Payroll Redistribution Deadline
Because the next Effort Cycle will open on Tuesday, September 7 (September 6 is Labor Day), we are setting the deadline for getting payroll redistributions into Banner as 5:00pm Wednesday,...
Rick Smiley Archives
90-Day Notifications
Automated notifications (from ecuBIC) will be sent out to investigators and research administrators 90 days ahead of the end of a project period and/or the project end date. 90-day notifications...
RAIN Notes – August 2021
NCURA Webinar – Participant Support Costs – This webinar had several great takeaways – some of the key points were: ECU employees cannot be considered participants Participant Support Costs should...
RAIN Invite and Feedback
This note serves two purposes related to RAIN – the Research Administrator’s Information Network – here at ECU. First, if you have been attending RAIN meetings, we wanted to...
NCURA Webinar – Developing Compelling Budget Justifications – 16 Aug 2021
16 August 2021 - 2:00 pm - Contact CMSI for Free Login Budget justifications have taken on increasing significance in recent years, moving from explaining to reviewers the basis of cost...
RAIN Notes – July 2021
NCURA Webinar – Avoiding “Returned Without Review” – Successful proposal submission requires research administrators at both the central and departmental levels to have a solid understanding of sponsor guidelines. Efforts...
Subrecipient Invoice Processing Changing Effective May 1, 2021
The Office of Research Administration (ORA) has redesigned the process for paying subrecipient invoices. This new process reduces the work required of the Departments while simplifying the tracking of these...
New NIH Biosketch Format
Please be advised the NIH biosketch will move to a new format for all proposals submitted after May 25,2021. Link to NIH Info Page: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/biosketch.htm Link to Sample Biosketch: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/non-fellowship-biosketch-sample-2021.docx Highlighted...
FastTracks – NCURA Webinar – Audits: What’s Hot
Audits: What’s Hot (NCURA Webinar) Do you ever wonder how a certain issue becomes what everyone is talking about? Why (insert newly important issue here) is suddenly the focus of...
Operations Update – Subaward Letter of Intent
Proposals involving subrecipients generally require additional documentation to ensure that the proposed collaborators support the proposal and are eligible to receive funding from ECU. This process, with which experienced proposal...