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10/6/08 -   NIH Early Stage Investigators
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new policy on September 26th that would place certain researchers in a new category called "early stage investigators (ESI)." Under this policy, those new investigators who are within 10 years of their terminal research degree or within 10 years of...

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10/6/08 -   NSF Limits Senior Faculty Salaries
Effective Jan. 5, 2009, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will limit senior faculty salary reimbursement from all NSF-funded grants to not more than two months in any one year and impose a new definition of co-principal investigator. This is according to the January 2009 NSF Proposal and Award ...

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8/22/08 -   Updated Estimated Fringe Benefit Rates
The estimated fringe benefit rates that are used for grant proposals at UND have recently been updated for FY 2009. These new rates are shown as a percentage of the employee's salary amount. A spreadsheet listing these new rates can be downloaded from the "Budget" section of the UNDSMHS Research A...

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8/21/08 -   Proposal Budget and Budget Justification
Keep in mind that direct costs such as postage, office supplies, telephone line charges, memberships, food purchases, salary overload, and administrative and clerical staff salaries are normally unallowable expenses on sponsored projects. If any of these expenses are necessary for the completio...

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7/17/08 -   Updated SMHS Proposal Routing Form
The UND Research Development & Compliance office requires all SMHS sponsored project proposals contain the SMHS Proposal Routing Form. This form is to be completed by the principal investigator, and signed by individuals in the School of Medicine & Health Sciences, as well as the Research Developmen...

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6/27/08 -   Effort Certification Reports for Those Employees Working on Grant Projects
On June 26th, I sent out effort certification reports (PAC reports) for the time period of January 1, 2008 through May 15, 2008. These reports were distributed to the department administrators in each of the 20+ SMHS departments which have grant projects. These effort certification reports verif...

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