Archives: Announcements

Published March 28, 2022 The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released the “Dear Colleague” information below. Dear Colleagues: In accordance with Important Notice No. 147, many National Science Foundation (NSF) program solicitations now require the use of Research.gov for the preparation and submission of proposals. Please be advised that NSF will now start requiring the use […]

Published March 23, 2022 Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) would like to notify the research community that the ePARS system (legacy effort reporting system) will be switched to a Read-Only status, effective March 31, 2022. Moving to Read-Only is the first step in retiring the system. Under Read-Only status, faculty and staff will still be able to […]

Published March 11, 2022 As discussed at the Research Administrator Forum on March 10, 2022, and several Bi-weekly Workday Grant Issues calls, Sponsored Projects Accounting (SPA) will be initiating a Pilot related to transaction approvals that receive a Budget Check warning message. The designed functionality in Workday will generate this message when the free balance […]

Published February 28, 2022 We are two weeks into the first effort reporting cycle in Workday. The due date for all effort to be certified is March 16, 2022. As of today, we have 34% of all eligible employees certified. Please reach out to the applicable faculty/staff in your department to remind them to look at […]

Published February 15, 2022 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has increased the Salary Cap to $203,700 (Executive Level II). This new cap rate has an effective date of January 2, 2022, and it applies to competing and non-competing awards. Find the full text for this notice NOT-OD-22-076 here. Effective February 11, 2022, Workday began applying […]

Published February 1, 2022 The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released the “Dear Colleague” information below. WashU’s SAM.gov registration is managed centrally by the Office of Sponsored Research Services. WashU’s SAM.gov registration is current with an expiration date of November 9, 2022. WashU’s UEI is L6NFUM28LQM5. If your NSF grant application will have outgoing subawards, […]

Published January 19, 2022 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released an updated version of their Grants Policy Statement (GPS) via NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-22-050. The revised GPS (dated December 2021) applies to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, 2021. This new GPS supersedes, in its entirety, […]

Published January 7, 2022 Guidance for Research Laboratories During Current COVID-19 Surge As the number of new SARS Co-V 2 cases are at an all-time high in our community, it is more important than ever to follow mitigation procedures in the lab. At this time, the guidance already in place has not changed. The current recommendations can […]

Published December 30, 2021 We are sure you are all aware of the recent surge in COVID-19 in the St. Louis area, largely driven by the Omicron variant. We encourage you to get a booster shot (if medically appropriate) to protect yourself. Primary vaccination and booster shots against COVID-19 reduce the severity of the disease […]

Published December 17, 2021 Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that, after a nationwide search, Paola Cepeda, PhD, has been named Director of Postdoctoral Affairs in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, effective January 4, 2022. Paola currently serves as the Program Manager for Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development at Stony Brook […]