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WELCOME to Institutional Support!
Sharon Cauthen, Manager of Faculty Sponsored Research, passed away on Sunday, October 25th. Sharon had been a valued member of the Development and Alumnae Affairs team since January 2006. Although her tenure here was brief, she made an enormous impact on many of the faculty with whom she worked closely on the grant process. We so appreciate the outpouring of condolences and wonderful memories of Sharon from faculty and staff. We will miss her positive outlook, personal touch, and her great smile. We will always remember her for her warmth, her humor, her tremendous love for children and her passion for classic cinema, jazz and great food.
WHAT'S NEW?
NEW Grant Opportunity from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation due November 2nd, 2009:
http://www.grandchallenges.org/explorations/Pages/Introduction.aspx
NEW Grant Opportunity from Fletcher Philanthropy due November 7th, 2009:
http://www.fletcherphilanthropy.org/
NEW Grant Opportunity from NIH due December 1st, 2009:
http://www.lrp.nih.gov/
NEW Grant Opportunity from SMITHSONIAN due January 15th, 2009:
http://www.si.edu/ofg/
COURSE BUY OUT POLICY as of 10/30/09:
Course Buy-Out Policy
Faculty members may request funds from external agencies and foundations, e.g. NIH and NSF, to “buy out” some of their time and reduce their teaching load in order to concentrate their efforts on their grant-supported research. The rate at which a course is “bought” depends on a person’s teaching load, and is computed as follows:
The first course bought off is billed at the salary and benefit equivalent of half of the FTE of the course in question, i.e. a course for someone on a four course load is bought off from a grant at .125 FTE of salary and benefits (half of 0.25); a course for someone on a five course load is bought off from a grant at .10 FTE of salary and benefits (half of 0.2). Any course buy-out above the first one is bought at the full fractional FTE, i.e. .25 or .20. So, to buy out two courses on a four course load, .375 FTE. of salary and benefits should be budgeted.
A course that is being bought off privately (self-funding) would be at the full fractional FTE.
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture is Funding Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
- Francis Collins, Leader of Genome Project, Is Chosen to Direct NIH
- NEW Fulbright Early Career Awards: http://www.iie.org/cies/us_scholars/us_awards/Early_Career_Awards.htm#EarlyCareerAwards
- NEH's New Chair: http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=6580&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
- The recently signed economic stimulus bill might provide you funding with a quick turnaround, so please contact your program officer at your earliest convenience regarding potential relevant funding opportunities under the stimulus! Please visit our special page on this.
- New NSF TRAVEL Policy
- Federal Salary Cap for 2009 is $196,700 or $147,525 for a 9 month appointment:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-037.html
- Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists: http://www.nyas.org/about/blavatnikawards.asp
- The Research Corporation invites applications for the Cottrell College Science Award: http://www.rescorp.org/
- Our new indirect cost rate is 69.2%.
- Federal Salary Cap for 2009 is $196,700 or $147,525 for a 9 month appointment:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-037.html
- There is a new NIH policy regarding mandatory manuscript sharing policy as of April 7, 2008. For more information on this please see their website: National Institutes of Health Public Access or contact the us for more details (x4-7705).
- For 2008, the standard mileage rate for the cost of operating your car for business use is 50.5 cents per mile. This car expense and other mCge rates are explained in Publication 463, Travel, Entertainment, Gift, and Car Expenses.
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