News & Updates
1st Issue
August, 2014
LET SPONSORED PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
  • take you on a journey for searching funding opportunities
  • equip you with the tools to navigate through proposal submission
  • make sponsored projects management process efficient & smooth
New Name of the Office
Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA) is now replacing Office of Research Administration (ORA).  The new name more clearly identifies the mission of the office & will trigger revisions, standardization, consolidation and implementation of new internal processes & forms which will contribute to productivity and efficiency.
Templates & Forms
Having trouble with building a budget?
We'd like to encourage you to test & use the new budget template with built-in formulas and current rates for easier & correct calculations.  Please provide us with your feedback and suggestions on how to improve it to serve your budgeting needs during 3 months pilot period. The final version will be released in November, 2014.
We'd like to request the submission of PRFs for all proposed additional funding amounts to the current awards going forward to ensure proper recording of data in PeopleSoft which is used for all reporting purposes campus-wide.  Please provide us with your feedback and suggestions on how to improve the form and we'll do our best to incorporate your feedback in the revised version of the form in the near future.
Need assistance with Data Management Plan (DMP)?
Please contact Terrance Burton, Dean of Library Services tburton@umassd.edu and Holger Dippel, Interim CIO & Associate Vice Chancellor for IT hdippel@umassd.edu for their review and assistance with DMP prior to proposal submission. 
Effective August 6, 2014 the following forms are eliminated and no longer required:
  • Direct Charging Administrative Salary Cost Normally Recovered through the Indirect Cost Rate to Federal and Federal Flow-through Awards
  • Direct Charging Non-payroll Costs Normally Recovered through the Indirect Cost Rate to Federal and Federal Flow-through Awards.
Sincerely,

Elena Glatman
Director, Sponsored Projects Administration
New OMB Uniform Guidance
  
 
Effort Certification
ECRT

The Summer of 2014 effort cards will be available to certify after October 20, 2014.

  

On August 25, 2014 SPA staff will be sending final reminders to past due certifiers to complete all effort cards in ECRT. So if you have not completed your certification please

 Certify Effort Now

 
Funding Opportunities
Pivot
  
Contact Us
Sponsored Projects Administration

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
Phone: 508-999-8953
Fax: 508-999-8868