Updates from Sponsored Programs to BU’s research community.
Research Financial Operations Microsoft Teams Channel for Unclaimed Payments
Are you expecting a payment? Did you check with BU’s Treasury department and are still having trouble locating it? Research Financial Operations is here to help. Did you know that we manage both Grants and Miscellaneous Receivables billing? As a result, we receive payments monthly that cannot be identified as belonging to a specific grant, […]
New Sponsor Updates – NIH and DOE
Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement for Fiscal Year 2022 NIH Notice NOT-OD-22-050 announces publication of the updated NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS, Rev Dec 2021). This update is applicable to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, 2021. This update supersedes, it its entirety, the NIHGPS dated […]
Important Sponsor Reminders – Effective Immediately
As a follow up to earlier announcements and subsequent updates, please see the important Sponsor reminders related to NIH Forms-G Application Forms and Instructions, NIH Changes to Biographical Sketch and Other Support Format Page (including links to sample Biographical Sketches and Other Support Pages), NSF Updated Pre-Award and Post-Award Disclosure Table and NIH eRA Two-Factor […]
Grant Expenditure Dashboard – Volunteers Needed
Sponsored Programs and Continuous Improvement & Data Analytics (CIDA) would like to invite you to a Brainstorming Session around the creation of a new Grant Expenditure Dashboard. This Dashboard is a tool for you, the Departmental Administrator and Principal Investigator, so we want and welcome your feedback. The first brainstorm session is scheduled for Tuesday, […]
NIH – Enhanced Checks for Compliance with Clinical Trial Registration and Reporting in RPPR
Enhanced checks on non-compliance with clinical trial registration and reporting came into effect in eRA’s Human Subjects System on October 1 that could delay your RPPR submission if you are late on either front (see details in eRA news item). Remember that all NIH-funded clinical trials are expected to register and submit results information to Clinicaltrials.gov, […]
Year End Planning and Holiday Deadlines
In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday Sponsored Programs (SP) will be closed starting 5pm Wednesday November 24, 2021, re-opening 9am Monday November 29, 2021. Beginning 2pm Wednesday November 24, 2021 there will only be a skeleton staff available to cover emergency items. Should you have proposals or any other items due between Monday November 22, 2021-Monday November 29, 2021 […]
Revised PSF Released – Please Submit New Version Going Forward
Sponsored Programs has released an updated Proposal Summary Form (PSF), incorporating feedback from the BU Community and SP Research professionals. The form will look and feel familiar, but there have been a few additions, subtractions, and clarifications. We request that you start using this new edition as soon as possible, though we will still accept […]
Announcing a new online internal resource, Best Practices for Grant Management at BU!
An instructional library is now available on a variety of grant management topics, created to identify the best approach to navigating areas of grant management at BU. You can view the list of topics and best practice documentation on our new webpage, which can be found under the Training & How To umbrella of the […]
New Unique Entity Identifiers (UEI) for Charles River Campus and Medical Campus
By April of 2022, the federal government will stop using the DUN and Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number to uniquely identify entities. The transition from DUNS to the new Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) is ongoing by federal agencies up through April 2022, with some agencies transitioning sooner – for example NIH, AHRQ and […]
Personnel Activity Reports (PARs) are Due in One Week
PARs for the period January – June 2021 are due back to effort reporting (effort@bu.edu) in one week on Friday, October 8, 2021. Please contact effort@bu.edu with any questions.