News & Announcements

The National Science Foundation issued new guidelines for proposals which took effect January 25. One of these changes involved removing the Collaborators and Other Affiliations section from the biographical sketch and making it a separate document. PIs, co-PIs, and anyone designated as senior personnel must still provide all of the...

Due to the data conversion and validation taking place in PeopleSoft 9.2, the auto-generated 90/60/30 day closeout email notifications are not currently being generated by the finance system. In the interim and until the end date validation is complete in PeopleSoft, award end dates can be monitored in InfoEd. Attached...

Beginning on January 15, 2016, a new URL is available to PIs for mobile access to their status information in eRA Commons for NIH proposals and awards. The new URL is: https://m.era.nih.gov/cmb This new mobile access means it will be significantly easier for PIs to track and manage grant applications...

Applications are currently being accepted to participate in the Boulder Laboratories' National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. This program is for students majoring in science, mathematics and engineering. The 11-week NIST SURF Boulder Program will run from May 16 to July 29, 2016...

The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health annually review their policy and guidance documents and issue changes or updates. These guidance documents address requirements for proposal submissions as well as award management. A summary of each agency's changes can be found on the OCG website with links...

On January 1, 2015, the Office of Policy and Efficiency (OPE) announced that revisions have been made to Administrative Policy Statement (APS) 1016 - Procedures for Allocating Sponsored Project Funding on More than One Campus. This policy guides the allocation of sponsored project funding and facilities and administrative cost rates...

Effective January 4, 2016, the University of Colorado System is implementing the Concur Travel Approval process – Concur Request - for all international travel. International travel requires pre-approval through Request and is a mandatory requirement for all University faculty and staff traveling on behalf of the university. The Office of...

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. CU-Boulder considers our fiscal year as the one year period. This limit includes salary compensation received from all NSF-funded...

The University of Colorado Boulder has finalized a policy on Graduate Student Compensation on NIH-funded Projects. Under the NIH limit on graduate student compensation, many CU-Boulder departments with NIH-funded projects are unable to pay Graduate Research Assistants for full time work (defined as 50% time during the academic year and...

Reprinted from the PSC Communicator dated November 13, 2015, News from the Procurement Service Center Effective Jan 4, 2016, all international travel will require active approval from both the department and the designated International Travel Approver (officer) for the traveler’s organizational unit prior to booking the trip. International travel to...