In this Issue
Vice President's Message
•
Space Inventory
•
OVPR Website
•
School of Medicine
Good News and Coming Events
•
News
•
Events
Opportunities and Sponsor
Information
•
Department of Defense
Breast Cancer Research Program Announces $10 million for Concept
Awards
•
NIH: New Therapeutic Interventions
•
Availability of
Administrative Supplements for Activities to Promote Research
Collaborations for Projects Currently Funded by the NCI Division of
Cancer Biology
•
Upcoming Funding Opportunities
•
Interdisciplinary Seminars
•
Music for Meetings
•
Reduced NIH Award
Reductions for 2006
•
Ruth L. Kirschstein
National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipend and Other Budgetary
Levels Effective for Fiscal Year 2006
•
NIH and Grants.gov
•
Grants.gov and Mac
Users
•
Notice: Immediate
Change in Grants Application Process
•
NIH Salary Cap
•
DOE Office Of Science
Publishes Brochure On University Research
•
NYSTAR Crackdown on
Delinquent Reports
Essential Policies, Procedures
and Resources
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Working with Industry
•
New Rates and
Guidelines
•
Graduate School
Newsletter
•
Spring Semester 2006 Tuition Waiver Program
•
Reconstructed 1918
Pandemic Influenza Virus Added to Federal Select Agent List
•
Potential Protein
Lounge License
•
2005 Important Updates to SBU's Human Subject Protections Program
(HSPP)
For More Information
Special notice: Stony Brook has once again been
invited to contribute information about recent accomplishments to
the
Website of the Science
Coalition, a national organization of more than 400 institutions,
organizations, professional societies, and companies that advocates
for federal research funding. Please take a moment to take a look!
Vice President's Message
Welcome back! We hope your
holidays were fruitful and at least somewhat restful as well.
Because of the gravity of the issues embraced in conflict of
interest, I am pleased to report to you that revisions
recommended in the campus conflict of interest policy by the
campus-wide faculty Standing Committee on Investigator
Disclosure Review and Conflict of Interest and its predecessor
review committee have been endorsed by the President's Cabinet
and may be found in the campus
Policy Manual at P-209. The Committee, adeptly chaired
for the last year and a half by Physics and Astronomy Prof.
Peter Stephens, wishes to reaffirm that its mission is neither
punitive nor adversarial and its preferred role
when a conflict is determined to exist - not realizable in all
cases - is to guide the development and adoption of a conflict
management plan. The revised policy explicitly invites investigators
who are conflicted to submit draft management plans with their
Investigator Disclosure Forms, should they feel competent and
inclined to do so. The Committee's experience over almost a year
and a half of operation suggests that experienced investigators
are often - not always - best situated to identify the
sensitive areas in a project and able to recommend the most
effective control strategies. Please feel free to review the
IDF (pdf) and email any questions you may have to
Prof.
Stephens or to
me.
If you wish to refresh your
acquaintance with the "rules of the road" for collaborations
with industry, where conflicts of interest are most likely to
occur, you are invited to consult a new section on Working with
Industry that has recently been added to the OVPR Website
here.
Space Inventory
Fiscal Year 2006 is the base
year for the development of the next campus Facilities and
Administrative (F&A) rate previously known as the indirect cost
rate. Every three or four years, depending on the duration of
the rate period, a rate proposal must be developed and submitted
to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for their
review and approval of future F&A rates. This rate development
determines the level at which the campus will get reimbursed for
its research support costs. A campus-wide effort is required
for development of an effective proposal.
Since federal mandates have
capped the administrative portion of the F&A rate at 26%, the
only way to improve the campus reimbursement is through complete
and accurate reporting of facilities costs. The major
components of the facilities rate are the costs associated with
maintenance, depreciation of buildings and equipment and
interest debt associated with new or rehabbed facilities. The
allocation of these costs to the campus rate proposal is based
on building square footage and use.
The most critical part of the
rate proposal is the sponsored program space survey. Data are
collected from three sources: the campus Physical Space
Inventory (PSI), the written survey to be completed by key
academic administrators during the late winter and early spring
months and observations made by teams of campus and Research
Foundation staff who will visit laboratories and other research
spaces.
Your assistance in this
important process will be greatly appreciated.
--Submitted by
Aaron
Rosenblatt, Assistant Vice President for Research
OVPR Website
Today we launch
two new pages on the OVPR Website, one on far-reaching
contributions by Stony Brook faculty over the years to their
disciplines and to better human understanding of our world –
Milestones – and one on major recent accomplishments by
Stony Brook faculty in research and creative activities –
Breakthroughs (The latter forms the basis for this week's
Science Coalition contribution and it willl be updated
periodically, as new achievements require recognition.) You are
invited to make us aware of
these as well
as to make corrections or propose emendations in either section.
Outdated items will be archived or, if appropriate, added to the
Milestones page. Permanent links to these pages appear on the
OVPR homepage (far left column, bottom) and also appear at the
second level of the University Website's Research page. With the
help of campus Website management staff, the Research links on
the campus’ mainpage have also been simplified, making it easier
to get to the OVPR mainpage where internal users can move
directly to the pages they need, while maintaining a few key
links at the highest levels for infrequent and off-campus users.
The maintenance of Webpages, like houses, is an endless project.
Enhancements are already being prepared to provide more
user-friendly access to needed resources on the OVPR site, where
one of the first priorities is to overhaul the "Data and
Reports" page to ensure that the information is uniformly
accurate and current and downloadable in a workable form. Stay
tuned to this space, and please
let us know
of any additional improvements you would like to see.
School of Medicine
We join in welcoming Prof.
Wadie Bahou, Medicine, to the position of Vice
Dean for Research, Office of Scientific Affairs, and look
forward to working with him in this new role to enhance the
research programs of the School of Medicine.
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Good News and Coming Events
News
Please join us in rejoicing with
colleagues for achievements that have become known since last issue.
Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology
On December 15th, the Empire State Development Corporation Board of
Directors approved a Phase II grant of $47.7 million for the
construction of a 100,000 s.f. facility for the New York State
Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT).
The Center will be the first facility built on the new 246-acre
Stony Brook Research and Development Campus adjacent to the
University on the west side of Stony Brook Road, acquired late last
year from the Gyrodyne Corporation. An advance of $2.2 million for
early equipment acquisition will jumpstart CEWIT programs, which
have attracted more than $150 million in industry commitments.
Center-affiliated faculty have already earned almost $40 million in
federal research and development funding and generated 11 U.S
patents and 20 patent applications.
Geosciences
The German Research Foundation (DFG)
announced that Professor Klaus Mezger, who received his Ph.D. in
1989 from the Department of Geosciences, conducting research in the
Isotope Geochemistry lab of Professor Gilbert Hanson is a recipient
of its 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most valuable
research prize in Germany. In its citation the DFG noted that "Klaus
Mezger and his research group have developed new methods which make
it possible to determine the age of rock, and thus of Earth and
other planets, with far greater precision than was previously
possible. Using isotope geochemistry and high accuracy measurements,
Mezger has been able to demonstrate for the first time that the
cores of Earth and Mars were formed within 30 million years after
the solar system was born." The award of €1.55 million will fund the
research work over a five-year period and can be used flexibly by
the Leibniz Prize prize winner. Klaus Mezger is a Professor of
Geochemistry in University of Münster, where he has headed the
Central Laboratory for Geochronology since 1997.
Mathematics
Prof. Dennis Sullivan has been
awarded the American Mathematical Society’s Leroy P. Steele Prize
for Lifetime Achievement. He was recognized for the remarkable
scope of his ideas and influence and his fundamental contributions
to many branches of mathematics, including homotopy theory,
dynamical systems, Kleinian groups, and low dimensional topology.
The citation reads in part, "Beyond the specific theories he has
developed and the problems he has solved ... his uniform vision of
mathematics permeates his work and has inspired those around him."
He holds a joint appointment as Einstein Professor at the Graduate
Center of CUNY and taught for many yars at the Institut des Hautes
Etudes Scientifiques in Paris. This has been an extraordinary year
for Prof. Sullivan, who was announced as a recipient of the National
Medal of Science for 2004 this past November. He is a prime mover in
the Mathematics-Physics summer workshops and it is intriguing to
speculate on what hat trick he may conjure up this spring!
Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Prof. and Chair
Fu-Pen Chiang has been invited to give a keynote presentation at the
Mindlin Centennial Symposium as a part of the 15th US National
Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, which will be held on
June 25-30, 2006 at Boulder, Colorado. This symposium is jointly
sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and American
Society
of Mechanical Engineers.
Intel Mentors Lead
the Pack Again
The Provost's Office recently
reported that twenty-eight high school students who worked with
Stony Brook faculty members in fourteen different departments have
been named among the semifinalists in the 2005-2006 Intel Science
Talent Search competition. This represents nearly 10% of the 300
semifinalists chosen nationwide, and about a third of the 82 Long
Island students so honored. The 40 finalists will be announced on
Wednesday. The mentoring departments were Anesthesiology,
Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry,
Ecology & Evolution, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Geosciences,
Marine Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering, Pathology,
Pediatrics, Physics & Astronomy, Physiology & Biophysics, and
Psychology. Newsday's story on the Intel announcement credited
neighbor Ward Melville High School's dominance in the Intel
competition -- with twelve semifinalists, it tied for first
nationally, the first Long Island school to achieve top standing,
with a selective "magnet" high school in Maryland -- in part, to its
proximity to the University. A complete list of the students and
their mentors may be found
here.
Village Times Herald
Men and Women of the Year
Congratulations to three of our
faculty colleagues, who have been selected Man or Woman of the Year
by our local community newspaper. They are:
-
Gilbert Hanson [Geosciences],
Science - "for his great accomplishment of making arcane information
accessible to both expert and layman, his continuous ability to
inspire students and his other contributions to geological
knowledge"
-
David Krause [Anatomical
Sciences], Education - for his extraordinary scientific and
humanitarian contributions exemplified by his work in Madagascar
-
Suzanne Fields
[Medicine/Geriatrics], Medicine - "for her significant contributions
to the field of geriatrics, ... establishment of the University's
program ... and for her compassionate work with her patients."
Physics and
Astronomy
The U.S. Department of Enerby recently
announced that 1980 doctoral graduate Michael Anastasio will assume
the directorship of Los Alamos National Laboratory at a critical
time in the history of the lab where the first atomic bomb was created. Los
Alamos has suffered from a series of safety, security and financial management
missteps in the last few years. Dr. Anastasio, who currently leads Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, will be the first person to head both
laboratories.
Events
"Scientists,
Journalists, and Ghostbusters"
David Malakoff, an editor and
correspondent on National Public Radio's Science Desk in Washington
D.C., covers research discoveries and the politics of science, and
edits and contributes to stories on technology, the environment, and
energy. His talk will address the interaction between science and
the media. Prior to joining NPR, he spent eight years as a reporter
for the news section of the journal "Science", covering a broad
range of topics from policy issues to marine research. As a
freelance journalist, he has written for a wide range of magazines,
newspapers, and web sites, including "The Economist", "Audubon",
"The Washington Post", ABCNews.com, and PBS television's "Nature"
series. He has also worked as an editor for environmental groups and
a fundraiser for several small colleges, and led a nonprofit
ecological research organization.
When: Tuesday, January 24, 12:00
p.m.
Where: Endeavour Hall 120, Marine
Sciences Research Center, South Campus
Provost's Lecture
Series
"Rethinking
the Black Panther Party: Race, Class, and American Democracy in the
21st Century"
Yohuru Williams is Director of
Black Studies and Associate Professor of History at Fairfield
University, Dr. Williams is author of Black Politics/White Power:
Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panther Party in New Haven
(2000) and is co-editor of two forthcoming anthologies on the Black
Panthers
When: Wednesday, February 8,
2006, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Wang Center, Lecture Hall
2
"Africa
Speaks, America Answers: The Drum Wars of Guy Warren"
Robin D. G. Kelley is the William
B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia
University and an award-winning author and leading United States
African-American studies scholar. His teaching and research
interests have focused on African diaspora, urban studies, working
class radicalism, and cultural history with an emphasis on music.
When: Thursday, February 9,
2006, 4:00 p.m.
Where: Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 1006
Wine Center
"Smells
Like Chocolate? Tastes Like Cherries?"
John Micieli, a production
winemaker at Pellegrini Vineyards, Cutchogue, invites you to become
a more confident wine taster. He will guide you through a tasting of
several wines, accompanied by foods that reflect the wines' sensory
elements. Build your tasting vocabulary with this exciting,
delicious exercise in sensory evaluation.
When: Thursday, February 9,
2006, 6:30–8:00 p.m.
Where: Wang Center.
Charge: $55
To Register: Call Ginny Clancy at (631) 632-9404.
Note: You must be 21 or over to participate in wine tasting events.
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Opportunities and Sponsor Information
Research Support:
Department of Defense Breast
Cancer Research Program Announces $10 million for Concept Awards
The Breast Cancer Research Program
(BCRP) is offering Concept Awards to spark new ideas and foster the
development of new, innovative, high-risk but potentially high-gain
avenues of investigation. This award mechanism provides
investigators with the opportunity to pursue serendipitous
observations and/or explore untested ideas relevant to breast
cancer. Research completed through a Concept Award may provide
sufficient preliminary data to enable the investigator to prepare a
proposal for future research. As such, preliminary data are not
consistent with the intent of this award mechanism. As in prior
years, the Concept Awards will have blinded review process; the
principal investigator and institution names will not be provided
during either peer or programmatic review.
These awards are designed for
preliminary investigations; therefore, projects involving human
subjects or human biological substances will not be supported unless
they are exempt under 32 CFR 219.101(b)(4). Concept Awards provide
up to $75,000 in direct costs for 1 year, plus indirect costs as
appropriate.
The DoD Breast Cancer Research Program has released $15 million in
funding opportunities in Concept Awards on December 22, 2005. The
deadline for submission will be 5:00 pm ET on February 7, 2005.
All details for application are available in the Program
Announcement located on the CDMRP electronic submission website:
https://cdmrp.org/Program_Announcements_and_Forms/
NIH: New Therapeutic
Interventions
NIH invites
applications for research relevant to the basic understanding and
development of therapeutic interventions for currently screened
conditions and "high priority" genetic conditions for which
screening could be possible in the near future. A "high priority"
condition is defined as a condition for which the development of an
efficacious therapy would make the condition amenable to newborn
screening. For-profit or nonprofit, public or private organizations
may submit applications, which are due on or before the receipt
dates described at
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm.
Exploratory or developmental, research project and small grant
awards are anticipated; the three award mechanisms, respectively,
are detailed in three solicitations available at:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-059.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-060.html
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-06-061.html
Availability of Administrative
Supplements for Activities to Promote Research Collaborations for
Projects Currently Funded by the NCI Division of Cancer Biology
The Division of Cancer Biology (DCB) of the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) invites requests for supplemental funding in fiscal
year 2006 for existing DCB-funded research projects (i.e.,
administrative supplements) to support and encourage new
multidisciplinary scientific collaborations among DCB grantees, as
well as with other members of the scientific community. This
initiative, known as the Activities to Promote Research
Collaborations (APRC), supports collaborative interdisciplinary
activities that bring together ideas and approaches from disparate
scientific disciplines including those not currently supported by
DCB. Examples of collaborative activities include, but are not
limited to, initiating new collaborative research projects, sharing
unique resources and reagents, developing novel technologies, and
organizing cross-disciplinary meetings/workshops. It is essential,
however, that proposed APRC activities be within the overall scope
of the active parent award and that the collaborative activity is
new. There is a single receipt date of February 15, 2006.
Requests must be submitted as described in the APRC program
guidelines.
A full description of the APRC program and the fiscal year 2006
guidelines can be found at the following web site:
http://dcb.nci.nih.gov/APRC2006.cfm. It details the
opportunities available to DCB grantees for collaborative activities
funded with administrative supplements to their active grants and
the mechanisms for requesting these supplements.
Upcoming Funding Opportunities
For a complete list of
upcoming deadlines, please go to -
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/fndopp/deadlcal.html
Interdisciplinary Seminars
Please remember that,
in an effort to encourage interdisciplinary research on campus, this
office will supply $100 toward a speaker's luncheon when your
department invites a Stony Brook colleague from an unrelated
discipline to give a seminar. Please contact Ann-Marie Scheidt
amscheidt@notes.cc.sunysb.edu to determine eligibility. You will
be asked to provide a copy of the seminar notice annotated with the
number of attendees and a brief description of any anticipated
collaborations with the speaker's department.
Music for Meetings
Please remember that
the OVPR would like to assist those of you who are planning a
research meeting on campus by providing musical interludes. If you
would like to have Stony Brook student musicians play at the
reception for your meeting it can be arranged by contacting
Ann-Marie Scheidt
amscheidt@notes.cc.sunysb.edu. OVPR will make a payment to the
Department of Music and the Department in turn pays the students.
You get to listen to some nice music.
Reduced NIH Award
Reductions for 2006
The NIH appropriation
for FY 2006 includes an across-the-board reduction to non-emergency,
discretionary programs, which has a direct impact on NIH's budget.
The NIH share of this adjustment is approximately $286 million. NIH
has established the following financial polices consistent with this
appropriation.
Research Project Grants (RPG) (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/funding_program.htm)
Non-competing awards for every RPG will be awarded at a level of
97.65% of the amount indicated for the FY2006 budget period in the
Notice of Grant Award for the previous budget year. The amounts
indicated for future budget periods will also be adjusted by the
same factor. Non-competing awards previously issued in FY 2006 at
reduced levels up to 80% of the amount previously indicated will
be revised to provide a restoration of funds to the 97.65% level.
Amounts indicated for future budget periods will be adjusted as
well. The amounts provided for competing RPGs will be managed to an
average award amount equal to FY 2005 levels. FY 2006 policy
includes the provision of a 3% escalation factor in the amounts
indicated for future years on competing RPG awards which are not
based on modular applications.
Other Grant Programs
Other grant programs will be managed in accordance with the policies
to be established by each Institute and Center. Questions regarding
adjustments applied on individual grant awards may be directed to
the Grants Management Specialist identified on the Notice of Award.
NOT-OD-06-025: NIH Financial Policy for Grant Awards - FY 2006 -
01/01/06
For the full announcement please see -
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-025.html
Ruth L. Kirschstein National
Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipend and Other Budgetary Levels
Effective for Fiscal Year 2006
Issued by:
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov/)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), (http://www.ahrq.gov/)
Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA), (http://www.hrsa.gov/)
The stipend levels and
institutional allowances for Training-related expenses for Fiscal
Year (FY) 2006 Kirschstein-NRSA awards for undergraduate,
predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees and fellows are shown below.
The Training Related Expenses for trainees and the Institutional
Allowance for individual fellows for FY 2006 are also shown below.
The Budgetary Categories Described
in this Notice Are Effective Only for Kirschstein-NRSA Awards Made
with FY 2006 Funds.
Retroactive adjustments or
supplementation of stipends or other budgetary categories with
Kirschstein-NRSA funds for an award made prior to October 1, 2005 is
not permitted. Budgetary adjustments for training grant and
fellowship awards, therefore, will be made only at the time of the
FY 2006 award.
STIPENDS: Effective with all
Kirschstein-NRSA awards made on or after October 1, 2005 , the
following annual stipend levels apply to all individuals receiving
support through institutional research training grants or individual
fellowships, including the Minority Access to Research Career (MARC)
and Career Opportunities in Research (COR) programs. These awards
are made under the authority of Section 487 of the Public Health
Service Act (as amended).
The stipends and additional
information can be found here:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-026.html
NIH and Grants.gov
On January 11, the NIH presented two live
videocast sessions devoted to the electronic submission of grant
applications via Grants.gov We urge faculty and staff who will be
submitting applications to the NIH to familiarize themselves with
the electronic application process, especially in light of the June
1 transition for RO3, R21 and R33 applications and the October 1
transition for all RO1 applications. The videocast can be found
here:
http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/training.htm#10
A caveat: speakers frequently urge audience members to "register."
They are addressing institutions, not individual faculty!
Principal Investigators (PIs) do not have to register with
Grants.gov However, the individual designated as the PI on the
application must be registered in the eRA Commons.
The registration process can take several weeks, especially when
close to submission dates when registration volume peaks. NIH
recommends starting four weeks ahead of your target submission date.
PI registration must be done by an Office of Sponsored Programs
official at Stony Brook who is already registered in the eRA
Commons.
Each funding opportunity announcement (program announcement/request
for application (PA/RFA)) includes an application package with an
application guide (sample guide). This document is critical to
submitting a complete and accurate application to NIH. There are
fields within the SF424 (R&R) components that are not marked as
mandatory on the federal-wide form but that are required by NIH
(e.g., the Credential field of the R&R Senior/Key Person Profile
component must contain the PI's assigned eRA Commons User ID).
Agency-specific instructions for such fields are clearly identified
in the application guide. The funding opportunity announcement to
which you are applying also may include guidance on application
submission. Taking advantage of these resources will save you time
in the long run by avoiding the need to correct errors and resubmit
your application.
SF424 (R&R) application guides, sample application packages and
related resources at
http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/forms.htm
Grants.gov and Mac Users
NIH released the following announcement with
regard to Mac users and compatibility with the PureEdge Viewer that
is required to download and view applications at Grants.gov
Grants.gov and NIH have partnered to provide free access to Citrix
servers for Macintosh Users who are looking for an alternative to
using PC emulation software with the PureEdge forms. This service is
now available for use.
Grants.gov's website states: Beginning December 20, 2005,
non-Windows users will be able to download and complete the PureEdge
forms by taking advantage of the free Citrix server. Non-Windows
users are also able to submit completed grant applications via the
Citrix environment. For details, please visit
http://www.grants.gov/MacSupport
A Citrix server connection allows Macintosh users to remotely launch
a Windows session on their own machines by using the free Citrix
client application. While connected to the server, Mac users can
develop their grant application using PureEdge forms. Applicants
will need to download and install the free Citrix client application
in order to work on the SF424 (R&R) application package with the
specific grant for which they are applying.
We have heard that problems persist with this "solution" and will
investigate their veracity.
Notice: Immediate Change in
Grants Application Process
Major changes are coming to HRSA's
Grant Application Process. HRSA will no longer accept applications
for grant opportunities in paper form for grant opportunities posted
after January 1, 2006. (Please refer to grant announcement posted
on Grants.gov for specific instructions).
Applicants submitting New and
Competing continuations and a selected number of non-competing
continuation applications will be required to submit electronically
through Grants.gov for all opportunities posted after the January 1,
2006 date. All applicants must submit in this manner unless the
applicant is granted a written exemption from this requirement in
advance by the Director of HRSA's Division of Grants Policy.
Grantees must request an exemption in writing from
DGPClearances@hrsa.gov, and provide details as to why
they are not able to submit electronically though the Grants.gov
portal. As indicated in the program guidances, for applications
that mandate electronic submission through Grants.gov, paper
applications will not be accepted without prior written approval.
As soon as you read this, whether
you plan on applying for a HRSA grant later this month or later
this year, it is incumbent that your organization immediately
register in Grants.gov and become familiar with the Grants.Gov site
application process. If you do not complete the registration
process you will be unable to submit an application. The
registration process can take up to one month, so start now!
To be able to successfully
register in Grants.gov, it is necessary that you complete all of the
following required actions:
-
Obtain an organizational Data
Universal Number System (DUNS) number
-
Register the organization with
Central Contractor Registry (CCR)
-
Identify the organization's
E-Business POC (Point of Contact)
-
Confirm the organization's CCR
"Marketing Partner ID Number (M-PIN)" password
-
Register an Authorized
Organization Representative (AOR)
-
Obtain a username and password
from the Grants.gov Credential Provider
Instructions on how to register,
tutorials and FAQs are available on the Grants.gov web site at
http://www.grants.gov. Assistance is also available from
the Grants.gov help desk at
support@grants.gov or by phone at 1-800-518-4726.
NIH Salary Cap
NIH has posted the annual notice
concerning the legislatively-mandated "Salary Limitation on Grants,
Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts." Effective January 1, 2006,
the cap, which is based on the Executive Level I salary level,
increased to $183,500. The NIH notice provides important details on
how the salary cap is implemented.
The notice is available at -
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-06-031.html
DOE Office Of Science Publishes Brochure On
University Research
The Office of Science at the Department of
Energy has published Maintaining U.S. Preeminence in Science:
University Support, a 14-page brochure commissioned by Director
Raymond L. Orbach. The document details the Office of Science's role
in research and education at the nation's colleges and universities,
including a state-by-state breakdown of the Office's spending.
The brochure is available on the DOE Web site at:
http://www.er.doe.gov/Sub/Newsroom/News_Releases/DOE-SC/2006/University_support/University_Support.pdf
NYSTAR
Crackdown on Delinquent Reports
NYSTAR announced that "Due to historical
non-compliance with contractual reporting requirements, NYSTAR
will...include standard language providing NYSTAR with discretion to
use stronger enforcement options...(including) withholding payment
and/or considering non-compliance for eligibility for future
contracts."
As electronic reporting procedures are put into place for many
granting agencies it is easier for them to determine whose reports
are late. Please do your funding agencies the courtesy of filing
timely reports.
--Contributed by
Gail Habicht, Vice
President for Research, Phone: (631) 632-7932
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Essential Policies, Procedures and
Resources
Working with Industry
An article describing five basic
rules for industrial contracts may now be found under
Recent Policy Developments section on OVPR's website.
New Rates and
Guidelines
In response to
new IRS regulations, the Research Foundation Travel Reimbursement
Rate for business miles driven for the 2006 calendar year has bee
reduced to $0.445 per mile, that is, 44.5 cents per mile, effective
01/01/06 -12/31/06. This rate also applies to State and Stony Brook
Foundation travel.
In addition,
changes have been made to the Research Foundation Equipment
Insurance Guidelines. The current guidelines document may be
accessed at -http://www.research.sunysb.edu/gmo/equipins.html
Graduate School Newsletter
The December, 2005, issue of the
Graduate School's Electronic Newsletter has been released and may be
found
here. Inside the newsletter you will find a broad variety
of stories on campus happenings, successful alumni, faculty
achievements, and upcoming events.
Spring Semester 2006 Tuition Waiver Program
The application for
the B140W Tuition Waiver Program is now available to all full-time
State and Research Foundation employees. The waivers are available
on a first-come-first-serve basis. To find information about the
program and the application process, please click on link
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/Admin/HRS.nsf/benefits and click on
State. The information is entitled Employee Tuition Waiver
Program/Spring 2006 Semester. Please check the West Campus Benefits
website under Research Foundation for complete information about the
program. An application may be requested by calling the West Campus
Benefits office at 2-6167 or 2-6136; please include your
departmental zip code with your request.
STATE
HOSPITAL/VETERANS HOME/TECH PARK employees must contact Shirley
Menzies at 4-4759 for a waiver form.
--Contributed by
Alessandra White, State Benefits Supervisor, Phone: (631)
632-6167
Reconstructed
1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus Added to Federal Select Agent List
Please note that the Department of Health and Human Services has
published an interim final rule that requires, as of October 20,
2005, the registration of anyone possessing, using, or transferring
"Reconstructed replication competent forms of the 1918 pandemic
influenza virus containing any portion of the coding regions of all
eight gene segments" or intending to possess, use or transfer this
agent.
If you possess this agent, you MUST contact the Department of
Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) immediately to register this
agent with the federal government. Failure to do so is a federal
offense with both criminal and civil penalties. If you wish to
obtain this material for research purposes you must receive
authorization from the Department of Health and Human Services
through Stony Brook University EH&S. Contact EH&S at 2-6410 to
register or for further information. More information on the Federal
Select Agent Program can be found at -
http://www.cdc.gov/od/sap/index.htm
Potential Protein Lounge License
The Center for Information Technology of DHHS is currently in
process of negotiating a site license from Protein Lounge. This site
license will allow NIH, CDC and FDA researchers to access the online
Protein Lounge databases and tools and will also provide access to
the soon to be released Complete Systems Biology (CSB) Package which
will be available on CD. The CSB tool is a desktop version of the
entire Protein Lounge online site. Additionally, the CSB tool will
include a Pathway Illustration tool, which will allow the user to
create new pathways as well as modify all of the ~600 Protein Lounge
pathways and adjacent protein data.
Included online
databases: Signal Transduction Pathway Database, Peptide Antigen
Database, siRNA Database, Kinase-Phosphatase Database, Transcription
Factor Database, Disease Genes Database, Biochemical Compound
Database, Protein Interactions Database and Protein Database.
Included online tools: Pathway Builder tool, Peptide finder tool,
Protein Hydroplotter tool, siRNA creator tool, and many more. The
complete list of database and tools that will be included with the
site license may be viewed at -
http://www.proteinlounge.com/subscriptionDetail.asp
DHHS is seeking to
estimate how many researchers would be interested in accessing the
Protein Lounge databases and tools. The site license cost (per user)
will significantly be reduced as the number of users increases. If
you would be interested in access to Protein Lounge through the site
license, please click on the following link to fill out the survey
form -
http://www.proteinlounge.com/nihsitelicense.asp
2005 Important Updates to SBU's Human Subject Protections Program
(HSPP)
Our Human Subject Protection
Program (HSPP) has many active participants, including Principal
investigators and their study teams, staff of the Office of Research
Compliance (ORC), and the membership of our Institutional Review
Boards (IRB). Our combined efforts continue to help ensure that our
HSPP is solid and effective in keeping safe those individuals who
volunteer to participate in our research activities at SBU.
The ORC and the IRBs are constantly evaluating the program to
assess the need for clarifications of current SBU policies and
procedures, promulgation of new policies and procedures, and
dissemination of new federal guidance and regulations. The following
is a summary of such actions that have been taken or proposed over
the past year, including some clarifications of unchanged policies
and procedures, since our last update in 2004.
Quick Links
--Contributed by
Judy Matuk, Director of Research Compliance, Phone: (631)
632-9036
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For More Information
An abundance of
specific information for the research community is available on our
Website, where past issues of this bulletin can also be found.
Office of the Vice President for Research -
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/
Monday Memo archive -
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/monmemo/mmarchive.html
All past issues of Monday Memo are keyword searchable.
And if you are challenged by the embarrassment of riches in the
over 2,000 individual Web pages that comprise the Website, you may
find the alphabetical site index helpful. The index can be accessed
at
http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/sitemap.html.
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