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Pathways of Excellence Deadlines
Deadline for First Stage Proposal Submission in Round 2 of the Campus-Wide Cluster Hiring Competition is 5:00 PM on Friday, 12 January 2007.
The proposal submission site will no longer accept first stage proposals after 5:00 PM on Friday, 1/12/07. In addition to the electronic submission, the signed, hard copy of each proposal is due in the Office of Research (109 Westcott, c/o Beth Hodges) no later than 5:00 PM on the same day. Information about proposal preparation, submission and evaluation can be found at http://www.research.fsu.edu/pathways/round2.html .
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Reduction in Fringe Benefit Rates for Workers/Unemployment Compensation
Sponsored Research Services is pleased to announce that due to a recent analysis of the worker's compensation/unemployment rates, it has been determined that a reduction in this rate from 0.3% to 0.1% is appropriate at this time for sponsored projects. Fringe benefits may consist of retirement (FRS; OPR; DROP), social security, Medicare and worker's compensation/unemployment compensation, plus appropriate health and life insurance. The following new rates should he used in calculating fringe benefits. The cost of health and/or life insurance should be added to the fringe benefits cost, if applicable.
| FRINGE BENEFIT RATES | |
| Salaried Personnel under FRS (Faculty/A&P/USPS) | 17.60% |
| Salaried Personnel under ORP (Faculty/A&P/USPS) | 18.18% |
| Salaried Personnel under DROP (Faculty/A&P/USPS) | 18.66% |
| OPS Students | 0.1% |
| OPS Non-students | 1.55% |
Rates will be effective as of February 1, 2007. You can view updates or changes to the fringe benefit rates at: http://www.research.fsu.edu/contractsgrants/documents/factssheet.pdf
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Revised Proposal Transmittal Form and Instructions
The Sponsored Research Proposal Transmittal form and related instructions have been revised. Some of the major changes are:
- The name of the form has been changed back to the Proposal Transmittal Form.
- Detailed instructions that were imbedded in the form have been moved to the instructions to make the form easier to read.
- The ability to assign reporting credit to investigators, while maintaining the ability to allocate credit by department for indirect cost distribution purposes.
- Proposal costs fields have been simplified.
Please use the updated form for your next proposal submission. Questions or comments may be submitted to srs@mailer.fsu.edu.
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FY07 SRAD Distributions Complete
The offices of the Vice President for Research and the Research Foundation have completed all SRAD distributions at this time. All funds should now be in their appropriate accounts. If you have any questions about distributions, please feel free to contact the Office of Research.
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Funding Opportunities
Click on the title above for some of the latest funding opportunities for disciplines throughout the campus.
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CRC and Cornerstone News
Remember to check FSU’s publication, STATE, for any listings of newly awarded grants from the CRC or Cornerstone programs. Decisions for First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) funding for summer 06-07 will be made on/about January 10 as will funding decisions for the Interdisciplinary Support (IDS) program.
January deadlines: - 1/5/07 Cornerstone AHPEG and SSPEG proposals and signed DSR Forms are due from all who previously submitted Letters of Intent to file a proposal
- 1/12/07 Planning Grant (Spring) proposals and signed DSR Forms are due
February deadlines: - 2/02/07 Small Grant (Spring) proposals and signed DSR forms are due
- 2/12/07 Developing Scholar nominations are due
- 2/19/07 Distinguished Research Professor nominations are due
Remember that all DSR forms related to CRC or Cornerstone programs are to be delivered to Jan Townsend in 109 Westcott, not to the Sponsored Research Services Office.
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FSU Brings Tabletop Disaster Training to the US Department of Health and Human Services
Last month, the Office of IP Development and Commercialization in conjunction with the Center for Disaster Risk Policy (CDRP) issued a license for the Tabletop Exercise System Technology, or T.E.S.T., software to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The T.E.S.T software system was an idea that was developed by the FSU Center for Disaster Risk Policy to better assist in facilitating and capturing lessons learned from table top exercises.
T.E.S.T. facilitates users through a scenario exercise that includes simulated e-mails, video, and other appropriate documents to drive their actions. T.E.S.T. then asks the participants leading questions based on the information provided and provides the participants an area to respond. Responses are recorded to brief other participants and consolidated into a written transcript or report. To date, T.E.S.T. has been used to train and exercise over 800 agencies and over 4,000 federal, state and local governmental officials to respond to such disasters as avian flu, bioterrorism attacks, hurricanes and food-borne contamination.
For more information about T.E.S.T. please see http://www.techtransfer.fsu.edu/showcase/test.html
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Most Agencies to be Funded at FY2006 Levels
The incoming (now current) chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees announced on December 11 that they plan to enact a continuing resolution (CR) for the duration of Fiscal Year 2007. Only two FY07 spending bills were signed into law: Defense and Homeland Security. The CR will fund programs at their FY 2006 levels or the FY 2007 level proposed by the House or Senate, whichever is lowest.
In the last hours of the 109th congressional session, Congress passed a third CR to keep federal programs running through Feb. 15, 2007. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Rep. David Obey (D-WI), the incoming chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Committee, respectively, announced they will extend that measure for the remainder of FY07 rather than attempt to pass the remaining FY07 spending bills, either individually or as part of an omnibus package. Sen. Byrd and Rep. Obey said they would make "limited adjustments" in the CR to address important policy priorities, but did not state what these priorities might be. Because of strong bipartisan support, there is hope that the American Competitiveness Initiative legislation, which included among other things significant increases in funding for NSF and the Department of Energy Office of Science, might be one of the "limited adjustments" that Congress would carve out of the CR.
NIH Fiscal Policy for FY 2007 Awards – On December 15 NIH posted a Notice - http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-030.html - explaining its plan to manage its portfolio of investments in biomedical research. As explained in the Notice, NIH is striving to minimize the potential damage that could result from the combination of no budget increases in recent years, operating under a CR for 2007, the commitments to existing investigators and research projects, and the growing number of new grant applications.
As stated in the Notice, inflationary adjustments for existing non-competing renewal awards will not be made in FY2007. Non-competing awards that were expected to include an inflationary increase in FY 2007, including modular grants, will not receive any inflationary increase.
By doing this, NIH hopes to maintain the stability of the investigator pool by reaching about 9,600 new and competing Research Project Grants, a number similar to that reached in FY 2005.
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