RAS Coffee Club

Tuesday, February 25th, 10-11am at William James Hall (at 33 Kirkland St, Room 1550)

DUAs (Data Use Agreements), Research Data Safety applications and so much more!

During this session, a brief overview of Data Use Agreement (DUA), Human Subjects Research (Institutional Review Board [IRB]), and Research Data Security policies, along with a demonstration of the Agreements-DUA, ESTR-IRB, and Research Data Safety applications will be provided.

Presented by Rachel Talentino...

Part of Accounts (PoA): System Access, Process and Best Practices

This session will focus on best practices for grant managers for setting up and managing part-of-accounts. The following topics will be discussed:

• Requirements for receiving access to PoA
• Proposal stage and IFIs (GMAS access)
• Award set up stage and PoA creation
• Award management stage and access (HART access, cross-validation, etc)
• Award closeout and expectations of PoA (vs. Main account)

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RAS Coffee Club

Thursday, October 10th, 10-11am at William James Hall (at 33 Kirkland St, Room 1550)

PI Dashboard upcoming release

The upcoming release to the PI Dashboard will update the look and feel of the system, and provide enhanced functionality in the Personnel Projections tab of the application.

This release is scheduled for end of day Friday, October 11. We anticipate end users will see these...

RAS Coffee Club

Thursday, April 25th, 10-11am at 11 Oxford Street, LISE 303

Post-Award Account Monitoring

This session will discuss the basics of post-award financial monitoring & the expectation for it to be performed on a regular basis. Best practices in the following areas will be of focus: account reconciliation, developing projections, comparing budget to actuals and award close-out. Other topics for discussion may include: ecrt...

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RAS Coffee Club

Updated Cost Transfer Policy effective July 1, 2018

Another policy has been updated. Hopefully for the better! We’ve made the following updates:

• increased the threshold
• added a table to the policy
• updated the flow chart
• added a procedures document
• decreased the FAQs from 46 to 6

Come to...

Highlighting Presentations from the NCURA PRA Conference

Jealous that you didn’t make it to Orlando for the conference? Don’t worry, we are bringing highlights from some of the presentations to you! RAS experts in Research Development and pre- and post-award will be there to lead the discussion. Please join Paige Belisle, Olga Kolas and Jimmy Matejek- Morris as they share their experiences from the conference on the following presentation topics:

1. using institutional data to support proposal development...

Topic: Life after CREW decommission. Showcase and quick tips on generating sponsored and non-sponsored reports in OBI.

We are excited to report that OBI has fully launched for 2018! Please join us over coffee to talk all things OBI where we will have Katie Phelan, Senior Training Specialist at the Office of Finance (non-sponsored financial reporting) and Charlotte Gallant, Senior Manager for Research Finance and Compliance at FAS RAS (sponsored financial reporting) to answer your OBI related questions.

RAS Coffee Club

Thursday, February 28, 2019 William James Hall, Room- 1550

TLX and important DFF fields

Coffee and snacks will be provided

Imagine drafting a journal in a few minutes with all the necessary fields automatically populating. There’s a new macro that will help you do this! The TLX macro is used by administrators to review / analyze transactions and to process correcting journals quickly...

A few new policies and requirements have been implemented since the summer. We have received several questions from you and thought it might be beneficial to have a discussion at the next RAS Coffee Club. Please bring your questions regarding FASIP, the FAS and SEAS Policy on Assessments on Current Use Gifts and Sponsored Awards, and E-Verify to the RAS Coffee Club on Wednesday, September 27^th 10-11 AM. Jen Lech, Christyne Anderson and Marina Magid will be available to answer your questions.

Having trouble keeping track of your training calendar? Wondering how this year’s policy revisions, new toolkits and assessments are going to impact you and your PIs? July 1^st is the effective date for a number of updates and changes to the way we apply for and manage grants at the FAS and SEAS, including the new FAS/SEAS  Policy on Assessments, the University Cost Sharing Policy, and the Subrecipient Monitoring Toolkit. At our next RAS Coffee Club we will go over the take-home points from each of these rollouts, and touch briefly on new SPECTRA processes (FAS only),...

RAS Coffee Club: Equipment Management – FAS & SEAS

Want to learn a bit more about equipment management at FAS and SEAS? Need a refresher on best practices in purchasing and approving equipment and the right object codes to use? Find yourself unsure of how to guide your PIs on how to manage equipment when moving labs or transferring to a new institution? If so, join us on Tuesday, April 4th from 9:15am to 10:15am in the Lamont Library Cafe for a cup of coffee and discussion on these equipment topics and more with Jessica McCall, Capital Assets Program...

**This forum will be a repeat session of the update given at LMA in the morning of 2/10. 

Friday, February 10, 2017
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Harvard Hall, Room 201
Hosted by FAS Research Administration Services

Kevin Casey
Associate Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications
Jon Groteboer
Director Federal Relations, Office of Federal Relations
Harvard University
 

Join us for the February RAS Coffee club where we will attempt to demystify the world of Cost Sharing! As the Cost Sharing Subcommittee is wrapping up the review and revision of the University  policy and accompanying procedures manual we’d like to hear from you! What do you find most confusing about Cost Sharing? When is Cost Sharing considered a requirement of the sponsors vs. a voluntary contribution? We will be joined by  Min Xiao, Manager of Sponsored Compliance and Outreach, on February 7 to help answer questions such as these as well as have a...