Personnel Activity Reports (PARs) are Due October 7th
Department Administrators/Effort Coordinators: PARs for the period January 2022– June 2022 are due back to effort reporting (effort@bu.edu) on Friday, October 7, 2022. Please refer to the Effort Reporting webpage for resources or contact effort@bu.edu with questions.
Important Announcement – Extended Grants.gov Downtime will Impact Federal Grant Proposal Submissions
Grants.gov will be migrating their services to the cloud and will be unavailable from Friday September 23, 2022 at 12:01 AM ET through Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET. What Will Be Affected During this Time? Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) Grants.gov: Cannot download or update FOAs, or related documents. Application Grants.gov, ASSIST: Cannot […]
Guidance for the Treatment of Unallowable Costs Charged to a Grant
Reviewing accounts and removing unallowable expenses is a critical part of the University’s internal control process ensuring that all posted expenses are appropriate, allowable, reasonable, approved and supported with documentation. Unallowable costs, erroneously charged to an award, must be promptly transferred to your Departmental University Cost Center, Discretionary Account, or other non-sponsored project account. This […]
NIH – Top 5 eRA Resources You Should Know
As you apply for or manage an NIH award, check out these 5 resources to help you navigate their grants systems: New to eRA Commons? Start here! Get to know NIH grant systems with a high-level overview of the steps taken by applicants/grantees in eRA Commons over the grants lifecycle. eRA Commons Online Help for […]
Where’s My Award Page Updated
Please be informed that the “Where’s My Award” page on the Research Support website has been updated! The contents of the page are now hosted in PowerBI interactive report. The report, it’s Instructions, and further details can be found under the “Check Your Award Set-up Status” section of the Award & Subaward Tracker site. As […]
Is your project idea suitable for NSF funding?
NSF has developed the Program Suitability & Proposal Concept Tool (ProSPCT) for prospective Principal Investigators (PIs) to contact the National Science Foundation (NSF) to determine suitability of a project idea prior to submission of a proposal. Log in to ProSPCT, then click “Submissions” to get started. ProSPCT uses Login.gov for authentication. Submissions made via this […]
eRA Updated Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) Screens
As of June 23, 2022, all RPPR screens in eRA Commons have been updated to a new visual appearance to accommodate FORMS-G and new unique entity identifiers (UEI) as a replacement for DUNS numbers. The functionality and content will remain the same, except for new unique entity identifier (UEI) fields where applicable and other FORMS-G […]
Labor Distribution Reports – New “Wage Type PAR Eligible” Free Characteristic
We are happy to announce the creation of a new Free Characteristic for three Business Warehouse Payroll (Distributed)/Labor Distributions Reports for effort coordinators and department administrators. The new Free Characteristic is titled Wage Type PAR Eligible and can be used with the following reports: Labor Distributions: Payroll Inquiry by Distribution (PA12) Labor Distributions: Payroll Inquiry […]
Reminder NIH Deadlines and Proposal Submission Policy
The NIH summer deadlines (June 5, June 12, June 16, July 5, July 12, July 16, August 8, etc) are upon us and these are always a high volume proposal time for Sponsored Programs (see the complete list of deadlines). In addition to the normal high proposal volumes, the majority of these deadlines fall on […]