The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced via the Federal Register on June 11, 2012, that they will be implementing the expenditure data portion of the Federal Financial Report (FFR) via the eRA Commons effective October 1, 2012. The CDC…

The issue of Open Access has been much in the news in recent months. Faculty are clearly interested in this issue as are librarians, whose budgets currently pay for subscriptions to the many professional journals that exist. Research administrators need…

The Modern Language Association (MLA), which publishes influential journals including PMLA, Profession and the ADE and ADFL bulletins, has adopted new policies regarding copyright. Copyright of articles will rest with authors, not the journals, and the MLA agreement will explicitly…

The national Institutes of Heath has established a Working Group to review the current biosketch requirements. The Working Group has posted a Request for Informationseeking input from the biomedical research community to determine if the Biosketch should be modified to…

Beginning today, May 25th, the NIH Division of Receipt and Referral – the folks who actually receive and administratively review most applications at NIH – correspondence will be handled via a new “Correspondence” section of the detailed status screen for…

This note from Grants.gov’s blog… The General Services Administration (GSA) is moving the implementation date of the System for Award Management (SAM) from May 29, 2012 to the end of July 2012. The additional sixty days will allow federal agencies…

Today, the National Institutes of Health published NOT-OD-12-110, which describes a pilot to evaluate special council reviews investigator-initiated grants and cooperative agreement applications from PD/PIs with more than $1.5 million in annual NIH support. The goal is not to impose…

SAM – the System for Award Management – is a new US Governments new website scheduled to go live on May 29th at Sam.gov. If you are a research administrator, you should care. Going online in phases, SAM will consolidate…

The public comment period closed at 5:00pm Monday, April 30, on OMB’s Advance Notice of Proposed Guidance on Reform of Federal Policies Relating to Grants and Cooperative Agreements; cost principles and administrative requirements (including Single Audit Act). 331 comments were…

How many cupcakes do you have to sell to fund a scientific mission to Mars? Organizer Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute doesn’t expect to fund space exploration via cookies and car washes. He does hope to build interest…