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Accolades Biologist Jeffrey Marlow Awarded National Academies’ New Voices Honor

March 10, 2026

Boston University expert in how microbial life endures in inhospitable places joins two-year program for nation’s outstanding emerging leaders

Additional Changes to the NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH Policy on Post-Submission Materials

June 28, 2017

Notice Number NOT-OD-17-066 expands the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health post-submission materials policy to include citations to issued patents as allowable post-submission materials. This notice applies to applications submitted for proposals due on or after Sept. 25, 2017. Post-submission materials are those […]

Addressing Gaps in the Histories of Enslaved People Written by Slavers

August 14, 2024

Andreana Cunningham combines bioarchaeology, African diaspora studies, and archival research to better understand the lives of enslaved people

Adjustments to NIH Grant Application Due Dates on or Between October 28 and October 31, 2023

October 27, 2023

The NIH has issued application due date adjustments to accommodate scheduled federal system downtime. Grants.gov has a planned system outage from Saturday October 28, 2023, at 12:01 AM ET to Tuesday October 31, 2023, at 11:59 PM ET (see Grants.gov calendar and Grants.gov Community Blog).All Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) with due dates which originally fell between […]

Advance Notice: NIH “Forms-F” Grant Application Forms and Instructions Coming for Due Dates on or after May 25, 2020

December 3, 2019

NIH and AHRQ have announced upcoming changes to grant application forms and application guide instructions for applications with due dates on or after May 25, 2020 in Notice Number: NOT-OD-20-026.The new FORMS-F application packages will be required for due dates on or after May 25, 2020 and FORMS-E application packages will continue to be used […]

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Advance Notice: NIH and AHRQ Announce Upcoming Changes to Policies, Instructions and Forms for Research Training Grant, Fellowship and Career Development Award Applications for due dates on or after May 25, 2020

January 21, 2020

As posted in the Sponsored Programs Blog on 12/3/19, NIH and AHRQ recently announced plans to transition to updated application forms and instructions for due dates on or after May 25, 2020 (Forms-F; NOT-OD-20-026). Notice Number: NOT-OD-20-033 provides additional information on the planned changes to forms and instructions affecting research training grant, fellowship, and career […]

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Advance Notice: New NIH “FORMS-G” Grant Application Forms and Instructions Coming for Due Dates on or after January 25, 2022

September 17, 2021

NIH, AHRQ and FDA have announced upcoming changes to grant application forms and application guide instructions for applications with due dates on or after January 25, 2022 in Notice Number: NOT-OD-21-169.Applicants must use FORMS-G application packages for due dates on or after January 25, 2022 and must use FORMS-F application packages for due dates on or before January 24, 2022. Applications […]

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Advisory on Orders of Capital Equipment

October 16, 2023

Purchase requisitions ordering movable capital equipment (Cost $5000+, Useful Life 1year+) require information on the location (building & room number) where the equipment will be installed. Since Ariba does not have a separate field for this information, please add it as a Comment. Omitting this information will result in a delay in processing the purchase […]

AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Reminds Grantees to Bill Timely

August 11, 2020

The DoD released a memo on July 27, 2020 reminding Billing Offices to continue to get expenses onto grants and invoice as expeditiously as possible. As a reminder for cost reimbursable awards, BU invoices sponsors only on expenditures that have posted to the sponsored research account and been paid. Therefore if an expense has posted but not […]

J. Keith Vincent, a CAS associate professor of Japanese and comparative literature

After 1,000 Years, The Tale of Genji’s Poems Have Joined the Digital Age

July 29, 2025

BU scholar J. Keith Vincent and his students spent nine years building Genjipoems.org, a home to nearly 800 ancient poems.