CONFERENCES
    6. Upcoming Office of Research Integrity Supported Conferences  
 

2. ORSP Offering Grants.gov Hands-on Training

ORSP will be providing hands-on training sessions in the use of Grants.gov to prepare grant applications.  Although these sessions will focus on the application kit for NIH RO1, this application kit is similar to those used by other sponsors.

The workshops will take place in a computer lab, so seating is limited to 20 participants per class.  If you register and subsequently can not attend, please cancel your registration so that others may attend.  After you register, you will receive an email from ORSP with additional class information and requirements.

To register, go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/profdevenroll and then select the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs link to pick a date.

Further information and schedule: http://orsp.rutgers.edu/Workshops/2006GrantsDotGov.php

4.  Salary Limitation on Grants, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts

Notice Number: NOT-OD-07-051
Release Date: February 22, 2007
National Institutes of Health (NIH), (http://www.nih.gov)

This notice provides updated information regarding the salary limitation for NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards and extramural research and development contract awards (referred to here as a grant). On January 12, 2006 NIH published Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 information on the salary limitation in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts (NOT-OD-06-031); interim guidance for operating under a Continuing Resolution was published on January 4, 2007 (see NOT OD-07-033).

Every year since 1990 Congress has legislatively mandated a provision limiting the direct salary that an individual may receive under an NIH grant.  For FY 2007, Public Law 110-005: Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 extends the legislative provisions provided in the FY 2006 Appropriations Act (Public Law 109-149) through the end of FY2007. Therefore the provision that restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level I of the Federal Executive Pay scale continues through FY2007. The Executive Level I annual salary rate was $183,500 for the period January 1 through December 31, 2006.  Effective January 1, 2007, the Executive Level I salary level increased to $186,600. 

For the purposes of the salary limitation, the terms "direct salary," "salary," and "institutional base salary" have the same meaning and are exclusive of fringe benefits and facilities and administrative (F&A) expenses, also referred to as indirect costs. An individual's institutional base salary is the annual compensation that the applicant organization pays for an individual's appointment, whether that individual's time is spent on research, teaching, patient care, or other activities. Base salary excludes any income that an individual may be permitted to earn outside of the duties to the applicant organization.

NIH grant/contract awards for applications/proposals that request direct salaries of individuals in excess of the applicable RATE per year will be adjusted in accordance with the legislative salary limitation and will include a notification such as the following:   None of the funds in this award shall be used to pay the salary of an individual at a rate in excess of the current salary cap.

For complete announcement: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-07-051.html  

Conferences

6. Upcoming Office of Research Integrity Supported Conferences

This two-day conference will be held at the conference Center at Harvard Medical, Boston, on March 29-30, 2007 . The conference is co-sponsored by the Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, several Harvard teaching hospitals and ORI. See http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?eventid=111654

Researchers, research administrators, sponsors, editors, professional society representatives, and policymakers wishing to attend the first World Conference on Research Integrity must pre-register by April 27, 2007. Attendance at the World Conference that will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from September 16-19, 2007 is by invitation to ensure geographical and experiential diversity among attendees. Formal letters of invitations will be sent in early May. The conference is co-sponsored by the European Science Foundation, ORI and several other organizations. See http://www.esf.org/conferences/researchintegrity

This conference will directly address issues regarding the structure and costs of RCR programs within institutions and their contributions to the research enterprise. The conference will be held May 31-June1, 2007 in Minneapolis, MN. The conference is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota and ORI. See http://www.research.umn.edu/events/rcr_conference/about.html

This six-day workshop will enable faculty to implement or improve instruction in professional development and/or research ethics at their institution. The workshop will be held at The Silvertree Hotel, Snowmass, Colorado from June 10-15, 2007. The conference is co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, NIH, and ORI. See http://www.survival.pitt.edu/events/trainer.asp

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