Research Enterprise Newsletter - November 2007: Grants & Contracts News
NIH goes toward electronic awards process
The National Institutes of Health is taking further steps toward a paperless process for administering research grants. From January 1, 2008, it will no longer provide paper notification of the Notice of Award, which instead will be sent solely via e-mail to grantee organizations. The documents will be accessible through the eRA Commons web site. For full information, visit grants.nih.gov.
House, Senate appropriators give NIH $30B for FY08
Congressional appropriators have agreed to fund the National Institutes of Health at $30 billion in fiscal year 2008. Biomedical research advocates hailed the development as a victory, even though the threat remains that President Bush will veto the bill because it exceeds his spending caps and includes language expanding federal policy on stem cell research. Just hours before the House-Senate conference, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-IA, who chairs the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds NIH, warned that Bush "seems determined to provoke a confrontation." Earlier in the week, the president reiterated his veto threat and referred to the bill as "social spending."
OOR, Grants & Contracts will close for Thanksgiving holiday
The Office of Research at CCC-3322 MCN and the Office of Grants & Contracts Management at Crystal Terrace, Suite 100, will both be closed Thursday and Friday, November 22nd and 23rd, for Thanksgiving.
There will not be courier runs on Thursday or Friday, so please note that all documents must be picked up from the mailboxes in CCC-3322 MCN no later than 5:00 pm on Wednesday, 11/21. If you have documents coming to 100 Crystal Terrace, they must be dropped off at CCC-3322 MCN no later than 3:00 pm on Wednesday, 11/21, in order to be delivered to Crystal Terrace on Monday morning, 11/26, in the first courier run. All normal courier services will resume on Monday, 11/26. If you have questions, please call 322-2281.
