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	Faculty	Dept. Admin.
Chapter 1. Standards for the Conduct of Research at Boston University
1.1 Boston University Standards of Business Conduct	X	X
1.2 Academic Fraud and Misconduct	X
1.3 Faculty Training	X
1.4 Responsible Conduct of Research	X
1.4.1 Authorship	X
1.4.2 Mentorship/Supervision of Research Trainees	X
1.4.3 Management of Data	X
1.5 Sexual Harassment	X	X
1.6 Equal Opportunity	X	X
1.7 Disclosure of Conflict of Interest	X
1.8 Outside Interests and Employment	X	X
1.9 Use of Boston University’s Name	X	X
1.10 Openness in Research	X	X
1.11 Publication Rights	X	X
1.12 Patents, Licensing and Copyrights	X	X
Chapter 2. General Guidance on the Administration of Sponsored Projects
2.1 What is a Sponsored Project		X
2.2 Gifts		X
2.3 Who Can Submit a Proposal for Externally Sponsored Activity?	X
2.4 Other Personnel Involved in the Conduct of Research		X
2.4.1 Visiting Researcher	X	X
2.4.2 Visiting Fellows	X	X
2.4.3 Research Fellow	X	X
2.4.4 Postdoctoral Fellow	X	X
2.4.5 Postdoctoral Associate	X	X
2.4.6 Senior Postdoctoral Associate	X	X
2.4.7 Managerial and Professional Staff	X	X
2.4.8 Clerical and Technical Staff		X
2.4.9 Temporary Replacement Staff		X
2.5 Administrative Offices in Support of Resaerch	X	X
2.5.1 Corporate Responsibilities	X
2.6 Roles and Responsibilites	X	X
2.6.1 Pricipal Investigators/Program Directors	X
2.6.2 Deans and Chairs		X
2.6.3 The Departmental Business Office		X
2.6.4 Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)	X	X
2.6.5 Post Award Financial Operations (PAFO)		X
Chapter 3. Assurances for Proposal Submission
3.1 Human Subjects Research	X
3.1.1 HIPAA Privacy and Secuirty	X
3.1.2 Project-Specific Conflict of Interest	X
3.2 Animal Care and Use	X
3.3 Environmental Health and Safety	X
3.4 Biological Safety	X
3.5 Radiation Safety	X
3.6 Chemical Safety	X
3.7 Select Agents	X
3.8 Controlled Substances	X
3.9 Purchasing/Shipping Hazardous Materials and Other Restricted Iteams		X
3.10 Emergency Response Planning		X
3.11 Policy for the Review of Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESC)	X
3.12 Export Controls	X
3.13 Minors in Labs	X	X
Chapter 4. Sources of Project Support
4.1 University Support	X
4.1.1 Limited Submissions and Internal Competittions	X
4.1.2 Federal	X
4.1.3 Not-For-Profit Sponsors	X
4.1.4 Commerical Sponsors	X
4.1.5 Industry Supported Clinical Trails	X
4.1.6 Start-Up Sponsored Agreements	X
Chapter 5. Proposal Development
5.1 Types of Proposals	X	X
5.2 Inital Contact with the Sponsor	X
5.3 Registering as a PI with Federal Agencies	X	X
5.4 Proposal Preparation	X	X
5.5 Componets of a Proposal	X	X
5.6 Helpful Hints and Resources	X	X
Chapter 6. Budget Development
6.1 Principles of Sponsored Project Support	X	X
6.1.1 Reasonableness	X	X
6.1.2 Allocability	X	X
6.1.3 Consistency	X	X
6.1.4 Allowability	X	X
6.2 Developing a Proposal Budget	X	X
6.3 NIH Modular Budgets	X	X
6.4 Major Budget Categories for Non Modular Budgets	X	X
6.4.1 Direct Costs	X	X
6.4.1.1 Personnel Costs	X	X
6.4.1.2 Fringe Benefits	X	X
6.4.1.3 Consultants	X	X
6.4.1.4 Graduate Students	X	X
6.4.1.5 Equipment	X	X
6.4.1.6 Materials and Supplies		X
6.4.1.7 Travel		X
6.4.1.8 Patient Care Costs		X
6.4.1.9 Alterations, Renovations and Construction Costs		X
6.4.1.10 Other Direct Costs		X
6.4.1.11 Subcontracts/Subawards		X
6.4.1.12 Costs of Special Audits		X
6.4.2 Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A)		X
6.4.2.1 Federal F&A Rates		X
6.4.2.2 Non-Federal Overhead Rates – Non-Profit Organizations
6.4.2.3 Waivers or Reduction of Overhead	X
6.5 Clinical Trial Budgeting		X
6.6 Cost-Sharing and Matching Funds	X	X
6.6.1 Mandatory Cost-Sharing		X
6.6.2 Voluntary Committed Cost-Sharing		X
6.6.3 Voluntary Uncommitted Cost-Sharing		X
6.6.4 In-Kind/Matching		X
6.6.5 Voluntary Committed Cost-Sharing Approval	X	X
6.6.6 Mandatory Cost-Sharing Approval	X	X
6.7 Representations and Certifications		X
Chapter 7. Proposal Review, Approval, and Processing
7.1 Required Review and Signatures		X
7.2 Procedures for the Submission of Proposals	X
7.3 Transmission of Proposal to Sponsor		X
7.3.1 Paper Transmission
7.3.2 Electronic Submissions		X
7.4 Deadlines	X
7.5 Pre-Award Audit/Additional Information		X
7.6 Proposal and Award Tracking		X
7.7 Site Visits	X
7.8 Protection of Confidential or Sensitive Proposal Information	X
7.8.1 Labeling of Proprietary Information	X
Chapter 8. Award Acceptance
8.1 Types of Awards	X	X
8.1.1 Grants	X	X
8.1.2 Contracts	X	X
8.1.3 Cooperative Agreements	X
8.1.4 Other Transaction Awards	X
8.2 Receipt of Award	X
8.3 Requesting and Modifying a Sponsored Project
8.4 Negotiation/Acceptance
8.5 Signature Authority	X
8.6 Account Set-Up		X
8.7 Pre-Award/Late-Award Account Set-Up (At-Risk Accounts)		X
Chapter 9. Post-Award Administration
9.1 Financial Management
9.2 Personnel
9.3 Post-Award Changes and Approvals		X
9.4 Re-Budgeting of Funds and Prior Approval		X
9.5 No-Cost Extensions		X
9.6 Relinquishment of an Award	X
9.7 Allowability of Costs (see also Chapter 6.1)	X
9.7.1 Cost Allocations	X
9.8 Cost Transfers
9.9 Effort Committing and Reporting
9.9.1 Committing Effort	X	X
9.9.2 Certifying Effort	X	X
9.9.3 Activitird Associated with Sponsored Project Effort	X	X
9.9.3.1 Examples of activities that are part of Sponsored Project Effort	X	X
9.9.3.2 Examples of activities that are not part of Sponsored Project Effort	X	X
9.9.4 Important Considerations	X	X
9.10 Other Financial Management Issues		X
9.10.1 Strategic Sourcing and Procurement		X
9.10.2 Equipment		X
9.10.3 Animal Charges		X
9.10.4 Travel		X
9.10.5 Program Income	X	X
9.10.6 Interest Bearing Accounts		X
9.10.7 Internal Service Providers		X
9.10.8 Financial Monitoring		X
9.10.9 Sub-Recipient Monitoring	X	X
9.10.10 Project Reporting and Financial Closeout		X
9.10.11 Fixed Price Awards	X	X
9.11 Audits	X	X
9.11.1 Overview
9.11.2 Pre-Award Audits	X	X
9.11.3 Post Award and System Audits		X
9.11.4 Audit Requests		X
9.11.5 Entrance Conference		X
9.11.6 Documentation Requests		X
9.11.7 Exit Conference and Audit Reports		X
Chapter 10. Other Awards and Agreements
10.1 Collaborateive Agreements		X
10.2 Service Agreements		X
10.3 Material Transfer Agreements	X
10.4 Intergovernmental Personnel Act	X	X
10.5 Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDAs)	X
10.6 Faulty External Consulting Agreements	X
Chapter 11. Transfer Issues in Grant Adminitration
11.1 Policies and Procedures for when a PI/PD Leaves Boston Univerisity	X
11.1.1 NIH Awards	X	X
11.1.2 NSF Awards	X	X
11.1.3 Other Sponsors and Non-Tansferable Awards	X	X
11.1.4 Transfer and Disposition of Equipment	X	X
11.1.5 Safety, Research, and Administrative Considerations Upon LeavingBoston Univeristy	X	X
Chapter 12. Other Concerns
12.1 Acknoweldgement of Support	X
12.2 Public Access Policy (NIH)	X

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