News & Announcements

The Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) has created an interactive Guide to Sponsor Reporting Requirements that summarizes typical reporting requirements for the most common federal sponsors such as NSF, NIH, NASA grants and others. Specific information for each of these sponsors includes reporting schedules, submission instructions, and report templates...

Effective September 1, 2018, CU Boulder adopted policy statements addressing Institutional Base Salary and Summer Salary Limits. Federal requirements, through the Uniform Guidance, require the University to clearly define what is included in Institutional Base Salary (IBS) and apply it consistently for all tenured and tenure-track faculty. IBS is used...

CU Boulder is committed to protecting the intellectual property and work of our robust research community, and we closely monitor the guidance, directives and information coming from our federal sponsors. NIH recently issued a letter to grantees about the importance of ensuring all support and financial interests are properly disclosed...

July and early August have been exceptionally busy for incoming research awards. That trend is expected to continue as we move into the Federal fiscal year end (September 30). All sponsored awards must be processed, reviewed and negotiated through the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG), before Sponsored Projects Accounting...

On September 4, the Office of Contracts and Grants and the Campus Controller's Office will be modifying procedures to align budget detail in our sponsored project award and financial management systems with the detail required by the sponsor and University. While the start date is September 4 th , sponsored...

In recent years, some NIH institutes and centers have pulled out of participating in parent funding opportunity announcements in favor of running institute-specific opportunities. For example, over the course of the past year, the following institutes have withdrawn from the Parent R21 competition: NIMH , NICHD , NINDS , and...

Beginning in July, Principal Investigators (PIs) and Department Research Administrators will receive a monthly notification that serves as a courtesy reminder for awards that are approaching their end date within 30, 60 or 90 days. These notices help trigger the process for PIs and departments to begin preparations to closeout...

The Office of Contracts and Grants is excited to announce that a comprehensive procedural statement and associated tools and forms are now available when a current CU Boulder PI changes their relationship with the university – usually transferring to another institution. This documentation covers Roles & Responsibilities, Sponsored Projects, Property...

Beginning on April 30, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will take a first step in transitioning proposal submission from FastLane to Research.gov. The initial rollout, effective April 30, will allow the option of submitting non-collaborative proposals through Research.gov. Additionally, NSF has introduced a streamlined account registration process through Research.gov. OCG...

Effective March 26, 2018, NSF is introducing a new centralized and streamlined account registration process in Research.gov for the research community that will provide each new user with a single profile and unique identifier (i.e., NSF ID) for signing in to FastLane and Research.gov for proposal and award activities. This...