Everyone has probably heard of the concept of hoteling. Most likely, you’ve heard about it in the context of consulting firms, many of who’s staff are on the road predominantly. Hoteling provide a way to be more space efficient, providing…

I’m not sure that most research administrators have noticed, but there is a major migration going on within the US federal government – IT systems are moving into the cloud. I talked about this in a recent post that focused…

NIH has published (NOT-OD-12-035) guidance on implementation of the revised salary cap for FY 2012, reducing the cap to Executive Level II, $179,700 for FY12. NIH also published (NOT-OD-12-034), providing information on the statutory provisions affecting use of NIH funds…

Late last year it was announced that the US Geological Survey would lose all of the funding for its National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program. As of the 15th of January, 2012, the website’s database will be taken off-line. The…

Below are a few tidbits culled from another good FDP meeting. National Institutes of Health Michelle Bulls is the new appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration (OPERA). Joe Ellis, Director of OPERA, will retire…

The National Institutes of Health has updated its NIH Data Book with 2011 data. In a blog post discussing availability of this newly released data, Dr. Sally Rockey, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, noted a few highlights including: Overall success…

NASA has historically prohibited commercial firms from collecting profit or fee, however that prohibition did not explicitly include other applicants such as universities and non-profits. The proposed rule extends the prohibition on payment of profit or fee to all grant…

NIH published  notice of an RFI requesting input into recommendations being developed regarding enhancing diversity including underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities and persons from disadvantaged backgrounds in the biomedical workforce. Input is solicited regarding people in all career stages.  As…

Grants.gov published an updated request form and procedures for use by institutions to set up web certificates for System-to-System submission. The new procedure and form are available here: http://grants.gov/applicant_s2s/applicants2s_faqs.jsp#q5 Note that in order for submissions to the Grants.gov UAT (test)…

Responding to concern from universities, businesses and other institutions, the Mozilla foundation has approved moving forward with establishing an Extended Support Release (ESR) version of Firefox. In a blog post <http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox-extended-support-release/> on January 10th, Mozilla agreed to develop a plan…