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Announcements & Updates: OSP updates, GRIP update, Research Development update, Workshops update, Education/Intern program, Proposal Submission Policy update
Faculty Effort Reporting and Supplemental Salary
Research Identification Project
Financial Conflict of Interest
Announcements & Updates:
1. OSP updates
Two-day correction window gone
Effective January 25, 2011, NIH eliminated its two-day correction window; proposals submitted with errors will be rejected, and there will no longer be an opportunity for corrections. This makes preparing and finalizing proposals by the sponsor’s deadline more important than ever.
2. GRIP update
Effective 2/1/2011, OSP is no longer accepting paper UPAS and At-risk Request forms; UPAS-type requests and At-risk Account requests for FAS departments have moved to a completely electronic process in GMAS. Please see the RAS Home Page for further information.
3. Research Development update
A data management plan is now a mandatory requirement for all NSF proposals submitted on or after January 18, 2011. Susan Gomes and Kathryn Coughlin are developing sample language for you to use. For advice and guidance on what your plan should entail, including directorate-specific guidance, please click here.
4. Upcoming workshops:
- 2/28/2011: First REACH Foundations cohort begins classes -- click here for more information
- 3/1/2011: Overview of Sponsored Projects Administration -- click here to sign up
5. Intern program
Hiring an intern is an inexpensive way to get some help for your department. The program is very flexible in terms of hours per week, and you may be able to share an intern with another department. Please contact Karen Woodward Massey for more information.
6. Proposal Submission Policy Update
Notices have been sent to faculty by the Deans for science, social science, and humanities informing them of the new policy. Rachel Cahoon is developing a Q&A on the implementation of the new policy. Cathy Gorodentsev attended recent faculty meetings at MCB, OEB, and CCB to answer questions about the new policy. Click here to view the final policy.
7. Research Administrators' Networking Group
Are you interested in meeting research administrators in other departments, in other schools, and from central administration, for networking and fun? If so, please join us on Tuesday, March 1st from 11:45am-12:30pm for the kickoff event for this new networking group. More details to follow soon, including an iSite where you can sign up.
Faculty Effort Reporting and Supplemental Salary
Sheila Doyle, FAS RAS -- Research Finances & Systems Specialist
Alan Long, FAS RAS -- Assistant Dean for Research Finances & Systems
Timetable for Faculty Effort Reporting: January/February 2011 we will load data into FASERS; February 2011 departmental faculty effort coordinators will populate the effort commitments in FASERS; March 2011 faculty members will certify their effort. All will be accompanied by appropriate emails and alerts. One update this year is that faculty with no committed effort or sponsored salary in FY 10 won't have to certify. Also, we will be hiding the question about the percentage of time faculty spent on administrative tasks, because we need to ask that question only for space allocation for the overhead rate calculation.
FAS Policy on Supplemental Salary
Alan's spreadsheet explaining Supplemental Salary changes
Supplemental Compensation Request Form -- now available on FAS Office of Finance website
Research Identification Project
Karen Woodward Massey, FAS RAS -- Director of Education and Outreach
The Research Identification Project is implementing a way to identify people with research administration responsibilities using flags in Asperin. Kara Colannino has sent survey spreadsheets via Accellion for departments to populate/confirm those employees who are involved with research administration, including people for whom research administration is a small part of their jobs.
Financial Conflict of Interest
Pat Fitzgerald, FAS RAS -- Associate Dean for Research Administration
A new Financial Conflict of Interest policy was adopted last summer, and now each school is in the process of implementing the policy. The threshold for determining whether the faculty member has a significant financial interest in a company is currently $10k for NIH and NSF, but will likely be coming down to $5000 in 2011. Each Harvard school has to designate a DIO (Designated Institutional Official) and each school can determine what sanctions to put in place individually. Gearóid "Griff" Griffin is the Designated Institutional Official for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Look for a change in process, including a new PI Certification Form, coming soon. For more information, please see Pat's PowerPoint slides here.
