ongoing Grants Administration Workshops will be held the first Tuesday of every month from 10-11:30. Reserve these days on your calendar and email fasrsrch@fas.harvard.edu to be placed on the mailing list.

January 9, 2008

Introduction to FASSPAR - Download Workbook

The Introduction to FASSPAR workbook has been updated following the Intro to FASSPAR workshop held on Tuesday January 8th and can be found on the FAS RAS Training/Job Aids and Workbooks page.

The Training/Grants Administration pages contain many other downloadable job aids such as a glossary of frequently used FAS sponsored research terms and further information on FASSPAR, CREW, Award Setup, Budgeting, Interpreting Action Memos, and Monthly Salary Certifications