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Policy News & Updates

• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (to be known as ARRA or the Recovery Act) includes $10.4 billion for NIH and $3 billion for NSF.
  
  GCA has established a new webpage dedicated to information on ARRA funding opportunities and implementation details. Please check in often at: http://www.yale.edu/grants/funding_info/ARRA.html

Other Policy News & Updates

• NIH announces new business processes to coincide with the transition of Individual NRSA Fellowship (“F”) applications to electronic submission for the August 8 and later deadlines. One of the changes: while applications will be submitted through grants.gov, the required 3-5 confidential letters of recommendation must be submitted directly via eRA Commons.
• Office of Research Administration (ORA) Newsletter: May-June 2009 provides valuable information on the following topics:
  (1) accreditation of the Yale University Human Research Protection Program;
  (2) National Science Foundation: ARRA Terms and Conditions;
  (3) research administration training opportunities;
  (4) conflict of interest and transactional review;
  (5) the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) and how does it influence grant terms and conditions?
• Training Opportunities for Faculty and Postdocs. GCA provides monthly training opportunities for faculty and postdocs to learn about identifying funding opportunities and successful grantsmanship. Sign up for these upcoming sessions at: http://www.yale.edu/training/.
  
  Brown Bag Luncheon Series:
  Corporate Contracts in Sponsored Research:
  Terms & Conditions
       June 23, 2009 -- Noon
  Funding/Grantsmanship Training Programs
  How to Write A Successful R01
       July 10, 2009 -- 10:00am
  Developing A Funded Research Plan
       August 26, 2009 -- 3:00pm
       October 8, 2009 -- 1:00pm
  Show Me The Money: Searching for Funding Opportunities on the Internet
       September 15, 2009 -- 3:00pm
  Grants.gov Hands-on Training
      September 11, 2009 -- 10:00am
  
• Upcoming NSPIRES changes to improve the process by which potential conflicts of interest are determined will affect NASA proposal submissions with a due date between July 11, 2009 and August 7, 2009, and become pre-requisites to proposals submitted August 8 and later.
• GCAlert! Week of June 8-12, 2009, volume 3, issue 1 ... and archives.
  (1) New Process for Industry Sponsored Clinical Trial Account Setups
  (2) Auto-Email Compliance Reminder Notifications
• The FY10 Federal Rate Agreement (dated 5/21/09) is now available. FY10 F&A rates remain the same as for FY09. New FY10 fringe benefit rates have been approved and new FY11 provisional fringe benefit rates have been established. Non-federal rates are also available on GCA's Proposal Development/Yale Facts webpage.
• GCAlert! Week of May 25-29, 2009, volume 2, issue 7 ... and archives.
  (1) Update: Computer Expenditure Type 820615 Available in SciQuest
  (2) NSF Using Fastlane Only
• Effective immediately, NSF will use Fastlane exclusively for NSF proposal submissions. Several other agencies have taken similar steps to restrict some or all of their application submissions to their own agency systems while Grants.gov tackles volume-related service issues.
• Reminder ... The NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide, April 2009 is effective for all proposals submitted on or after April 6, 2009.
• Are you ready for NIH Enhanced Peer Review? The first review meetings to use criterion scoring and the new 1 to 9 scoring scale are here! To help both applicants and reviewers prepare for these changes, NIH has created several sets of resources available at this informative website.
• GCAlert! Week of May 4-8, 2009, volume 2, issue 6 ... and archives.
  (1) Update on ARRA Proposal Submissions
• GCAlert! Week of April 27 - May 1, 2009, volume 2, issue 5 ... and archives.
  (1) GCFA Update on Financial Closeouts of
       Sponsored Projects
  (2) New! BUG 214a Sponsored Award Cash Report
• Office of Research Administration (ORA) Newsletter: March-April 2009 provides valuable information on the following topics: program income; upcoming re-accreditation of the Animal Program at Yale; NIH policy concerning career development (K) awards; material transfer agreements; export controls -- FAQs answered; and research administration training opportunities.

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The Office of Grant and Contract Financial Administration (GCFA) works closely with faculty and business office staff to ensure financial compliance and proper accounting of externally sponsored funds. GCFA's responsibilities include financial reporting and closeout, effort reporting, and development of the facilities and administrative cost rate.

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