The Program Committee is pleased to announce that the preliminary program, early bird registration, and hotel reservations websites are now available for the NCURA Region I Spring Meeting to be held April 29 – May 2nd, 2013 at the Wentworth by the Sea in New Castle, NH. 

 Spring Meeting Registration:  Early Bird Registration $425, through April 5th; Full Registration $495, April 6th onward.

New fringe benefit rates for FY14 sponsored programs have been finalized and should be used immediately in proposal budgeting.  

The primary changes reflect the following:

Sponsored Programs Administration is pleased to announce that Michele Gregg, CPA will be joining the department as a Senior Financial Research Administrator beginning January 22, 2013. Michele will be responsible for financial compliance monitoring, effort certification, and grant closeouts. She returned to New England from New Mexico where she worked as a Fiscal Monitor with the Contract and Grant Accounting Department at the University of New Mexico. She also worked in public accounting in New Mexico.

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NSF New Grant-Submission Rules - Article from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Thank you,

Karen

Karen M. Jensen, MBA
Manager, Sponsored Programs Administration
University of New Hampshire
51 College Road, Durham NH 03824
E: Karen.Jensen@unh.edu

P: 603-862-2172 

The National Science Foundation has issued a new version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 13-1), effective for proposals submitted on or after January 14, 2013.  The PAPPG consists of two documents relating to NSF's proposal and award processes:

Dear UNH Research Community,

Research Administration has scheduled an end–of-year staff meeting on Friday, December 14^th and will be unavailable from  3PM - 5PM.   Please discuss any anticipated scheduling conflicts with your GCA.

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Regards,

Victor Sosa

Dear UNH Research Community,

Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) and Research Integrity Services (RIS) will be closed the morning of Friday, December 14^th, for an OSVPR division-wide retreat.

Please discuss any anticipated deadlines and scheduling conflicts with appropriate SPA and RIS staff. 

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Regards,

Victor Sosa

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Dear UNH Research Community,

Research Administration has scheduled an end–of-year staff meeting on Friday, December 14^th and will be unavailable from  3PM - 5PM.   Please discuss any anticipated scheduling conflicts with your GCA.

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

Regards,

Victor Sosa

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Victor G. Sosa, Director
University of New Hampshire
Sponsored Programs Administration
51 College Road, Room 107
Durham, NH 03824

(603) 862-2001 (-3564 for faxes)

UPDATE:  The NSF has confirmed that awardees must stop submitting project reports in FastLane as of February 1, 2013.   NSF will transfer project reporting from FastLane to Research.gov on March 18, 2013.  The transition to Research.gov requires that reporting in FastLane be frozen; so, to assist grantees with this transition, the overdue date will be extended for all project reports that are currently scheduled to become overdue between January 31 and April 30, 2013.

Dear Cooperative Agreement Recipient:

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) revised its “Policy and Guidance for Conference Approval, Planning, and Reporting” webpage on Friday, October 5, 2012 in order to provide the most recent and comprehensive guidance related to conference costs.  The Conference Webpage can be accessed via the following link:  http://www.ojp.gov/funding/confcost.htm

Following is an outline of changes to the guidance: