The NIH Office for the Protection from Research Risks has completed its review process and has approved the University's Animal Welfare Assurance. Please use this identification number and effective dates in your applications for NIH grants and in all other instances requiring citation of an approved Animal Welfare Assurance. 1 is available The new conflict of interest form 1 is available in an uncompressed Word file for Macintosh or Windows machines and in ZIP format for Windows machines. An hqx file compressed for Macintosh will be available soon. If you have trouble downloading, please contact Ethan Sellers with questions.
Tuition remains exempt from overhead charges.
Proposals from PSD units requesting salary for Type B Graduate Research Assistants are required to budget tuition support. Including a specific justification for these costs is very important. This amount will partially cover the actual university graduate student tuition and is consistent with the maximum allowable tuition provided by some Federally funded graduate fellowship programs. This is consistent with agency policies regarding allowable indirect costs. Changes in NSF Fastlane NSF has added a new capability to NSF FastLane.