A - Z INDEX

Alphabetical guide to topics on UM research administration and news websites with the occasional reference to related sites

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A-133 audit reports: (link goes to the Financial Operations Sponsored Programs website)

A-21: Accounting for Restricted Expenses Under A-21: Procedures [To Financial Operations/ Sponsored Programs office page]; OMB Circular A-21 To the Federal OMB site.; UM principles; Exceptions for direct charging for admin support

Academic Integrity

Accounts (AKA Project/Grants): documenting cost sharing; establishing subaccounts; Project Award Notice

Acronyms, abbreviations, and definitions [glossary]

Addresses: ORSP (formerly, DRDA); OVPR; Technology Transfer

Administrative Contacts aka "Blue pages"

Administrative Shell: See the guidance in the ORSP standard operating procedure on Proposal Review by ORSP

Agreement negotiations: federal; foundations, non-profits; industry

Alerts, email (ORSP-Announce and others)

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA] info for UM

Animals: Animal Care and Purchase -- ULAM Indirect Costs; Animal Medicine, Unit for Laboratory (ULAM); Animal Use Committee; Animal Welfare Assurance

Annual Reports on Research Activity

Appointments: establishing new positions; Graduate Student Research Assistantships (GSRA); Foreign Nationals [to International Center page]; salary ranges; staff benefits; temporary or regular; Research Faculty

Associate Deans, Research (RADs)

Awards: awards (grants and contracts) to UM faculty: see the UM Proposal & Award Data; Processing -- grants and contracts; Project Award Notice --PAN; Recognition Awards; Distinguished University Innovator Award; Research Faculty Awards; OVPR Staff Awards Program

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Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board(Human subjects approvals)

Benefits: Calculating and Estimating Staff Benefits; staff benefits cost table

Biological Research Review Committee (BRRC): Provides Approval for Use of recombinant DNA

Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) [takes you to Med School site]

Biophysics Research Division [takes you to Biophysics site]

Biosafety: Minors in labs (OSEH)

"Blue pages" aka for Unit Administrative Contacts

Boiler Plate for Proposals (UM Research Resources)

Briefing Pages About Federally-Funded Research at UM

Broader Impacts :: Research Impacts Team

Budget: modification; planning and preparation; Budget Form 7471; NIH Modular Grant Budgets; Participant Support Costs :: NSF

Business Engagement Center

Business plans, federally required small subcontracting [Procurement website]

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Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD)

Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR)

Certificate of Confidentiality, process to obtain one (UM HRPP site )

Certifications and Representations

Characteristics of a Sponsored Project

Class Codes and Definitions Formerly known as Subclasses

Class and Proposal Types Chart

Classified Research: restriction, openness of research; security clearances, inspections; technical data export and access controls

Clerical salaries: for existing awards

Clinical Trials: Contracting information from the medical school; Medical School NDA template for quick processing; Indirect Cost; eResearch for IRB approval; Research related injury :: position statement and template language [pdf]; UMHS Calendar Review & Analysis Office (CRAO); UMClinicalStudies.org website, database of trials (formerly, Engage)

Closing, procedures for project

Co-investigator: establishing subaccounts

Commerce Business Daily(via Community of Science)

Community of Science

Commercial/Routine Testing

Competitions for Limited Submissions

Confidentiality, Certificate of -- process to obtain one (UM HRPP site )

Conflict of Interest - Guide for Faculty

Conflicts of Interest and Conflicts of Commitment
-- Research Faculty in OVPR and units that report to OVPR
-- Staff in OVPR and units that report to OVPR

Controlled substance use in animal research: License fees; UCUCA Controlled Substance page

Contract Administration, Office of

Contracts: processing

Cost Accounting Standards

Cost Sharing: assistance from OVPR; documenting commitments

Critical items -- requirements that can delay establishment of a Project/Grant

CSCAR (Center for Statistical Consultation and Research)

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Data Security

Datasets, Pre-approval for publicly available & repositories

Data Sharing Resources

DEA License Fees - Grant Allowabillity

Deadline for submission to ORSP: Internet submissions

Dearborn: Institutional Review Board; Office of Research and Sponsored Programs

Department Administrators

Direct Costs: and A-21; other than salaries; salaries; Full Cost Recovery

Disclosure: Conflict of Interest on the PAF; Conflict of Interest Procedures and Disclosure Form; Invention Disclosure

Discretionary Funds, now the OVPR Faculty Grants and Awards Program: Application; Information

Distinguished University Innovator Award

DOD, DOE, EPA proposalsEnvironmental Questionnaire (OSEH site -- see bottom of page) Note: 5-day lead time required

Division of Research, Development and Administration (DRDA), Now Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP): Staff listing; Sponsor assignments

DRDA-net Now named ORSP-Announce and other email alert groups

Drop Box: Wolverine Tower mail [mail service web page]; files for electronic submissions are now uploaded in the eResearch Proposal Management system

DUNS number

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Earmarks, OVPR policy on

Electronic submission of proposals [deadlines, procedures]: Deadlines; See also: Grants.gov information for UM

Email alert groups (DRDA-net and others)

Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Policy; Oversight

ePAF (ePAF is now part of eResearch Proposal Management)

Environmental Questionnaire for DOD, DOE, EPA proposals (OSEH site -- see bottom of page) Note: 5-day lead time required

Equipment: fabrication, indirect cost implications; transfers and termination

eResearch website for applying for approvals

eSNAP information for UM [NIH non-competing renewals]

E-Verify: E-Verify business process to alert sponsored projects affected; DRDA-Net memo on E-verify info for sponsored projects; UM Human Resources E-Verify information

Events sponsored by Research Administration

Expertise and interests, faculty :: Community of Science (non-scientists, as well)

Export controls &: Quick Guide to federal policy [/foreign nationals]; Detailed Guide and Definitions; COGR Information on [pdf]; UM Procedures for

Export/import contract information from Procurement

Extended sick leave

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Facilities and Administrative Costs aka Indirect Costs

Faculty Grants and Awards Program: Application; Information

Faculty Handbook [Provost's office]

FastLane [takes you to NSF site]

Federal Agency Links

Federal Demonstration Partnership: Post Award Change Approval Request Form

Federal Register(via Community of Science)

Federal Small Business Plans, required subcontracting [Procurement website]

Financial Operations

Financial reports online: M-Reports

Flint Research Office

Forms

Foreign nationals: Foreign nationals -- access; Visa expenses

Foundations: research relations with; Foundations Online searching [UM Library]

Freedom of Information Act and Confidential Research Information and Investment Act

Frequently required proposal data

Fringe benefits, staff: 2010 S/V/H rates for employees in non-instructional sponsored projects pool

Full Cost Recovery: Space/Facilities Rates

Funding: Alerts, email (DRDA-net and others); Recovery Act Info for UM; Internal Competitions for Limited Submissions to Sponsors; Special Focus: Students

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Gift or Grant? Sponsored project characteristics

Glossary

Graduate Students Research Assistants: certifications; stipend and tuition cost estimates; healthcare benefits (gradcare); taxes; internship/practicum guidelines; Visa expenses [immigration not credit card]

Graduate students training grants tuition shortfalls

Grants Database, searchable [eRPM data set, Sponsored Awards on Web]

Grants.gov information from UM: Grants.gov federal website [leaving UM research]; Training Workshops; Grants.gov and eResearch Proposal Management

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Hardship Authorization Request

Health Sciences & Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board

Human Research Compliance Review, Office of (OHRCR)

Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research: Policy; Oversight

Human Research Protection Program

Human Subjects: Human Subjects Use Approvals; UMClinicalStudies.org UM human subjects/clinical trials database; eResearch website for applying for approvals; Human Research Protection Program; HRPP Operations Manual; Education and certification (PEERRS)

Human Subject Incentives Program (HSIP)

(paying research subjects)

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IBC Institutional Biosafety Committee

Immigration Service visa expenses

Indirect Costs aka Facilities and Administrative Costs: Federal Sponsor Rates; Non-federal Sponsor Rates; Industry Rates; Full Cost Recovery; Rate table; Space/Facilities Rates; text of agreement for FY 12-14 (7/11-6/14) [pdf] [ FinOps/Cost Reimbursement web page]; text of agreement for FY 09-11 (7/08-6/11) [pdf] [FinOps/Cost Reimbursement web page]; text of agreement FY 08 (7/06-6/08) [pdf] [ FinOps/Cost Reimbursement web page]; waivers: forms | procedures

Industry "Toolkit": Industry, Working with Overview

Integrity, Academic

Internships, Policy and Guidelines for student internships and practicum

Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Institute for Social Research (ISR)

Institutional Biosafety Committee

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs): Medical School; Health and Behavioral Sciences; Dearborn; Flint

Intellectual Property

Intergovernmental Personnel Agreements [IPA]: Standard Practice Guide 201.30-5; GSA Form 69 (pdf); IPA Form for VA agreements (doc)

Internal Competitions for Limited Submissions to Sponsors

Internal Funding

Investigator, Principal

IPA -- See "Intergovernmental Personnel Agreements" above

ITAR, Export controls: Federal Policy; UM management process for export controls

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Jury duty

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Letters of Inquiry

License fees for drug use allowability on sponsored projects

Limited Submissions to Sponsors, Internal Competitions for

List serves from DRDA (e-mail alert groups)

Lobbying restrictions

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M-Reports
Real time financial reports on sponsored projects

Master Agreements Related to Research pdf [part of Standard Operating Procedures]

Material Transfer Agreements

M-CORES all lab listing

Medical School Institutional Review Board [Human subjects approvals]

Medical leave, Extended sick leave

Messenger Service [ORSP]

Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute (MMPEI)

Middle English Dictionary (MED)

Minors in labs (OSEH)

Mileage Reimbursement UM Standard Practice Guide Section 501.04 Appendix A PDF

Misconduct

Mobile Device Security

Modular Grant Budget Considerations, NIH

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News from ORSP -- sign up for DRDA-net and other email alert groups

News about research at UM [OVPR site]

News from UM News Service [ News Service site]

NIH & eRA Commons Info at UM: Jump direct to: NIH Commons [takes you to NIH Commons]; Registration; eSNAP information (NIH reports); xTrain

NIH Modular Grant Budget Considerations

NIH public access policy

No-cost extensions: Project Award Change form

Nondisclosure and confidentiality

Non-Federal Sponsors Guidelines Reference List [takes you to FinOps webpage]

NSF Fast Lane [takes you to NSF site]

NSF Participant Support Costs

NSF requirement for student Responsible Conduct of Research training

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OMB Circular A-21: direct charging for admin support and other categories; Restricted Expenses Under A-21 Excluded Expenditures: policy, procedures
[This page is maintained by Financial Operations]

Openness in research, nonrestriction policy

Organization Codes [now called department IDs]: "Blue Pages" Database with Department IDs; Changing Organization Codes

Office of Human Research Compliance Review (OHRCR)

OSEH info about Environmental Questionnaire for DOD, DOE, EPA proposals (see bottom of page) Note: 5-day lead time required

ORSP support: extended sick leave; travel due to budget cuts, travel funding from OVPR and ORSP has been suspended; tuition refund

Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR)

Outreach and Education -- Research Impacts Team (Broader Impacts)

OVPR Faculty Grants and Awards Program: Application form; Information

OVPR Staff Recognition Awards Program

OVPR Units and Committees

Other sponsored activity: Class codes; Indirect cost rates

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PAF (Proposal Approval Form): Use eResearch Proposal Management to prepare your PAF.; what the PAF is about

PAF-R

PAN or Project Award Notice

PEERRS (Program for Education and Evaluation in Responsible Research and Scholarship): certification look ups (Requires UM Uniqname and Kerberos password)

Participant Support Costs :: NSF

PAC or Post Award Change

Post Award Change Approval request Form (for FDP projects)

Paying research subjects: Human Subject Incentives Program (HSIP)

Practicum/internship policy and guidelines

Pre-approval for publicly available datasets & repositories

Preproposals

Press Releases

Policies and Procedures, Research Faculty

Principal Investigator :: eligibility and responsibilities

Proposal and Award Information

Proposal Development and Submission