1. SPONSORED PROJECTS INFORMATION NETWORK
SPIN
SPONSORED PROJECTS INFORMATION NETWORK
Welcome
April 2009

2. SPIN Meeting Agenda Campus Relations SPA Hot Topics Discoverer
James Trotter, Interim Senior Manager, Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA)
SPA Hot Topics
James Trotter, Interim Senior Manager, SPA
Discoverer

3. SPIN Meeting Agenda RGC Hot Topics
Deborah Golden-Eppelein, Director, Research Grants & Contracts (RGC)
The Current Financial Environment and Clinical Trials
Darlene Kitterman, Director, Investigator Support & Integration Services (ISIS)

4. James Trotter Interim Senior Manager, SPA
Campus Relations
James Trotter
Interim Senior Manager, SPA

5. Campus Relations Post-award Education Program (PEP)
Cancelled Spring term classes will be rescheduled in the summer, after the end of the fiscal year.
If anyone is in need of information sooner, please call or Erik Rye, Campus Relations Coordinator, at or to schedule an appointment. A SPA representative will be happy to come to the department for one-to-one training.

6. Campus Relations
The next complete PEP series of classes will begin in Fall, 2009.

7. James Trotter Interim Senior Manager, SPA
SPA Hot Topics
James Trotter
Interim Senior Manager, SPA

8. SPA Hot Topics New Guidelines posted on SPA website: Hosting Travel
Major Projects

9. SPA Hot Topics
New Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Stipend Level-FY2009
Effective on awards made on or after 10/01/2008
Predoctoral stipend level
$20,976
1% increase
Posted on the RGC website

10. SPA Hot Topics Postdoctoral Years of Experience $37,368 1 $39,360 2
$37,368 1
$39,360 2
$42,204 3
$43,860 4
$45,504 5
$47,460 6
$49,344
7 or more
$51,552

11. SPA Hot Topics
Remaining furlough days for SPA:
May 22
June 19

12. SPA Hot Topics Automation of end-date notification memo
New notification method
automatically sent 45 days prior to end date to the Project Department Fiscal Manager (PDFM) for all Oracle Grants Accounting (OGA) projects.
Expect to see these in May for projects with end dates in July!

13. SPA Hot Topics Effort Update Taxes were due yesterday
Effort statements are due tomorrow – April 17th
26% returned as of Monday morning

14. SPA Hot Topics Cost Sharing Workgroup Updating SPA policy
Documenting methods for departmental tracking using the G/L FOMOPPL

15. SPA Hot Topics
New Other Post Employment Benefits (OPEB) charges due to implementation of Government Accounting Standards Board rule, GASB 45
For details see “Other Post Employment Benefits (OPEB) Expenses – Update” at
For Pay Periods 8 through 13, OPEB will be charged at $25 per employee each pay period

16. SPA Hot Topics Stimulus Funding and OGA
SPA will track and identify these funds in OGA in a variety of ways
Add “ST” to the OGA Award/Project naming convention (like cost sharing), e.g., AGRANT0021ST/PGRANT0021AST
New Funding Mechanisms in OGA (these will appear on the Notice of OGA Account Setup/Revision)
STIMULUS GRANT
STIMULUS SUBCONTRACT

17. SPA Hot Topics No-Cost Extension (NCX) Reminder
NCX are now processed by RGC
Carryover requests and other items previously processed through SPA will continue to be processed through SPA

18. James Trotter Interim Senior Manager, SPA
Discoverer Reports
James Trotter
Interim Senior Manager, SPA

19. Discoverer Reports New Discoverer Reports Available now
New reports include:
Award and Project Balances, Award and Project Listings, Budgets, Expenditure Summary, Financial Reporting and Open Encumbrances
All have parameters to run by org

20. Deborah Golden-Eppelein Director, RGC
RGC Hot Topics
Deborah Golden-Eppelein
Director, RGC

21. RGC Hot Topics
Revised PPQ – stimulus checkbox
Staffing Update
No-Cost Extensions – updated procedure and form
Stimulus
Competitive revisions may be done in InfoEd rather than Adobe as previously thought. Budgets for these should follow the same format as the original application.

22. RGC Hot Topics JIT and IACUC Approval
Not necessary to have obtained IACUC approval within the 10-day deadline usually given for submission of JIT information
Likely that awards will not be made until June and there is plenty of time to follow the process for submitting information for IACUC approval.

23. The Current Financial Environment and Clinical Trials
Darlene Kitterman
Director, ISIS

24. The next SPIN meeting will be On May 21, 2009 at 9:30am in UHS 8B-60
Mark your calendar!
The next SPIN meeting will be
On May 21, 2009
at 9:30am
in UHS 8B-60