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OSR-Evanston Quarterly Network

OSR-Evanston Quarterly Network. Elizabeth Adams OSR-Evanston Executive Director February 18, 2013. OSR-Evanston Organizational Changes. New staff Teri Hansen, Senior Contract & Grant Officer Andrea Zakrzewski, Grants Officer Erin Lonergan, Assistant Grants Officer New positions

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OSR-Evanston Quarterly Network

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  1. OSR-Evanston Quarterly Network Elizabeth Adams OSR-Evanston Executive Director February 18, 2013

  2. OSR-Evanston Organizational Changes • New staff • Teri Hansen, Senior Contract & Grant Officer • Andrea Zakrzewski, Grants Officer • Erin Lonergan, Assistant Grants Officer • New positions • Kathy Maczka, Associate Research Administrator • Ann Jaworski, Coordinator of Research Programs (OSR Info Team)

  3. OSR-Evanston Organizational Changes • OSR-Evanston contracting team constituency • Patti Pfister, Senior Contract & Grant Officer (agreements with corporate sponsors) • Teri Hansen, Senior Contract & Grant Officer (agreements with federal, nonprofit and foreign government sponsors) • Tyra Darville-Layne, Senior Grants Officer (all subagreements) • Protected staff time for training • Kelly Morrison, Cost Share Officer • Kathy Maczka, Associate Research Administrator

  4. OSR-Evanston Organizational Changes • On the horizon: • Brownbag on Institutional Base Salary (IBS) issues • Partnering with schools to develop checklists for standard NSF and NIH proposals • OSR-2s via eProposal • Launch OSR website

  5. NCURA Region IV Annual Meeting • Excellent way to learn and network in research administration • Sample set of concurrent sessions: • The Pitfalls of Proposal Review • Career Paths in Research Administration • Maintaining, Building, and (occasionally) Repairing Relationships with PIs • Post-Award Clean Up, Close-out, and Management at the Department  Level • Communicating with the Other Side %$@#&! • April 14-17 in Milwaukee (80 miles, 1.5 hours) • http://ncuraregioniv.com/conferences.html

  6. Update from the Federal Demonstration Partnership • FDP is a cooperative initiative among 10 federal agencies and 119 institutional recipients of federal funds (Northwestern included) • FDP has a distinguished history of executing projects that demonstrate the reduction of administrative burden via high-quality tools • Meets three times a year in Washington, D.C.

  7. Update from the Federal Demonstration Partnership • Historic re-write and consolidation of OMB Circulars related to grants, including A-21, A-110 and A-133 • The proposed new Circular is a 244 page document that consolidates Administrative Requirements (Circulars A-110, A-102, A-89), Cost Principles (Circular A-21, A-87, A-122), and Audit Requirements (Circulars A-133, A-50) into a single document • On first pass, content of the proposed new Circular: • Effort reporting is not eliminated • Direct charging of administrative personnel and computing devices is allowable when directly allocable to a project • Voluntary committed cost sharing is not expected under Federal research proposals and is not to be used as a factor in the review of applications • F&A caps are now more rigorous for an agency to obtain • Not clear that life as we know it will change much, for better or for worse

  8. Update from the Federal Demonstration Partnership • 2012 Faculty Workload Survey • Participants: PIs on federal grants/contracts during 2010/2011 academic year • 99 of the 119 (83%) of the FDP research institutions participated (including Northwestern) • Nearly 13,500 respondents • On average, what percentage of a PI’s time working on federally‐funded projects is spent on administrative responsibilities rather than active research?

  9. Update from the Federal Demonstration Partnership • Multi-project (e.g., P01s, U01s) applications are the last remaining paper submissions—these can be very complex! • Unfortunately, the structure of NIH’s multi-project applications cannot be accommodated by Grants.gov’sforms • With grants.gov, NIH developed ASSIST (Application Submission System and Interface for Submission Tracking) • ASSIST addresses longstanding needs identified by FDP • Mandatory use of ASSIST begins in September 2013 (P01 deadline) • NU will temporarily have to use ASSIST while InfoED prepares for the transition

  10. Thanks! Questions?

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