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The Research Administration Dispatch (RAD) is distributed as needed with news about sponsors, policy updates, compliance issues, training, and more. The RAD is distributed to the following groups:

  • Individuals in the institutional role of Pre-Award Research Administrator (PARA) at the org and departmental levels;
  • Individuals listed as investigators or key personnel on proposal routing forms in the last two years; 
  • Individuals listed as UI contacts (initiator, submitter, editor, budget/financial contact, alternative contact) on proposal routing forms in the last two years;
  • DSP & GAO Staff;
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NIH Grants Process Primer: Application to Award--Webinar Videos Posted (December 5, 2024)

NCURA Webinar: Bridging Success--Navigating from Proposal to Post-Award Triumph (December 4, 2024)

Reminders for Due Dates On or After January 25, 2025 (December 2, 2024)

Recording and Presentation Slides Now Available (November 19, 2024)

RFA-HL-23-018: Maximizing the Scientific Value of the NHLBI Biorepository (R21) (November 11 2024)

Research Admin Meeting and Childcare Costs for Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Programs F99 Recipients (November 4, 2024)

NIH Grants Process Primer: Application to Award (October 31, 2024)

Research Administrator Meeting (October 28, 2024)

Reminder to Delegate, NIH Grants Process Primer, Redesigned NIH Website (October 4, 2024)

HHS Adopts New Rules for Federal Financial Assistance (October 2, 2024) 

New Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy Questions in RPPR as of October 1, 2024 (September 26, 2024)

Uniform Guidance Webinar Recording Posted (September 25, 2024)

Uniform Guidance Updates Webinar on Tuesday, September 24 at 1:30pm (September 20, 2024)

Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200) Updates (September 18, 2024)

New Authorized Representative and DMS Plan Activities in the RPPR (September 18, 2024)

NIH Fall Calendar of Events (September 12, 2024)

Retirement of NIH Automated JIT Email Notification, Closeout Reminders and Webinar (August 26, 2024)

NIH’s Adoption of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support (August 8, 2024)

NNLM National Center for Data Services Webinar Series (August 1, 2024)

Implementation Update for Data Management and Access Practices Under the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy (July 30, 2024)

NIH Grant Closeout Process Webinar: Administrative and Financial Essentials (July 29, 2024)

NIH providing new capability for contract vendors to submit inclusion data directly into HSS  (June 20, 2024)

Updates to NIH Institutional Training Grant Applications (June 7, 2024)

Childcare Costs for NRSA Individual Fellows and Institutional Research Training Awards (May 28, 2024)

NIH Adjustments to Application Due Dates  and Institutional Training Grant Webinar (May 16, 2024)

NRSA Stipends, Tuition/Fees and Other Budgetary Levels Effective for Fiscal Year 2024 (April 30 2024)

Implementation of Revisions to the NIH and AHRQ Fellowship Application and Review Process (April 23, 2024)

NIH Simplified Review Framework and New "FORMS-I" Grant Application Forms (April 8, 2024)

NIH Simplified Review Framework for Research Project Grants and NIH Foreign Subawards FAQs (April 1, 2024)

Upcoming Webinars on Responsible AI and Federal Climate Innovation (March 26, 2023)

Guidance for Videos Submitted as NIH Application Materials (March 19, 2024)

NIH Annual Report of Grant Investments and Training Grants Podcast (February 29, 2024)

NIH Guidance on Marking Changes in Resubmission Applications (February 15, 2024)

NIH Enforcement of Unilateral Closeout Reporting and New HRSA User Registration Approval Process (February 8, 2024)

Nominate a colleague for the 2024 Discovery and Innovation Awards by Monday, Feb. 12 (February 1, 2024)

SAM.gov institutional registration issue resolved (January 30, 2024)

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Formally Announces Salary Cap for 2024 (January 30, 2024)

NSF and NIH Policy Updates (January 29, 2024)

Update regarding SAM.gov and Federal Proposal Submission (January 27, 2024)

Update regarding SAM.gov and Federal Proposal Submission (January 26, 2024)

Federal Proposal Submission (January 23, 2023)

Resources for NIH Applicants (January 22, 2024)

NIH Data Management and Sharing Update (January 18, 2024)

NIH Salary Cap Update (January 11, 2024)

NIH News and More (December 19, 2023)

National Institute of Mental Health Data Archive (NDA) Winter Submission Cycle Underway (December 14, 2023)

Implementing NIH Policy Guidance for Subaward/Consortium Written Agreements (November 15, 2023)

2023 Fall NSF Virtual Grants Conference (November 14, 2023)

NCURA International Proposal Development and Subawards Webinar (November 2, 2023)

Updates to UIRIS Routing Form and Tracker (November 1, 2023)

Submit Revisions to DMSP via Prior Approval Module (October 16, 2023)

Updated Policy on Subaward/Consortium Agreements (September 19, 2023)

Free NIH Webinar: Guided Tour of Domestic and Foreign Subaward Agreements (September 13, 2023)

New Video for NCURA NIH Fundamentals Workshop Available (August 18, 2023)

NIH Application Instruction Updates – Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Costs (August 3, 2023)

New Proposal Routing Form - Helpful Resources (August 1, 2023)

LAST CHANCE: New Routing Form Coming Tomorrow (July 28, 2023)

REMINDER: New Routing Form Coming This Week (July 24, 2023)

New NCURA Video on Terms & Conditions; New PARA Video (July 20, 2023)

New Routing Form Coming on July 29, 2023 (July 17, 2023)

UI Research Data Policy and AHA Open Data Policy (July 13, 2023)

New DSP Routing Form - Share Your Comments with Us (June 27, 2023)

Pre-Award Research Administrator June Meeting (June 8, 2023)

New Videos for Pre-Award Administrators (May 3, 2023)

NIH Updates (April 27, 2023)

New Data Use and Management Requirements for Researchers (April 24, 2023)

Navigating the NIH: Resources and Programs for NIH Grant Applicants (April 24, 2023)

New Videos Posted for Pre-Award Administrators (April 12, 2023)

NIH Redesign of the xTrain Module in eRA Commons (March 10, 2023)

NCURA Agency Day with NIH & NSF - Videos will be available (February 27, 2023)

Zoom Presentations for Pre-Award Research Administrators (February 20, 2023)

ARRIVE Essential 10 Checklist in NIH Publications (February 17, 2023)

NSF Safe and Inclusive Working Environment Plan for Off-campus or Off-site Research (January 25, 2023)

NIH Salary Cap Initiated (January 17, 2023)

New 2023 NIH & AHRQ Salary Cap (January 11,2023)

Preparing for the 2023 Data Management and Sharing Policy (January 4, 2023)

eDSP Research Tracker Simple Search is temporarily unavailable (December 20, 2022)

NIH Data Management Resources; 2023 NIH Grants Conference (December 15, 2022)

FastLane Proposal Decommissioning and Transition of Functionality to Research.gov (December 8, 2022)

Creating Data Management Plans with DMPTool (National Library of Medicine) (December 5, 2022)

IowaGrants.gov Planned Outage Dec 2-12, 2022 (November 8, 2022)

Revised NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (October 28, 2022)

FORMS-H Must be Used for Due Dates On or After January 25, 2023 (October 26, 2022)

Preparing Supplemental Funding Requests in Research.gov and Upcoming FastLane Proposal Decommissioning (October 26, 2022)

Registration Open for 2022 NSF Policy Office Webinar Series (September 22, 2022)

REMINDER: NIH Data Management and Sharing Webinars (September 19, 2022)

REMINDER: Grants.gov Downtime Impacts September 22-30 Application Due Dates (September 6, 2022)

REMINDER: Webinar on NIH DMS Policy Implementation (August 25, 2022)

NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy Implementation (August 22, 2022)

New NIH "FORMS-H" Grant Application Forms and Instructions Coming for Due Dates on or after January 25, 2023 (August 22, 2022)

Implementation Details for the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (August 15, 2022)

Grants.gov Downtime Impacts September 22-30 Application Due Dates (August 8, 2022)

NIH Data Management and Sharing Webinars (July 11, 2022)

DSP Campus Data Reporting Solutions Update (July 8, 2022)

Update: System Outages (July 1, 2022)

System Outages (July 1, 2022)

Revised F&A Rates for Sponsored Project Budgets Effective July 1, 2022 (June 29, 2022)

Revised Workflow form for PI Departure, Grant Transfers and VPR Request for Approval to serve as an Adjunct, Visiting, or Emeritus PI (May 23, 2022)

NSF Virtual Grants Conference June 2022 - Registration Open (May 11, 2022)

eCOI Annual Disclosure Requirement (April 6,2022)

NIH Salary Cap Update Effective January 2, 2022 (February 17, 2022)

FORMS-G Changes to be Reflected in Human Subjects Clinical Trials Form (February 14, 2022)

Reminder:  New NIH "FORMS-G" Required for Due Dates on or after January 25, 2022 (Jan 20, 2022)

Commons ID required for NIH, AHRQ, FDA, and ORD/VA Applications starting January 25, 2022 (Jan 10, 2022)

Required Format for NIH Other Support for Due Dates on or after May 25, 2021 (January 3, 2022)

Corporate Funded Clinical Trial F&A Rate Increase (December 8, 2021)

NSF Has Enhanced the Research.gov Proposal Submission System, Public Access Repository, and Award Search (November 23, 2021)

FORMS-G Grant Application Instructions Now Available (November 18, 2021)

eRA Enhancements (November 12, 2021)

NIH Notices of Interest (September 24, 2021)

Contract Administrator Openings at DSP (September 23, 2021)

Retirement Celebration for Linda Jones and Dave Myers (September 22, 2021)

Announcing DSP Sponsored Research Coordinator positions (September 14, 2021)

DSP Seeks Grant Reviewers (August 27, 2021)

Required Two-Factor Authentication to Access eRA Modules - Adjusted Timeline (August 16, 2021)

New NIH "FORMS-G" Grant Application Forms and Instructions Coming for Due Dates on or after January 25, 2022 (August 9, 2021)

Reminder Regarding Award and Proposal Policy Related Inquiries (August 3, 2021)

Changes Coming to NCBI Accounts Login (NCBI, SciENcv & MyBibliograph) (July 22, 2021)

New Inbox for Inquiries Related to Changes to BioSketch and Other Support Page (July 12, 2021)

Issuance of New NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (June 23, 2021)

NSF: Pre-award and Post-award Disclosure Information in Proposals (June 17, 2021)

DSP Seeks Research Administrators (May 18, 2021)

Changes to Other Support Requirements (April 26, 2021)

All Senior/Key Personnel Required to Get A Commons ID (April 20, 2021)

Revised Notice for Childcare Costs for Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Fellows (March 22, 2021)

Active & Pending Support Reports (March 18, 2021)

NIH: Upcoming Changes to Biosketch and Other Support (March 16, 2021)

Childcare Costs - Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Fellows (March 8, 2021)

Reminder to Disclose Instances of International Collaboration (March 3, 2021)

NIH Salary Cap Update (January 29, 2021)

Required Use of Login.gov to Access eRA Commons, ASSIST, IAR and Commons Mobile Coming in 2021 (December 14, 2020)

eRA Enhancements Coming January 2021 (December 3, 2020)

Guidance for Researchers Coming & Going; NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (November 2, 2020)

Demo Site for Research.gov Proposal Preparation Available (October 28, 2020) 

Automated Trainee Diversity Report Required with RPPRs for Most T, K and Research Education Awards (October 27, 2020) 

Virtual Events: Town Hall on Foreign Influence, Webinars on Research Security and NIH Funding and Grants Administration (October 5, 2020)

NSF-Approved BioSketches and Current & Pending Support Are Required Effective October 5, 2020 (September 17, 2020)

New FAQ Document on NSF Proposal Preparation and Award Administration (August 31, 2020)

Science Thursday with OVPR Compliance and Support Units (August 26, 2020)

FBI Public Service Announcement on Intellectual Property; NIH Notice on Protecting Biomedical Intellectual Innovation (August 18, 2020)

Two-Step Login Will Be Required for UIRIS on August 1, 2020 (July 29, 2020)

NIH Guidance for Applicants Preparing Applications for the Fall 2020 Due Dates During the COVID-19 Pandemic (July 13, 2020)

NIH Provides New and Updated COVID-19 FAQs (July 10, 2020)

Accepting Preliminary Data as Post-Submission Material and Other COVID-19-Related Application Flexibilities (June 12, 2020)

Revised NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (May 22, 2020)

American Heart Association Changes Application Process (May 18, 2020)

COVID-19 Funding and Funding Opportunities (April 14, 2020)

NSF: Repurposing Existing Federal Financial Assistance Programs and Awards Due to COVID-19 (April 10, 2020)

NSF-approved Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support Formats Now Available (April 8, 2020)

eRA Modules Will Be Unavailable April 17 to April 20 (April 7, 2020)

Revision of NSF's Implementation of OMB Memo Due to COVID-19 (April 6, 2020)

Federal Agency Guidance Matrix from COGR (April 2, 2020)

Research.gov Expanded for NSF Separately Submitted Collaborative Proposals (March 30, 2020)

NSF Announcements Related to COVID-19 (March 27, 2020)

NEW Late Application Date for NIH; Updated NIH FAQs (March 27, 2020)

Research Activity Ramp-Down Necessitated by COVID-19 (March 17, 2020)

Guidance for NIH-funded Clinical Trials and Human Subjects Studies Affected by COVID-19 (March 17, 2020)

NIH and NSF Guidance and FAQs Related to COVID-19 (March 12, 2020)

Updated Application Forms (FORMS-F); Minimum Effort Level for NCI Awards (March 9, 2020)

NRSA Stipends, Tuition/Fees Effective for Fiscal Year 2020 (February 21, 2020)

NIH Publishes New Salary Cap Notice (February 6, 2020)

Outgoing MTAs Must Go Through Workflow Form Effective Jan. 31, 2020 (January 30, 2020)

NIH Guidance: Single IRB for Multi-Site Research; Continuous Submission Updates (January 28, 2020)

New NIH Salary Cap Effective January 5, 2020 (January 15, 2020)

eRA Enhancements to xTRACT Reporting and NIH & AHRQ Announcements (December 19, 2019)

New NIH "FORMS-F" and International Engagement Webpage (December 3, 2019)

FastLane and Research.gov Will Be Unavailable Nov 8-12 (November 5, 2019)

NCURA Lifecycle of the Award Webinar Series (September 30, 2019)

Reminder: ORCID iD and xTRACT (September 16, 2019)

ORCID iD Now Required for NIH, AHRQ, and CDC (July 19, 2019)

NIH Is Expanding its Usage of Notices of Special Interest (NOSI) (July 1, 2019)

NSF Proposal Updates and SciENcv Biosketch (June 26, 2019)

New NSF-approved Biosketch Format (June 17, 2019)

Required Use of the xTRACT System for Training Grant RPPRs (May 28, 2019)

OVPR Compliance Units Present Science Thursday: The Big Bang Theory (May 15, 2019)

DSP Training Opportunity: Iowagrants.gov: Working with DSP (April 24, 2019)

Share your Research Tools through UIRF and Ximbio (April 22, 2019)

New NIH Salary Cap Announced (April 18, 2019)

POSTPONED DSP Training Opportunity: Outgoing Subaward (Award Stage) (February 14, 2019)

Outgoing Subaward Training (Award Stage) (February 14, 2019)

DOD Overview & PI Experiences; Outgoing Subawards Training (February 4, 2019)

DSP and the Weather Advisory (Jan 30, 2019)

NSF Resumption of Operations with Updated Deadlines (Jan 29, 2019)

Outgoing Subaward Training; NSPIRES Announcement; NSF Solicitation Update (Jan 25, 2019)

Routing Form Training Session and Letter from Interim VP Keller (Jan 23, 2019)

Notices from NIH and AHRQ; New Letter Required for Training  (Jan 17, 2019)

Partial Government Shutdown - Agency Contingency Plans (January 3, 2019)

DSP Budget Course and Job Opening (January 2, 2019)

Job Opening for a Grant Reviewer/ Research Administrator (December 21, 2018)

Working with DSP: Issues in Clinical Trial Agreements (December 20, 2018)

Revised Rates for F&A and Fringe Benefits (December 17, 2018)

National Research Service Award (NRSA) Effective for Fiscal Year 2019 (December 5, 2018)

NCURA LifeCyle Training Series with Discussion Panel (December 4, 2018)

Cayuse Updates and NIH Public Access: Managing Citations (October 12, 2018)

Cayuse 424 Improvements & New Features Headed Your Way! (October 5, 2018)

Lunch Series: Securing external and internal funding for research (October 3, 2018)

Ximbio Will Be at Science Thursday Tomorrow (September 26, 2018)

Training: Data Usage Agreements; Research Tracker; Routing Forms; Outgoing Subaward Module (September 20, 2018)

Meet Us at Science Thursday! (September 18, 2018)

Training for Outgoing Subaward Module - Sept/Oct 2018 (August 28, 2018)

Workshop: NIH Public Access for Publications (June 28, 2018)

NIH Notices: New NRSA Stipend Levels, New Human Subjects System (May 15, 2018)

DSP training session: NSF Proposal Submission through Research.gov (May 2, 2018)

NSF Proposal Preparation in Research.gov (April 25, 2018)

NIH Reports Fraudulent “eRA Service Desk” Phone Solicitations (April 23, 2018)

Annual Policy Notification about Prohibition on Human Trafficking (April 12, 2018)

New NSF Registration System and Other NSF Updates (March 26 2018)

Cayuse Updates and RAD Archive (Mar 23 2018)

New NIH Salary Cap (Mar 14 2018)

Data Use Agreements: IRB and DSP Perspectives (Feb 26 2018)

DSP Website Has a New Look (Feb 12 2018)

Distinguish Yourself with ORCID (Jan 30 2018)

University-Industry Research Partnerships Webinar Series (Jan 23 2018)

Federal Government Shutdown Agency Contingency Plans (Jan 22 2018)

NIH Forms-E: Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information Form (Jan 18 2018)

How to Fix Validation Error on HSCTI Form Study Title in Cayuse (Jan 14 2018)

Forms-E Applications under new Opportunity Numbers (Jan 10 2018)

Calculating Effort under New NSF Guidance (Jan 8 2018)

Course: Creating a Budget (Jan 2 2018)

Cayuse Upgrade (including FORMS-E) Arriving on December 9, 2017 (Dec 5 2017)

Training for New NIH Policies on Clinical Trials, CT.gov, and Forms-E (Nov 9 2017)

NSF: New Guide & Virtual Conference (Nov 6 2017)

Cayuse Forms-E and Grants.gov Workspace on the Way (Nov 3 2017)

New NIH Policies on Clinical Trials, CT.gov, and Forms-E (Oct 24 2017)

NIH Loan Repayment Programs Application Cycle (Oct 9 2017)

SBIR/STTR Workshop on November 1, 2017 (Oct 5 2017)

Applying to PCORI: Panel of UI Experts (Sep 27 2017)

Lunch Series for Faculty: Research at the University of Iowa (Sep 20 2017)

NIH: New Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information Form (Aug 17 2017)

Changing Policies Impact NIH-funded Studies Involving Human Subjects (Aug 16 2017)

Seminar on Planning and Writing Successful Grant Proposals (Aug 9 2017)

PCORI workshop dates announced (Jul 13 2017)

Alert: Downtime for NSF.gov, FastLane and Research.gov (Jun 12 2017)

ALERT: UIRIS Unavailable Saturday Morning, June 10 (Jun 9 2017)

Compliance Carnival @ Science Thursdays (Jun 2 2017)

PCORI Funding Secured through 2019 (May 4, 2017)

Correction: RAM will be May 22, 2017 (May 1 2017)

NIH and AHRQ: New "FORMS-E" grant application forms and instructions (May 1 2017)

Human Trafficking Notice and Open Job at DSP (Apr 19 2017)

FastLane: New Template Required on 4/25/17 (Apr 11 2017)

NIH Continuing Resolution and Increased Salary Cap (Mar 20 2017)

Urgent Cayuse Workaround  for “Opportunity No Longer Available”  (Feb 23 2017)

Clinical Trials Registration and NIH: Updates (Feb 22 2017)

Subaward Classes (Feb 20 2017)

National Science Foundation Mini Workshops for Spring Semester (Feb 8 2017)

GOLDrush: Crowdfunding at UI (Feb 7 2017)

New Format for Award Email & AAAN and DSP Tracker Upgrade (Feb 1 2017)

NSF FastLane Updates (Jan 23 2017)

Running a Compliant Research Program (Jan 18 2017)

NIH Implementation of Final Research Performance Progress Reports (Dec 7 2016)

Campus Course: Creating a Budget (Nov 28 2016)

Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement (Nov 22 2016)

NRSA Stipend Level Adjustment (Nov 17 2016)

New Executive Director at the Division of Sponsored Programs (Nov 14 2016)

Live Webcast of the Fall 2016 NSF Grants Conference (Nov 7 2016)

eRA Commons: Browser & RPPR Updates (Oct 31 2016)

Author Identification System (ORCID) Now Available at Iowa (Oct 24 2016)

NIH Loan Repayment Programs (Oct 20 2016)

NIH: Optional Electronic Submission (Oct 17 2016)

Two courses on campus - Working with DSP and Proposal Routing Form (Oct 13 2016)

NIH Policy on Good Clinical Practice Training and ClinicalTrials.gov Information (Oct 5 2016)

NIH Peer Review Online Briefings and Policy on FOA for Clinical Trials (Oct 3 2016)

Salary Rates for Postdoctoral Scholars and Fellows (Sep 27 2016)

NSF Website Shutdown (Sep 12 2016)

Update: Rigor and Reproducibility in NIH Grant Applications (Sep 7 2016)

Rigor and Transparency in NIH Grant Applications (Sep 7 2016)

Write Winning Grant Proposals Seminar (Aug 25 2016)

Webinar: Submitting Winning Proposals (Aug 2 2016)

American Heart Association Deadlines; NSF Passwords (Jul 13 2016)

FastLane Updates and DSP's New Modular Budget Template (Jul 7 2016)

NIH Fellowship Applicants - Important Update (Jun 14 2016)

NIH: New Guidelines for Rigor & Transparency; FORMS-D and FORMS-C (May 26 2016)

Change in F&A Rate for Industry-sponsored Clinical Trials (May 4 2016)

Notices on Subaward Monitoring and Prohibition on Human Trafficking (Apr 18 2016)

UIRIS Will NOT Be Available Tomorrow (Apr 7 2016)

Important Notice Regarding Scheduled UIRIS Downtime (Mar 31 2016)

Critical updates from NIH and AHRQ (Mar 28 2016)

Welcome to RADiowa (Mar 24 2016)

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