SUBJECT: Extension of Administrative Relief for Recipients and Applicants of Federal Financial Assistance Directly Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) due to Loss of Operations 

The Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research will briefly reopen to accept proposals related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the magnitude of the global crisis which emerged shortly after the original deadline in February, the Challenge is interested in expanding its application pool to include high-risk and high-impact research projects in the life, physical, and social sciences with relevance to COVID-19. Eligible faculty members may submit an...

The most recent GMAS release that went live on Monday, April 27 contained significant changes to how cost sharing will be recorded and tracked in GMAS, including a new form that supports all sources of cost sharing and more closely aligns with the cost sharing policy, a new cost sharing approval process, and a new cost sharing request type used to make changes during the life of an award. A detailed list of the changes to cost sharing is available in the GMAS release notes.

To accompany the GMAS changes, each...