Recent Changes to NSF Budget Justification – Senior Personnel Salary Support

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As a general policy, NSF limits the salary compensation requested in the proposal budget for senior personnel to no more than two months of their regular salary in any one year. (See Exhibit II-7 for the definitions of Senior Personnel.) It is the organization’s responsibility to define and consistently apply the term “year”, and to specify this definition in the budget justification. This limit includes salary compensation received from all NSF-funded grants. (NSF 18-1)

To comply with this requirement, the following language should be included in all NSF budget justifications:  “The PIs are cognizant of the NSF policy that restricts NSF support to two months in any year.  For purposes of this restriction, The University of Akron defines a year as January-December.”

Information about all recent NSF changes to proposals can be found in the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG, publication number NSF 18-1) or in the ORA document outlining the most significant NSF Changes-Effective Jan. 29 2018-rev.020218.

 

OFRN Round 3 SOARING RFP WSARC 18-002-Revised RFP release

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To obtain a copy of the complete RFP please contact Katie Watkins (kwatkin@uakron.edu )

ATTENTION Ohio Federal Research Network Community:OFRN Round 3 SOARING RFP WSARC 18-002_revision1

Attached is the Ohio Federal Research Network Round 3 SOARING initiative Request for Proposal – revision 1.

Following the January 24, 2018 Industry/Academic day, revisions were made to the RFP to provide corrections and clarity. A redlined version of the revised RFP can be found in the OFRN document repository in the OFRN Public Documents / Round 3 RFP Documents folder.

The RFP Q&A will be posted in the near future to the OFRN website at https://data.ohiofrn.org/FAQ.aspx

Key Dates for the RFP have changed:

White Papers Due March 7, 2018, by 2:00pm ET
White Paper Review/Down Select March 2018
Proposal Training April 4 – May 4 (approx.)
Proposal Questions Accepted Through May 11, 2018
Proposals Due (Volume 1: Technical and Management Volume): May 18, 2018, by 2:00pm ET
Proposals Due (Volume 2: Cost Proposal): June 1, 2018, by 2:00pm ET
Proposal Review June 2018
Awards Announced June 2018
Post-Award Conference & Review Summer 2018

 

 

The RFP Q&A will be posted in the near future to the OFRN website at https://data.ohiofrn.org/FAQ.aspx

 

7th Annual M2D2 $200K Challenge: Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center

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Applications open 

until Feb. 19

Sponsored by:

Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, Amgen, Boston Scientific, Mintz Levin, MPR Product Development, and R&Q (Regulatory & Quality Solutions)

Technology management offices at academic institutions across America are critical to our burgeoning innovation economy. Your research teams working in the medical device space are invited to participate in the M2D2 $200K Challenge—we’re hoping that you would take a few moments to share this opportunity with your list of startups and innovators.

Applications for the M2D2 $200K Challenge close on February 19. The winners will share $200,000 in state-of-the-art UMass research resources—resources that can help them take their innovations to market.

You’ll find complete information here. (Please feel free to share on social media, too.)  Thanks in advance for spreading the word!

 

UMass M2D2

New NSF Proposal & Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) Effective 1/29/2018

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Effective January 29, 2018, NSF will implement changes in FastLane and Research.gov to support the following policy updates in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 18-1).

Some of the NSF PAPPG changes are:

  • Standard Collaborators and Other Affiliations Template Implementation – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the COA template are available at https://nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/coa.jsp.
  • Budget Justification Page Limitation Increase – Page limitation increased from 3 pages to 5 pages.
  • Project Description – The Project Description must now contain a separate section specifically identified as “Intellectual Merit”.

A list of NSF Changes effective January 29 2018 has been compiled by ORA and details the most common significant changes affecting proposals.

For additional information please see the Research.gov announcement or the new NSF PAPPG (NSF 18-1).

NSF – Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES)

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Internal Limited Submission Deadline to the Office of Research Administration: Friday, February 16, 2018 at 5pm.

NSF Deadline: April 4, 2018

Solicitation: 18-529

NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations by focusing on broadening participation in these fields at scale. The vision of NSF INCLUDES is to catalyze the STEM enterprise to collaboratively work for inclusive change, which will result in a STEM workforce that reflects the population of the Nation. The initiative is developing a National Network composed of NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilots, NSF INCLUDES Alliances, an NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub, NSF-funded broadening participation projects, other relevant NSF-funded projects, scholars engaged in broadening participation research, and other organizations that support the development of talent from all sectors of society to build an inclusive STEM workforce. The successful implementation of NSF INCLUDES will result in substantial advances toward a diverse, innovative, and well-prepared STEM workforce to support our Nation’s economy and continued U.S. leadership in the global STEM enterprise. It is anticipated that NSF’s investment will contribute to new and improved STEM career pathways, policies, opportunities to learn, and practices for equity and inclusion. The initiative will be supported by the NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub (NSF 17-591) that will provide a framework for communication and networking, network assistance and reinforcement, and visibility and expansion for the NSF INCLUDES National Network as a whole.  This solicitation offers opportunities for NSF INCLUDES Alliances.

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: 1 proposal (as a lead institution on an Alliance proposal)

For full program details visit the NSF INCLUDES webpage.

For details regarding The University of Akron’s limited submission process, visit the ORA Limited Submission webpage.