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 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...

Dean Gay has announced the spring 2020 call for applications for the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship. This is a targeted program that provides funding in the following categories: bridge funding, to allow faculty to continue work on previously funded scholarly activities that currently lack external funding; seed funding, to encourage...

Dear RAS Community,

The recently released “Update for Faculty and Principal Investigators” has raised some questions about what resources should be reported in NIH “Other Support” (OS) and NSF “Current and Pending Support (C&P).” These disclosures are being carefully reviewed by the federal agencies and in recent months NIH and NSF have issued reminders, clarifications and proposed changes to the requirements. We expect that the requirements are likely to change in the future, however, we want to remind you of the current policies for NIH and NSF.

We have...